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Trinity [on college notepaper]:- Sees that his father is going to Edinburgh 'to be sworn into something'. Hopes 'all is going well with him in his office'; does not think 'the last election will have much effect, though of course it is bad'. Asks if she is coming South soon, as there is something he would like to ask her to do if she can: Charlie 'has left the books of the C[ambridge] Liberal Club', a list of members and a minute book, in London among his other books, and Robert does not think Anne would be able to find them if he asked since there are only two notebooks. If his mother is not to be in London soon, Robert will wait until he himself next comes up.

Is doing 'a good deal of work now, and getting ahead'. [H.W.?] O'Rorke is visiting for a day, before he 'starts on a journey round the world'. Robert has been to Harrow for Founder's Day, and 'had a good time'; G[eorgie] was well and 'playing footer remarkably well'. Robert 'sent off the plate' to London a while ago; supposes it arrived safely. Charlie seems to be 'enjoying himself', but is 'anxious to hear something about Cambridge'. Robert met G. [W. E.?] Russell at the [Trinity Master's] Lodge last Saturday.

Trinity College Cambridge [on headed notepaper for Clare College, with Clare crossed through]:- Thanks his mother for her letter. 'Old Vanity' [A. G. Watson, of Harrow] is here, staying at the lodge [the Master's Lodge at Trinity]; Robert saw him briefly, and he 'seemed very happy'. Charlie met him at dinner, but Robert dined with the Lytteltons [Kathleen and Arthur?], sitting next to Miss Gladstone and 'the Newnhamite who is expected to have done best in the classical tripos [Florence Stawell?]', which finished yesterday. They 'all hope that O'Rorke has got through', but are not sure.

Charlie 'seems very well indeed, but has not been doing much work'. They went for an 'expedition in canoes up the Cam yesterday', bathed, and 'had tea at a village'. Hears Bowen is 'cutting out all the Waterloo part from G[eorgie]'s poem'. Hopes that his parents are well. Supposes the [general] election will definitely be in July. He and his friends have 'settled to go to the Lakes, and not to Scotland'; there will be four or five of them.

Trin[ity College] Cam[bridge - on college notepaper]:- Should have written before to thank his father for the wine, which 'will last... some time' and is 'better than most of the wine which people have here'. Georgie 'enjoyed his visit very much'; they 'went down to see the boats [race?] in the afternoon', and to 'hear the end of the competition for the [Winchester] reading prize', just won by O'Rorke.

Thinks the 'new Cambridge paper' is 'not good enough, and... pretty sure to fail'; is very glad that he is 'only nominally connected with it'. Saw [Dorothy crossed through] Mrs Stanley at the Myers' and is 'going to call on them [the Stanleys?] next Sunday. Lendrum is coaching him again this term, and wants him to go to Germany in the summer to learn the language, which he says is 'indispensable for being a scholar'; this will 'want thinking about, to say the least'. Hears things are 'not as they should be in some of the Northumberland states': would be a 'great pity' if they [the Liberals] lose any of them. As far as he can tell from the newspapers, politics 'seem very stupid now'.