LONDON,June 22,1849
My dear Uncle:Yesterday I passed one of the most agreeable days Ihave had in England at Oxford,where I went with a party to see Mr.
Bancroft take his degree....Nothing could have gone off better than the whole thing.Mr.Bancroft went up the day before,but Mrs.
Stuart Mackenzie and her daughter,with Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave,Louisa,and myself went up yesterday morning and returned at night.
We lunched at the Vice-Chancellor's (where Mr.B.made a pleasant little informal speech)and were treated with great kindness by everybody.I wish you could have seen Mr.Bancroft walking round all day with his scarlet gown and round velvet cap,such as you see in old Venetian pictures.From this time forward we shall have the pain of bidding adieu,one by one,to our friends,as they leave town not to return till we are gone.
