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On embossed notepaper for Emmanuel College, Cambridge. - Saw a good deal of Brown during his seven years at Trinity; came into 'closer contact with the members of the kitchen staff one summer when I coached a winning crew of theirs for the Town regatta [and] was able to judge of several of them in their ordinary life as well as in their work'; Brown did not then row in the boat, but Blenkin was 'struck by the keen interest which he took in the college generally'. Thinks Brown would 'prove a thoroughly efficient and trustworthy servant' if successful in his application to become college shoeblack.

Labelled 'C. R. S. 1885'. Names above and below the photograph identify sitters: [H. F. W.] Tatham; [M. J.] Rendall; [A. L.?] Davies; [A. F.] Hort; [H. V.] Macnaghten; [S. M.] Leathes; [G. W.] Blenkin; [E.?] Stewart-Brown; [L. N.] Guillemard; [W. J. M.?] Starkie; Henry Babington Smith.