1824-33 PROBABLE EXPECTANCIES 6i 
‘ 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. 
‘ 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,® 
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 
® Sir A. Cooper. 
