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Included at B/16 is a letter from 'Agnes'.

Ledston.

Letters dated
11 Feb. 1920
15 Feb. 1920
29 Mar. 1920
7 Jan. 1922
22 Feb. 1922
20 June 1922

Letters from Sir Herbert Jenner-Fust, Prof. Henslow, Lord Morpeth, the Bishop of Melbourne, Lieut. General Thackeray, the Marquess Camden, and an unidentified person.

13: On a printed Chit Chat Society notice [1880s?]
15: Translated poem, 'Thous who would'st help me...' [undated].

Includes note by Layton on his involvement with the Daily News and News Chronicle. 1927-1950.

Children of C. P., R. C., and G. M. Trevelyan particularly well represented.

Table of contents (3ff.), also in Russell's hand, at front of work.

'C. Wordsworth Jun. PRIVATE' written on head of text-block. 'Oculos ne obtrudite vulgus' in capitals on front flyleaf. The entry for '14 Ash Wednesday - S. Valentine's' reads 'pancakes! no fish!'. Printed notice of the death of James Leatham Birley at Trinity College Oxford pasted in at entry for 20 Feb. 1866. Records the Master, Dr. Whewell, being thrown from his horse on 24 Feb. 1866, and his death on 6 Mar.

With printed article by Rev. C. H. Smyth, 'Three Wordsworth Diaries' Cambridge Review, 19 Apr. 1940, pp. 341-342, which has an 'Intenational Press-Cutting Bureau' slip pasted on at top left corner.

Labelled 'E. FitzGerald | 'Commonplace Book' in pencil on the front cover, but the book is predominantly used to record words and notes on etymology. Letters of the alphabet are written at the head of the rectos of ff. 1-116 ('V' on the same page as 'U', f. 113 blank, perhaps left for 'X', no 'Z'); words are written in the margin with notes, quotations etc alongside them; occasionally the facing verso is also used for notes.

In a letter from FitzGerald to E. B. Cowell, 3 Sept. 1858, he states that 'I amuse myself with jotting down materials (out of vocabularies, etc) for a Vocabulary of rural English, or rustic English: that is, only the best country words selected from the very many Glossaries, etc., relating chiefly to country matters, but also to things in general: words that carry their own story with them, without needing Derivation or Authority, though both are often to be found...'

Some French words and phrases are recorded at the end of the book (f 116v and the following, unnumbered f.) The flyleaves are used for notes, including some taken from 'Mr Muller's Lectures'.

Several references date the book to c 1860, for example, a note on f. 36v: 'August 19/60. I this morning read the word "dade" so aptly employ'd, & relating to so good an Anecdote of Bewick, that I must quote it...'

Notes on Troutbeck case towards the front of the volume. [This case, in which Sir Frederick Pollock acted for the claimants, was heard in the 1830s, and so the book may have been begun then, and only later used for mathematical notes].

Dates given for Pollock's mathematical notes run from 17 Dec. 1857 to 1 Mar. 1858. They include proofs under the heading 'a remarkable property of the odd squares is that any two adjoining ones may be represented thus...', p. 202-

Also present are notes on French vocabulary (p 256), and verse (pp 404-411).

Entries in index: 'on the connection of M W N & m n page 428'; 'on changing the sums of Square by altering the Root p 284'; '2nd Communication [to the Royal Society]', 298; 'Fermat's theorems. Paper for Royal Society p. 250'; 'on the gradation series, 338'; 'letter to Mr De Morgan proving that the two forms (a² + a + b² + c²)= (m² + m + n² + p² + p), 142'; 'Numbers - Forms of which make 4 sqr roots =1 etc tc, p 190'; 'Triangular nos p. 475'.

Other page headings not mentioned in the index include: 'on the division of odd nos into 4 square & other forms', p. 2; 'on Fermat's mysteries of numbers', p. 162. The title in full of the paper for the Royal Society which begins on p. 250 is 'On the first and second Theorems of Fermat relating to the polygonal numbers and on the forms not exceeding 4 into which odd numbers may be divided'.

Two large sheets dated 1867 and labelled 'Diagram no. 1' and 'Diagram no. 2'

Entries in index: 'De Morgan - correspondence with - p. 1'; 'Differences of Squares - that compose the odd nos. 120'; Differences of Roots. 230'; 'Gradation - Series. 50'; 'Paper for Royal Society - p. 562'; 'Roots - changing roots by diminishing them till a+b-c-d+1. 300'; 'on the differences a Sum of Roots of 1, 3, 7, 13, 21 &c. 130'; 'Roots may always = 1. 320'; 'Properties of 3 Squares. 348. 'These Properties applied to the series 1 3 7 13 21 &c. 360'; 'Series - oon the Series 1, 3, 13 & c... 84'.

The first version of the title of the 'Paper for Royal Society', as given on p. 562, is 'On a method of proving by means of indices a limit within which any No. may be formed of the terms of certain series, including a proof of Fermat's Theorems of the Polygonal numbers'.

Letters date from 14 Jan. 1906-2 Sept 1915, and include letters written to Smith's wife Maria Caroline.

8, Grange Gardens, Cambridge. - Thanks Winstanley for taking an initial look at the letters [from her late husband to W. F. Smith]. Mr [Hugh McLeod?] Innes has 'just approved Vol. i in its present form'. Would like Winstanley to read through again and if he has no corrections to pass the typescript to the Master [G. M. Trevelyan] to convey to the Council. Would like to produce a 'more perfect edition' of the letters if 'life should again prove amenable'.

Explains that 'Gaps in and at the end of sentences denote Greek passages which await the pen of a Classic. Paragraphs omitted are not indicated since my husband generally disposed of a subject in a paragraph - and the omissions do not disturb the rhythm. But words and passages omitted, as also one or two arresting observations shorn of their context which I retained, are duly indicated'.

8, Grange Gardens, Cambridge. - Confirms that the copyright in the letters from her late husband to W. F. Smith which she is giving to Trinity remains with her, and that she does not want any extracts from them to be published without her consent.

Letters date from 24 Sept. 1915-7 Nov. 1919, and include letters written to Smith's wife Maria Caroline, as well as a letter from her to Image, 22 Oct. 1919, and another to Florence Image with condolences on the death of her husband, 7 Nov. 1919.

Letterpress copying book, with copies of letters from Image to students and their families, as well as to other members of the College and University on tutorial business. Letter from Florence Image to the Master [G. M. Trevelyan], 15 Jun. 1948, originally accompanying the book when given to Trinity, pasted inside front cover.

Letter from Gerard F. Cobb of the Cambridge University Bicycle Club to J. M. Image, 26 Feb. 1877, with a receipt for a Life Membership fee.

The essay is in Gosse’s own hand, and his name is written at the head and initials at the end. A note at the end of the work reads: 'The whole of this drama was written, in the intervals of school-work, in 10 days. The lyrics were genuinely composed at the points at wh. they are inserted. The pencilled notes & some of the stage directions are in my father's hand. The first draft occupied six days, & was principally written lying on the old sofa in the Boy's Sitting- Room at Thorn Park. The remainder of the time was occupied in revision and transcription. The idea was suggested to me by my dear father, but as I did not seem to respond to it, he was, I believe, equally surprised and gratified when I laid on his table two weeks afterwards'.

The first page at the back of the book has a timetable headed 'Routine', with time set aside for 'Letters', 'D. L', reading aloud, German, Greek, Italian and Latin, and a note of whether Gosse is 'Out', 'At Home', or 'part At Home'. A table is drawn out on the next page for 4-20 November, with headings 'Letters', 'D. L. tr.', 'D. L. com', 'Italian', 'German', 'Greek', 'Latin'; however, only the line for the first day, 4 Nov. is filled in, with entries under Italian-Latin of 'Metastasio. Goethe. Theocritos. Horace'. The next page has a similar table which is completely blank.

The essay is in Gosse’s own hand, and his name is written at the head and at the end. On the front of the slip-case is stamped, ‘ELIZABETHAN FLOWER GARDENS | MSS. | — | EDMUND GOSSE’.

The essays listed below were written by Eddington while at Brynmelyn School, the Quaker school at Weston-super-Mare he attended between 1893 and 1898. They were presented to the Library in August 1945 by Lieutenant-Commander Cyril Alderson Lund, a former member of Trinity, who had found them in a drawer while headmaster of Brynmelyn. Lund also enclosed a letter written to him by Eddington in 1940, probably not long after the discovery of the papers, which, according to Lund, was a response to his inquiry as to ‘how old [Eddington] was when he wrote them’. The plural pronoun, however, appears to be misleading, for Eddington’s letter indicates that Lund sent him only one paper, written in October or November 1896. This was evidently no. 5, which may have been selected as being the earliest dated item. Corresponding holes in the essay and in Eddington’s letter show that they were formerly pinned together.

Research by Dr Florian Laguens has revealed that all these essays were read as part of the Brynmelyn Literary Society, an internal club at Brynmelyn School in Weston-super-Mare, which brought together around twenty pupils each month. The Society’s minutes, which provide a summary of the essays, enable them to be dated.

Only five of the essays (4, 5, 7, 8, and 13) are explicitly dated. After the papers came into the Library they were simply numbered in the order in which they lay, no attempt being made at a logical arrangement. The essays were then arranged in an approximate chronological order based on internal evidence, with the numbering being altered accordingly. The original numbers were as follows: 1 (11), 2(9), 3(10), 4 (12), 5 (13), 6 (4), 7 (7), 8 (5), 9 (2), 10 (3), 11 (8), 12 (6), 13 (1). The two letters and the envelope were not previously numbered. Subsequence research has shown that this new ordering is substantially correct, though a couple of items are slightly out of place.

Note on f. 1r: 'The College feels that it will be a matter of great historical interest in after times to have a record of the names, ranks, & home-addresses of those U.S.A. and Dominion Officers who are its guests during the war. Visitors are therefore requested to enter these (& any other particulars which they may care to record) in this book, together with the date of their visit'.

Note on f. 2 r. 'This book was bought, on the instructions of the College Council... on November 7th, 1942, & placed in the rooms at the north end of the Master's Lodge which were set aside as bedrooms for U.S.A. & Dominion Officers staying in College during the war. Before it was institute three officers had stayed in these rooms. As they had no opportunity to enter their names in the book, they have been entered by the Deputy Junior Bursar'. These three names then follow.

The rest of the book is filled in by the officers themselves; as well as dates of stay, names, rank, and addresses, places of education are often recorded; brief comments of appreciation of Trinity and Cambridge are often added. There is a poem by J. P. Clemenceau Le Clercq, 'A Ballade of Thanks to Trinity College', dated 9-10 Nov. 1944, on ff. 46-47