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4 Harlow Moor Road, Harrogate - Has enjoyed reading 'Folk-Lore in the Old Testament' and encloses a cheque for it and 'Native Races of Africa & Madagascar'; reminisces about the Dean of Jesus College, Red Morgan, who said that the lesson of the Witch of Endor is that there is good in all of us, as even she placed food before Saul.

Assemblage of figures in which the faces of various Cambridge personalities are spliced into incongruous scenes. The accompanying printed key explains that, for example Neptune in his chariot has the face of John Couch Adams, since 'The learned Professor was the first to discover the above mentioned planet; the Vice-Chancellor [1874-1876], Samuel Phear, 'did his best to suppress the "wooden spoon"' so his face is superimposed upon one. A scene of three figures balancing on a beam in front of the fountain in Trinity Great Court is labelled 'The Pantomime', and the figures are identified as 'The Author of Supernatural Religion [W. R. Cassels], 'Prof. Lightfoot' and 'Prof, Westcott', with a brief account of the controversy following the anonymous publication of that work in 1874. A tug of war competition is labelled 'Classics v. Mathematics'; a coxed four are labelled 'Ye Antient Mariners'.

Hard to decipher pencil annotations on back, which includes 'Bradford, Camb.' [probably the seller, see O.6.6/47].

A collection of sketches and cartoons depicting university life made for the student newspaper the K.P., many of them carrying printer's instructions from N. W. Paine. There are 91 pen-and-ink drawings on 39 sheets, one pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing, "The typical Tuft" by A.H.M. accompanied by verses, and 12 printed drawings (proofs?). These are signed variously by "Cam" (identified as E. A. Sutherland), E. S. Grogan, and O. F. Hollebone, as well as the unidentified "AHM", "EEY", "JAM", "PAT", and "Pongo". Accompanied by the manuscript draft prospectus for "The K.P. Company - Limited" with signatures of shareholders; and by a printed photograph of classmate Sir Charles Ross.

Several images also appear in a related album of N. W. Paine's housed as Adversaria Album 22, and some images are identified there as of C. W. Moore, the Cambridge rowing coach, classmate and rower R. O. Kerrison and the Jesus College Senior Tutor E. H. Morgan.