Item 131 - Letter from Thomas Thorp

4 pp.

In ten days TT has to decide upon his future vocation and whether to accept a lecturing post at Trinity: 'I should confess to you that I should have hardly considered myself a fit person to lecture in Trinity College (tho' good enough perhaps for St. John's and I trust not bad enough for Sidney or Clare), had not the offer been actually made plump to me'. He cannot decide whether he would prefer teaching or practising law at Lincoln's Inn: 'the acceptance of this appointment, will if not necessarily induce the taking orders, and that is a thing to which I have by no means made up my mind'.