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Translation into Ancient Greek of Tennyson's Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur, lines 133-146. Labelled on the back of the sheet '''16' [in pencil]. 'Gk Verse Comp. Benson | (Fellowship Examination Oct. 1852)'. Annotated [by Francis Martin?] in another ink '1852 | The actual Exercise sent up purloined (!) by Fra. Martin one of the Examiners'.

Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall.—Encloses a cheque for the Clifford fund.

(With an envelope.)

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Transcript

Athenæum Club, Pall Mall
7th April 1876

Dear Mr Pollock—I enclose cheque (£5) for the Conspiracy Fund. I would do the same over again if a fresh application is found necessary. I am very glad that the thing has been undertaken and think that nothing too much can be done that may tend to the preservation of so valuable a life.

Believe me,
Yours very truly
J. J. Sylvester

[Direction on envelope:] F. Pollock Esqr | 12 Bryanston St | Portman Square | W

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The envelope was postmarked at London, S.W., and London, W., on 7 April 1876, and is marked ‘Sylvester’ in a later hand.

Folder also includes miscellaneous notes on the literature.

University of Aberdeen Examination Book containing descriptions and diagrams of apparatus, notes of experimental results

Most of the letters are from people noted in the fields of literary studies and bibliography.

The items described under this head are, with one exception, autograph manuscripts of short stories written by McKerrow in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. The exception, B1/4, is a series of numbered press-copy sheets, containing a copy of the story ‘The Inevitable Morning’ (B1/3), together with copies of five poems, the originals of which are in B2/13 and B2/15.

The earliest story, ‘Our Trip up “The River”’ (B1/1), was, according to McKerrow’s later annotation, ‘a contribution to a magazine that I tried to start at Wedderlie’. It is in three parts, the first two of which conclude with the words ‘To be continued in our next’. It is unclear whether Wedderlie refers to what Bartholomew’s Gazetteer (1914) calls a ‘shooting-lodge and stream, 1¼ m. NE. of Westruther, Berwickshire’, or some other place; it may be noted, however, that the events related in McKerrow’s story ‘A Strange Adventure’ are said to have occurred while the narrator was spending the autumn at ‘a small house on one of the Scotch moors’. From the style, subject-matter, and handwriting, it must have been written in the 1880s. ‘A Strange Adventure’ (B1/2), which was submitted unsuccessfully to Chambers’s Journal in 1892, was presumably written the same year. ‘The Inevitable Morning’ (B1/3)—the title of which may derive from Emerson’s poem ‘The World-Soul’—is subscribed with the pseudonym ‘Kenneth Niel’ and was written about the same time as a group of poems (B2/13) submitted under the same pseudonym to the Yellow Book about January 1895 (Henry Harland’s letter of rejection is dated the 14th). The next five stories (B1/5–9) are explicitly dated. The dates of the last three items (B1/8–10) are uncertain, but they were probably written at some time in the latter half of the eighteen-nineties.

Sloperton, Chippenham - Concerning the Byron statue.

1 Little Turnstile, Holborn. - Applying for position of nurse at Greenwich College; is widow of Frederick Lake, a sailor; has a son at sea and a daughter aged nine; seeks recommendation to Dr Wilson.

Chiefly Hansard reports of speeches by Richard Monckton Milnes.

"Reasons for not signing the Resolution ..., 'That the vacant Sizarships in each year be competed for (in the same manner as the Exhibitions) by persons not yet resident.'"

MS copy by Joseph Wilkinson. Paper originally read 19 Mar. 1860.

Programme for the 1970 production of 'The Battle of Shrivings' at the Lyric Theatre featuring John Gielgud, Patrick Magee, and Wendy Hiller and for the UCLU Drama Society production of 'Shrivings' at the Bloomsbury Theatre in 1994.

Programme for the performance at the National Theatre, featuring Alec McCowen and Peter Firth.

Bound duplicated typescript, inscribed to Peter on the title page.

Items C1/15-37 were kept in a file marked "Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy" with the word 'Mathematics' struck through Notwithstanding the deletion, it does contain some mathematical material. The use of St Andrews examination stationery suggests that at least some of this material dates from Broad's period at that University or shortly afterward.

Items C1/54- 62 were kept together by CDB under the title "Notes on Kant"

The Independent obituary dated 14 January 1989. The Times obituary dated 30 January 1989.

Correspondence, agenda, meeting notes, reports, and other relevant papers dealing with the establishment of the original working party and the investigation. Includes newspaper cuttings, letter to The Times by Sir Anthony and papers dealing with the subsequent judicial inquiry.