o 5 hours more upon the
papers. Vinegar, thank God, carries my eyes through so much MS.,
and the occupation is deeply interesting, especially on Hallam's
account. Our labours were at one time anxious and critical, the two
leaders being 1388 and 1390 respectively. At night, however, all
was decided. _April 4th._ 12.2.--_Viva voce_ for fourteen select.
At 21/2 Seymour was announced scholar to the boys, and chaired
forthwith. Hallam, medallist. It was quite overpowering.

Henry Hallam was the second son of the historian, the junior of Arthur
by some fourteen or fifteen years. Mr. Gladstone more than a generation
later described a touching supplement to his Eton story. 'In 1850 Henry
Hallam had attained an age exceeding only by some four years the limit
of his brother's life. During that autumn I was travelling post between
Turin and Genoa, upon my road to Naples. A family coach met us on the
road, and the glance of a moment at the inside showed me the familiar
face of Mr. Hallam. I immediately stopped my carriage, descended, and
ran after his. On overtaking it, I found the dark clouds accumulated on
his brow, and learned with indescribable pain that he was on his way
home from Florence, where he had just lost his second and only remaining
son, from an attack corresponding in its suddenness and its devastating
rapidity with that which had struck down his eldest born son seventeen
years before.'

At Fasque, where his autumn sojourn began in September, he threw himself
with special ardour into his design for a college for Scotch
episcopalians, especially for the training of clergy. He wrote to
Manning (Aug. 31, 1840):--

Hope and I have been talking and writing upon a scheme for raising
money to found in Scotland a college akin in structure to the
Romish seminaries in England; that is to say, partly for training
the clergy, partly for affording an education to the children of
the gentry and others who now go chiefly to presbyterian schools or
are tended at home by presbyterian tutors. I think L25,000 would do
it, and that it might be got. I must have my father's sanction
before committing myself to it. Hope's intended absence for the
winter is a great blow. Were he to be at home I do not doubt that
great progress might be made. In the kirk toil and trouble, double,
double, the fires burn and cauldrons bubble: and though I am not