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e and academic elements prevailing there have well
given their proper character to the whole town.
The town indeed is nothing, the University is every
thing. Each College preserves proudly memorials
of its pupils who have won distinction, and
these memorials are pictures and monuments.
Trinity College has exquisite full length statues
of Newton, Bacon, and Byron.
At Christ College I read the real authentic
record of John Miltons admission as a pensioner
in 1624 on payment of the initiation fee of ten
shillings. I saw also a mulberry tree planted
by his hand – and still most sedulously preserved
and even a clay cast taken by moulding
from his head while living. The University has
a very extensive history and a gallery of
pictures and statuary. The most interesting things
in the various libraries are manuscripts. There
are besides copies of the scriptures written before
the age of printing, ^the very^ manuscripts of Bacon, Newton
and Milton in their own handwriting. And here
are two leaves taken fresh by my own hand from
a mulberry tree planted by the author of
Paradise Lost.

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Frances Seward

Birth: 1805-09-24 Death: 1865-06-21

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