180 Mary Somerville. 



[Professor Sedgwick wrote as follows to my father : 



FEOM PEOFESSOE SEDGWICK TO DE. SOMEEVILLE. 



TBINITY COLLEGE, April, 1834. 



MY DEAR SOMEKVILLE, 



Your letter delighted us. I have ordered dinner 

 on Thursday at 6 and shall have a small party to 

 welcome you and Mrs. Somerville. In order that we 

 may not have to fight for you, we have been entering on 

 the best arrangements we can think of. On Tuesday you 

 will, I hope, dine with Peacock ; on Wednesday with 

 Whewell ; on Thursday at the Observatory. For Friday, 

 Dr. Clarke, our Professor of Anatomy, puts in a claim. 

 For the other days of your visit we shall, D.V., find ample 

 employment. A four-poster bed now (a thing utterly out 

 of our regular monastic system) will rear its head for you 

 and Madame in the chambers immediately below my 

 own ; and your handmaid may safely rest her bones in a 

 small inner chamber. Should Sheepshanks return, we 

 can stuff him into a lumber room of the observatory ; but 

 of this there is no fear as I have written to him on the 

 subject, and he has no immediate intention of returning. 

 You will of course drive to the great gate of Trinity 

 College, and my servant will be in waiting at the Porter's 

 lodge to show you the way to your academic residence. 

 We have no cannons at Trinity College, otherwise we 

 would fire a salute on your entry ; we will however give 

 you the warmest greeting we can. Meanwhile give my 

 best regards to Mrs. S. 



And believe me most truly yours, 



A. SEDGWICK. 



