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 James Clerk Maxwell
   
 
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Lettera dal Padre 
   1850
 
FROM HIS FATHER.

                                                                   Glenlair, 22d October 1850.
 

Did Prof. Thomson catch you, and view your "dirt;"(5) and if so, what thought he thereof ?

                                                                   Glenlair, 30th October 1850.

Who is the lecturer in the Greek play? Did I see him while at Cambridge? I am sorry to hear the Greek class is a   bad one, for you would have got more good of it if [it] had required you to work to maintain a good position in it;   but you should study your part well, for it is not comparative excellence, but absolute, that will be of use in    University competitions.

                                                                      Glenlair, 8th Novr. 1850.

You say your lecturer in Greek is good, so I hope you profit accordingly, altho' your classfellows are not great   scholars. . . .

 . . . It would be necessary to take care there are no mouse-holes. A very hungry Chapel mouse might come    through. There had been an entrance that way to the Chapel. It would be to the organ loft.

Have you called on Profs. Sedgwick at Trin., and Stokes at Pembroke? If not, you should do both. Stokes will be    most in your way if he takes you in hand at all. Sedgwick is also a great Don in his line, and if you were entered in   Geology would be a most valuable acquaintance; and, besides, not going to him would be uncivil, both to him and    to the Alisons, after their having arranged the introduction. Provide yourself with cards.

It might be worth your while to stop at York to view it. [151]

                                                                     Glenlair, 13th Novr. 1830.

I am glad you have communication with Stokes and Mackenzie.

Is all Cambridge up in arms against the Pope and Cardinal Wiseman? I cannot enter into all the fuss about it. If   there is any law to hinder people calling themselves Cardinals or Archbishops, let it be acted on; but if there is no  such law, let the assumption of empty titles . . . be laughed at.

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