CHAP. VII.] BACHELOR-SCHOLAR. 207 



LETTERS, 1854 TO 1856. 

 FROM HIS FATHER. 



India Street, 4th Feby. 1854. 



I have got yours of the 1st inst., and to-night or on 

 Monday I will expect to hear of the Smith's Prizes. I get 

 congratulations on all hands, including Prof. Kelland and 

 Sandy Eraser, and all others competent. 



18 India St., 6th Feby. 1854. 



George Wedderburn came into my room at 2 A.M. 

 yesterday morning, having seen the Saturday Times, received 

 by the express train, and I got your letter before breakfast 

 yesterday. As you are equal to the Senior in the champion 

 trial, you are but a very little behind him. 



I am going to dine with John Cay, and with him pro- 

 ceed to the Royal Society. I may perhaps catch Prof. 

 Gregory about the microscopist. 



5th March 1854. 



Mrs. Morrieson told me she had a poetical epistle from 

 you on St. David's Day. 1 



Aunt Jane stirred me up to sit for my picture, as she 

 said you wished for it and were entitled to ask for it, qua 

 wrangler. I have had four sittings to Sir John Watson 

 Gordon, and it is now far advanced ; I think it is very like. 

 It is Kit-cat size, to be a companion to Dyce's picture of 

 your mother and self, which Aunt Jane says she is to leave 

 to you. 



To E. B. LITCHFIELD, Esq. 



Trin. Coll., 25th March 1854. 



I am experiencing the effects of Mill, but I take him 

 slowly. I do not think him the last of his kind. I think 

 more is wanted to bring the connexion of sensation with 

 Science to light, and show what it is not. I have been 

 reading Berkeley on the Theory of Vision, and greatly 

 admire it, as I do all his other non-mathematical works ; 



i Mrs. Morrieson's early home was in Montgomeryshire. 



