John Pelham, Pelham's Letter to his Mother (1860)
“ I am studying hard and think I shall be higher after the coming January examinations than I have ever been before; but my standing will not do me any good. I always (nearly always) get over my lessons and read a chapter in my Bible a short time before eleven at night. I am not allowed to have a light after this hour. For the past two years and a half I have read my Bible regularly, one chapter almost every night ”
