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Robert Burn: subscription account book for the Kennedy Latin Professorship fund and for the Martin and Grote memorial funds
Add. MS d/1 · Item · c 1865- c 1869
Part of Additional Manuscripts d

Accounts of the 'Kennedy Professorship Fund' with contributions at the beginning of the book and expenses at the back. Printed letter from E. Atkinson, Vice-Chancellor, to the Public Orator, Rev. W. G. Clark, expressing thanks to the subscribers for offering the fund to Cambridge University for the establishment of a Latin Professorship; a list of subscribers and their contributions is also printed.
Copy letter from J. [Israel?] Abrahams to Dr Frazer
Add. MS b/35/1 · Item · c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

11 St. Barnabas Road, Cambridge. Dated Nov. 11 1913 - Has had many letters praising Frazer's letter, and expresses his own admiration. With a MS note at bottom: 'Referring to Kiev trials, and J.G.F.'s letter disclaiming a belief in Jewish ritual murders.'
Letter from H. Montagu Butler to W. Aldis Wright
Letter from H. Montagu Butler to W. Aldis Wright
R./2.40A/1 · Item · 20 Dec. 1902
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class R

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge.—Encloses six letters (2–7) written by Lord Byron to Henry Drury, which have been bequeathed to the college by the son of the recipient.

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Transcript

Trinity Lodge, Cambridge
Dec. 20. 1902

My dear Vice-Master,

On Thursday last {1} I had a visit of some hours from Mr L. M. Stewart, nephew and executor of the late Mr “Ben Drury,” of Caius {2}.

He read to me the enclosed letters of Byron to Mr Drury’s father, “Old Harry” as he was called at Harrow, a Son of Dr Joseph Drury the Head Master.

He left out one sentence in one letter about the Turks, which he told me was disgusting {3}, and I have not seen it.

The letters date between 1807 {4}, when the Hours of Idleness were published, and 1815 soon after Byron’s Marriage.

As there are numerous references to my Father, it may be well just to point out that my Father succeeded Dr Drury at Easter, 1805, and that Byron left the School that summer, i.e. I suppose, at the end of July. Consequently, their relation as Master and Pupil lasted only some 12, 13, or 14 weeks. How a reconciliation came about, and how the “gold pen” was given, I do not know, but our family tradition vouches for both facts, to say nothing of Moore’s Biography.

You will observe that the letter of 1810, in wh. the {5} reference to the “gold pen” occurs, describes the famous swim from Sestos to Abydos, and adds—what I had either not known or forgotten—that the swimmer had made a previous attempt which failed.

May I ask you and Dr Sinker kindly to take Charge of the letters, which Mr Benjamin Drury bequeathed to our Library, and to consider where and in what form they may best be kept. The fact that they are a bequest should be specially recorded.

Perhaps it might also be recorded that Dr Joseph Drury, the Grandfather of the Testator, was himself a Trinity man. His Son, “Old Harry,” to whom Byron wrote the letters, was at Eton and King’s.

I am, my dear Vice-Master,

Most truly yours
H. Montagu Butler

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2 folded sheets.

{1} The 18th.

{2} Benjamin Drury’s sister Emily (1813–1902) married Stewart’s father, Lestock Wilson Stewart (1824–1876), an army doctor, in India in 1852.

{3} See the letter of 3 May 1810 (R.2.40A/4). Stewart may well have omitted more than one sentence.

{4} The earliest of the letters (R.2.40A/2) in fact dates from 13 January 1808, but it was misdated 1807.

{5} ‘1810’ struck through.
Stereograph of the interior of the Wren Library, Trinity College Library, Cambridge
Add. V.M./B/1 · Item · 19th cent.
Part of Additional Visual Materials

Photograph of the interior from the entrance down the length of the library to the Byron statue. Depicts drawn curtains over the Cipriani window, Grylls bookcases lining the sides of the library, two round tables in foreground, and smaller bookcases with lectern tops in the bays. Identified as "Trinity College, Cambridge, Interior of Library" and Stearn Photo, Cambridge" in a note on the verso.

 Stearn & Sons
Steve Larkin's Trinity College papers
Add. MS a/719/1 · File · 1961-1968
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

This material documents Larkin's academic career, his participation in Trinity athletics, accompanied by a memorabilia from other Trinity College events, including dinner invitations, menus, and a programme for the 1967 May Ball.
Letter from St Clair Baddeley to Lady Frazer
FRAZ/18/1 · Item · 10 Dec. 1931
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

Castle Hale, Painswick, Glos. [on mourning stationery] - Is pleased to hear that Sir James' operation was successful; also pleased to hear that she recalls their time in Rome, which they last visited two years before in November, with fewer tourists but more easily recognisable spies; Ponza, Lampedusa and Lipari are full of political victims of Mussolini; Boni faded out before things became so bad, two underground railways are being made in Rome; has told Signorina Tea her words in her letter to Mrs Plimmer, hope to see them soon; they have never wavered in friendship, but felt something of an 'occult misunderstanding' arose long ago.
Album of newspaper cuttings
FRAZ/21/1 · Item · 1888-1899
Part of Papers of Sir James Frazer

Articles about folklore and customs dated primarily 1888-1891, many of them from the 'Glasgow Herald', with several obituaries of Rev. Alexander Anderson in Oct. 1891.