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Wallington, Cambo, Morpeth. - Thanks for Robert and Elizabeth's letters [about Julian's school report]; liked the report from the athletics master, although he did not entirely understand it; used to be 'content with the girth of the chest, and of the biceps, in the unscientific old days'; he once got to thirty eight inches which was the making of him 'as a hill climber, and a public speaker'. Quotes a Latin couplet which Arthur Holmes wrote about him in his Tripos verses; was glad when Henry Sidgwick 'took him down a peg and reduced [Holmes] to [Sir George's] level in the Tripos'. Glad that Julian has learned to swim, as protection against 'terrible disaster'. Sure he will be 'a fine fellow - body, mind, and soul'. Interested in what Robert is reading; there is a good review of Boswell's "Corsica" in the latest "Times Literary Supplement"; got down his copy which once belonged to Paoli yesterday evening and read the journal, but it is not Boswell's "Life [of Johnson]" or "Commonplace Book" so he knew he would not care much for it; knows at the age of eighty five what books suits him.