| Description | The spelling at first is quite insecure, but shows improvement at Oxford. There are several interesting references to the Dr David Hughes was Principal at the time, to Corbet Hue, the Jersey man who acted as Bursar to another Fellow named Robert Hughes - "we have buried the most worthy man in this College" (17). For these dignitaries see E.G. Hardy : Jesus College, 236-245. The James Williams with whom he breakfasted at Oxford in 1811 (9) must have been the younger Williams of Treffos, who was afterwards to become rector of Llanddeusant and Llanfair-yng-Nghonwy and Chancellor of Bangor. He refers to the death of his uncle Thomas, sometime Fellow of Queen's (13), to the merchandising activities of his own brother Thomas (10), to the Gwyl Ddewi dinner at Jesus in 1813 (15), to the visit of Molyneux the boxer, "who is walking before our gate now" (15), of the visit of the Duchess of Oldenburg in 1814 (22). |