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Mus.Crit. superior to Class.Journ. Desperate for PE's notes on Soph. to be included in the 3rd No. Hopes to see Soph. edited by PE. Looks forward to PE's ms. of Alcestis. Blomfield has lost a child in its tooth-cutting - the same thing which deprived him of his 1st child. Batchelors have few pleasures, but are free from this sort of thing. Barker has been to Cambridge to complain to the Master about JHM - 1) JHM has not made Barker's Cicero a lecture book ('though Barker produced a 2nd ed. before the 1st was sold, with this in mind) 2) JHM has not referred to him at all in the 2nd ed. of the Hipp. 3) JHM has set up the Mus.Crit. in opposition to Barker.

Thanks PE for his remarks on the Alc. Has been held up by indolence, the examination for the new Pitt University Scholarship and suspense until the allies are at Paris and Bonaparte killed. 3rd No. of Mus.Crit waiting upon an article by PE, either on Alc. or on Oed.Col. PE thinking of a book expedition to the continent. More on Barker, who has turned to the Monthly Revie as a vehicle to attack the Mus.Crit. and promote his own editions. Barker has followed Dr. Parr on an unwelcome visit to Dr. Butler at Shrewsbury. Blomfield's wife has been dangerously ill.

PE back from Paris, JHM from North Wales, and ready to publish 4th No. of Mus.Crit.

Returning to the new year - Alcestis, Mus.Crit. and lectures. Mus.Crit.No.6 will begin with PE on Hecuba - wants the Germans and his pupils to benefit as soon as possible.

Letters from James Henry Monk to Dr Emsley

PE intending to write on IT. Has sent some notes on the Alcestis (exc. Last 200 lines). .

Acknowledges receipt of an article.

Returns PE's notes on Eq. (to be returned by PE for the press - therefore with observations by JHM?). Good to see PE engaged with the Germans. Blomfield archdeacon of Colchester. Sends remembrances and thanks to Gaisford - sorry to hear about his wife.

May soon have two rather than just one uncle in the Cabinet, so may be able to assist PE with a preferment. His grandmother's legacies. PE should have ordered some copies of his Sophocles to be printed on large paper, to be given as presentation copies. Hears that Carey is doing well at Westminster. Southey's Amadis is in the press

Asks for two copies of PEW's Sophocles (one for him, one for his uncle Tom). C Burney has been to dinner - talk of mss., one supposedly the 1st act of Sophocles' Clytemnestra, but probably a composition of the time of Gregory Nazianzen, and the other a ninth century Plato containing nothing new, but which might confirm some readings. PE needs good corrector - he does not possess attention enough to proofread.