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Ravenswood - GEC is sorry to trouble WW 'about education in India', but wants WW to make a donation toward some 'permanent memorial' in honour 'of a class who are and have been grievously overlooked'.

Notes by Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, on religious subjects, c 1839. Written on the back of exercises and letters, some in Latin, to Wordsworth from prospective and elected Scholars.

Note on inside front cover in another hand listing 'Names of Undergraduate and B. A. Scholars whose formal letters are here accidentally preserved at the back of the Master, Dr Chr. Wordsworth's notes c. 1837': W. Conybeare; G. E. L. Cotton; W. Walton; Alexander J. Ellis; J. Saul Howson; W. Pirie; A. Thacker; C. J. Vaughan; Michael Angelo Atkinson; W. D. Christie; H. J. Hodgson; Effingham Lawrence; W. C. Mathison; J. Gorham Maitland; T. F. Stooks; W. G. Humphry; J. J. Dance; N. J. [?] Rinser; Philip Freeman; E. Beckett Denison; F. V. Thornton; G. Waring; C. C. Roberts; A. S. Eddis; J Byles; J. Hamilton Forsyth; G. T Kingdon.

Volume of letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with usually no more than one letter per person, each correspondent identified at the top of the page on which the letter is mounted, in the form of an autograph book.

Rouse Ball's signature is on the verso of the front endpaper, with a note of the bequest below. Includes a copy of the order signed by Christopher Wordsworth, Master, 7 Feb. 1838, requiring all undergraduates to attend Chapel at least eight times a week. A note by Rouse Ball below suggests that this was moved by William Carus, who became Senior Dean on 3 Oct. 1836, and describes the undergraduate reaction. W. J. Conybeare, G. E. L. Cotton, J. S. Howson and C. L. Rose are named as 'originators' of the 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates'.

pp. 9-25: copies of 'Attendance-Sheets' recording attendance of Fellows at Chapel, issued by the Society for the weeks ending 17 Feb.-24 Mar. 1838; the last of these also lists the Fellows by number of times they attended, and awards them classes as if for an examination.

pp. 27-81: note by Rouse Ball on a 'large number of squibs, epigrams, &c the majority of which (according to Dean Peacock) were written by E Crookenden, A. C. Gooden, J. B. Hume, Lang, and Tom Taylor'. Four of these, with accompanying notes, are copied out.