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The Lost Stradivarius, Paperback / softback Book

The Lost Stradivarius Paperback / softback

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Your father, John Maltravers, was born in 1820 at Worth, and succeeded his father and mine, who died when we were still young children.

John was sent to Eton in due course, and in 1839, when he was nineteen years of age, it was determined that he should go to Oxford.

It was intended at first to enter him at Christ Church; but Dr. Sarsdell, who visited us at Worth in the summer of 1839, persuaded Mr. Thoresby, our guardian, to send him instead to Magdalen Hall.

Dr. Sarsdell was himself Principal of that institution, and represented that John, who then exhibited some symptoms of delicacy, would meet with more personal attention under his care than he could hope to do in so large a college as Christ Church.

Mr. Thoresby, ever solicitous for his ward's welfare, readily waived other considerations in favour of an arrangement which he considered conducive to John's health, and he was accordingly matriculated at Magdalen Hall in the autumn of 1839. Dr. Sarsdell had not been unmindful of his promise to look after my brother, and had secured him an excellent first-floor sitting-room, with a bedroom adjoining, having an aspect towards New College Lane.

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