218 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1852. remember. He was a banker, and something else, I think, at 

 Taunton ; he afterwards went to Bristol, and was in some 

 business. When I was sent to school near Bristol in 1820, 1 was 

 consigned to R. Y., who especially warned me not to walk 

 in my sleep, as there were no leads outside the window they 

 had been removed. The consequence was that, though I never 

 walked in my sleep before or since that I remember, I was 

 awakened by the wind blowing on me, and found myself before 

 the open window, with my knee on the lower ledge. I crept 

 back to bed, leaving the window open, and the family, being 

 alarmed by the noise, came into my room, found me asleep and 

 the window open ; so that as their fenestral logic did not reason 

 both ways, they forgot that the leads were not there, and 

 searched the whole house for thieves. Long afterwards I met 

 R. Y. in Stratford's room, negotiating about some papers of Young 

 referring to the R. A., and there 1 learnt whose brother he was. 

 John Young, I am pretty sure, was a brother, if not a cousin. 



You will remember that it has been said that Somersetshire 

 has been very deficient in great men ; and the exceptiones fir- 

 mantes regulam have been Roger Bacon and John Locke. It is 

 time that Young should make a third. 



I do not know whether you have all your information about 

 Young's family. If you want any inquiries, I have some old 

 friends still at Taunton, and will ascertain what you want. 

 Milverton, Young's birthplace, is a few miles from Taunton. 



I hope you will not overwork yourself; and remain, clear 

 sir, 



Yours sincerely, &c., &c. 



To Rev. W. Heald. 



7 Camden Street, Sept. 11, 1852. 



DEAR HEALD, I make my annual renewal of correspondence, 

 which I have got into a habit of doing when my wife and chil- 

 dren leave town. They have gone this year to Herne Bay not 

 so far from London as last year, when they were at Broadstairs. 

 By the way, a scientific friend of mine directed to me at Broad- 

 stairs, near London, when near Ramsgate would have been 

 nearer the mark. On my asking him what he meant, he said he 

 remembered some very broad stairs down to the river just below 

 London Bridge, and he had a vague idea that they were the 

 Broadstairs. Doubtless there are very broad stairs there- 

 abouts. This put me on asking the etymology of Broadstairs, 



