Item C12 - Autograph letter signed from Todhunter to Sephton, from Brookside Cambridge

Has just sent manuscript to press. Will only have mechanics of solids and fluids in first volume. Has written sections on sound and optics for second volume but has not yet begun heat. Present government has done nothing. Uselessness of Crimean War now manifest. Pleased that S's pupils distinguishing themselves at University of London. Their examinations not to T's taste: too many subjects, too low a standard. Hope to secure the Oratorship for St John's.