freshness and life of youth, so as to rivet the affections in no
common degree.

It was during the head-mastership of Dr. Hawtrey that Patteson
became, in schoolboy phrase, an Eton fellow, being boarded in the
house of his uncle, the Rev. Edward Coleridge, one of the most
popular and successful Eton masters. Several of his cousins were
also in this house, with other boys who became friends of his whole
life, and he was thoroughly happy there, although in these early days
he still felt each departure from home severely, and seldom failed to
write a mournful letter after the holidays. There is one, quite
pathetic in its simplicity, telling his mother how he could not say
his prayers nor fall asleep on his first night till he had resolutely
put away the handkerchief that seemed for some reason a special link
with home. It illustrates what all who remember him say, how
thoroughly a childlike being he still was, though a well-grown,
manly, high-spirited boy, quite able to take care of himself, keep
his place, and hold his own.

He was placed in the lower remove of the fourth form, which was then
'up to' the Rev. Charles Old Goodford, i.e. that was he who taught
the division so called in school.

The boy was evidently well prepared, for he was often captain of his
division, and his letters frequently tell of successes of this kind,
while they anticipate 'Montem.'

That of 1838 was a brilliant one, for Queen Victoria, then only
nineteen, and her first year of sovereignty not yet accomplished,
came from the Castle to be driven in an open carriage to Salt Hill