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Lettera al Professor  LEWIS CAMPBELL
18 ottobre   1850
    
TO LEWIS CAMPBELL, Esq.

                                                             St. Peter's College, 18th Oct. 1850.
 

You tell me to lay my account with being dull at first, and to condole with Robert, whereas there is continual    merriment (stop it!), and Robert is not settled yet. As for secrets of nature, they are not for Freshmen even to    think of. Now for personal journal, with observations on the manners and customs, etc. . . .

We spent the night at Peterborough, and saw the Cathedral in the morning. Very grand outside. West end a fine    subject for calotype seen right perpendicular, and the point P for a picture made by hand, fine weeping willows   etc.

Proceeded to Ely with some Gloucester people we met in the Cathedral, and inspected Ely Cathedral like regular   Archbishops. Went up the steeple to see land like sea. Heard all the people talking of the enclosure of the Wash   to be called Victoria county, and to be worth 30s. per acre. Got to Cambridge, and called on Mr. Fuller(2), after   getting room for my father (as the Bull was full) in a lodgement, Got rooms in College, sitting and bed, six paces  from Chapel. and good light. Had Tait to tea. Next day breakfast with Tait and Steele (of Glasgow and Ireland,  and a future wrangler), and so on in detail.

M’Kenzie came up to-day. He took us to most of the colleges. Saw Newton and Bacon in Trin. Chapel. At Hall   there was a proclamation to this effect nearly:—Whereas (on the — day of —, 1850), application was made to     the Syndicate (or Senate or something), by Williams Cooke, for leave to erect his equestrian establishment: and  whereas, the immoral nature of said establishment, it was unanimously resolved to refuse leave. And   whereas, notwithstanding said refusal, said W. C. did publicly notify his intention of putting up said estab.: Be it   known, etc., that it is resolved and enacted, that if any undergraduate or graduate in statu pupillari, or tutor, or
fellow, or master, etc., be caught at said establishment, he will be punished with expulsion, rustication, Castigation,   or such other punishment as the case may require.

So there is to be a quarrel between the Town and University about this, and also about whether they are to pay  poor rate, as the University is supposed to be extraparochial.

 Prelim. exam. to-morrow at 9. Peter can't afford to pluck at it. C. H. Robertson has past his at Trin. He is in   Ling's lodgings. He wants to keep quiet and to read by himself, and have only old acquaintances.