Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Joseph Goodall to Francis Hodgson, 14 November 1809
Upper School, ex Cathedra: Nov. 14, 1809.
My dear Sir,—While half a hundred unwilling poets are
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spirit of
the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy, which they will most
of them do very effectually in one sense at least, I have full leisure to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and to say that I have little doubt of
having occasional opportunities of assisting your views, which I shall most
gladly embrace, but must consider the parents of the boys who may be fortunate
enough to be your pupils as the persons obliged. I have unwittingly transferred
the description of my own live stock to the sons of Alma Mater: I should
certainly have said the young men. Would that I could have added my
congratulations! I am induced to think that only a nomination1 was wanting.
Many thanks for your kind greetings. My Brethren must fully
share with me whatever praise accrues from the present order of things at Eton.
Believe me to be with the truest regard,
My dear Sir,
Yours ever most faithfully,
Joseph Goodall (1760-1840)
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (1782); in 1801 he succeeded George Heath as
headmaster of Eton, where he became provost in 1809.
