(e) My good doctor at Coniston. Had to drive over from Hawkshead every other winter day, because I wouldn’t stop drinking too much tea—also my servants were ill.
(f) About four times this sum will keep me comfortably—all the year round—here among my Oxford friends—when I have reduced myself to the utmost allowable limit of a St. George’s Master’s income—366 pounds a year, (the odd pound for luck).
(g) For copies of the Book of Kells, bought of a poor artist. Very beautiful, and good for gifts to St. George.
(h) My honest host (happily falsifying his name), for friends when I haven’t houseroom, etc. This bill chiefly for hire of carriages.
(i) Downs shall give account of himself in next Fors.
(k)
| £ | s. | |
| Athenæum | 7 | 7 |
| Alpine Club | 1 | 1 |
| Early English Text Society | 10 | 10 |
| Horticultural | 4 | 4 |
| Geological | 2 | 2 |
| Architectural | 1 | 1 |
| Historical | 1 | 1 |
| Anthropological | 2 | 2 |
| Consumption Hospital | 3 | 3 |
| Lifeboat | 5 | 0 |
| £37 | 11 |
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[1] My friends (see a really kind article in the Monetary Gazette,) much doubt, and very naturally, the wisdom of this exposition. I indeed expected to appear to some better advantage; but that the confession is not wholly pleasant, and appears imprudent, only makes it the better example. Fors would have it so. [↑]