text:  Lord Dudley's letters have disappointed every body: but it is to be observed that we have only a small portion of them; that they were written to a college tutor a not very exciting species of correspondent at any time and who in this instance having nothing to give back and plodding his way through the well-meant monotony of college news allowed poor Lord Dudley not much more chance of brilliancy than a smart drummer might have of producing a reveille on an unbraced drum