Delights of Saturday nights (chapel at 8 a.m. rather than 7 a.m. on Sundays and no lectures); nature of Sunday morning breakfast parties (no hot food from the kitchen). Spencer Horatio Walpole elected as M.P. for the university on the withdrawl of the Hon. George Denman. He had intended a longer letter but on 14 February decides to send it as it is.
Margaret Archer Porter married Peter Guthrie Tait on 13 October 1857.