Contents:
I Flints ports otters and threads:
A brief biography
Childhood and schooling: from Cambridge to the Downs (1909-28)
Scholarship and the beginnings of a career: Oxford... and other ports, and back to Cambridge (1928-48)
The Principal: Otter, and otters (1948-70)
Threads of inheritance (1970-98)

II Tributes:
From an archivist
From an undergraduate at Girton
The Bishop Otter years:
From Miss Murray's successor as Principal
From the first Director of the Institute of Higher Education incorporating Bishop Otter, and established in 1977
Beyond Bishop Otter:
Archaeology: FIshbourne Roman Palace
Historical Association
Chichester District Museum
Caught in the web of words
Pallant House
Chichester Civic Award
Sussex Historical Churches Trust
Murray Downland Trust
From the Priest-in-Charge, Heyshott St James
From a lifelong friend

Appendices:
Two extracts from 'Exchange Teacher' (1961)
Open letter from Francis Steer
Record of service in local government (Chichester)
List of publications
The Murray Relief
Casting off