Letter refers to a proposed purchase of Ferrar's ''things'' (presumably furnishings or other personal possessions at College) by ''Mr Boughton'' (probably Edward Boughton, admitted 1615).
Publications on the life and manuscripts of Nicholas Ferrar:
(1) The Story Books of Little Gidding being the Religious dialogues recited in the great room 1631-2 by E. Cruwys Sharland (1899)
(2) Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding by A.L. Maycock (1938)
Includes:
(1) notes on Nicholas Ferrar and his contemporaries, and on Clare family, with notes on relic found at Clare castle (Suffolk) in 1865
Loose papers include:
(1) part of a notebook containing extracts from documents, and historical notes about College properties, Statutes of Clare College, nd (1858), with related papers, 1857-1860
(2) 'Report of the proceedings of the Congress of the Architectural Society, held at Cambridge...', 1860
(3) notes on Rotherhithe (Surrey), nd
(4) letters about Nicholas Ferrar from William Hopkinson (admitted 1859), including offer to subscribe to copy of Ferrar's portrait, 1864, with poems about Little Gidding, nd (1863)
(5) Charity Commission scheme for Oley Trust, 1865