When shall you be at Cambridge?

[You]

have hinted, I think, that your friend Bland

[1]

is returned from Holland. I have always had a great respect for his talents, and for all that I have heard of his character; but of me, I believe he knows nothing, except that he heard my sixth form repetitions ten months together at the average of two lines a morning, and those never perfect. I remembered him and his

Slaves

as I passed between Capes Matapan, St. Angelo, and his Isle of Ceriga, and I always bewailed the absence of the

Anthology

. I

[suppose]