Item 97 - Letter from S.F. Creswell, Northrepps Rectory, Norwich.

Describes the location of the rooms into which he moved in First Court in 1855 in detail, with diagram, and the rooms in New Court to which he moved a year later, with another diagram. His full name is Samuel Francis Creswell and he graduated Senior Optime in 1859. Another of the same name died in one of the vacations. His father was also at St John's, another Samuel, and graduated in 1826. On his death on 6 January 1880 he was unable to get a notice inserted in the Eagle. He could never find successive copies of an antiquarian publication of his which he presented to the libraries of St John's and the University, nor any notice of this in the Eagle. In October 1858 he lodged in Malcolm Street for two terms, staying up to secure a better appointment. His father for all his residence kept at a Mrs Sewster's, who kept a confectioner's shop in a house projecting into the churchyard in St Andrew's Street, nearly opposite Swann's the auctioneer's. The house no longer stands.