| Description | He did not intend to write for this mail but he had forgotten a commission. He gives a list of law books recommended by Samualls and Craster and notes how he would like them bound. Letters of 24 and 25 February will go to Maldah [Malda] and he will not receive them to answer in time, but he has heard via his uncle of good news about his mother and Rosie. William hopes to hear in about a week if he has passed his examination, although he got bad marks on the languages, a subject upon which he prided himself. He used words familiar to him sixty miles away, but not used in Beauleah. He gives thanks for the 'Revues' and describes how fond he grows of a photograph, more so than a painting: 'The sensation of perfect veracity...carries everything before it...it is the character that is thoroughly impressed on the paper...'. |