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Butler, Richard Austen (1902-1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
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Letters to J. R. M. Butler
Add. MS c/201/7-16 · Item · 1914-41
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8 letters and 2 fragments of letters, from:

  • Ramsay Macdonald, 6 Mar. 1914
  • James Balfour, 8 Jan. 1920
  • Lord Haldane, 4 May 1924
  • E. Rutherford, 20 June 1925, accepting congratulations for his Order of Merit
  • Albert, the future George VI, 26 Apr. 1926, accepting congratulations on the birth of his daughter Elizabeth
  • Lord Cecil, 9 Sept. 1927
  • Stanley Baldwin, 30 May 1930
  • Lord Halifax, 8 Jan. 1941, will take a letter to Butler's brother, will be happy to see one of the family 'after working with Rab so long'
  • two fragments signed by Stanley Baldwin and Lord Grey
 Butler, Sir James Ramsay Montagu (1889-1975), knight, historian
Trinity College menus presented by Simon Keynes
Add. MS a/600 · File · 1973-1984
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

59 menus, many of them accompanied by seating charts; with 3 seating charts unaccompanied by menus, and a letter regarding the feast and invitation nights in the academical year 1978-79 [Item 1/23].

Menus for the regular feasts and dinners of the Trinity calendar, as well as the farewell dinner for Lord Butler 17 June 1978 [Item 1/20], and the Installation of the next Master, Sir Alan Hodgkin on 5 Oct. 1978 [Item 1/24], and his farewell dinner 24 June 1984 [Item 7/1] . Includes a menu of the luncheon to mark the opening of the Cambridge Consultants Building at the Cambridge Science Park by The Prince of Wales, 1 Aug. 1979 [Item 1/33], and a menu for the Annual Gathering Dinner for 1968-1969 in Sept. 1981, with an accompanying booklet listing the names of Fellows and Members of College present [Item 1/50].

 Keynes, Simon Douglas (b 1952) Anglo-Saxon scholar
Letters from R. A. Butler to P. W. Duff
Add. MS a/301/43-46 · Item · Feb.-June 1865
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Letters written after Butler's appointment as Master of Trinity: he expresses his thanks for Duff's good wishes, discusses dinner arrangements, and his personal guests for the installation dinner, mentioning Geoffrey Lloyd in particular.

 Duff, Patrick William (1901-1991), Professor of Civil Law
Letter from R. A. Butler to G. S. R. Kitson Clark
Add. MS a/199/26 · Item · 8 Feb. 1965
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3, Smith Square, Westminster, S.W.1: Thanks him for his letter with its advice, written upon the announcement of his election as Master; looks forward to living close to Kitson Clark and availing himself of his advice.

 Clark, George Sidney Roberts Kitson (1900-1975), historian
Visitors book for the Judges' Chambers in the Lodge at Trinity College, Cambridge
Add. MS a/196 · Item · 1888-1971
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A book of signatures of judges and their marshals with the date of their stay during the Assizes. This is accompanied by fourteen thank you letters written to the Master, R. A. Butler by judges and other officials invited to a dinner at Trinity on 28 November 1971 which was held to mark the occasion of the last Assize Court. Several letters contain comments about the end of the Assize Court system, including those from Francis Pemberton and Maurice Robinson.