Good luck be with you, my boy! Remember me in your will if you get made a Fellow.

I suppose the man I met in your rooms once--Read I believe his name was--will be first.

Talking of that day, have you heard lately of Tom Drift?
I shall always be glad I went up to town that night and found him out, though I lost him again so soon.

I inquired everywhere when I was last in town, but nothing was known of him, except that he was supposed to have been engaged in some--' But that's all about an old schoolfellow and won't interest you.

`We expect to be ordered up-country pretty soon now, and meanwhile have liberty to amuse ourselves pretty much as we like, but, as far as I can see, cards unfortunately seem the only recreation in which the officers indulge.
However, I shall be kept busy with drill, and being junior officer expect I shall be for some time fag of the regiment.