| Description | "Requesting an advance of money to replace amount paid for a leaving book to Balston. Information about intended examinations and prizes at Eton and Oxford."
Eton. Saturday, Nov. 19. 1836.
My dear Papa,
I write to ask you if you will send me some money for a leaving book for Balston, the one of Mr. Coleridge’s pupils who got the scholarship. I should have got an order for it, but that being a colleger his leave was too sudden, for I did not know of it till the afternoon, & he left early the next morning; so that I could not find my tutor to get an order for it, & was obliged to pay for it myself—it was Otway’s works, price 7£. 4s.—Mr. Coleridge said to day that he was coming down to Soho this holidays, to see the manufactory.—There is not to be a regular Mathematical examination this half, but only a small one without a prize or printed papers. Next summer half however there is to be a grand prize, given by the masters, Mr. Hawtrey’s prize is to be for the second; it is to be given every year, but the boy who gets it one year cannot get it the next. The book is to have the arms of the college or some honorary inscription stamped upon it.—Our holidays begin on Tuesday the 6th of December; I suppose we had better come home as usual in the Tantivy, as we can start at any time of the day.—Montagu comes home on the same day as I do.—The examination for the Balliol scholarship begins next Tuesday, there are 5 Eton candidates for it, Goulburn, Farrer, Pocock, Mountain & Hardisty, the three first of these are Mr. Coleridge’s pupils; Goulburn is the brother of the boy who got it last time, & is the most likely of any of the Eton boys to succeed, Lonsdale from Shrewsbury, brother of the Lonsdale who got our scholarship, is the chief favourite.—Montagu has I think himself written to tell you of his being sent up, he has been quite well.—I hope you are quite recovered by this time,—give my love to all and believe me to remain
Your affectionate son,
M. P. W. Boulton.
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