From William Marshall to Horace Darwin [23 February 1873]

Dear Bounder

Thank heaven there is a week of this cursed Tripos over and one begins to rejoice in anticipatⁿ. of being deliciously idle & comfortable. Tomorrow is a holiday (that is to say I must cram all day) & Tuesd. & wed. will be very hard days but then the end comes. E and I leave London Friday 28 Feb. morn^g and I imagine shall be in Cannes by next Monday or Tuesday I cant say exactly when. I have to be back here sooner than I thought 18 April and so must hurry on & can't stop more than a day or two I fear— But I have no doubt it will be so jolly I shall be very much tempted to stay longer. I want to stop at Genoa, then Pisa, Siena Orvieta Rome Naples & back to Florence & perhaps Italⁿ. Lakes.

This tripos has been made additionally detestable by ones having had papers set in Philology & History by ignorant apes so badly that it was no use knowing them. I had hoped to scrape into a first by knowing them fairly but I shant now— Butcher too has his place endangered by it, tho' I think not seriously. One is intensely stupid & fagged so you must excuse more

we shall come to the Hotel de Provence Cannes so if you have gone elsewhere send a line there to meet us. | Ever y^rs K.