Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang
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study in which I at no time excelled.
It is my purpose to visit Cambridge on June 3, to listen to a most valuable address by Professor Tosch, of Bonn, on Hittite and Aztec affinities. If you can meet me there and accept the hospitality of my college, the encounter may prove a turning point in Mythological and Philological Science.--Very faithfully yours, J. CASAUBON. P.S.--I open this note, written from my dictation by my wife, to enclose my congratulations on Mrs. Forth's scholarly attainments. From Professor Forth to Rev. Mr. Casaubon. (Telegram.) Will be with you at Cambridge on the third. From Mrs. Forth, Bradmore-road, Oxford, to David Rivers, Esq., Milnthorpe, Yorkshire. He goes on Saturday to Cambridge to hear some one talk about the Hittites and the Asiatics. Did you not say there was a good Sunday train? They sing "O Rest in the Lord" at Magdalen. I often wonder |
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