Uppingham by the Sea: A Narrative of the Year at Borth
Transcribed from the 1878 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
A Narrative of the Year at Borth.
BY J. H. S.
απολις · υψιπολις.
London: MACMILLAN AND CO.
charles dickens and evans, crystal palace press.
EDUARDO THRING,
scholæ uppinghamiensis conditori alteri , ob cives servatos :
magistris adjutoribus, qui, salute communi in ultimum adducta discrimen, de re publica non desperaverunt.
In the spring of 1876 and of 1877, letters under the heading “Uppingham by the Sea” were published in The Times newspaper, and were read with interest by friends of the school. We have thought the following narrative would be best introduced to those readers under a name already pleasantly familiar to them, and have borrowed, with the writer’s permission, the title of his sketches for our own more detailed account of the same events.
The readers whom we have in view will demand no apology for the attempt to supply a circumstantial record of so memorable an