Identity area
Reference code
Miscellaneous/Box 3/BO4
Unique identifier
GB 275 Miscellaneous/Box 3/BO4
Title
A.L., s. from Edward Boys to William Philpot (Matriculated St John's College, 1838)
Date(s)
- c. 1839 (Paper watermarked 1839.) (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
3p
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Found by A. C. Crook, Junior Bursar, in a drawer, 1975.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Gives the description of a 'most fearful thrashing' which EB administered to a 'Feaks' in a room in the Red Lion in Cambridge, first with his fists and then a stick until he thought Feaks was 'done up'. Asks WP to try to recover the stick and to see if Feaks is to press charges in any way.