Harrow. 1
Friday
My dear Father
I am now going to send you a bill-book. 2 I am in the 3rd remove of the fifth form. My master in school is Mr Rendall who is eccentric but a very good master. In mathematics I am no longer under Mr Steel, 3 but Mr Marrilier. He is a very old man and has been here no one knows how long. I believe that he [illegible deletion] is a Frenchman by birth but you could not tell that for he’s thouroughly Englishified. He knows all Euclid by heart. And the only difficult thing that some boys find with him is that he expects them to be as clever as himself. My master in German is Mons Berault[?]. You will see Trevelyan’s 4 name down for 3 prizes. A. A. Clive for the Bolguild[?] Medal. I have underlined all our house
You see Estcourt is now in the upper sixth, he is doing famously. In the head remove of the Fifth Form you will see Eyre who works hard, and got a good remove He was the boy who knows the Spedding’s 5 a little and lives in the south of Wiltshire. In the second remove of the fifth form you will see Rogers. He is the other fellow in my room. He is a good deal of a botanist as also his father who is in the Royal society 6 and knows so a good deal about Hampshire & Basingstoke has been at Devizes & heard of Mr Williams. 7 &c. has been in Cumberland and stayed at Portinscale. By the by I have found out from Rogers that Marshall who is left head of the 2nd Fifth is the son of Mr Marshall of Potterdale. in the 3rd fifth you see me at the bottom of the page. Mallock is in the 4th fifth.8 Giles who has been placed in the 1st shell I have hopes of In the second fourth is Mr Legge who will very likely be a good cricketer
Goodbye dear Father Your Affectionate son
Charles Henry Talbot
PS. I send a little diagram of the position of the terrestrial planets which I made for amusements to Matilda 9
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