| Description | "Confirmation. Eton examinations and arrangements." (Directed to 5 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park.)
Eton, May 8th. 1836
My dear Miss Burgess,
I received the supply of provisions quite safe last night, and am very much obliged for them, I am sure if their inside answers to their outside they will prove very acceptable. I have told Mr. Coleridge that I am to be confirmed, and the delay as it happened was of no consequence, for Mr. Coleridge did not send the answers to the Bishop till after your letter came, as the greater number of boys had not received answers from their parents, Mr. Stephen Hawtrey the new Mathematical master gives us a lesson in Astronomy once every week shewing us how to apply Mathematics to it. I do not exactly know when the Mathematical examination is to take place, but I suppose somewhere about the beginning of June. The match with the Westminster boys was to have been tried last Saturday, but was again put off by their headmaster, although Dr. Hawtrey says that he has no objection to it, provided it is rowed here.—Papa told me to look about for a Scapula’s Lexicon, to tell him what sort of edition seemed best, one of the boys in the house, Farrer has one given him about a week ago by Mr. Coleridge, as one of the books for getting into the 16 first boys in the scholarship, (for he always gives 5 pounds worth of books to any of his pupils when they get for the first time into the scholarship); this Scapula is the Oxford edition, & seems to be a very good one, it is a folio volume, & has a very good print and paper,—I hope that you have all recovered from the influenza, I had a little cold a short time ago, but I do not know whether it was it or not, give my love to all at home, & believe me to remain
Your’s affectionately
M. P. W. Boulton
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