| Description | He thanks Preston for his thougtfulness in sending a copy of his inscribed book, already in a second edition. Redgrave's 'cement book' ['Calacerous cements: their nature, manufacture and uses'] which he is sending to Preston, is now in a twelfth edition, so he has 'now filled up my measure of misdeeds'. He does not have Preston's intermediate education report yet, promising to send in on to the V.P. [Vice Principal] when he receives it. 'A Dublin friend has been telling stories about you, namely that you were thinking of committing matrimony...' |