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versity College. I am happy to say that the circumstances 1867. 

 have not created any personal bitterness of feeling ; indi- 

 viduals are to me what they were before. But if force of 

 will can succeed, the institution is to pass away from 

 before my mind, and to become as if it had never existed. 



6 You will see that I am altogether averse to lending 

 aid or countenance to any scheme which will tend to 

 remind others that I was a teacher in the College which 

 did homage to the evil it was created to oppose. 



' But I am even more sensible to my old pupils' remem- 

 brance than I should have been if I could have accepted 

 the result of their most acceptable good opinion. Such 

 remembrance would have been, in any case, a treasure. 

 It has now the additional value of a treasure saved out of 

 the fire. 



'You will, of course, communicate my answer, and 

 with my warmest thanks and most heartfelt regards, 



' I am, my dear Waley, 



' Yours sincerely, 



6 A. DE MORGAN.' 1 



He often spoke with satisfaction of the uninterrupted 

 friendly relations which had for thirty years subsisted 

 between himself and his colleagues. From his declining 

 health and other circumstances he saw but little of them 

 latterly, but this was in no case due (on his part at least) 

 to personal feeling created by the question which had 

 caused his withdrawal. 



One of his social pleasures during the last few years had Crabb 

 been in the acquaintance and friendship of Mr. H. Crabb 

 Robinson, one of the first active promoters of the establish- 

 ment of University College. Through a life of nearly 

 ninety-one years Mr. Robinson had been the steady friend of 



1 This letter was printed after Mr. De Morgan's death for circula- 

 tion among friends who had been asked to join in an injudicious at- 

 tempt to found a scholarship under his name in University College. 



