Letters : to his mother, 1881-1884.

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Letters : to his mother, 1881-1884.

Letters to his mother describe undergraduate life at Oxford, including his membership in the St. Vincent's Club, the Balliol Eights crew team, and the "Mods" and "Greats" academic curricula. Richardson's travels in England and to the continent with his mother, his sisters Grace and Fanny, and Uncle Roland Lincoln ("Uncle Dudley") are also described in his letters.

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Richardson, William King, 1859-1951

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The son of Henry L. Richardson and Frances M. (Lincoln) Richardson, William King Richardson (1859-1951)was a lawyer and book collector. His library was left to the Houghton Library at Harvard. Roland Lincoln was his uncle. Richardson graduated from Harvard College in 1880 and went abroad with his family that summer, intending to travel with them, but instead he was persuaded to begin at Oxford that fall. He graduated in 1884 with a double first at Balliol. The following year, he entered Harvard ...

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Richardson, Fanny Mitchell Lincoln b. 1837.

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