SPOONER

saying that he is sorry to say that Jack got a rather severe blow on the head at a riotous scene after the Bunf[?] Supper... This has interfered with his work for some daHs but I hope he is nearly right again now. The riot was a bad one & seems to have been generally participated in by the men who attended the Bunf Supper but not I think by Jack - The men got for a time quite out of hand and the men who were more or less in charge quite failed to keep order. I have seen Wickham Legg & find that his reading party is quite filled up. I have recommended Jack to try whether Mr Jeffreys of BNC could take him. he is, I believe, an excellent teacher. If this should fail I will try to hear of some other reading party which may be going... with a postscript that he and seen Jack again & he tells me that Mr Jeffreys is also full. I am going to talk to Fisher about a reading party..., 3 sides 8vo., New College, Oxford headed paper, 6th March