"Dearest Alys I posted thy pamphlet at 4.30—fourteen of them, as some had corrections in ms."

"My lecture went off successfully—the parson, I hope, not too much shocked."

"I took the step of giving the typed copy of Lecture III to Ward. … He feels that Leibniz was a scoundrel, that he plagiarized shamelessly—and I must say, since I have been reading Spinoza lately, I have come to think so too." Ward promised a frank opinion on the lecture next term.