Correspondence re research, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1957.
Two drawings, "Ye crowning of ye Jarl Harold" showing Harold's coronation as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, and an illuminated manuscript page of the beginning of the Ten Commandments. Accompanied by an envelope which identifies these as illuminations done in childhood.
These copies came to Gerald Symons on the death of his uncle Noel V. H. Symons; the location of the originals is not known. Letters written to Herbert Housman's step-mother Lucy, and sister Kate. Numbered 7-31 (including both 14 and 14a, 16 missing); these numbers appear to be those written by Herbert Housman on his envelopes, see Add. MS a 697/6/3.
(On the sheet used as a wrapper is a list of ‘Arrangements suggested by the members of the Bachelor’s Table [in the Hall at Trinity College] for regulating the introduction of Guests’, also in Clifford’s hand.)
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Transcript
1. The club shall be called the republican club.
2. Republicanism shall be taken to mean hostility to the hereditary principle as exemplified in monarchical and aristocratic institutions and to all social and political privileges depending upon difference of sex.
3. The profession of republican opinions shall be the only qualification for membership.
4. The club shall meet at dinner at 7 on three Wednesdays in the October and Lent terms, and on one in the May term.
Resolved The first dinner shall be held on Wednesday 23 Nov 1870.
5. At the beginning of every Oct Term a secretary shall be elected by ballot.
6. The sec. shall give at least 4 days notice of the place of the next dinner.
7. Each member shall be required to inform the secretary 2 days before the dinner whether he intends to be present. If he neglect to give notice of his intentions he shall be fined 5/-.
8. The secretary shall have the power of giving notice of subjects for discussion after the dinner. The discussion shall be carried on in a conversational manner, and must refer to some social or political subject.
9. Smoking shall be allowed after 10.
10. The secretary shall have the power at the request of three members, to invite a stranger sympathising with the objects of the club to the dinner.
11. No undergraduate shall be admitted to the club either as a member or as a stranger.
12. The club shall consist of [blank] original members. Candidates hereafter proposed at one meeting of the club shall be ballotted for at the next, and to be elected must be voted for by three-fourths of those present. The secretary shall give notice of the names of candidates for election.
13. Each member shall pay an annual subsc. of 5/–.
14. Any proposed alteration of the rules shall be given notice of at the previous meeting, to be carried must be voted for by a majority of the club.
Original Members {1}
Prof. Fawcett
H. Jackson
C H Pearson
G R Crotch
P T Main
W K Clifford—secretary
John Hatcher Moulton
[Written on the back of the wrapper:]
Arrangements suggested by the members of the Bachelors’ Table for regulating the introduction of Guests.
1. Every bachelor desirous of introducing a guest shall give notice to the Senior bachelor not later than at hall the day before.
2. The senior bachelor shall admit, according to priority of application, so many guests as, upon the testimony of the hall butler, there shall be room for.
3. The cook’s and combination butlers† account for the dinner of each guest shall be charged to the bachelor introducing him.
[Manicule.] It is proposed that the charge from the table for each guest be 2/6 on ordinary days and 3/ on feast days; notice of these being given by the senior bachelor as at present.
4. No members of Trinity College shall be introduced as Guests.
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The wrapper is docketed ‘WKC | Dft rules | Cambridge | Republican Club | (1870) | &c’.
{1} The names of Jackson and Pearson are each followed by a black mark. Moulton’s name was added in a different hand.
† Sic.
Photographs of Paul Scofield, Simon Callow, Felicity Kendal, Andrew Cruickshank, Basil Henson, and Nicholas Selby.
Corrected typescript.
Outline is accompanied by two pages of notes for the film version of 'White Liars,' both in Shaffer's hand, and a set of alternative lyrics to "It's Delovely" written in an unidentified hand.
Programme for the Cambridge Arts Theatre 30 June - 5 July 1958 and the Comedy Theatre from 16 July 1958. Playbill programme dated 18 Apr. 1960.
Inscribed to Peter "with love and grateful thanks" by Bryant.
Friedman-Abeles StudioTypescript, with emendations in Shaffer's hand throughout, of an early draft of the play. With a title sheet [written later?] in Shaffer's hand, "The Public Eye, A Play in One Act by Peter Shaffer."
Loose sheets with cover page in Shaffer's hand "Royal Hunt M.S.S.," typed pages with revisions in Shaffer's hand throughout. At the front, inside the front card or cover, is a copy of French's Acting Edition of the play with the note on cover "2nd version Done for the Prospect Production (mainly emendations to Pizarro) P.S." with 12 sheets of revisions typed and in Shaffer's hand.
The last quarter of the MS appears to have been turned around and has been left that way as the MS has no pagination. Near the end of the MS there are two sheets of an introduction, and at the beginning of the turned pages is a one page review of "Cosi fan tutte" at Glyndebourne (incomplete). At the front is a card or a cover with a drawing of the sun.
Two programmes for the production at the Old Vic Theatre with Colin Blakely and Robert Stephens, with two cast lists, one of them a duplicated version signed by Kenneth Mackintosh, who played Fray Marcos de Nizza. Accompanied by a programme with a cutting from the New York Herald Tribune from 18 Dec. 1864.
Thanks him for a wonderful evening - everyone seems to like 'Black Comedy.'
Programme from the Chichester Festival Theatre production featuring Derek Jacobi, Louise Purnell, and Maggie Smith; a programme with cast list from the National Theatre in which 'Black Comedy' was paired with 'Miss Julie' with revisions in Shaffer's hand and featuring the same actors; a programme from the National Theatre in which 'Black Comedy' was paired with 'A Bond Honoured.'
Comments on a play of Peter's that he has read, thinks it would be a better opera.
Would like to meet him.
Is sure he will get rave reviews; sends best wishes for a great success.
Congratulations on debut [as an actress], likelihood of an opening in the Ceylon Co for Bertie.
Congratulations on examination result and two prizes
Meeting held 10 July 1945; Synge spoke on `Les moyens chimiques d'approche de la structure des protéines'.
Notice; correspondence re arrangements.
(It is not clear which letters this envelope formerly contained.)
Slough - Whewell and George Peacock have 'absolutely turned his [Babbage] brain by your inflammatory conversation'. Babbage has been 'running analysis mad' and so has Herschel: 'I really have read and written more in the last fortnight than ever I did in twice the time in any other part of my life and I advise you to go and do likewise'. 'The distress of the poor and the pressure of the times forms the subject of conversation here'.
Contains account of experiment and notes on results. A letter from M.L. Oliphant, 9 March 1934, re proton yield from the bombardment of heavy hydrogen with heavy hydrogen is tucked into the back of the folder.