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isfaction, anything must be better than this state of anxiety. 

 I am very much obliged for your last kind and affectionate 

 letter. I always like advice from you, and no one whom I 

 have the luck to know is more capable of giving it than 

 yourself. Recollect, when you write, that I am a sort of 

 protege of yours, and that it is your bounden duty to lecture 

 me. 



I will now give you my direction : it is at first, Rio ; but 

 if you will send me a letter on the first Tuesday (when the 

 packet sails) in February, directed to Monte Video, it will 

 give me very great pleasure : I shall so much enjoy hearing 

 a little Cambridge news. Poor dear old Alma Mater! I 

 am a very worthy son in as far as affection goes. I have 

 little more to write about ... I cannot end this without 

 telling you how cordially I feel grateful for the kindness 

 you have shown me during my Cambridge life. Much of 

 the pleasure and utility which I may have derived from it is 

 owing to you. I long for the time when we shall again 

 meet, and till then believe me, my dear Henslow, 



Your affectionate and obliged friend, 



Ch. Darwix. 



