Lehrjahre and Waiiderjahre 107 



Sunday Oct. 16'" 1839. 



17 New Spuing Gardens, 



London. 



My dear Father, 



Thanks for your letter. I have been thinking over about another year's 

 Londoniziug, and, having crammed up " Whewell's Uni^•e^sity Education," I certainly 

 think that it would be better to give it and the Laboratory up altogether. As the 

 Dissecting season is over about June (I forget exactly when) my hands will not be full 

 for three months or so before going up to Cambridge, in which time I shall hope to get 

 up my first part of Mathematics well, and a fair proportion of the Classics that 

 Mr Blakesley has mentioned. 1 think it would be as well at that time not to touch either 

 Mechanics or Conic Sections, but to exhaust Merridew's shop in scribbling paper for 

 working equations etc. I am as well as possible, getting thorough exercising twice a week 

 at Angelo's either at Cai-te and Tierce, or else in pitching into a huge Life Guardsman, 

 six feet and a half liigh in his slippers, or rather in his pitching into me with single 

 stick. I have no headaches or anything of the sort and dissecting increases the appetite 

 wonderfully. I don't send any accounts as there is nothing particular to put down. As 

 for those I sent last time, I only sent the General not being very fond of Double Entry, 

 though I have the particulars safe in my account book. For instance I did not write 

 2 ounces of Epsom Salts — 2g?., having included that in the Washing Bill, since it was 

 most undoubtedly for a cleaning out that I bought them, and so for the rest'. 



Pemmy, you are a most dutiful sister. Pictures splendid, the framemaker nearly 

 broke his windows when he started back in admiration ; they are hung up with my little 

 Ariadne between them. Are they real scenes? However, don't ask me whether I 

 admired the perspective. And now in return I will show you what a deal of attention 

 I bestow on them ; I will just make a calculation. I am, on an average, 5 minutes 

 dawdling in getting up, 10 minutes ditto in going to bed. During this time I must 

 necessarily look at one side of the room or the other, and as the room is bare on the 

 other side that can be no attraction in looking there. Therefore at least | or 10 minutes 

 will be daily spent in looking at your pictures, besides this I am always awake about 

 I of an hour before getting up, when I cannot help seeing them as they are just before my 

 nose, that makes 25 minutes a day, or 12 hours nearly a month or 156 hours or 19i days 

 of 8 houre each yearly ! 



Dear Bessy, I did not receive your missal ; of course it was an accident. I didn't 

 ask for it by letter, as I knew you would draw it intuitively ; it will look so pretty, 

 especially as it will be about the size of Emma's pictures, rather larger perhaps but same 

 shape. Paws vastly improved, but horrors ! about a week ago a huge crimson boil 

 appeared a little to the left of my nose ; it was as large as a fourpenny piece and seemed 



I' Samuel Tertius Galton was most particular as to his son's accounts, and we find 

 specimen accounts with various methods of keeping them sent to his son Francis. He 

 endeavoured to inculcate thorough business habits in his children, while at the same 

 time he was most liberal in his remittances and preserved to his death the most intimate 

 confidence and friendly familiarity of his son Francis. 



