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Fifteen letters from William Whewell, five letters from H. P. Hamilton, one each from Charles Heathcote and Christopher Wordsworth, and two from James C. Franks.

(Place of writing not indicated.)—Sends some photographs of Amy ‘to gratify the boys’ interest in what their mother looked like long ago’. Thanks Mr McKerrow for the loan of ‘Babbitt’.

(The illustration is from a photograph captioned ‘Gathering Mists: The Scawfell Range from Bow Fell’.)

Untitled manuscript. Audley Court goes by the name of 'Oxley Hall' in this version.

Commercial photograph, with '22' printed in white at bottom. Title written by hand below.

1 Carlton House Terrace, S.W.—Reading’s long telegram [A3/10/6] gives no clear impression of definite purpose or moral strength, and he seems to be constrained from acting by fears that his advice about the Prince of Wales’s visit will not be justified by the consequences. Agrees to intervene in the debate, if possible.

Photograph by [Albert Eugene] Fradelle, 246 Regent St, London. 'Dr Murchison | Photographed April 22 1879' is written below; the date has been carefully recorded since Murchison died next day.

Programme for Peter Shaffer Perspectives presented by Colorado Drama in September 1989, Peter Shaffer: A Celebration by Chichester Festival Theatre in July 2014 and a benefit event for the Peter Shaffer Award presented by the Fundamental Theater Project, March 2016.

Bard Books edition paperback with Shaffer's emendations at the end of Acts I and II. There is an inscription to Ruth from Eddie at the front, which does not appear immediately related to Shaffer, and it is not clear what date the emendations were made.

Ink and watercolour sketches of scenes in Kenilworth are painted directly onto the page above and below this photograph and those of two of Mayor's sisters next to it: the scenes are labeled 'The Priory', 'Kenilworth' [showing the castle], 'Inch Brook' and 'Abbey Gateway, Kenilworth'.

The first volume is dated by King on the first page after the front free endpaper 'Trin. Coll. Feb. 11. 1871', although the first edition of this work in fact appeared in 1864. The next page is dated 23 Nov. 1887, the year in which the second edition appeared. A mock-up of the title and facing page of the second edition follows, with an illustration, seal impression and Latin quotation [from Lucretius] follow, then two versions of the preface to the new edition, one of 37 ff. and the next of 26 ff. [unnumbered], then the contents pages of the new edition, 6 ff. The following manuscript of the first edition is written predominantly on blue paper: 46 ff. introduction and 2 ff. with a contents page and epigraphs, then the main text (foliated 1-407 in red throughout, though there are several other numbering schemes at various points).

The second volume has a contents page and epigraphs, 2 ff., then two sections, each foliated through in red, of 260 and 300 ff. The third volume has two sections, each foliated through in red, of 219 and 208 ff, blank, then 20ff foliated in pencil headed 'Woodcuts in the Text', and another section of 97 ff. headed 'Descriptions of the Plates'.

14-15: letters from 1860s
16: letters from 1868-1869. 'C. W. King, Nov 25 1869' written on front endpaper
17: letters from 1869-1870
18: letters from 1871
19: letters from 1872
20: letters from 1873. 'C. W. King, Trin Coll, Feb 2 1874' written on front endpaper
21: letters from 1874
22: letters from 1875

'D. Pettiward. Trinity. Nov. 21 1786' on first page; 'D Pettiward' has been gone over in ink. 'Vince' is also written out several times in ink, as well as 'Young' and 'Mary' [or 'many'], and several squiggles of the pen.

The notes begin in a philosophical vein: 'Idea is the object of thinking. Whence has the mind all the materials of reason & knowledge from experience.' However, most of the notes are on mathematical topics: 'Vulgar Fractions', 'Reductions', 'Multiplications' and so on, including discussion of surds and fluxions. Many pages are crossed through.

'J. O. Halliwell | 1837 and 1838 | Miscellanea' written in ink on front cover; scratch-marks below seem to have erased something else once written. Note on back: 'M. Museum. | B. Bodleian. | P. Camb. Pub. Lib. | S. Sion College. | R. Royal Society'. 'J. O. Halliwell | Anno 1837' written on inside front cover; 'Common-place notes' written in a different ink, as well as a verse - 'Ha, La! Syntax, O the fun!...', as well as a calculation and a note written with the book turned upside down.

Extract from printed sales catalogue listing autograph letters and receipt for payment by Halliwell to Mr [?] Bowtell loose inside front cover.

The book was originally used as a ledger by an unknown owner between 1806-1807. Right edges of ff. 2-5 trimmed to form alphabetical index and the pages divided into quarters; the leaf with entries for letters T-Z. has been lost. Names such as John Till Allingham, Robert Mildred, David and Joseph Ricardo and Harry Sherer appear, although not always in the main body of the ledger since several leaves have been removed and others have cuttings pasted over the entries by Halliwell. ff. 8 and 16-40 are still present. For each pair of facing pages, a name appears at the top of the left hand page, with debits entered below, and credits on the facing page.

Free space around index entries used by Halliwell for journal entries, 1837 and 1838; these journal entries continue at intervals in the rest of the book. They include accounts of visits to the British Museum library, book sales, visits to 'Mr Davies' at Woolwich, comments on Halliwell's book on Samuel Morland's life and work, and a 'Row between Gown and Town' in Cambridge, 6 Nov. 1837.

ff. 6-11 are tipped in, and contain a list of authors, titles and dates (11th-14th cent.) Printed cutting on Edward Cocker, and extracts from booksellers' catalogues, pasted in at ff. 12-13; these include headings for sales of the last part of the 'Bibliotheca Heberiana' [Feb. 1837] and for 'Shakspeariana'

ff. 36A-61 are headed with the years 1550-1600; notes on authors and books published in those years are written below, but Halliwell seems to have given up on these and most are crossed through.

ff. 57A-57D are loose sheets with extracts from and letters printed in the Times, 1845-1846, re the legal case concerning suspicions that Halliwell had stolen books from Trinity College Library which subsequently found their way into the collections of the British Museum.

ff. 62-71: notes on Edward Cocker; 'Books without date'; 'Anecdota Mathematica'; translation of Archimedes Arenarius; lines in Latin from the Carmen de Algorismo by Alexander de Villa Dei [of Villedieu].

ff. 72-73: list of 'Old books purchased at Cambridge'; the two volumes listed on f. 73v are manuscripts.

ff. 74-80: pages headed with letters to create alphabetical index, though most locations are crossed through.

ff. 83-86: tipped in sheets with notes on books for sale, with catalogue numbers, under headings such as 'Literary Miscellanies' and 'Geometry Fortification &c'

f. 90v: Printed illustration coloured by hand, headed 'Fat Boy' and labelled by hand 'Twelfth Day 1838', pasted in here. Verse below the illustration: 'To rouse you up is quite in vain / For see, "the boy's asleep again!"'. Another couple of printed lines of verse pasted above: 'Unnoticed and unhonoured thou wilt creep / Through life a sluggard, drowsy and asleep'.

ff. 91-99: tipped in sheets, with an alphabetical index, largely of mathematical topics.

10 ff. from the back of the book in (ff. 101-105) used for 'A collection of quotations from the Classics and other authors relative to the Mathematics', dated from November 1836.

Printed sticker, 'Lot 164', pasted to front. Note re the 'Nobility, Judges & Magistrates of this Kingdome, particularly the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.... & all who bear office in this ancient and great City [i.e. York, the City of London, or Dublin]'. Dates on which sermons delivered recorded at end (some given more than once).

Margin of c 30 mm ruled on each page. Note in margin of first page, in 18th century hand [perhaps John Byrom's?], 'Dr Barrows Sermon in his own Hand. it belongs to Trinity College Library'. Text on first page under the heading 'Prov. 14.6: A scorner seeketh wisedome & findeth it not, but knowledge is easy to him that inderstandeth'; quotations also on knowledge from Cicero and Romans. Sermon on 3. Colossians. 2, 'Sett your affections on things above, not on things upon the earth', begins on f. 1v.

Loose wrapper inside back cover, addressed to 'The Rev. Dr. Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge' and postmarked 4 and 5 Nov. 1851. With note in Whewell's hand, 'A Sermon of Dr Barrow received from Rev. R. Parkinson Nov 1851 - unpublished? WW'

First 3 ff. headed 'Rules for the formation of a Club', including list of founding members: The Duke of St. Albans, Montagu Corry, J. J. Cowell,, G. O. Trevelyan, F. Storr, W. Everett, H. Y. Thompson, E. Willmot.' Signed E[dmund] Willmot, President, May 1960.

The rest of the minutes record dates of meetings and the members' rooms in which each took place; participants, including honorary members and visitors; elections of new members

With letter, written at Trinity 27 Mar. 1905, from Henry Jackson to Walter Morley Fletcher relating to Erastus Corning Pruyn. This is attached to notes by Jackson, comprising a list of members (1 folded sheet), each with a brief biography and date of their admission to Trinity, and a list of visitors (6 single sheets) with the same information. A note of the end of this states: '[W. E.] Currey tells me that the refreshments provided in the early days of the Club were sandwiches and gin sling. In its later days there was an elaborate supper, with two Trinity Hall cups, one Chesterfield, the other usually Madeira. Supper was usually at ten o' clock, after supper whist was resumed'. With envelope originally containing these notes, addressed to the Librarian, Trinity College, and with a label in the hand of A. F. Scholfield, Librarian.

Written in pencil on inside front cover: 'To be ret'd to (Rev.) C. W. King, Trin. Coll'. Below that, 'Revd W. J. Edlin, Trinity College, Cambridge'. Note on provenance below in the hand of A. F. Scholfield, Librarian.

In ink on front endpaper: 'Uffenbach's Vist to Cambridge 1710 - '; then, in different ink, 'C. W. King, Trin: Coll. Translated 1856.' 'Trimalchio's Feast: 1859' written below but crossed out [and not present in book].

Letter from G. H. Rendall, 29 Dec 1930, tipped in between inside front cover and front endpaper. Dedham House, Dedham, Essex, offering book to the library; sent a copy of his own *Shakespeare Sonnets and Edward de Vere when it came out last March.

Text on page 1 headed 'Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach's Travels Vol. III - Cambridge'.

Two letters from G. L. Strachey to W. Aldis Wright ['Dear Vice-Master...] attached to front endpaper: 1 Feb. 1904 and 12 Oct 1904. The first lists books Strachey has borrowed from Wright; the second accompanies the return of the books, thanking Aldis Wright, and noting that one, the index to papers re Hastings at the India Office, lists an order different to the papers' current state.

Signature and title on recto of flyleaf. Contents on first page: pp 3-11, 'Introductory Statement'; pp 15-25, 'Correspondence of 1863; pp 27-54, 'Case submitted by Whewell, 1864'; pp 55-57, 'Counsels' Opinion thereon'; pp 79-101, 'Correspondence, March 1866, on the method of procedure; pp 102-111, '[Correspondence], 1866, on the terms of the proposed Instrument'; pp 75-77, '[Correspondence], 1883, on whether Judges could bring their wives'; p 113 'Dr Thompson's views of the effect of the Instrument'; p. 71, 'On the Reception of the Judges circ. 1830'; pp 65-69, 'Taylor's Ballad on the dispute between Denman & Whewell'; pp 65-69, 'Practice (1879) of giving Invitations to dine in Hall'; pp 115-[118], 'Correspondence (1918) on the Judge's Lodgings'.

Newspaper cutting pasted to page 118: 'Correspondence in May 1918 between the High Sheriff (Sir George Fordham) and the Town Authorities'.

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.

Lettered in gilt on spine: 'Union Society of Trinity College, Cambridge - 1824'. Stamp on verso of second front endpaper, 'Morrell. Binder. London'. Note on first page: 'A few days before the first meeting of the Union Society in Mich[aelm]as term 1824 a small written pamphlet was found in the reading room. The following is a copy'. The following 7 ff., headed 'Union Society. From the Editor', give an account of the debate on the question ‘Is the American or British Constitution most favorable to public Happiness?’

The next section is prefaced: 'The publication of Anticipation [the preceding tract found in the society’s rooms] caused considerable indignation and conjecture as to the author. It was taken away in about a week. Mr. Townsend declared his intention to call out the author if he could discover him. About the middle of November another pamphlet was dropped. It follows.' The following 12 ff. contain the debate on bringing the author of ‘Anticipation’ before the Bar of the House; the last page of this section is a mock list of 'Works preparing for publication', such as '"Puffiana, or Every Gentleman his own Trumpeter", by W. M. P. Esq. Trin. Coll. "Trumpeter unus erat"'.

The final section is prefaced 'Trial of the Man Without a Name, for Administering Poison to the Honble G. O. Townsend'; 7 ff. describing this mock-trial follow.

In the course of the debates the names of W. M. Praed, B. H. Kennedy, and Alexander Cockburn, as well as Bulwer himself, appear.

Note on first page: 'The Royal and the Marlborough Collections - (Besborough and Arundel). Notes taken by me in July, 1861, at the Royal Librarian's House, Buckingham Mews; and July, August, and lastly in October of the same year in the British Museum, where the Blenheim Cabinet had been deposited for the purpose in the care of Prof. Maskelyne'.

Includes 'List of Books removed from the Muniment Room to the Library' and 'Upper Muniment Room in the Edward IIII Clock Tower' (typed lists); 'Plan of Senior Bursar's Muniment Room'; correspondence re moves of material and loans to fellows.