283 HENRY KIEKE WHITE S REMAINS. 



I am happy, however, to tell j^ou I am better ; and 

 Mr Farish, the surgeon, says, a few days will re-establish 

 me when I get into another scene, and into society, 

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TO HIS MOTHER. 



London, 24:tli December 1805. 

 My dear Mother, 



You will, no doubt, have been surprised at not having 

 heard from me for so long a time, and you will be no 

 less so to find that I am writing this at my aunt's, in 

 this far-famed city. I have been so much taken up with 

 our College examinations of late, that I could not find 

 time to write even to you, and I am now come to town, 

 in order to give myself every relaxation and amusement 

 I can ; for I had read so much at Cambridge, that my 

 health was rather aiiected, and I w^as advised to give 

 myself the respite of a week or a fortnight, in order to 

 recover strength. I arrived in town on Saturday night, 

 and should have written yesterday, in. order to remove 

 any uneasiness you might feel on my account, but there 

 is no post on Sunday. 



I have now to communicate some agreeable intelligence 

 to you. Last week being the close of the Michaelmas 

 term, and our College examination, our tutor, who is a 

 very great man, sent for me, and told me he was sorry 

 to hear I had been ill : he understood I was low-spirited, 

 and wished to know whether 1 frightened myself about 

 College expenses. 1 told him, that they did contribute 

 some little to harass me, because I was as yet uncertain 

 what the bills of my first year would amount to. His 

 answer was to this purpose : " Mr White, I beg you will 

 not trouble yourself on this subject : your emoluments 

 will be very great, very great indeed, and I will take 

 care your expenses are not very burthensome — leave that 

 to me !" He advised me to go to ray friends, and amuse 

 myself with a total cessation from reading. After our 



