TALBOT905

My dear M^r Feilding,

I am very well pleased with the place I have got, but I did not like the examination. – There were three of us going to try for the medals, but Arnold ¹ has failed of getting a senior optime, ² as you may see by the list, ³ so that only Ollivant ⁴ & myself remain. I do not know whether any one else will offer himself a candidate, but we are not much afraid of any whose names appear in the list of honours. The weather was pleasant & it was not such a fatigue as we expected – You may see that a good many of us have beaten Fisher who was astronomer in Buchan’s voyage to the North Pole. ⁵ Poor fellow if he had been examined in practical mathematics, the result would have been rather different. I told you it w^d be so, if you remember –

Yours ever aff^tly
W.H.F.Talbot

Captⁿ Feilding R.N.
Burley on the Hill
Stamford