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Excerpt from The History of the Christ's College Boat Club
E. B. Lindsell, Dr. A. C. Pearson, Mr. C. W. Moore, Mr. J. Gibbons, Mr. Alan Williams and others who have answered questions that we have asked them on certain details that were not otherwise clear. We are especially grateful to Miss J. E. Blyth, a Daughter of the first Captain of the Club, for an extract from her Father's diary recording the names Of the crew that rowed Head of the River in 1833, and for the loan of his portrait from which one of the most interesting of the illustrations is reproduced. For the other illustrations we have to thank Messrs. Steam and Sons, Dr. A. C. Pearson, and others, for the use Of photo graphs for reproduction.
We desire to take advantage of this, our only Opportunity of expressing our thanks to those members of the College Whose support has enabled us to publish our work at a time when the cost of production is so great. More particularly we wish to thank those who have come forward with guarantees, and so have saved us from having to postpone the publication, perhaps indefinitely. We refrain from mentioning their names, as we are confident that they would prefer that their generosity should remain anonymous.
Any corrections or additions will be most gratefully received by the authors, and will be duly forwarded to the Boat Captain of the time to be preserved among the Club records for future reference. Finally, we should like to appeal to future Secretaries of the Club to make their minutes and reports complete, accurate, and legible, and by doing this to show a marked contrast to the efforts Of many Of their predecessors. Let them remember that they are writing for the future even more than for the present.
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