Accounts of the 'Kennedy Professorship Fund' with contributions at the beginning of the book and expenses at the back. Printed letter from E. Atkinson, Vice-Chancellor, to the Public Orator, Rev. W. G. Clark, expressing thanks to the subscribers for offering the fund to Cambridge University for the establishment of a Latin Professorship; a list of subscribers and their contributions is also printed.
Includes fragment of printed text from the binding of Q.0.113; two parchment fragments from the binding of I.13.76, with transcription, illustration and notes on three loose pages. One loose sheet with rubbing of bindings; one rubbing pasted in Sketch and two rubbings of bindings.
Includes notes on Jenkinsons known to be owners of books, and listed in the University Registry; news clipping about the death of a boy called Jenkinson pasted in.
Typescript [?] copy.
Loose at the back of the book are four bifolia entitled "Middle Voice", and another smaller bifolium on the same topic.
Loose sheet between pages 84 and 85 on the location of the Scamandrian plain [in Homer's Iliad].
Given to Trinity College by Burn's widow Augusta in 1904 (as recorded in bookplate).
Includes list: '1810 / Unpaid Bills'.
Items pasted in include printed letters relating to the fund; list of subscribers; notices of meetings; notice requesting applications for the professorship; handwritten copies of 'My Psalm' by John Greenleaf Whittier 'Sent from Acton by A. B. on Oct 22 1897', biblical references, and [Tennyson's] "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale".
Loose papers include library request slips.