| Description | "Receipt of money and tea acknowledged."
Eton. Nov. 13. 1837.
My dear Papa,
I received your letter together with the tea, quite safe yesterday evening, & am much obliged for them. Will you have the goodness to take our fishing-rods with you to Soho, & also to look for the fourth volume of Mitford’s Greece which did not come here with the post, & must I think, have been left at Tew. One of Mr. Coleridge’s pupils, Clifton Minor, who is Cotton’s fag, is going to leave Eton in a few days & go to sea. I am very sorry to say that Champernowne, one of the boys in the house, who left last half has just died at Christ-Church of the typhus fever. He was a boy very much liked in the school, & one whom I knew very well. There is only one of Mr. Coleridge’s pupils going up for the Baliol scholarship this year, & that is Coleridge, who has no chance of getting it.—We shew up our Essays this Saturday, and I have not nearly done mine, so that I shall have to work very hard this week. Dr. Keate & Mr. Chapman have been staying for some time with Mr. Coleridge.—The weather here has been very fine, except two days when there was a very thick fog.—Pray give my love to all, & believe me to remain
Your affectionate son
M. P. W. Boulton.
[History of Greece by William Mitford (1744-1827); written at the suggestion of Edward Gibbon, the work was published in five volumes between 1784 and 1818 and became very popular. (Vol. IV came out in 1808.) See the Dictionary of National Biography and Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.] |