| Description | "Announcement of his being ‘sent up for good.’"
My dear Papa,
I dare say it will give you no less pleasure to hear than it does me to tell you, that my efforts during the half have not been unsuccessful, & that I was sent up for good yesterday for a copy of fifty long & short verses on the rape of Proserpine. I have not as yet had the verses read over by Dr Hawtrey, but as Mr Du Puis says he hopes soon to have some more exercises to send up, I suppose he will wait to the end of the half before we are to be read over. There are three boys besides myself, who have been sent up, in our remove. My friend Campbell in the fourth form has been also sent up
Please to tell Miss Burgess that one of the bottles of medicine in my box has broken, & Mrs. Coleridge wishes to have the prescription of it sent in case I may want it. It is the pink medicine that I have to take after my other medicines. I should have written to tell you immediately I had been sent up, only I had verses set on that day which kept me hard at work. I have now nothing more to tell you so with my love to all at home believe me to remain your affectionate son.
Montagu Boulton
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