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Talk for 'Aus der Welt der Wissenschaft' BBC series, broadcast 1948.
Drafts and correspondence 1947-48.

'No. 29. Quiver with Arrows from Otaheite. Gift of Capt[ai]n Jam[e]s Cooke 1775'

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

S. S. Mongolia - Has been reading the proof [of 'Totemism and Exogamy'?] and makes suggestions for changes to the section on Indian totemism.

26 Pall Mall. - Has received Milnes' 'present of Poplin, which is exactly suited to my tastes'; sends her thanks, and hopes that 'next year you will have frequent opportunities of judging if it be becoming'. On receiving Milnes' letter this morning she forwarded his parcels and books to Lord Galway. Asks if Milnes can send her the key of his bookcase, as there are 'two Ladies occupying the apartments who are a leetle particular, & consider the books in their present arrangement or rather disorder (for some have evidently been thrown in in a hurry) are unsightly'. Sends her regards to Milnes' parents, and her 'compl[imen]ts of the season' to him.

Vigna Balbo, nr Turin. - Letter of introduction for Count Morelli.

Including references to portraits of Houghton; anecdotes and reminiscences by others; notes for biographies etc: some after Houghton's death.

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.

Written out in FitzGerald's hand: 'Mr Froude's Receipt of Carlyle's Papers [crossed through] Letters which are to be delivered to W. Aldis Wright for Trinity College Library and if thought worthy my own Book of Extracts for W. A. W.'s own Library'.

Published by Eton College and Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd. Credited to 'the Author of The Roof-Climber's Guide To Trinity'.

Young has written 'My Copy' on the front cover, and his bookplate is pasted to the inside front cover, along with a typed quotation from a letter from John Ruskin to Effie Gray. On the opposite page are pasted a typed quotation from Stephen Gosson, School of Abus and two newspaper cuttings, one from the Times, 29 Apr. 1942 re ‘Roof-Alpinism’ as part of fire-watching at Oxford, and another undated entitled ‘Royal Roof Climbers’ re a visit by the King and Queen to the roof of St George's Chapel, Windsor, during restorations. An MS quotation from Mrs Gamp [Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit] is also written out on this page. MS quotations from Webster, Waugh and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle written out on the first back endpaper, facing the colophon.

Several MS corrections and annotations, in both pencil and ink, added throughout the printed text.

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.

Full title: 'Bad Aunt Bertha, or, A Puritan's Progress, being the memoirs of Bertha Wright written in France during the decade of 1970-1980.' Includes sketches by Bertha Wright, photographs and original letters. With original packaging, labelled by Bertha Wright.

Relief halftone print from the Cambridge Portrait Gallery No. 1 in the Supplement to The Gownsman.

Trinity College, Cambridge. - Found letter and detective magazine on his return from a weekend in Hastings; Smythies has got unconditional exemption [from conscription?]; feeling run down.