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mental pursuits. I do not wish to prevent, but to 

 moderate his pursuit of such recreations, and to teach 

 him that a union of the two adds sweetness to either. 



" You will be glad to receive from me a good 

 account of Lord Cosmo Russell. He is doing well, 

 and might, if he were not a Lord, do excellently. 

 As it is, I will screw him up to the utmost point I can. 

 The King will certainly ask for an additional week's 

 holidays to-morrow, in which case your nephew's day 

 of return to Eton will be Saturday, 15th September, 

 unless, indeed, you would wish him to avail himself 

 of another week, a privilege usually granted to 

 Scotch boys on account of the distance. 



" I am very sorry you have never paid me your 

 promised visit ; but I daresay you can show cause. 

 " Ever yours, my dear Sir, 

 " Very faithfully, 



" Edward Coleridge. 



"Eton, 28th July, 1833." 



I left Eton at Christmas, 1834. On the last day 

 I went out hunting with De Burgh's staghounds, on 

 a hack of Bob Davies. Eustace Arkwright went 

 with me. He wore a red coat ; I wore a green one. 

 My boots were made (by an order on old Ingleton) 

 with a seam down the back instead of the old 

 Wellington pattern, and I gave him fourteen shillings 

 extra to make a pair of tops. I left them (the tops) 

 at my uncle's house in 13 Berkeley Square when I 

 went abroad. When I returned the house was sold, 

 and I never saw them again. 



