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the matter, but I hope you will do something different and 

 something better. 



You are at liberty to publish the letter in part or otherwise, 

 as you may think expedient. 



I should have replied to Mr. Ward before now, but I have 

 been much out of sorts, and have only just recovered the 

 power to do or write anything at all. 



With kind remembrances to Mrs. Roscoe, I am, 



Sincerely yours, 

 B. C. BRODIE. 



Sept. 7, 1876, 



BROCKHAM WARREN, REIGATE. 

 MY DEAR ROSCOE, 



I enclose to you a note which I have received from Lord 

 Selborne, which you may like to see. He has kept your letter, 

 which is well. Please return to me Lord Selborne's note when 

 you have done with it. 



I see from the letter in the Daily News that a good deal of 

 opposition will be made to the foundation of the " Manchester 

 University." This is no reason for not prosecuting the move- 

 ment, but rather the reverse, for your opponents are showing 

 how weak their hand is. Henry Smith, 1 who was here on 

 Sunday, and with whom I spoke on the matter, said that he 

 did not anticipate that any opposition to it would arise in 

 Oxford. Indeed, why should it arise ? for there is nothing in 

 the principles on which your University would be based of 

 which they would disapprove your line would mainly be the 

 same as theirs whereas to the principles of a mere examining 

 University like the University of London they are much 

 opposed. University College and King's College have by no 

 means been successful, except in their schools, and I fear have 

 no inclination to support the upward movement of others. 



It appears to me desirable for you to get up a powerful 

 North of England movement, if you can, with an address to 

 the Prime Minister but I would back this up by an address 

 of a more limited character to be signed by scientific men and 

 others, who desire the establishment of the University, not 

 merely from local motives but in the interest of knowledge 

 itself. 



Sincerely yours, 



B. C. BRODIE. 



1 The late eminent Professor of Geometry in Oxford. 



