LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 607 



whicli tkey have perhaps been in some degree suggested. Here is the 

 acceptance of an invitation to dinner in the handwriting of a Christ 

 Chui-ch man of eminence ; it is evident that in the invitation the 

 proposed repast had been facetiously spoken of as a practical lecture 

 on food, accompanied by particular experiments, to which the guests 

 were asked to be present. The Christ Church man replies : — 

 "It is veiy kind of you to otfer to admit senior members of the 

 House to one of your Lectures, and though the title of the Lecture 

 for the 8th ("On the disintegration of muscular tissue effected by 

 molar action, with experiments in alcoholic circulation") is alai-ming 

 to an amateur, yet I hope fco attend and profit by it. — Grratefully 

 yours, C. L. Dodgson." 



I now pass over to the sister university of Cambridge, and produce 

 what examples I have of " leaves which have been touched" by men 

 of worth and note there. My Cambridge specimens I find are more 

 numerous than my Oxford ones : I have gathered more I suppose, as 

 feeling a special interest in the sons of one's own alma mater ; and 

 for the same reason I shall be excused if I venttn-e to interweave 

 some of the personal recollections which here and there occur in 

 connexion with the objects shown. 



Again I begin with a volume which once had a place on the 

 library shelves of a famous College : Trinity College, Cambrido-e. It 

 is Fanshaw's translation of the Lusiad of Camoens, a folio of the 

 date 1655. Its full title reads as foUows : "The Lusiad, or Poi-tuoal's 

 Historicall Poem, writen in the Portugall Language .by Lvis de 

 Camoens, and now newly put into English by Ptichard Fanshaw, 

 Esq. — Horat. Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori. Carmen amat 

 quisquis carmine digna facit. London : printed for Humphi-ey 

 Mosley, at the Pi-ince's Arms in St. Paul's Churchyard, MDCLY." 

 The dedication is to the Pight Honorable William, Eai-1 of Strafibrd, 

 and is crowded full of conceits and pleasant discourse, containing an 

 anecdote of Tasso, as well as some personal matter. It ^dll appear 

 that Fanshaw at the time was finding shelter in a country house of 

 the Earl's called Tankersley. Only four years previously Fanshaw 

 had been taken prisoner at Worcester while fighting on the Poyal 

 side. A few years later he joined the King at Breda, and was 

 knighted. " My good Lord :" thus runs the Dedication : " I cannot 

 tell how your Lordship may take it, that in so uncourted a lano-uace 

 as that of Portugall should be found extant a poet to rival your 

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