

LETTER II 



Description of Riverside House Wharves Alterations Boarding- 

 school Inscriptions by School-girls Sinkage of Floors 

 Trees The Sycamore Nests, etc. 



loth November 1885. 



DEAR MARCO The old house in which I 

 now live is built on the site of what was 

 formerly called "the middle wharf." There 

 are two wharves now existing here, the upper 

 and the lower wharves, which still do a con- 

 siderable amount of business, chiefly in coal, 

 which is brought in barges from the Stafford- 

 shire coalfields by the canal which passes 

 through Coventry, Oxford, and Banbury. 

 The barge traffic formerly was also largely 

 employed in carrying barley and grain ; this 

 business has, however, for a long time ceased. 

 Of the middle wharf I found many traces 

 when the foundations of my new boat-house 



