| Description | "Notification of his having obtained the Essay Prize." (Dated Wednesday. Annotated by M. R. Boulton.)
Eton. Wednesday.
My dear Papa,
I write to tell you that I have got the Essay, the list is as follows.
Boulton
Birch[“—Newcastle Medallist of last year” ]
Coleridge[“—obtained the open Scholarship of Baliol College Oxford at the last election.”]
Cotton[“—New[c]astle Scholar of last year.”]
Hardisty[“—a senior of much longer standing in the School”]
Mackarness
Tarver.
Blacker
Cust
Hotham
Johnson
Liddell
Milman Ma.
Yonge
These were the only ones mentioned. Those in the same bracket are given out as equal, & are put in their alphabetical order.—We had two days of pretty good skating last week, & a great deal of snow. I had left my skates at home, but I got some lent me.—Mr. Coleridge was very much pleased I think with his fossils, he says he intends to come at Easter, & go over the caverns at Dudley. I hope Montagu is getting better, his friends here have been asking after him: I should think that the cold weather must be gone by this time. Pray give my love to all, & believe me to remain
Your affectionate son
M. P. W. Boulton.
[“This Essay composed by my dear Brother M. P W Boulton in Novr 1838, obtained the Eton Prize awarded in Feby 1839 & has been transcribed at the request of her affectionate Father by KEB”]
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