University oars : being a critical enquiry into the after health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race from the year 1829-1869, based on the personal experience of the rowers themselves / by John Ed. Morgan.

  • Morgan, John Edward.
Date:
1873
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Credit: University oars : being a critical enquiry into the after health of the men who rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race from the year 1829-1869, based on the personal experience of the rowers themselves / by John Ed. Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    apology for the length of time occupied in making this enquiry, more especially as the work has been carried on in the few leisure hours I could snatch from the toils of an arduous and exacting profession. Had I, in the case of some twenty or twenty-five men, contented my- self with the accounts I received from contemporaries and friends, without searching on in quest of those still missing till one by one they were discovered, the results of this enquiry might have appeared some two years sooner. I have, however, felt strongly that the whole value of such an investigation must depend upon its being exhaustive ; and when I mention the fact that out of the 255 Oarsmen who were alive at the end of the year 1869, I have succeeded in obtaining letters from 251, it will be admitted that it would not be practicable to have carried the enquiry very much farther. Three of those from whom I have not received letters belong to the University of Oxford, and one is a graduate of Cambridge. To each of them I have addressed several communications, but hitherto without avail. Another old Oar, though he has favoured me with full particulars regarding his health, has requested me to refrain from publishing his name. In numerous cases I have re- ceived the information I solicited through the assistance of kind friends and well-known authorities in all that relates to the University Boat-Race. Although it is perhaps somewhat invidious to mention particular names when so many have assisted, I still cannot refrain from specially thanking my brother, the Rev. H. A. Morgan,