16 REMINISCENCES OF 



and I do not know when I shall, as to-morrow is a 

 holiday. I daresay I shall like it well enough when 

 I can make verses better. There are some very 

 nice fellows here. Cosmo Russell has not come yet. 

 There is a fellow named Scott coming into the same 

 house from the Academy. Mr. Coleridge has a St. 

 Bernard dog. He is such a fine chap, bigger than 

 ' Neppy,' and just like the picture Eleanor drew of 

 one. 



" How is Nelly's sore throat and sore side. What 

 have you done with ' Tom Pipes ' ; is he out at grass ? 

 " My dear Mama, 



" Again your affectionate 



"JOHN A. THOMSON. 



" I got a new hat in London. I will write to 

 Mr. Ferguson when I am placed. Write to me 

 soon." 



In Coleridge's house there were lots of good 

 fellows Stafford Northcote (Lord Iddesleigh), Lord 

 John Manners (Duke of Rutland) and his brother 

 George, Cosmo Russell, Harry Liddell (Lord Ravens- 

 worth), Fred Graham of Netherby, John Bastard, 

 Mat Tiernay, two Champernounes, Scott Murray, 

 Talbot Clifton and his brother Henry, Gisburne 

 (called " Keggs"), Herries, George and Dick Curzon 

 (Howe), Sandford-Graham, Farrar and Harvey 

 Farquhar (I was his fag). They were all first-rate 

 gentlemen. 



My greatest friends were George Miles, "Kitty" 

 Claggett and Eustace Arkwright. 



