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- 31 Oct. 1877 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet, bound into volume.
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Trinity College, Cambridge. - Glad to hear that King is doing well, though when produced in the Combination Room his letter 'conveyed terror to the heart of Prior'; has passed on King's instructions about the sofa and baize door; other arrangements. The ceilings of King's room will have to be whitewashed; the paint in the study will have to be washed and the carpet taken up. Thinks King is 'well out of the way while the discussions on the statutes are going on'; they begin on Saturday. The [Medical] Inspector says that the clothes in which King came back to College in September should be disinfected: 'Baking at a high temperature appears to be effectual'.
Note added above heading of paper: 'I hope you will bring back some words of wisdom from the parrot'.