TO LEWIS CAMPBELL, Esq.

                                                                             11th March 1851.
                                                                Lings, King's Parade, Cambridge.

 . . . Have you read Soph. Ajax, or would you like to do it then?

I have been trying an experiment of sleeping after hall. Last Friday I went to bed from 5 to 9.30, and read very   hard from 10 to 2, and slept again from 2.30 to 7.

I intend some time to try for a week together sleeping from 5 to 1, and reading the rest of the morning. This is   practical scepticism with respect to early rising. 

An Oxford man is reported to have complained of the lateness of morning chapel; he could not sit up for it. I will   have the most of my reading over by that time. . . .

Demosthenes goes on. I begin to see what may be written in prose, and how ill it may be translated.

It is a , so there is less declamation and more demonstration; but the arguments, small at first,
are added as they proceed, and never left behind, so by oft repetition they seem stronger than they are.

Last night I searched for difficult problems to puzzle Steele and Porter junior with. Here are some much more   mild, which we freshmen get. . . .
It is twelve o'clock, and I have to do Demosthenes tomorrow before breakfast. This implies Chapel, therefore    bed, therefore I shut up.