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result. All the letters of congratulation which are 

 now coraing in mention you : ' How delighted your 

 mother will be,' &c. ; and it is a great thing for me 

 to find that you are so. Without appreciative sym- 

 pathy success soon palls ; but the two combined go 

 to make up the best happiness. 



I went to Cambridge yesterday to get the 

 manuscript, and as there happened to be a congrega- 

 tion in the afternoon, I also took my degree. I saw 

 all my friends, who were overflowing with delight. 

 Indeed, I never before realised how great the compe- 

 tition is, for I never had an opportunity of knowing 

 how the successful man is lionised. The Caius dons 

 especially are up in the air about it, as this is the first 

 time in the history of the college that one of its 

 members has got the Burney ; so that, as Ferrers 

 writes to me, ' when the same year produces a Senior 

 Wrangler and a Burney Prizeman, the college may 

 be said to be looking up.' I was invited to breakfast 

 with the Professor of Divinity (who is the principal 

 adjudicator), and I found him very pleasant indeed. 

 Afterwards I went to the Vice-Chancellor, from whom 

 I got the well-remembered ' pages ' (but now with 

 Prize I. written across them) ; and lastly, to the third 

 adjudicator, the master of Christ's. They all said 

 more in praise of the essay than I would care to 

 repeat, but, to tell you the simple truth, I was perfectly 

 astonished. Por example, ' In the history of the 

 Burney Prize there have only been two equals and 

 no superiors.' ^ 



The Vice-Chancellor told me that there was another 

 essay well deserving of a prize which was written 



