A group of letters from Smith to Roundell Palmer begin this reel. Some were written during Smith's Oxford years. These are followed by an exchange with William E. Gladstone during the preparation of a legislative bill to implement the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the state of the universities, which Smith had served as assistant secretary- treasurer. A series to Richard Cobden in the early 1860's dealt with the Irish question, disestablishment, and the abolition of…