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A friend of William Empson's, John Haviland's and to a certain extent RJ's, Mr Banfield, 'is very ambitious to deliver a course of lectures on some points of political economy at Cambridge - and has asked me to help him to get leave'. Banfield 'is a respectable man[,] an acute man and a man who thinks for himself - he is familiar with German writers and German statistics and has much to say which is new in England and which may prove very interesting and permission to give a course of lectures might I think safely and perhaps profitably be given him'. RJ is 'beginning to be worried with parliamentary work and what a parliament it is to govern 120 millions of people - but it is more likely to get worse than better so we may as well cherish it'.