The author and recipient of those attractive letters, Alexander Chisholm Gooden (born 1817), went as much as Trinity collage, Cambridge in 1836, having formerly been proficient on the college of London. A glittering educational occupation beckoned; he used to be best of the Classical Tripos in 1840, and within the following 12 months went to Germany to learn for a Trinity fellowship, yet died tragically early from peritonitis after rowing at the Rhine.The 169 letters among Gooden and his friends and family gathered during this quantity represent a wealthy and hitherto unknown resource for pupil existence in Cambridge within the 1830s. They conceal a variety of subject matters: friendships, neighborhood politics, lodging, garments and accounts, the personalities and vagaries of dons, and Gooden's future health. in addition they provide an in depth photograph of his occupation as a scholar of classics and arithmetic, and, after his exam luck in 1840, as a personal train to undergraduates.The modifications among Cambridge and London types of scholarship prompted problems for Gooden; they provide the reader an strange and engaging mild on his fight to prevail at Trinity.
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