It is most provoking, and your treatment has been unjust: but it comes to my mind to this, When they persecute you in one city, flee ye to another.
You can make better use of your time by getting University instruction elsewhere, than by throwing legal pebbles at the University gates of Auld Reekie: and life being short you had better gather up the net result of your Scotch experience, and go to Zürich or Paris, or wherever your own knowledge and judgment lead you.
I am exceedingly sorry for you; but I see nothing else to be done, so far as I understand the facts.
It is very tantalizing that the majorities have always been so narrow: and that there has been so much to justify sanguine friends in their advice.
I shall be glad to hear your decision, and both Hetty and I are very sorry for you.
Your affect. brother,
T. W. J.-B.”
“The College,
Cheltenham,
Nov. 21. 1871.