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Tillbrook was there five weeks, and delighted with everything. 

 I should not be surprised if he was to make another trip next 

 year, tho' I suspect he would prefer going as a companion to a 

 young man of fortune, rather than at his own cost. You will be 

 happy to hear that the old House is in a most flourishing state. 

 We have daily twelve Commoners (!) at our table. Whaley is now 

 senior, and Tillbrook junior, tutor. The University is uncommonly 

 full, and I think ere long that every house in the town will be 

 converted into a lodging-house. The Cambridge fever certainly has 

 not done us any mischief, almost every College overflows. I hope 

 and trust that I thanked you for your noble present of two dried 

 salmon. I have not as yet lost my relish for such things. Whaley 

 was much disappointed at not meeting you in the North last 

 summer. Are we likely ever again to see you within the walls of 

 St. Peter ? I am a constant quantity, and almost to a certainty to 

 be found in the new building, where I still hope to you see again. 

 Adieu ! " 



Dr. Ingle writes again to Mr. Culley six years later : — 



Peter-house, Dec: 11, 1820. 



" I approve extremely of your wish to keep up your acquaint- 

 ance in the South, and I particularly approve of the manner in 

 which you go to work to accomplish your object, as I never 

 forget those who feed me well and pamper me with the good 

 things of this world, such as dried salmon, which, with the 

 addition of egg sauce, is particularly grateful to the palate of a 

 hungry and half-starved Fellow of a College. Your present 

 arrived quite safe and was very acceptable. Out of my abundant 

 generosity I had half of one served up at the Fellows' table, 

 which seemed to give great satisfaction ; with the remainder I 

 was not quite so liberal, though I very liberally gave about an 

 ounce of it to our senior tutor, the Rev. Jos. Whaley, who 

 happened in my hearing to say something about such things 

 being very good at breakfast, if previously toasted or roasted at 

 the fire ! 



How comes it that you have not paid us a visit of late yeai's ? 

 Have you married a wife and cannot come ? or are yon medita- 

 ting a trip to the South this summer ? Should you reach 

 Cambridge before the first week in July you will most probably 

 find some of your friends within the walls of St. Peter's, and 

 glad to see you ; but after that time it is quite uncertain in 

 what part of the world even Mr Whaley will be found, who, like 

 other great jjeople of late years, has been seized with the love of 

 travelling, and sailing about the ocean after the Royal Barge. 

 Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Wight have each been favoured 



