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UNION SOCIETY, OXFORD.
June: 9: '96
My dear Mother
I had Anna's letter this morning. I have not heard from you for quite an age. I hope you enjoyed your day at Moffat. Anna says you had thunder & lightning. We had nothing of the sort here. Yesterday was a beautiful day, but this morning it clouded over.
Thank Anna for sending me my valuation. I hope the "young divil" has not disarranged my letters. I am very busy just now and very much overworked
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but there is only a fortnight more of it. Next week is one continuous examination.
I went to church at Mansfield on Sunday in a perfect hurricane of rain. The preacher was the minister of Bowdon, a nice sensible old man, but very long and somewhat dreich. Lane has sent me four MSS. this week; one a book of Burns Studies which appeared in Blackwood & the Glasgow Herald. They seem rather good. Tell Father that I have bought him Weir of Hermiston. It is the finest book I
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have read for years. What shall I buy you? I shall write to Uncle John next week about coming up. I shall probably stay two days in London and be back home on the Thursday. When do you intend to go to Innerleithen?
I have not heard any word of J. B. of B. yet, but Lane told me he expected to hear from the Illus. Lond. News this week. I have very little time for thinking about it or about anything else. I have so much classical work. I had a letter from John Edgar to day. He is going with C. H. D. to Galloway in July. He asks me to get him some of the History Exam. papers.
