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Letter from Reverend Charles Edward Searle to George Thomas Askew. Sent from Pembroke College Cambridge, Cambridge

29 August 1870

From: 1870 To: 1870

Is very busy in his new position and has not been keeping up with his foreign correspondance both with George and his brothers. The last batch of newspapers received contained a name of a Suffolk friend Mr L Eliot, a junior officer on board the HHS Zealot who has been playing a match with the Victorians. Mr L Eliot is the son of his neighbour in Suffolk, The Revd. W Eliot of Creeting. If the ship returns then George should make his acquaintance as Mr L Eliot is very different from his previous recomendation John Cory. 'But I can now tell you that I had no idea what sort of character he was till I came back to college and learnt his sad report. He left a vrey bad name here. And had I known at all what he was, depend it, I would not have past off upon you such a worthless piece of goods as a genuine article.' John Cory's father is a very worthy man and his uncles are in high positions. One was once a tutor at Pembroke College and now occupies an important place in the Privy Council Education Department. Is please to learn that George has begun communicating with his [Charles's] brother [Walter Searle] at the Cape [of Good Hope] Went to Odell at Easter. One of his most promising lads, William Goodman, son of Joseph Goodman in Church Lane, has died.

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Searle, Charles Edward,
Askew, George Thomas,
Askew, Thomas George,
Eliot, L,
Eliot, W,
Cory, John,
Searle, Walter,
Goodman, William,
Goodman, Joseph

Cambridge, Cambridge Pembroke College, Canada, British Columbia, ODELL, Suffolk, Cape of Good Hope Province