From G. H. Darwin to H. E. Darwin [4 April 1864]

My dear Etty

I don't know where I left in my narrative; so I can't go on very regularly. Our exam: ended on Thursday afternoon; but I must tell you an interesting little incident wh: happened in the morning. I was called at quarter past 7 a being rather sleepy, I didn't get up but fell to sleep again, and at a little before 9, Carpmael came in & woke me, well I got up & dressed at a most fearful speed, bolted two pieces of bread & butter & a gulp of milk & rushed off to the hall just in time for a mathematical paper. On Thursday night I went to tea with one Webster who had never seen me, nor had I seen him, together with Edmund; he told us some wonderful stories & seems to be considered rather a joke by the men, who don't believe his stories; he seems a sort of man that exaggerates frightfully & believes himself that he's telling the truth. I don't know exactly what I did on Friday, so I know it wasn't any thing very particular, but in the evening, we stood on Clare bridge for a long time watching the boats; they weren't light ones but regular tubs & they have most splendid fights charging one boat into another, then there was a boat of Magdalen men (also Maudlin) drinking wine or something & singing songs with a man with a guitar on board & then we went back to tea at Edmund's rooms. On Saturday I went to breakfast with a Trinity man, Stansfeld in Lodging (By the by I hope you don't think that all these breakfasts were swell ones, for they most of them consisted of tea or coffee bread & butter & eggs, & this Sat: mor.^g breakfast was the only swell one I have had)

In the evening I went to Trin. Chapel & it was a surplice night with choral service, tea at Edmunds, 2 of us.— On Sunday M^r. W, I & Carp^l went to King's Chapel I cant stop for raptures & then I lay down on the banks of the river of 2$\frac{1}{2}$ hrs; hall tea at John Allen's in the evening; He seems a very nice man but is frightfully lame. This m^g. I came to Edmunds & during breakfast he suggested that I should go with him to Newmarket to morrow; to wh: I agreed & so I'm going.

I paid my respects to M^r Wood this m^g. & he was very civil; I've left college & am going to sleep at the Eagle tonight. Our Athletics are on Wednesday & I propose coming home on Thursday morning.

Carpemael has gone today. There were betw 50 & 60 up for the Exam. & I'am nearly sure I sha'nt get anything. I think M^r. W. will be more disappointed than I shall. I shall return to Clapham after the races.

I remain | Your affec brother | G. H. Darwin

I've no blotting paper so I double the sheet up without blotting it, as I'm in a hurry