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Add. MS c
Fonds
13th-20th c.

The additional manuscript series are artificial groupings, mostly of single items or very small archival entities, but in some cases large archives have been inserted in these series.

Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Miscellaneous letters

Add. MS c/1
File
[17th-20th cent.]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Copy of a letter from A. E. Housman to [Stephen] Gaselee

Add. MS c/1/188
Item
[20th cent.]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Photocopy of a letter dated 8 Jan. 1915

Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar

Newton 350th anniversary: dinner menu and newsclipping

Add. MS c/242
Item
1992

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Printed menu for Newton 350th Anniversary Dinner, held on 3 July 1992. Newcutting, The Times "Saturday Review", 4 July 1992: new poem, Newton Enigmas, by Ben Okri, commissioned by the Master of Trinity, Sir Michael Atiyah, to mark the anniversary and performed for the first time by the Trinity College choir at the 3 July dinner in a setting by Richard Marlow, director of Music at Trinity.

Trinity College, Cambridge

Miscellanea

Add. MS c/201
File
[19th-20th cent.]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Salim Rashid: "William Whewell and early mathematical economics" and "The growth of economic studies at Cambridge: 1776-1860"

Add. MS c/201/75-76
Item
[c 1979]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Two typescript research papers.

Rashid, Salim (fl 20th-21st cent.) economist

Fisher House newsletters

Add. MS c/241
File
1979–1984

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

The pamphlet for 1980 encloses a letter from the Chaplain, Maurice Couve de Murville, to Miss [Rosemary] Graham at Trinity College library, saying he is sending the newsletter as it 'contains notices of several Trinity men' and thanking her for her help; a copy letter from Miss Graham in reply, 27 Oct 1980, asks if the Library could have last year's too and be added to the subscription list. The pamphlet for 1979 therefore encloses another letter from Couve de Murville, 29 Oct 1980.

Photocopy of P. Naiditch's "Summary catalogue of the Housman Library at St John's College, Oxford"

Add. MS c/201/91
Item
[1979?]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

St John's College Library, Oxford

Photograph of Robert Smythson's plan of Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge

Add. MS c/201/83
Item
[1978?]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Reproduction of Robert Smythson's plan of Great Court, c 1609, with a reproduction of plan of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and Theobald's House (Hertforshire) below.

Royal Institute of British Architects

Photocopy of the short-title list of the Housman Library at St John's College, Oxford

Add. MS c/201/88
Item
[1978?]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

St John's College Library, Oxford

P. Naiditch: "Summary guide to papers in Adv.b20, c20, d20"

Add. MS c/201/92
Item
1978

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

List of Housman MSS in Adversaria volumes at Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

Naiditch, Paul G. (fl 1977-2000) librarian

Richard W. Pfaff: extract of a projected life of M. R. James

Add. MS c/201/19
Item
[1977?]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Five typescript pages concerning James' catalogue of the western manuscripts in the Wren Library, with a page of related endnotes.

Pfaff, Richard William (1936-2016) historian

R. A. Rankin: "Ramanujan's unpublished work on congruences"

Add. MS c/201/89
Item
[1977?]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Photocopy of a research paper.

Rankin, Robert Alexander (1915-2001) mathematician

Richard Gilbertson: "Chinese tiles in the Old Guest Room at Trinity"

Add. MS c/201/79
Item
21 Oct. 1977

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

MS poem, for Mr and Mrs Gaskell.

Gilbertson, Richard (fl 20th cent.) bookseller

Photostat of verses by A. J. Munby written for the Gurgoyle Club

Add. MS c/201/41
Item
[Feb. 1977]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Photostat of verses contributed by Munby in the bound MS of the Gurgoyle Stories for 1859 and 1860, with the title page "The Gurgoyle Stories read at the Supper at Coates' Chambers at Gray's Inn Square, the XIV of Jan. mdccclx".

Brown, Michael (fl 1977) physician

Photocopy of the entry for Arthur W. St. C. Tisdall in Creagh, The V.C. and D.S.O.

Add. MS c/201/42
Item
[Feb. 1977]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Letter from Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to Lord Butler

Add. MS c/201/40
Item
26 Jan. 1977

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

A letter of thanks on being elected an Honorary Fellow.

Philip (1921-2021) Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer: later draft of his lecture "John Edensor Littlewood"

Add. MS c/201/90
Item
3 Jan [1977]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Later typescript draft of a lecture given from notes.

Dyer, Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton- (1927-2018) 16th Baronet, mathematician

Copy of the commonplace book of Julius Hare, 1816-1818, from the Bayne-Powell Papers

Add. MS c/205
Item
[1976]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Xerox copy of the MS commonplace book kept while Hare was a student at Cambridge.

Distad, Norman Merrill (b 1946) librarian and historian

Copy of a MS copy of Julius Hare's diary of a continental tour, 1832-1833, from the Bayne-Powell Papers

Add. MS c/206
Item
[1976]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Xerox copy of a MS copy possibly made by Hare's sister-in-law Lucilla Powell. The original is a semi-epistolary travel diary recounting a trip to Italy in 1832-1833 in the company of his friends Walter Savage Landor and Thomas Worsley.

Distad, Norman Merrill (b 1946) librarian and historian

Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Mary Cartwright with accompanying letters from Cartwright

Add. MS c/201/53-55
Item
[Oct. 1932 or 1933], 1976

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Wittgenstein thanks Cartwright for the paper on 'Number' and asks if he may discuss it in the next class. Letter accompanied by a letter to Trinity Librarian Philip Gaskell with Cartwright's memory of the class 'What is Three?', her impressions of Wittgenstein and being invited to have tea with Wittgenstein and Howard Ursell. A postcard from Cartwright reports on her further attempts to date the letter.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889-1951), philosopher

Index of Henry Jackson correspondence by Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson

Add. MS c/47a
Item
1858-[20th cent.]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Bound volume with cover title, "List of Writers of Letters to Henry Jackson (1839-1921), Fellow of Trinity College (1964-1921)", featuring an alphabetic list of correspondents with summaries of the letters and descriptions of the correspondents in Add.MS.c.24-47, with a letter tucked into a pocket in the back written by Henry Jackson 19 Oct. 1858, his first letter home from Trinity College, a sketch of the cloisters in Nevile's Court by Christopher Cornford, and a poem by Frances Cornford entitled 'Gone Down', three photographs of Jackson, his room in Nevile's Court, and his grave. Also pasted in are a printed list of books dedicated to Henry Jackson and a printed flysheet relating to reforms at the university.

Jackson, Sir Henry Cholmondeley (1879-1972) Knight, General

Geoffrey Taylor: draft of lecture, "Aeronautics before 1920"

Add. MS c/201/18
Item
Oct. 1971

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Typescript draft, corrected, of a Trinity lecture given 18 Oct. 1971.

Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram (1886–1975), knight, physicist and engineer

A. E. Housman letters

Add. MS c/112
File
1885–1935, n.d.

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Copy letter from A. E. Housman to Reginald Hackforth

Add. MS c/112/42
Item
[20th cent.]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Copy in an unidentified hand.

[Arthur Henry Hallam?] essays and notes, and later copies of Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam letters to Jane and William Brookfield

Add. MS c/195
File
[c 1830?-20th cent.]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Three undated, unsigned essays, titled "Free Will. 'Equilibrium ad utrumque'", "Does V. Cousin's criticism of Locke's philosophy involve misconception and unfairness?", and "Is the French novel literature the 1st in Europe?" and a notebook of Greek exercises, all possibly in the hand of [Arthur Henry Hallam?].
Typescript and MS copies of 11 letters from Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam to his cousin Jane and her husband William Brookfield. The original letters are dated 1 Sept. 1846 to 7 Oct. 1850, and the copies, some of them incomplete, appear to be 20th century.

Unidentified

Photocopies of Byroniana

Add. MS c/62
Item
[1970?]

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Photocopies of letters by and relating to Lord Byron, particularly his relationship with Elizabeth Pigot, and her later contact with John Murray and others, with copies of Byron's will, poem fragments, and some printed material.

Tressilian Nicholas: papers relating to the commemoration of the award of the Victoria Cross to Arthur W. Tisdall

Add. MS c/197
File
1969-1970

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Correspondence between John Wordie, Robert Robson, and John Burnaby concerning information about Tisdall at Trinity College in the archives and memories of Fellows who knew Tisdall or were at Gallipoli with him. With letters between Tressilian Nicholas and John Wordie concerning the invitation to Nicholas to represent the College at the ceremony on board the HMS President commemorating the Victoria Cross award to Tisdall, with Nicholas' memories of Gallipoli, and of Wordie's father Sir James Mann Wordie. Accompanied by the invitation, the programme for the ceremony, the HMS President's typed schedule for the event, a news clipping relating to the ceremony and another about the speaker Rear-Admiral Godfrey Place, and an exchange of letters between Nicholas and John Bradfield about the ceremony.

Nicholas, Tressilian Charles (1887–1989), geologist

E. D. Adrian: copy typescript of his eightieth birthday speech

Add. MS c/186a-b
Item
30 Nov. 1969

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Two copies of the corrected typescript of Adrian's birthday speech made in the Combination Room before the Trinity College Fellows headed November 30th, 1969 with a MS note at top, 'Combination Room, Sunday 19th Nov.', sharing his memories of Trinity from 1908 to shortly before the onset of World War II. Accompanied by a card to Philip Gaskell asking for the return of the original.

Adrian, Edgar Douglas (1889–1977), 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist

Ian Melville Stephens: letter to Philip Gaskell

Add. MS c/187
Item
28 Nov. 1969

Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Alerts Gaskell to his obituary of Sir Malcolm Darling and the comparisons and contrasts he drew with the career of Leonard Woolf.

Stephens, Ian Melville (1903-1984) newspaper editor

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