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' You have now, my dear Caroline, effected 

 what I have long wished ; you have directed 

 your thoughts in a definite channel on the subject 

 of our approaching union, and have begun to 

 think of it as a thing certain and fixed, based on 

 a strong mutual affection, and an earnest desire 

 to increase each other's happiness. . . . We 

 must next calculate our resources and consider 

 the best mode of applying them. 



1 My 200/. I think is certain so long as I 

 remain at the College ; but that, I felt, was insuf- 

 ficient, even for our wants alone, consistent with 

 the respectability I am determined C, O. shall 

 always command in the eyes of the world, and 

 therefore the idea of the cottage shot across me 

 as a present additional resource, and now, before 

 saying more on that, let me detail to you my 

 most probable expectancies. Some of the more 

 enlightened members of our College, Mr. Brodie, 

 Mr. Green, Mr. Mayo, and I believe Sir Astley, 3 

 have thought and talked of the propriety of 

 establishing a permanent professorship, and a 

 more regular and extended course of lectures 

 than at present. I have been told by one of 

 them that they have considered me as calculated 

 to fulfil such an office (I confess I sometimes 

 doubt my powers), and 500/. per annum has been 

 hinted to me as the probable outside sum ; with 

 this I think I could be content, perhaps three 



3 Sir A. Cooper. 



