I recd your Draught of £26 0_s._ 0_d._ April 19, 92. Mr. Jas. Foster left the University in March. I _was_ very happy to congratulate him on his being elected Fellow of S. John's Col. _by that_ respectable _Society_ and I _hope_ that he will be able to assert this honour _legally_ x x x. I am sincerely sorry that the Governors are not pleased that I so long deferred to send a certificate of my residence, if it is an _offence_, it is _involuntary_:--and for the future it shall be sent in due time and _nearly_, I expect in the same _formula_. For what business have I in the country previous to "taking" my degree? There aren't any I remember in the country, _some here_, who affect to despise what they cannot understand; such enterprising critics and fastidiously hypercritics, men of truly philosophical penetration--of a truly classical taste spurn aside the coarse beverage to be found in Gr. mss. scholiasts and various _lections_; but [Greek: all' aidesai men ... en lygrô gêra proleipôn ... mêtera ... hê =me= pollakis =theô= aratai zônta pros domous molein.] This appeals to the feelings: but we must attend to general consequences. Please to present my respects to my worthy master Mr. Paley--let him know that we have this year gone through Mechanics--Locke on the H.U., Duncan and Watts, etc. Logick--Dr. T. Clarke and Dr. Foster on the Attributes, Mr. Paley's Moral and P. Phil.--Spherical Trigonometry--and are going to lectures in Astronomy--That I have written a Gr. Ode in Sapphics--that it has been examined--that I am advised to hazard it in the Lottery. This year has been distinguished for remarkable events in the litterary world, wh our narrow limits will not permit us to mention.--The learned Dr. Parr _began_ an edition of Horace--it will _come out_ a 4to on _Human Evidence_--(a very interesting subject in _Jurisprudence_)--caused by a political frate.--Porson will vacate the University Scholarship next October. I am your most obliged humble servant, T. KIDD. Trin. Coll., Camb., April 24--92. The majority of those that went to Cambridge seem to have gone to Colleges other than Christ's, but of those who went there one, Adam Wall, son "pharmacopolae haud indocti" was Second Wrangler in 1746, and had a distinguished Academic career, his own son William was Senior Wrangler, John Preston gained the "wooden spoon" in 1778, but was afterwards elected a Fellow of his College, while Thomas Paley his great nephew, was Third Wrangler in 1798, and a Fellow of Magdalene. All three were Christ's men. This was a very good proportion of successes, seeing that only thirteen boys went there from Giggleswick in Paley's time.