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Correspondence between the Camden Professor and the
Rev. Dr. Pusey.

St. Allan Hall, June 18, 1851.
My dear Dr. Pusev,
The " Morning Herald" of this day, in treating of
your Speech of yesterday, says, " This advice  produced a small majority
against several of the Professoi's." I heard your Speech, I know your influ
ence, and I acquiesce in the opinion thus expressed in the Morning Herald.
I am one of the Professors mentioned. May I entreat you ' to read the
following description of my case.
Camden, the Founder of the Professorship which I hold, bequeathed a
manor and estate at Bexley, in Kent, to the University, " to this end and
purpose, that the Chancellor Masters and Scholars shall from time to time
for ever from and after the death of the said William Camden maintain within
the University aforesaid one Reader, who shall be called the Reader of His
tories." He assigned for that purpose the annual stipend of £1 40, which was
then (A. D. 1622) a large portion of the whole rental.
The estate is now in lease, with fines ; but the rack-rent value of it is
upwards of £1000 per annum. The Professor still receives only £140; the
rest being applied to the general purposes of the University.
When I was appointed, I determined to discharge the duties of my office.
I prepared without delay four Courses of written Lectures, two of them on
popular subjects of Greek and Roman history, and two of a more abstruse
character, intending to deliver two Courses, one of each description, every
year. I did so, until I found that one of my Courses was better calculated
for reading than hearing, and I therefore published it. Since that time I
have delivered two Courses and one Course in alternate years. I have never

omitted to do so; I have never been without an audience; I have never re
quired a fee for admission ; I have incurred expenses in providing plans and
drawings. I believed that I had no legal claim for an augmentation; but I also
believed that I had a strong claim in equity; and I had formed plans from the
first of making myself more extensively useful to the best of my ability, should
the University acknowledge that claim.
But neither on this occasion nor on any other have I made any complaint.
When the augmentation was debated at the Hebdomadal Board, I withdrew ;
when it was proposed yesterday in Convocation, I abstained from voting.
I should not make this appeal to you, if I did not know you to be a just
and upright man. Do you think, after what I have stated, that the vote' of
yesterday, to which I have referred you, was right ?
I am, my dear Dr. Pusey,
Very faithfully yours,
Edw. Cardwell.
I have enclosed a copy of my published Course of Lectures, of which I
request your acceptance.

My Dear Cardwell,
My Speech was meant to be supplementary to the
paper which I put out under the title of " Doctor of Divinity," I rather
meant it as an explanation that I did not mean to oppose the grants in
behalf of the physical sciences altogether, but the exclusion of the other plan
for poor scholars, which I thought of far more importance. I did besides
object to the grant as to Mineralogy (as superfluous), and the whole subject
did not seem to have been considered.
If you have still that paper, you will see that it relates exclusively to the
disposal of the £60,000, and does not touch upon your Professorship.
In Convocation I did not vote with regard to your Professorship, because
it stood per se, and I did not understand the circumstances of the case. It

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seemed to me that since the estate was given by Camden with the purpose
of endowing that Professorship, there was a good reason for raising the
income to whatever was thought desirable. But as I knew nothing of the
circumstances relating to your Professorship, I preferred not voting upon
what I did not understand.
I think from the statement which you make, you, or rather the Professor,
(for you would not mind it for yourself,) has an equitable right to an increase
of income. If it had been known at the time, I doubt not that the vote would
have been carried. I took it for granted that it would have been ; but since
there was a difference of opinion, I abstained from voting upon what I was
not informed upon.
I was surprised at the augmentation to the Moral Philosophy Professor
ship being carried (which, I fear, perpetuates a vicious system of a five years'
Professorship) and yours being lost. But I did not confer with above three
or four Members of Convocation, and have no idea whatever why the grant
to the Camden Professorship was rejected. I should think that there must
have been some misunderstanding.
I thank you much for your present. I always believed that yours were
solid Lectures on their subject. Yours very truly,
Christ Church,
June 18. E- B- PusEY-

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