Dear Jim
When are you coming up cos I must know before hand to order a gridiron. Gurney says you are to come & feed with him one night. I cut some skin off the porpoise but I’m afraid it is lost. The fat was so lovely to look at that I had it made into Porpoise Soup & I liked it so much that I bought a pig & fatted it in my gyp room & made it into Mock Porpoise ditto. I find the effect of mathematics is make me tell the most infernal lies in all my letters. I suppose I get such a lot of truth in Mathematics that I get sick of it. I have done no reading today my coach having got the measles, for my own part I should like to catch smallpox & diphtheria & scarlet fever & typhus fever with delirium tremens thrown in, if I could off this fearful tripos
yours | FD
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Please cite as “FL-1513,” in Ɛpsilon: The Darwin Family Letters Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/darwin-family-letters/letters/FL-1513