“RUGBY, _April 25th, 1834_. “MY DEAR PAPA AND MAMA, “I received your letter to-day. I have got a little cough now, but it is getting better every day. Tom is quite well. I now generally keep among the four first of my form, and I find that by application you are enabled to do yourself greater credit than if you trust yourself to the assistance of books or that of other boys. There are two boys besides myself who always do our work together, and we always take three-quarters of an hour out of school, besides three-quarters which is allowed us in school, to prepare our work. The work of our form is the Eumenides of Æschylus, Homer, Virgil, Horace, and Cicero’s Epistles. The half year is divided into two quarters, one of which is for classics mostly, and the other for history. The books for the next quarter are Arrian’s Expedition of Alexander, and Paterculus’s History of Rome, and Mackintosh’s English History. For Composition we do Greek Iambics and Latin Verse, which is generally taken from some English author, and we translate it into Latin. We also do English and Latin themes once a week. The Easter business is just over; there were three speech days, the rehearsal (or first day), the day on which the poor people are allowed to come, and the grand day. On the grand day the day was very fine, and there was a very large assembly of people. The speeches and prize compositions and poems were— SIXTH FORM. Lake.[1]—Latin essay: Bellum civile Mariannum. Lake.—Latin verse: Phœnicia. Clough.[2]—English essay: The English language. Clough.—English verse: Close of eighteenth century. Arnold.[3]—Greek verse: The murder of Becket. FIFTH FORM ESSAY. Jacson.—On the Sources of Pleasure. Emeris.—Speech of Canning at Lisbon. Simpkin.—Conclusion of Warren Hastings’ trial. “The speeches began at one o’clock; they were ended at three, and about 200 went to dine at the ‘Spread Eagle.’ Here Dr. Arnold gained a complete triumph over Litchfield and Boughton Leigh, who wanted to prevent his health being drunk on account of his politics, or their private malice. I have not much more to say now. Give my love to cousins, uncle, grandmama, and everybody. “I remain, your affectionate Son, “G. E. HUGHES.” [1] Now Dean of Durham. [2] A. H. Clough, the poet. [3] The Rev. C. Arnold, of Rugby.