Friday 3rd Feb
My dear Henslow,
I only received your letter on Tuesday last & as I was to be here yesterday and my answer cd. have reached you not much before I arrived I did not write to you.
I last night sent a note to Carrighan at the Com. Rm. in wh. I mentioned for your information that I had written to several of those whose names were in the list you sent. I have made a mark against their names (x). C. Abdy will be against you but he does not say how he votes. I can say nothing about the others. Those names with the mark * will vote I have no doubt for Ld. P but I have no authority for saying so. Goodeve Harrison came to us from St. Johns & someone from there might attack him Sir W. Bagshawe cd be secured by Dr. Cresswall of Trin. Can Ld. Pollington or Ld. Mexborough be induced to apply to Revd. J.F. Ogle in favour of Ld. Palmerston?
J.C. Powell came to us from Trin. & is often in Cambridge & at the Philosophical room.
White is the nephew of the Bp. of Ely & will therefore be against you.
yours ever
W. Hutton
Please cite as “HENSLOW-843,” in Ɛpsilon: The Correspondence of John Stevens Henslow accessed on