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pretty soon. Kemember me most kindly to Butler,* tell 

 him of my success, and I dare say both of you will easily 

 recognise these insects. I hope his caterpillars go on well. 

 I think many of the Chrysalises are well worth keeping. I 

 really am quite ashamed [of] so long a letter all about my 

 own concerns ; but do return good for evil, and send me a 

 long account of all your proceedings. 



In the first week I killed seventy-five head of game a 

 very contemptible number but there are very few birds. I 

 killed, however, a brace of black game. Since then I have 

 been staying at the Fox's, near Derby ; it is a very pleasant 

 house, and the music meeting went off very well. I want 

 to hear how Yates likes his gun, and what use he has made 

 of it. 



If the bottle is not large you can buy another for me, 

 and when you pass through Shrewsbury you can leave these 

 treasures, and I hope, if you possibly can, you will stay a 

 day or two with me, as I hope I need not say how glad I 

 shall be to see you again. Fox remarked what deuced good 

 natured fellows your friends at Barmouth must be ; and if 

 I did not know that you and Butler were so, I would not 

 think of giving you so much trouble. 



In the following January we find him looking forward 

 with pleasure to the beginning of another year of his Cam- 

 bridge life : he writes to Fox, who had passed his examina- 

 tion : 



" I do so wish I were now in Cambridge (a very selfish 

 wish, however, as I was not with you in all your troubles 

 and misery), to join in all the glory and happiness, which 

 dangers gone by can give. How we would talk, walk, and 

 entomologise ! Sappho should be the best of bitches, and 

 Dash, of dogs ; then should be ' peace on earth, good will to 

 men,' which, by the way, I always think the most perfect 

 description of happiness that words can give." 



Later on in the Lent term he writes to Fox : 



" I am leading a quiet everyday sort of a life ; a little of 

 Gibbon's History in the morning, and a good deal of Van 

 John in the evening ; this, with an occasional ride with 

 Simcox and constitutional with Whitley, makes up the regu- 

 lar routine of my days. I see a good deal both of Herbert 

 and AVhitley, and the more I see of them increases every 



* Kev. T. Butler, a son of the former head master of Shrewsbur3 r School. 



