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Letters written home while a student at Downing College, 1868 - 1871

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/OW/1
Scope and Contents These letters give much details about everyday university and college life. Includes depositor correspondence. Contents include (from summary in The Griffin, Michaelmas 1961): discontent with College food and student protests about the cost and quality of food at Sidney Sussex, 1868, whereas 'at College the charge was 1/6d for bad meat and potatoes only'; Dr Perkins' invitation to all Freshmen to wine (1868), 'a very pleasant, easy affair, for Perkins is the most unceremonious man I ever...
Dates: 1868 - 1871
Conditions Governing Access: Depositor correspondence to remove.

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