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A. S. F. Gow: 'Letters from Cambridge'
O./11.26 · File · 1939-1945
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Typed copies of circular letters written by Gow and sent to correspondents, mostly former pupils, serving abroad; a book, published in 1945, was made of the letters from 1939-1944. News from Trinity and Cambridge; comments on Gow's Air Raid Precaution work, his reading, and other similar matters.

'I hope you will forgive a letter which resembles a circular. It seemed to me that in these uncheerful times those in foreign parts might perhaps like rather more gossip than they usually get out of my correspondence, and that as the gossip would have to be more or less the same for all, it would be a good thing to duplicate it rather than write it all out separately for different people...' [from the first letter, 8 Sept 1939]

 Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar (1886-1978), classical scholar
Bound volume of copies of A. S. F. Gow's 'Letters from Cambridge'
O./11.26A · File · 1939-1945
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Gow's bookplate at front. Typed copies of circular letters written by Gow and sent to correspondents, mostly former pupils, serving abroad; a book, published in 1945, was made of the letters from 1939-1944. News from Trinity and Cambridge; comments on Gow's Air Raid Precaution work, his reading, and other similar matters.

'I hope you will forgive a letter which resembles a circular. It seemed to me that in these uncheerful times those in foreign parts might perhaps like rather more gossip than they usually get out of my correspondence, and that as the gossip would have to be more or less the same for all, it would be a good thing to duplicate it rather than write it all out separately for different people...' [from the first letter, 8 Sept 1939]

Each letter has a note in Gow's hand at the top recording the number of copies sent out and the date of postage [the typed dates included in the letter denote the date of composition]. Pagination running through for letters from 1939-1944, presumably for the publication of these letters in 1945. Typed list of addresses of correspondents on pp. 269-283, dated Oct. 1943 but with MS corrections and annotations; record of which letters were sent to each correspondent, pp.285-297.

 Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar (1886-1978), classical scholar
Letters from George Granville, Lord Lansdowne to his daughter Grace
O./11.27 · File · 1733-1734
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Letters largely concerned with family matters. Relatives mentioned include 'your Aunt Orkney' [Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney]; Grace's half-brother Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth and his wife Louisa, née Carteret, whom he married in the span of these letters; Grace's 'sister [Mary] Graham', 'Lady Granville' [Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville], her godmother; her mother Mary, née Villiers, 'unkle' Henry Villiers, and mother's cousin William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin; Lord Carteret [later 2nd Earl Granville] and his wife Frances.

Topics of interest in the letters include April Fools (letter 6, 31 Mar. 1733), pick-pocketing at Bartholomew Fair (letter 13, 28 Aug. 1733), and an attack of smallpox suffered by Grace's sister Betty (letter 17, 8 Dec. 1833, and following).

 Granville, George (1666-1735), 1st Baron Lansdowne and Jacobite duke of Albemarle, politician and writer
Fellowship examination papers of Edward White Benson
O./11.3 · Item · 1852-1853
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

'E. W. Benson' stamped in gold on front cover, with a small oval containing the words 'Trin. Coll. Camb.' at the foot. Stamped 'Bound by Wilson & Son' on inside front cover; '8. 1920' written beneath in pencil (presumably the date of binding); note of provenance in ink at the bottom (A. C. Benson is called 'Master of Magd. Coll. Camb., as he was by the time of binding, but not at the time of the gift). A label and two letters explaining provenance are pasted to pages of the volume; the thirteen examination papers, from both E. W. Benson's unsuccessful attempt at the Trinity Fellowship examination in 1852 and his successful resit the following year, are then tipped in.

 Benson, Edward White (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury
Manuscript volume of medical and culinary recipes
O./11.30 · Item · 1713-1845 [?]
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Two copies of printed map, 'Plan of the Town and Fortification of Montreal or Ville Marie in Canada' [London 1759?] used as endpapers at front and back. List of 'Books Lent to Mr Tempest', dated 7 Jan. 1816, on verso of front flyleaf. List of 'Books Lent to Mr Dardis 1804' on verso of following folio.

Alphabetical index of recipes at front of volume. f. 1 headed 'A Collection of Medicinal Receipts. 1713'; another heading, 'S. N. October the 2d 1713 Anno Domini' is on f. 79. The recipes are mostly in the same [18th century] hand, but additional recipes in at least three other hands have been added (on the verso of folios, or on additional sheets bound in, pasted in or loose). One of these, on f. 149v., is headed 'Extract from the Bristol Gazette, November 3rd 1825', showing that the book was used and added to for over 100 years.
'Lavori stradali da eseguirsi nel Regno di Sardegna' [Road works to be carried out in the Kingdom of Sardinia]
O./11.31 · Item · 27 Jan. 1822
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

ff. 1-5: [General introduction to the works]
ff: 6-7: 'Capitoli generali da osservarsi per l'esecuzione dei lavori stradali'
ff. 8-11r: Account of costs of the work [broken down further, ff. 15-38]
ff. 11v-14: 'Metodo di costruzione'
ff. 15-38: 'Stato circostanziato dei prezzi' [detailed statement of costs]

Dated 'Torino li 27 Gennajo 1822' at end of work.
List of employees of the civil engineering corps of ports and roads in the Kingdom of Sardinia pasted to f. 39r.
Notes on Hebrew manuscripts in Copenhagen
O./11.34 · Item · [late 19th cent.?]
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

'? Bishop Ollivant' written on the front cover of the exercise book in pencil; 'No' added above it.

Notebook purchased from F. Dalberg of Copenhagen (see ticket pasted to front cover and loose printed sheet between ff. 27 and 28).
Notes on mathematics by Augustus Arthur Vansittart
O./11.35 · Item · [1840s?]
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

'A. Vansittart, Trin. Coll.' written on first page. Notes on algebra (often with heading 'Deranged Syllabub'), trigonometry, 'Geometric Conics'; book also used from the back in for notes headed 'Variations, Permutations, & Combinations' and 'Continued Fractions'.

 Vansittart, Augustus Arthur (1824-1882), barrister and biblical scholar
Manuscript of an essay by William Kingdon Clifford, Cosmic Emotion
O./11.4 · Item · 1877
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

'W. K. Clifford' stamped in gold on front cover, with a small oval containing the words 'Trin. Coll. Camb.' at the foot. Stamped 'John P. Gray & Son Ltd', the binders, at the top of the inside front cover; bookplate giving provenance pasted below.

Letter, 8 Oct. 1923, from Lucy Clifford to J. J. Thomson tipped in at front, on headed notepaper for 7 Chilworth Street, W.2. Sir Frederick Pollock thinks Trinity 'would care to possess this MS'; she would be very proud if this were the case, and believes her husband would have been too. Believes it was written in 1877 and published in the Fortnightly Review [in fact, it appeared in the Oct. 1977 of the Nineteenth Century; it later appeared in the collected works edited by Pollock and Leslie Stephen. This is the 'first & only copy'. Describes her husband's usual habits when writing a paper, working through the night with a few breaks to exercise with 'the Indian clubs' and always finishing 'at the last possible moment for publication'. Wishes 'his other MSS. had been saved; but I have no knowledge of them, & even his autograph is very scare owing to the fact that he seldom signed it in full. Hopes Thomson remembers their meeting last year at a dinner given by Mrs Roy Batty [Thomson's sister in law] before a Royal Institution Lecture, and their discussion of Mrs Oliphant's novels.

'XIXth Century' written in blue crayon on first sheet of the essay, perhaps relating to Pollock & Stephen's edition of Clifford's papers, published in 1879; 'R. Young' written in pencil at the top right. 'One of W. K. Clifford's MSS' written in pencil on the back of f. 2. Clifford's name and address (26 Colville Road, Bayswater) on the back of the last sheet.

 Clifford, William Kingdon (1845-1879), mathematician and philosopher of science
Notebook of Daniel Frazer
O./11.45 · Item · 1850s-1860s
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

With bookplate of Daniel Frazer pasted to the inside front cover. Texts of talks given to Free St Peter's Young Men's Association and Congregation; Frequent mention made of Mr. [William] Arnot. Also texts of letters to press etc. Contents:
pp. 1-70: 'Essay. Paper, Pens and Ink... read at meeting of Free St Peter's Young Men's Association... 6th October 1854';
pp. 71-97: 'Day Dreamers of the Day - or John Gough and Teetotalism', described as being 'written early in Spring 1854 and read -with additions to few friends... about mid-summer same year';
pp. 100-154: 'Romanism versus Free Churchism. Popery and the Free Church Contrasted', described as 'The First "Essay" I ever wrote -';
pp. 136-144 [second use of numbers]: 'The Earth - The Work of God - The Habitation of Man', given at Free St Peter's Young Men's Soc., 21 Mar. 1857;
pp. 146-175: 'The Shorter Catechism as an Antidote to Certain Errors of the Day...'
pp. 176-188: 'Young Men's Christian Associations and the Influence of the Pulpit', 'read at annual meeting of Free St Peter's Congregation in City Hall 16 March 1854 [corrected from 1855];
pp. 190-194: 'Truth or Liberty', read at Free St Peter's Young Men's Soc., 5 Jan. 1855:
pp. 195-198: 'The Free Church Schoolmaster's Fund', 'read at Free St Peter's Congregational Meeting in City Hall... 1849-1850? [added in pencil]';
pp. 200-204: 'Education, Should it be National?'
pp. 205-218: 'Moderate "Charity"', 'written soon after the disruption - but never made use of'
p. 219: cutting pasted on, 'The Schoolmasters of the Free Church. To the Editor of the Scottish Guardian', 25 Apr. 1850 ;
p. 220: cutting pasted on, 'Druggists and the Sabbath. To the Editor of the Scottish Guardian, 10 Nov. 1852;
pp. 221-224: cuttings pasted on, 'Druggists' Drudgery', from The Young Men's Magazine: A Monthly Journal, Vol I. No. 8, Aug. 1854;
pp. 225-227: 'The Poor Laws. To the Editor of the Daily Mail', MS;
pp. 228-235: 'Loss of Life in Battle. To the Editor of the North British Daily Mail"', appeared 1 Dec. 1854, MS;
pp. 236-237: 'The Discipline of the Crimean Army. To the Editor of the North British Daily Mail', 24 Jan. 1855;
pp. 237-238: 'The Defence and attack of Fortified Places'; notice of lecture on this subject given by Captain McLaggan to the Young Men's Christian Association, published in North British Daily Mail, 15 Mar. 1855, MS;
pp. 240-258: 'Dr Henry Wilson Cleland';
pp. 260-271: 'The Glasgow Free Church College, and its Professors. To the Editors of the Witness*', 23 May 1856, MS;
pp. 274-276: 'Hugh Miller', read to Free St Peter's Young Men's Society, 20 Mar. 1857;
p. 278: 'Man and His Servants', read at meeting of Y. M. C. Association, 30 Mar. 1863. Text of paper not copied out, and rest of volume blank.

 Frazer, Daniel F. (1821-1900), partner in Frazer & Green, chemists
‘Borgia: a Tragedy’, a verse drama by Thomas Brown
O./11.49 · Item · 19th c.
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Fair copy in an unidentified hand of a verse drama, with a title page with the title only. The play was printed privately in Edinburgh in 1874 under the title 'Borgia: a tragedy, and other poems' by Thomas Brown, of Waterhaughs and Lanfine.

 Brown, Thomas (1802-1873) Laird of Lanfine and Waterhaughs
Letter from W. W. Greg to H. S. Bennett
Letter from W. W. Greg to H. S. Bennett
O./11.5b · Item · 25 Sept. 1944
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Standlands, River, Petworth, Sussex.—Refers to his catalogue of English manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College (see O.11.5), and to his plan—long since abandoned—of compiling a corpus of all English manuscript works down to 1500.

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Transcript

Standlands, River, Petworth, Sussex
25 Sept. 1944

Dear Bennett

When I drew up that catalogue of 100 English MSS at Trinity, at the time I was librarian, I naturally hoped that the College might see its way to print it. Then came the last war and any idea of the sort had of course to be abandoned. By the time things settled down again I was busy in other fields, and moreover the catalogue I knew had become in some respects out of date. Had I examined it I should probably also have found it unsatisfactory. So I did no more about it and finally deposited the MS in the Library for the use of any one who might be interested. I need hardly say that it is at the disposal of you or of any body else who should be able to use it as a basis for further work.

During the last war I dreamed of compiling a corpus of all English manuscript works down to 1500. It would have been a big undertaking. I estimated, on a very rough basis, that there [are] some 5000 MSS surviving, exclusive of legal and diplomatic documents, private letters, and collections of recipes. I envisaged the work in three parts. (1) A catalogue, possibly roughly chronological, of the actuall† MSS, with full bibliographical descriptions, giving particular attention to the make-up and growth of the MSS when these were not written all at one time. (2) A catalogue of the works they contained, giving the MSS of each and such information as was possible concerning the relation of the MSS. (3) An atlas containing some hundreds of facsimiles of pages from the manuscripts, especially the dated or datable ones, with transcripts and palaeographical notes. I also had in mind a catalogue of all works to 1500 giving a brief literary account of each with and† specimen of some 50 lines transcribed exactly from the oldest or most authentic MS. An ambitious project! which I need not say I have long since abandoned.

Best wishes

Yours
W. W. Greg

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Marked at the head in pencil, ‘Letter to H S Bennett, Emmanuel College, given by H S Bennett to Trinity College Library.’
Proceedings of the blessed confraternity of the Parallelepiped, Vol. I
O./11.6 · Item · 1864
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Loose sheet at front of volume: 'Key to Names from Initials' [omits John Henry Ellis].

Mock definition of 'Parallelipiped', '... there be some do clepe this the Regular Bricke', from 'Ben Jonson's English Dictionary' facing title page. Full title given as 'Proceedings of the Blessed Confraternity of the Parallelepided in hebdomadal function assembled. Figure of brick drawn out below title, with the initials of one of the founders of the society - Handley C. G. Moule, Joseph A. Lobley, Duncan C. Tovey, [John] Henry Ellis, Charles B. Davies, John H. I. Oakley - written on each face. Quotations below: 'Of the tale of the bricks ye shall not diminish aught' [Exodus 5.8]; 'As atoms in one mass united mix, / So bricks attraction feel for kindred bricks' [Smith (1812), Rejected Addresses].

This volume contains papers given at meetings of the society in 1864; they are listed on the back of the title page by term and date (including the Long Vacation), with the initials of the author and the running page number. The initials of the original members are also written out on the page opposite, with a note recording an 'Election' in 'October Term', in which Clifford was elected to join the society when Henry Ellis left Cambridge.

Titles of papers given include 'On Hellenolatry', and 'On Organ-Grinding' by J. A. Lobley, and 'Devotional Feelings of a Heathen', by C. B. Davies. A paper given by H. C. G. Moule to the Classical Association at Durham, 26 May 1917 entitled 'The Classics as an influence in education and a joy in life' has been inserted before f. 176. It mentions 'the dear raftered attic in beloved Trinity' where the following paper was first read, and remembers the friends from the society of which he is now the only surviving member.

 Parallelepiped Society
Chapters of the blissful brotherhood of the Parallelepiped, Vol. II
O./11.6a · Item · 1865-1866
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Title page drawn out in pencil but not yet inked in; the figure of a brick drawn out below the title has not had the initials of the members filled in on each face like the one for Vol. 2. Full title given as 'Proceedings of the Blissful Brotherhood of the Parallelepided ever hebdomadally dissembling'.

This volume contains papers given at meetings of the society in 1865; they are listed on the back of the title page by term and date (including the Long Vacation), with the initials of the author and the running page number (papers sometimes also have their own individual page numbers). Also included is the page number for the 'Keeper of the Archives' Biennial Report', presented on 1 Feb. 1866, and a list of elections to the society during 1865.

Papers are given by John H. I. Oakley, William P. Turnbull, William K. Clifford, Joseph A. Lobley, Duncan C. Tovey, Handley C. G. Moule, William D. Niven, Alfred E. Humphreys. Titles include 'The Saunterer', by J. H. I. Oakley, 'On Practical Joking' and 'On Female Education' by W. D. Niven, and 'On Fairy Tales' by J. Stuart.

 Parallelepiped Society
Letter from unidentified correspondent to Eliza Frere
O./11.9a · Item · [before Apr. 1850]
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Addressed to 'Mrs George Frere, 45 Bedford Sqr'. Judith, Eliza Frere's daughter, seems well and spends much more time in the fresh air. She 'goes for a walk twice a day & does not cough, which is a great comfort'. The letter is signed with initials, 'M. ?h'.

 Wordsworth, Christopher (1807-1885), Bishop of Lincoln