P.S.—I open this note, written from my dictation by my wife, to enclose
my congratulations on Mrs. Forth’s scholarly attainments.
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_From Professor Forth to Rev. Mr. Casaubon_.
(Telegram.)
Will be with you at Cambridge on the third.
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_From Mrs. Forth_, _Bradmore-road_, _Oxford_, _to David Rivers_, _Esq._,
_Milnthorpe_, _Yorkshire_.
He goes on Saturday to Cambridge to hear some one talk about the Hittites
and the Asiatics. Did you not say there was a good Sunday train? They
sing “O Rest in the Lord” at Magdalen. I often wonder that Addison’s
Walk is so deserted on Sundays. He stays over Sunday at Cambridge. {129}
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_From David Rivers_, _Esq._, _to Mrs. Forth_, _Oxford_.
DEAR MRS. FORTH,—Saturday is a half-holiday at the Works, and I propose
to come up and see whether our boat cannot bump Balliol. How
extraordinary it is that people should neglect, on Sundays, the favourite
promenade of the Short-faced Humourist. I shall be there: the old
place.—Believe me, yours ever,