186 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. [CHAP. VI. 



Glenlair, The Day after the Wedding* 

 1st June (1853). 



I have yours of the day of the Eestoration. . . . She 

 (Maria Clerk) also wrote about the new phase of animal 

 magnetism called table-Turning. Do you know about that ? 



Photography is also in the ascendant. You will, no 

 doubt, be at Ipswich, I believe an ancient city, and hath 

 old kirks and sundries worthy of notice. Is Otley towards 

 the sea ? Douking, etc. ? 



To Miss CAY. 



Trin. Coll., 7th June 1853. 



I have an engagement to go and visit a man in Suffolk, but 

 the spare bed is at present occupied by the " celebrated Dr. 

 Ting of America." I only wait here for his departure. I 

 spent to-day in a great sorting of papers and arranging of 

 the same. Much is bequeathed to the bedmaker, and a 

 number of duplicate examination papers are laid up to give 

 to friends. 



I intend to-morrow to get up early and make breakfast 

 for all the men who are going down, wakening them in good 

 time ; then read Wordsworth's Prelude till sleepy ; then 

 sally forth and see if all the colleges are shut up for the 

 season ; and then go and stroll in the fields and fraternise 

 with the young frogs and old water-rats. In the evening, 

 something not mathematical. Perhaps write a biograph- 

 ical sketch of Dr. Ting of America, of whom you know as 

 much as I do. To-morrow evening, or next day, our list 

 comes out. You will hear of it from the Robertsons if in 

 town, or Mackenzie if not. I have done better papers than 

 those of this examination ; but if the examiners are not 

 satisfied with them it is not my fault, for they are better 

 than they have yet seen of mine. If any one asks how I 

 am getting on in mathematics, say that I am busy arranging 

 everything so as to be able to express all distinctly, so that 

 examiners may be satisfied now and pupils edified hereafter. 



1 Viz. of Elizabeth M'Keand (see above, p. 47). 



