Excerpt from History of the University of Edinburgh, Vol. 1: From Its Foundation Among the memorials treasured up by the affection of the family of the Professor, is a joint letter by the two boy; to their mother three years later, Stony kirk, 14th June 1753. It is in large text, but quite to the purpose. They like this place very well, and have a schoolmaster that is careful enough, though he is not, they think, quite so good a scholar as Mr. Hastie. They are reading Cornelius N epos, where they meet with much agreeable entertainment, and are soon to be put into Virgil, and either Caesar or Sallust. They send their service to Mr. Drysdale, Mr. Hastie, their brothers and sister, and in a word, all friends. The body of the letter is written by Archi bald, who also signs it, leaving a narrow margin where we have the first autograph of the future Professor, I, Andrew Dalziel, have no room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.