Hon'ed Sr--After such delay, though not owing to any negligence on my Part, I am ashamed to send you ye following accompt, without first making great apologies for not executing ye Commands sooner. Matriculation Fees 0 16 6 Caution money 10 0 0 Benefaction 10 0 0 Utensils of ye Coll 2 0 0 Common Room 2 0 0 Coll: Serv'ts Fees 1 15 0 Paddesway[29] Gown 8 5 0 Cap 0 7 0 Tea Table, China ware, bands &c. 6 5 0 Glasses 0 11 0 Thirds of Chamber & Furniture 41 7 8 Teaspoons 1 7 6 -------- Summe total 84 14 8 -------- Balance pd me by Mr Stockwell 15 05 4 I have too much reason to fear you may think some of these articles too extravagant, as they really are, but all I have to say for it is humbly to beg you would not attribute it to my extravagance, but to ye custom of this Place; where we pay for most things too at a high rate. I must again repeat my wishes for yr health, hoping you have not been prevented by so painfull a delay as ye gout from pursuing yr intended journey to Town I must beg leave to subjoin my Duty to my Mother & love to my Sistrs and am with all Possible respect Sr Yr most dutyfull Son WM. PITT.[30] The next is written after an evident explosion of that wrath. In the Pitt family, even more than in others, father and son viewed filial expenditure from opposite points of view. It is painful, then, but not surprising to find that Robert should have regarded William's washing bill as beyond the dreams of luxury. WILLIAM PITT TO HIS FATHER, 'IN PALL MALL.' _Trin: Coll: April ye 29th._