Produced by Al Haines [Frontispiece: Forbes Robinson] LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS BY FORBES ROBINSON LATE FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AND EXAMINING CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWELL EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTICE BY HIS BROTHER CHARLES SECOND EDITION PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION BY SPOTTISWOODE & CO. LTD., LONDON. 1904 NOTE This volume has been printed for private circulation at the request of many of Forbes Robinson's personal friends. The first edition having been exhausted, a second has been prepared, in which are included six additional letters (cf. pp. 151, 154, 164, 166, 167, 182). Copies of this volume will be supplied (price 2s. 6d. post free) to all who desire to obtain them, on application to the Rev. Canon Charles H. Robinson, Hill Brow, Woking. The volume of College and Ordination Addresses which will be published by Longmans in about two months' time can be ordered through any bookseller. _October_ 1904. [Transcriber's note: The book contains a number of short Greek phrases, all of which have been transliterated according to Project Gutenberg's "Greek How-To". A more detailed transliteration note follows each paragraph or article where the Greek phrase occurs.] [Transcriber's note: Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book, in accordance with Project Gutenberg's FAQ-V-99. For its Index, a page number has been placed only at the start of that section. In the HTML version of this book, page numbers are placed in the left margin.] CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY SKETCH CHAPTER. PAGE I. SCHOOLDAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. LIFE AS AN UNDERGRADUATE AT CAMBRIDGE . . . . 10 III. WORK AT CAMBRIDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 IV. THE LAST FEW MONTHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 V. TWO APPRECIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 ILLUSTRATIONS Forbes Robinson . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece Forbes Robinson (1880) Forbes Robinson (1887) {1} INTRODUCTORY SKETCH CHAPTER I SCHOOLDAYS