A Handy Guide to Oxford [antikvár]

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION This little book was specially written as a guide for the wounded, in June 1915, when I was attached to the Third Southern General Hospital, as Tobacconist-in-chief and Matron's Head Fag. The profits of sale were given to the Fund for supplying Tobacco to the wounded in that Hospital. The language of the book necessarily reflects the temper of those critical years 1914r-16, the present edition is due to persistent requests from various sources that the book should continue to be available, and some slight alterations, omissions and insertions have been made with a view to making it more up-to-date for those who buy it now. The Hospital of the early summer of 1915 had already extended beyond the Examination Schools (as the text will show) ; and there were already beds in the Town Hall, the Masonic Rooms in the High Street, and in New College Gardens ; soon afterwards also in the Workhouse on Cowley Road and several other places. There was also an Officers' Hospital in Somerville College, whose students had been temporarily transferred to the northern quadrangle of Oriel College. C. R. L. Fletcher.