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(‘Signed’ A. D. Carlisle, Treasurer. The card lists the dates of eight weekly meetings on the Wednesday from 5 Feb. to 25 Mar. 1868 with the name of the member in whose rooms each was to be held, and the location of their rooms. A few details have been altered by hand. The members named are Messrs Galabin, Bone, Carlisle, Daniell, Puller, Cursetjee (altered from Bone), Watson (altered from Carlisle), and Washington (altered from Daniell). The identity of Washington is uncertain.)

(‘Signed’ H. C. Watson, Treasurer. The card lists the dates of seven weekly meetings on the Wednesdays from 6 May to 17 June 1868 with the name of the member in whose rooms each was to be held, and the location of their rooms. The members named are Messrs Forbes, Ghica, Bone, Cursetjee, Daniell, Galabin, and Puller.)

(‘Signed’ J. G. Forbes, Treasurer. The card lists the dates of seven weekly meetings on the Wednesdays from 21 Oct. to 2 Dec. 1868 with the name of the member in whose rooms each was to be held, and the location of their rooms. The members named are Messrs Daniell, Carlisle, Cursetjee, Forbes, Galabin, Ghica, and Constable.)

Green leather volume, with embossing and gold decoration. Printed illustration from 'Happy New Year' card pasted to inside front cover. Bookplate, 'Ex Libris Bryan William James Hall', with coat of arms and illustration, pasted to front free endpaper.

Numerous autographs, mostly in the form of ends of letters and addresses on envelopes, pasted into book. Notes beneath items (sometimes also pasted in) often identify writers. Complete letters etc have been described in individual records dependent to this one, referenced by their folio numbers; signatures and addressees are referenced by linked authority record only. Some names remain undeciphered or unidentified.

Compiled by a sister of C. W. King, see part letter from King on f. 14r, 'I enclose the autograph of a distinguished Grecian for your book. With love I am, my dear Sister, yours affect[ionate]ly C. W. King'. Although no first name appears, C. W. King's only sister appears to have been Anne, sometimes known as Annette (1824-1874). A letter from W. G. Clark to C. W. King, preserved on the verso of the flyleaf, was sent with 'some autographs for your friend', and there are also envelopes and letters addressed to William Aldis Wright and other members of Trinity suggesting King was actively gathering material for his sister. The bulk of the collection appears to have been assembled between the late 1860s and early 1870s.