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54 OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES. IBOOH i.

cloth? for which the gravest reader will not unwillingly spare'
a smile before he returns with me to the letters that
preceded student Oliver's departure for the continent.

In that first letter he had professed himself pleased with

his studies^ and expressed a hope that when he shall have

heard Mimro for another year, he may go " to hear All)inus,

" the great professor at Leyden." The whole of the letter

¹⁷⁵⁴ gives evidence of a most grateful affection. In the second,*

m. 26. _written eight months later, where he describes his prepara-

all -who are in want of it has been equalled only by tlio value of Ma discoveries in
almost every department of literary research. Tlio leaf of the lodger is hero exactly
copied. P. 888.

MB, OLIVER G-OIDSMITH, Student, pr. MB. HONNKE.
1153, £ a. (I.

Smf. 24. To S$ yds. rich Sky-Blew sattin, 12»» . . 1 10 0
,, To 14 yds. white Allapeen, 2s. ... 3 0
„ To If yds. Do, Fustian, Is, id, , , 24

,, To 4 yds. Blew Durant, la. 4d . . . 5,4
„ To f yds. fine Sky-Blew Shalloon, ID. U, . 1 «.}
Peb¹?. 23. To 2$ yds. fine Priest's Grey cloth, 100. 6d. . I 8 7,j
„ To 2 yds. Black shalloon, Is. Qd ... 8 0
,, To a pair fine 8-thd Black Tvorscfl Hoso . 4 <!
„ To | yds. rich Ditto Genoa velvett, 22s, . . 20

8 15 9|,
Nov^r. 23. By Cash in full.....£8 16 Oj{

To 1 oz. 6| drs. silver Hatt-Lace, 8*. . . 11 4,J
To 1 drs. silver chain, M., and plate button, 2d!. H

To lacing your Hatt, 6d., and anew lyuing, 0^. 1 (l

To a sfme small Hatt.....140

To 3| yda, best sfino high Clarett-colour'd
Cloth, 19s. . . . . . .3

To 5| yds. sfine best White shall"., 2«.
To 4- yds. white Fustian, IQd. , , ,
Deo^r. 6. To a pr sfine Best Blk worsed hoBo . .

.-£6 15 4£
To Polio 424.

"Unfortunately," adds Mr. Laing, "this Polio 424 was destroyed before tin-
" leaf containing the a'bove account, and some others, was diaooverod. Neither wan
" there any indication of the name of the merchant-tailor,"
* See Appendix (0) to this volume,