222 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. [CHAP. VII. 



Pomeroy is still very ill, but to-day he feels easier, and 

 his mouth is not quite so dry and sore. He gets food every 

 two or three hours, and port wine every time. I go 

 up in the morning and look after the getting up and bed- 

 making department along with the nurse, after which Mrs. 

 Pomeroy comes, and the nurse goes to bed. 



Maurice was here from Friday to Monday, inspecting 

 the working men's education. He was at Goodwin's on 

 Friday night, where we met him and the teachers of the 

 Cambridge affair. He talked of the history of the foundation 

 of the old colleges, and how they were mostly intended to 

 counteract the monastic system, and allow of work and study 

 without retirement from the world. 



Trin. Coll., llth December. 



Last night I lectured on Lines of Force at the Philoso- 

 phical. I put off the second part of it to next term. 

 I have been drawing a lot of lines of force by an easy dodge. 

 I have got to draw them accurately without calculation. 



Pomeroy has been improving slowly, but sometimes 

 stopping. He is so big that it requires a great deal to get 

 up his strength again. I saw Dr. Paget at the Philosophical 

 to-day, and he seemed to think him in a fair way to 

 recover. 



