From Tommy Grieve   November 26th. 1854.

Queenwood College | November 26th. 1854.

My dear Dr. Tyndall,

There are 41 boys have got colds and I am one of them and I make 42. Mr Iliff gave us a very interesting lecture¹ on Christmas last night, we have the society² in the dinning room now for the lecture-room is too cold now. We are going to spend our Christmas holidays at Torquay in Devonshire for Scotland is too cold for mama but I wish I was going home for it is so cold and there is more skating there than at Torquay.³ Papa tought me to skate last Christmas holidays the ice was about two feet thick. There is going to be a very grand concert at Broughton in the City Hall and we have to pay 6d to get in but the singers wont pay nowthing⁴ I am not one of the singers and I will have to pay 6d but I am glad I am not, because I would not like to sing before such a lot of people. Mr Edmondson told me that there was a new master coming on Monday.⁵ There are only three weeks and three days next Wednesday till the holidays. the time has passed very quickly this half has passed away the quickest of all the halfs I have been here. I think the time passes away quicker and quicker every half. some of the boys are learning oil painting they are Cunliff,⁶ Dickenson⁷ and Thomas Curtis⁸ all three paint very nicely. There are a hundred and fifteen boys now. Last Tuesday all the school went out a walk between nine and twelve and each class had a separate master. some of the classes played at fox and hounds⁹ but I was in bed and there was another boy that slept in the same room as I did he was in bed for a cold we had both colds one of the boys came up and told us that they were going out a walk. I lay in bed every morning now because of my cold for it would make it worse if I got up in the cold. Tompson Stephens¹⁰ has made a moddle of the Laboratory and I think he is making one of the lodge but he has made the moddle of the Laboratory very nicely. There is a boy named Miles¹¹ he is a very clever boy he reads a paper nearly every Saturday night, he gave a very nice one about the four great Philosophers of England¹² and sometimes he gives resetations.¹³ Frank Field¹⁴ gave a resetation last night about the magpie calling his feathered friends together. Dr. Hirst comes into number nine every Saturday night after the society¹⁵ and plays on the peoano but he did not last Saturday I think I must conclude now for it is nearly time that the boys came home now. With kind love to you

I remain | Your affectionate Friend | Tommy Grieve Esqr.

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