274 HENRY KTEKE WHITE's EEMAINS- 



If I choose, I could find a good deal of religious so- 

 ciety here, but I must not indulge myself with it too 

 much. Mr Simeon's preaching strikes me much. 

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I beg you "will answer a thousand sucli questions as 

 these without my asliing them. 



This is a letter of intelligence : — Next shall be sen- 

 timent (or Gothic arch, for they are synonymous accord- 

 ing to Mr M.) 



TO HIS MOTHER. 



St John's, 26tli October 1805. 

 Dear Mother, 



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You seem to repose so little confidence in what I say 

 with regard to my College expenses, that I am not en- 

 couraged to hope you will give me much credit for what 

 I am about to say ; namely, that had I no money at all, 

 either from my friends or Mr Simeon, I could manage 

 to live here. My situation is so very favourable, and 

 the necessary expenses so very few, that I shall want 

 very little more than will suffice for clothes and books, 



I have got the bills of Mr , a sizar of this College, 



now before me, and from them, and his own account, I 

 will give you a statement of what my College T)ills will 

 amount to. 



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Thus my College expenses will not be more than twelve 

 or fifteen pounds a-year at the most. I shall not have 

 any occasion for the whole sum I have a claim upon Mr 

 Simeon for, and if things go well, I shall be able to live 



without being dependent on any one. The Mr , 



whose bills 1 have borrowed, has been at College three 



years. He came over from with ten pounds in his 



pocket, and has no friends or any income or emolument 

 whatever except what he receives for his sizarship : yet 

 he does support himself, and that, too, very genteelly. 



