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Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge - Describes a phosphorescence occasionally visible on lagoon shoals in the Maldives, connected to a local myth.

Manuscript and typescript drafts.

Draft of the essay published in vol. IX of The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, Cambridge, 1859.

Photocopy of the Andre Deutsch printed playscript with revisions in Shaffer's hand.

Letters from C. S. Nicholls of the Dictionary of National Biography, Friedrich Hirzebruch, and Adrian Adams.

Sends her some printed copies of what he has written about Henry [not included].

In the college examination the entire first and second classes in the second year are on Monk's side as are 17 out of 25 in the first two classes of the first year, Lord Brecknock in the third class, William Clark has so much support for the Chair of Anatomy that Dr Woodhouse has withdrawn his candidacy, "disgusted beyond all description" by Samuel Parr

Thanks for his congratulations on his preferment to a Deanery of St Pauls, has resigned the Regius Chair of Divinity at Oxford

Plans to expose E H Barker

Arrangements for the settlement of Henry Monk's estate

Stock of various editions of Essays and [History of] England. Figures for sales from Jun. 1857-1858 and Jun. 1858-15 Nov. 1858 also recorded.

Addressed 'to the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Philology'

Beccles.—Responds to Wright’s article on the word ‘bouter’ in Notes and Queries, referring to domestic arrangements at his grandfather’s kitchen at Snettingham and his uncle's farmhouse at Redenhall.

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Beccles
2 July 1887

My dear doctor

I observe your “Bouter” note in N & Q {1}.

Are you sure that the word is “no longer used”?.

It appears, in divers shapes, (as I dare say you know as well as I do) in the dictionaries {2}.

Cole—
Bouter—sieve

Walker—
Bolter—a sieve to separate meal from bran

Bailey—
Bolting-hutch }
Bunting-hutch } a chest or trough to sift meal in

Johnson—
Bolter—a sieve to separate meal from bran or husks or finer from coarser parts

Nuttall—
Bolting-hutch—a tub[?] {3} for bolted flour.
Bolting-mill—a machine for sifting meal.
Bolting-tub—a tub to sift meal in.

A bolter I always understood was a common, if not essential, appendage to a corn-mill. In its domestic form it became a ‘hutch’—and its top might serve as a table. Hence, naturally enough, ‘bolter-table’, or bolter,—boulter—bouter in that sense.

In the scene described by Mr Crabbe I take the men stood in the scullery waiting till the female servants at the bouter had finished their repast, either for want of room or from motives of delicacy & politeness!.

I well remember the bolting hutch in my grandfather’s kitchen at Snettingham—where it was confined to its primary use. In my uncle’s farm house at ‘Pied bridge’, Redenhall, {4} the arrangements were more bucolic. Dinner was served in the spacious kitchen—for the family at a plain walnut-tree table in the centre, & for ye farm men on a long heavy oak table placed under a side window. This was about 1812.

I do not think the maid-servants dined with the men,—I sho[ul]d say, after them. [There follows a plan of the room in question.]

All this is merely an excuse for bothering you with a letter, because we are anxious to know—if you can spare five minutes to tell us—that your convalescence is complete or progressing quite satisfactorily,—your left thumb all right & prison fare no longer requisite.

Excuse bad writing.

Ever very truly yours
S. Wilton Rix

W. Aldis Wright Esq LLD.

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Black-edged paper. The missing letters of a word abbreviated by a superscript letter have been supplied in square brackets.

{1} Notes and Queries, 2 July 1887, pp. 5-6. The note concerns a passage in the Life of Crabbe (cf. Everyman ed., pp. 137-8).

{2} The arrangement of the succeeding list has been adjusted slightly.

{3} The square brackets are in the MS.

{4} Comma supplied.

Testimonial, as Commissioners for Property, Land and Assessed Taxes, for George F. Ream.