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Synge served on the Committee from 1956.

Correspondence re membership of Committee 1955,1956; miscellaneous correspondence and papers re meetings 1956-1958; 1965; correspondence re talk by Synge to the Association 17 March 1960.

(The review is headed, ‘Mr Housman’s Farewell. A Last Book of Poems. The Epithalamium’.)

Draft, corrected, in Green’s hand with typescript created after the lecture, and the poster advertising the lecture given as the 17th annual H M Chadwick Memorial Lecture at the Winstanley Lecture Room, Trinity College, 16 March 2006.

Two letters

The research notes consist of Boughey's notes, letters, and publications from others relating to various aspects of the College's history, as well as the publication of the history. The papers appear disordered from their original state but because there are some runs of like material they have been left as found. Boughey’s note passing them on to R. V. Laurence may be found as item 399, with a covering note and instruction at items 410-411.

The letters are from W. Emery Barnes (items 220-221), W. H. D. Bird (item 415), F. C. Burkitt (item 330), J. W. Clark (items 400-401), C. M. Neale (item 308), John Peile (items 325, 327), Alexander Pulling (item 427), and Alfred E. Stamp (item 372). Letters from Robert Bowes (item 386), J. W. Clark (items 63, 250, 390), F. E. Robinson (items 231, 233, 235, 242-244, 247, 252-253, 383-385, 387, 394) and Hutchinson & Co. (items 224-226, 230, 248-249, 251) concern the publication of the history. These are accompanied by a draft of Boughey’s letter to Hutchinson & Co. (item 245) and Boughey’s original memorandum of agreement with F. E. Robinson dated 4 Nov. 1897 (item 246).

Printed material consists of a card advertising Rouse Ball's History of the First Trinity Boat Club (item 207), five of J. W. Capstick’s halftone photographs of the 1st Eastern General Hospital in Nevile's Court and on the Backs (item 209), G. F. Cobb’s A Brief History of the Organ in the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge (item 356), three printed catalogues from F. E. Robinson & Co. dated 1898-1901 and notices by F. E. Robinson from the same period (items 227-230, 232,237, 240-241), The Roof-Climber’s Guide to Trinity (item 366), the first paper of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates, February 1838 (item 170), an offprint of Robert Sinker’s The Statue of Byron in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (item 414), and Vincent Henry Stanton’s Some Makers of Trinity College. A Sermon Preached in the Chapel of Trinity College Cambridge, on December 9, 1898 (item 442).

Notes were written on verso of letters, including one from Herbert P. S. Devitt asking for leave (item 19), a letter from W. H. D. Rouse to Mr Stewart dated 3 Oct. 1902 (item 39), a book recommendation ticket for the library (item 38), and a Trinity gate bill sent to the Senior Dean for Monday night Aug. 25, n.y. (item 41). Two unusual items are clipped pieces of an early manuscript (item 406).

1 letter, 1 Jul. [1851], Henrietta Crewe to Richard Monckton Milnes; 2 letters, 30 Jun. [1851] and 12 Nov [1851] from Milnes to Henrietta Crewe.

Includes Synge's manuscript lists of chemicals and apparatus.

Trinity College - unable to accept an introduction to [William?] Wordsworth, use of βεβαιοσ

Obituary from The Times, 10 June 1969; additional tribute by L. J. Mordell, ibid., 19 June 1969.

Thomson’s lecture was on electrical and engineering developments and how they can be used for social ends.
Duration is about 5 minutes. Gaumont British Industrial Film.

Brook St. - Written at 10.30 [am?].'dear Annabel is safe in bed - with a magnificent Boy - it was born this morning at a little before ten o'clock'. More details of the labour, attended by Dr Rigby, 'it is the shortest time Annabel has had'.

London. Invites Wordsworth to visit with his acquaintance Richard Monckton Milnes (the bearer of this letter).

Tavistock House. - Houghton's reference to the Guild [of Literature and Art. in a speech to the Royal Literary Fund]; acknowledges shortcomings, but Act of Incorporation prevents appropriation of funds for first seven years; responsible management in the interim.

Embossed notepaper for St. Dunstans, Regents Park. - Coxe showed him letters of Francisque Michel referring to an MS of St. Brandan's [sic] voyage]; perhaps it will be suitable for the Philobiblon as the Roxburghe Club does not propose to print it. Encloses correspondence [no longer present]. Asks Houghton what he thinks of the Mystère de Saint Louis [published for the Roxburghe Club in 1871]; curious Anglo-French phrases.

General Post Office. - Encloses paper; hopes Houghton will wish to join the Society.

Enclosed: Prospectus of Wyclif Society, containing lists of officers and members; also details of ‘Other Societies (Which all want Fresh Members)’.

Penshuret (on embossed notepaper, 77 Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, W.) - Recommends J. H. Woodward for Secretaryship of Newspaper Press scrubs: he was a Bristol clergyman but has been out of work since converting to Roman Catholicism fifteen years ago.

The Cottage, Harley St., Bow Road, London. - Campbell’s aunt Mary was governess to the Misses Milnes; poor health forced him to leave Scotland for Malta, afterwards he travelled in the Near East and Europe; fears a relapse if he resumes further occupation; Government must show appreciation of his late uncle [Thomas Campbell]’s poetic contribution by supporting a relative; seeks Richard Monckton Milnes’ help in obtaining Landing Waitership in the Port of London.

Appraised by William Parker Churton and John Churton.

Reporting death of Sir James Boswell, 2nd Baronet, grandson of James Boswell. Cutting from unidentified paper.

Haworth Parsonage. - Thanks for comments on Branwell Brontë's manuscripts. Nicholls and Mr [Patrick] Brontë have declined to publish them as their subject matter would give pain to certain persons; glad Milnes endorses decision. Fragments from a different letter adhering.

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