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42 Christ Church; and that year he wrote to Mrs. Arnold: "At the coming Commemoration I expect T. Hughes and his wife. Have you seen him of late? I hardly knew him before 'Tom Brown' appeared"! This comes as a surprise to those of us who have long supposed Hughes and Stanley to have been as intimate, at Rugby, as were Arthur and Tom Brown.

Stanley thus describes his first lodgings, as a freshman, at Balliol: "My sitting-room is about twice as large as my Father's little room; square, with two windows looking out on a street and a church-yard, which is the worst part of them, owing to the noise of carts and the tolling of bells." His biographer tells us that these rooms were on the west side of Balliol, looking out towards the Church of St. Mary Magdalen; but in a part of the college which has since been reconstructed.

Matthew Arnold won at Rugby, in 1840, an Open Fellowship to Balliol, which college he entered in 1841; but Mr. George Saintsbury, his biographer, declares that there is no record of his life there as a student, and that not one letter of his, written in his undergraduate days, is now known to exist.

In its Obituary notice of Arnold The London "Times," for April 17, 1888, says that his first