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Duff, Mary Geraldine (1904-1905) educationist and academic administrator
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Book of sketches of Henry Babington Smith and James Duff Duff by Eveleen Myers
Book of sketches of Henry Babington Smith and James Duff Duff by Eveleen Myers
Add. MS a/743 · Stuk · 1887
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

In general, the sketches seem to have been done first in pencil and then gone over in sepia and/or black ink line and wash. In one sketch, 'Girton Lecturer Diffusing Sweetness And Light', depicting Duff with a number of Girton College students, the wash is watercolour paint rather than ink. Many of the sketches are initialled 'E. M.' for Eveleen Myers; the date is often added, 1887 in all cases. Duff and Babington Smith are almost always identified, usually with initials, occasionally by name.

Most of the sketches are given titles, as follows: Untitled (landscape with castles); 'Between two Hemispheres'; 'Two ways of greeting the sun'; 'Rough? or Smooth?'; untitled [Duff and Babington Smith conversing); 'Breakfast 12.30 P. M.'; 'Arcades ambo. Mr H. B. Smith & Mr Duff. 3. A.M.'; 'The midnight oil'; 'two heads are better than one'; 'A Bear-Fight Extraordinary' (including A. H. Clough the younger); 'The Young Idea'; 'Back From Cyprus!'; 'Hero Bombarding A Hat'; 'The Early Bird And The Late Worm | Breakfast. 11 A.M.' ('Worm' and 'Bird' are transposed in a correction above the original title); 'Highland chieftains: Clan Duff & Clan Smith'; 'The Macduff, On The Rampage'; 'Greek Messenger Describing Death of Jocasta' [Babington Smith acted in the 1887 Cambridge Greek Play production of *Oedipus Tyrannus'; 'Girton Lecturer Diffusing Sweetness And Light'; 'Intelligent Sympathy'; 'Practical Consolation'; 'New brooms sweep clean - reforms of H. B. S. in the Education Office'; 'After The Battle - An Enemy's Counsel' [scene from a game of whist or bridge]; 'Savoy Theatre: a 'Bond' of affection'; 'Thus We Two Parted. In Silence And Pain; / We Were Half-Broken Hearted - But Soon Met Again!!'; 'A Donkey-Race For the Tripos'.

The Girton students depicted with J. D. Duff are Gertrude Mary Butler, Edith Mary Bough, Edith Lydia Johns, Mary Hay Wood, Jane Lily Edwards, Sylvia Grant [later Farmer], Beatrice Geraldine Hudson [later Colby], Jane Ewing Wilson [later Hannay], and Augusta Klein [later Kirby].

With note, 5 May 1969, from Mary Duff explaining some details of the Girton picture.

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Papers of J. D. Duff
DUFF · Archief · 1888-1940

The majority of this archive consists of letters by Duff to members of his family, viz.: (A): to his wife Laura, 45 letters, 1897-1909; (B): to his son Alan, 356 letters, 1909-1933; (C): to his son Patrick, 96 letters, 1909-1934; (D): to his son James, 4 letters, 1909-1916; (E): to his daughter Hester, 8 letters, 1933-1934; (F): to his daughter Mary, 1 letter, 1911.

There are also 68 letters (G) from Laura Duff to her son Alan, 1915-1940, and three (H) to her husband J.D. Duff, relating to their son James's entrance examinations for Wellington College in 1910. J, K and L are letters written by their sons: 3 letters and a postcard from Alan Duff to his mother, 1909-1920 (J), a letter from James Duff to Alan Duff, 1911 (K), and a letter from Patrick Duff to J. F. Duff, relating to J. F. Duff winning a scholarship to Trinity in 1916 (L).

The final group of letters (M) are by various authors: one from J. D. Duff to Diana Frances Crawley, future wife of his son Alan, on the death of her father, 1933; letters to A. C. Duff from W. G. Collett (1911) and R. Moore (1913) at Wellington College; letter to J. D. Duff from G. M. Trevelyan, 1934 about Edward Fitzgerald's letters; letter to Laura Duff from the Postmaster at Cambridge, 1923, relating to a telegram from Cairo.

Miscellaneous material (N) comprises: copy of the marriage certificate of James Duff Duff and Laura Lenox-Coningham, 1895; page torn from a notebook with short phrase in Ancient Greek; memoir, "Lemnos" of an army camp, probably by A. C. Duff, with envelope addressed to J. D. Duff.

Finally there are twenty eight of J. D. Duff's pocket diaries (usually by Lett's) dating from 1888-1912, 1915-1918, 1922-1926, and 1931-1934; the earliest are kept as appointment books, with brief notes of college and social occasions, but Duff's entries later expand to be fuller records of his days, typically recording weather, reading material, pastimes and family news. A notebook with A. C. Duff's name and address at the front contains 'Extracts from F[ather's] Diary'.

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