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is a disgrace. The examiners seem to
have returned my name & Malcolm's
reporting that Malcolm showed a higher
average knowledge of history but that
my essay & general paper were very brilliant.
No one of my friends there seems to have had a doubt about
the election till the result was declared,
and many of the dons are very cross. I
enclose a letter from old Butler, the
ex-headmaster of Rugby, and from Wylie.
The President of Magdalen also wrote
very kindly. All Souls of course have
a perfect right to elect whom they