Sunday evening April 12th
My dear Father.
I have only time to night to write a line as it is very late and I start early tomorrow morning for Lincoln, to see the Cathedral. I have bought the new volume of Cathedral Handbook, of which Mamma was kind enough to give me the 1st 2 volumes, because it contains a description of Lincoln. I send you the examination papers. I am certain that I shall not get a scholarship, <1> but I never expected it. The ele I have to be back by Friday evening. The election takes place on Friday morning. I did not do the mathematical papers well at all. The Classical papers I did better but not good enough for a scholarship alone. The miscellaneous classical paper I did badly very badly not knowing anything. on the whole I should say I did the examination better than any I have been in for yet up here. I made as great an effort as I could to get up the subjects.
I hope to be able to send a note to somebody at Edinburgh from Lincoln
Your affect son
Charles.
“Cyriack whose grandsire on the royal bench”
[envelope:]
H Fox Talbot Esq
11 Gt Stuart St.
Edinburgh
Notes:
1. See Doc. No: 08689.
2. John Milton (1608–1674), Sonnet XXII, To Cyriack Skinner, was first published 1673.