Romilly's Cambridge Diary, 1832–42 The Diary: II - The Householder 1837–42
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
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1837
After this sad interlude Romilly returned to Cambridge on Monday 13 February, leaving ‘M & L both tolerably well for them’. En route he dined at the Salisbury Chophouse, ‘feeling it painful to dine at the Belle Savage’, where he had so often been with Cuthbert. When he reached Cambridge in the evening Lodge was ‘kindly there’ to meet him, but said that ‘he had on Saturday fallen down in a fit & that they had taken a great deal of blood from him’.
The Diarist at once began house-hunting and looking for servants; eventually, in March, after another ten days at Dulwich on family business, he made an agreement to take a house in the Hills Road.
During this term, which was ‘dismissed’ on 17 March, Romilly's entries are brief, bald records of his Registry business, correspondence and walks, including one to Dry Drayton on which, on the way back, he ‘got sopped thro’ trousers & drawers’.
Tu. 14 February. At 10, went to the V. Ch. to attest the admission of Willis as Jacksonian Pr[ofessor]:—the V.C. was absurdly scrupulous & would not admit him before my deputy.—Matricn day…
9 F.C., 25 P, 3 S.—Then took a walk with Lodge looking out for a house for the women & myself:—all occupied on Parkers Piece…
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- Romilly's Cambridge Diary, 1832–42Selected Passages from the Diary of the Rev. Joseph Romilly, Fellow of Trinity College and Registrary of the University of Cambridge, pp. 113 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1967