I only remember one line of one parody on a poem of L.E.L.'s, about 'Violets, dark blue violets;' Thackeray's version was 'Cabbages, bright green cabbages,' and we thought it very witty.

He took part in a scheme, which came to nothing, for a school magazine, and he wrote verses for it, of which I only remember that they were good of their kind.

When I knew him better, in later years, I thought I could recognise the sensitive nature which he had as a boy....

His change of retrospective feeling about his school days was very characteristic.

In his earlier books he always spoke of the Charter House as Slaughter House and Smithfield.