TALBOT974

Thursday May 23

Dear Talbot

I have only time to send you the information which you require. At Cambridge you will find, I think, Coddington, Kindersley, Worsley, ¹ Porter (who sports 10 G. for the Irish) Matthews, Higman ² (who is made Tutor for a third side, & who means to elect Thorp ³ his lecturer) Ollivant ⁴ of course (Hebrew Scholar), and my Brothers, if you arrive there before Tuesday. I see by the papers that Coddington's mother is lately dead, but he is in Cambridge. Bagshawe ⁵ came up at Christmas but I have not heard of him since. Barnes ⁶ was there last term.

I cannot tell you any thing of the Classical World: being quite shut out of it. Mitchell ⁷ has published a second Vol. of Aristophanes, which I have not seen. Briggs ⁸ has published the 'Poets Bucolici' (Groci) at our press. Monk ⁹ is Dean of Peterborough, and D.D: and though the statutes say 'omnes omnino Doctores Excludimus' i. e. from the Professorship of Greek, he has distributed a circular to shew how this does not apply to him. Pamphlets about the Little Go are coming out perpetually. William¹⁰ is going to Scarborough for the long Vacation with 4 pupils, his eyes are not much better. In October he goes to London to study Medicine. I am here (Stamford) very wretched: no certain Vacancies. Welcoming you sincerely to England, I am &c

Your very sincere Friend,
T. K. Arnold.

P.S. The Lament of L^d B. will be difficult: mention it to Fursdon ¹¹ at Cambridge. Adieu.

W. H. F. Talbot Esq.
31. Sackville Street,
London.