| Description | "Notice of his success in getting into the Select for the Newcastle Scholarship." (Directed to be sent by cross-post. Marked on the address-label, "Too late.")
Eton. Friday.
My dear Papa
I have just received news that I am in the Select, which consists as it did last year of 16 boys. I did not much expect to have got in, as there were eight of the old number remaining. The list is as follows. Birch, Coleridge , Cotton, Farrer, Goulburn, Hardisty, Herbert, Mansfield, Pocock, Kirwan, Shadwell, Westmacott, Witts, Mountain, & Hothouse, so that Mr. Coleridges pupils form half of it. The scholarship itself is not yet decided, but will be to-morrow. I was very lucky in the examination, for it so happened that out of all the Greek Plays we had a piece out of the very one, (the Agamemnon) that I had with Mr. Linwood, which had scarcely been ready by any other boys, & therefore counted most likely for a good deal. I go into Vivâ-Voce to-morrow, & as my name begins with Bo I shall be examined second, Birch will be examined first. I hope that you are getting better, & that all at home are well. Pray excuse my bad writing for I am in a great hurry, as this letter has to be sent up Windsor, & believe me to remain
Your affectionate son
M. P. W. Boulton
[John Duke Coleridge, later Sir John Duke Coleridge, first Baron Coleridge (1820-1894); became lord chief justice of England. See the Dictionary of National Biography.] |