174 CAMBRIDGE. /KTAT. 19-22. [1829. 



[In the following January we find him looking forward with 

 pleasure to the beginning of another year of his Cambridge 

 life : he writes to Fox 



" I waited till to-day for the chance of a letter, but 

 I will wait no longer. I must most sincerely and cordially 

 congratulate you on having finished all your labours. I think 

 your place a very good one considering by how much you 

 have beaten many men who had the start of you in reading. 

 I do so wish I were now in Cambridge (a very selfish wish, 

 however, as I was not with you in all your troubles and 

 miserj-), to join in all the glory and happiness, which dangers 

 gone by can give. How we would talk, walk, and entomolo- 

 gise! Sappho should be the best of bitches, and Dash, of 

 dogs : then should be ' peace on earth, good will to men,' 

 which, by the way, I always think the most perfect descrip- 

 tion of happiness that words can give."] 



C. Danuin to W. D. Fox. 



Cambridge, Thursday [February 26, 1829]. 

 MY DEAR FOX, 



When I arrived here on Tuesday I found to my great 

 grief and surprise, a letter on my table which I had written to 

 you about a fortnight ago, the stupid porter never took the 

 trouble of getting the letter forwarded. I suppose you have 

 been abusing me for a most ungrateful wretch ; but I am sure 

 you will pity me now, as nothing is so vexatious as having 

 written a letter in vain. 



Last Thursday I left Shrewsbury for London, and stayed 

 there till Tuesday, on which I came down here by the ' Times.' 

 The first two days I spent entirely with Mr. Hope,* and did 

 little else but talk about and look at insects ; his collection is 

 most magnificent, and he himself is the most generous of 

 entomologists ; he has given me about 160 new species, and 

 * Founder of the Chair of Zoology at Oxford. 



