My dear Nicholson,

        . . . The School of U.C. is remarkably full of pupils this season. My junior class has unusually old pupils; I do not yet know their quality. One (a Mr. Sassoon, a Jew?)* I mistook for a German, but he told me he is an Arab of Hindoo birth, and talks a little Arab and Hindostanee, but knows more of English than of any other language. His English is good, though the pronunciation is a little foreign.

*Sieveking notes, "Probably this was the father of the present Sir Edward Sassoon, second Baronet" (p. 155n).