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assembling for supper ; you can hardly conceive with 

 what pleasure they all flocked round me, with the most 

 hearty congratulations, and I found that many of them 

 had been seeking me all over the College, in order to be 

 the first to communicate the good tidings. 



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TO MR B. MADDOCK 



St John's, July 1805. 

 My dear Friend, 



I have good and very bad news to communicate to you. 

 Good, that Mr Catton has given me an exhibition, which 

 makes me up a clear income of £63 per annum, and 

 that I am consequently more than independent ; bad, 

 that I have been very ill, notwithstanding regular and 

 steady exercise. Last Saturday morning I rose early, 

 and got up some rather abstruse problems in mechanics 

 for my tutor, spent an hour with him, between eight and 

 nine got my breakfast, and read the Greek History {at 

 IreaJcfast) till ten, then sat down to decipher some loga- 

 rithm tables. I think I had not done anything at them, 

 when I lost myself At a quarter past eleven my laun- 

 dress found me bleeding in four different places in my 

 face and head, and insensible. I got up, and staggered 

 about the room, and she, being frightened, ran away, 

 and told my gyp to fetch a surgeon. Before he came, I 

 was sallying out with my flannel gown on, and my 

 academical gown over it : he made me put on ray coat, 

 and then I went to Mr Farish's : he opened a vein, and 

 my recollection returned. My own idea was, that I had 

 fallen out of bed, and so I told Mr Farish at first ; but 

 I afterwards remembered that I had been to Mr Fiske, 

 and breakfasted. 



Mr Catton has insisted on my consulting Sir Isaac Pen- 

 nington, and the consequence is, that I am to go through 

 a co'urse of blistering, &c., which, after the bleeding, will 

 leave me weak enough. 



