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Trin. Coll. [Robert Henry] Pomeroy has formed a swimming club at Cambridge; has been busy with electrical reading this term and is working to come up with appropriate ideas, has been ‘sifting’ the theory of light and making everything stand upon experiments and definite assumptions, describes the difference between dogs eyes and human eyes.

Trin. Coll. Gives a report of Robert Henry Pomeroy’s illness; is busy with questionists regularly now, is about to get out some optical things to show them; has heard nothing from Cheltenham, Moderator [William Henry] Besant is recovering the use of one side of his face.

Glenlair. His aunt Mrs Wedderburn has learned of the murders of her cousin John Wedderburn and his wife and child in the Indian rebellion, and her son John and his wife in Moultan have had to disarm troops and dismiss others; is glad to have read the letter [Robert Henry Pomeroy’s last?]; reflects on Good and Evil; has almost finished with his work on Saturn’s Rings; illness continues in the house of the little girl who died.