Drafts of lectures given over several decades, showing later revisions and changes of order of presentation, later mined for a proposed book of essays on the same subject. Some original lecture scripts may be found with the drafts for the book of essays, marked up for printing.
The manuscript of and papers relating to A. H. F. Boughey's history of the college, which was left incomplete. The history covers the period up to the 1830s, but had projected chapters that would have brought the history up to the statutes of 1926.
Sin títuloThe letters and papers in this group all relate either to the books from which they were removed or to similar literary and bibliographical subjects. Two of the books were part of an abortive series of reprints. This series was first brought to the notice of the public in 1910 in a prospectus (2/1) in which McKerrow announced his intention of producing a short series of reprints of Elizabethan and Jacobean tracts, to be published for the editor by Sidgwick and Jackson and printed at the Oxford University Press. Subscribers were sought for the initial set of six volumes, and de-tails of the first five were given (the sixth was to be announced later), but McKerrow pointed out that, although the first two volumes would be is-sued in any case, he could not proceed further with the project unless he received the names of at least 150 subscribers. The first two books—editions of John Weever’s Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion, 1599, and of Greenes Newes both from Heauen and Hell, 1593 and Greenes Funeralls, 1594 (two texts in one volume)—were in sub-scribers’ hands by September 1911 (2/4) and a notice of the proposed series appeared in Notes and Queries in November (2/5), but the condition for its continuance was apparently not met, for no further volumes were issued. McKerrow’s account of subscriptions (2/2) indicates—if it is complete—that orders for only sixty-five sets were received.
Sin títuloThis collection mainly comprises letters by people of public significance in Dawson Turner’s day, many of them with East Anglian connections.
Sin títuloThese papers comprise five letters to Lord Kelvin (as Sir William Thomson), some lecture notes by him, and two letters to W. Craig Henderson.
Sin títuloThis small collection contains six letters written by A. E. Housman to his sister Clemence and his brother Laurence between 1905 and 1935.
Sin títuloPhotograph album, mainly containing photographs of members of the Housman family, with list [in Kate Symons' hand?] identifying the subjects. Some loose photographs and reproductions.
Letter, 26 Jul. 1920, from A. E. Housman to his sister Kate Symons, written from Trinity College.
Letters to Gerald Symons, 1959-2014, from members of the Housman Society and re Housman related events. Letters to and copy letters of Gerald Symons, 1997-2002 re work on the letters of George Herbert Housman, which were published by the Housman Society, edited by Jeremy Bourne, in 2001.
Photostat copies of letters written by George Herbert Housman from Burma to his father, stepmother, and sister Kate, Dec. 1891-Dec. 1892, along with transcriptions of letters by Gerald Symons.
Ephemera collected by Gerald Symons, including tickets, menus, and programmes etc of Housman related events. Family trees; lists of Housman family memorabilia and works by A. E. Housman and Laurence Housman; notes on the Housman family, some evidently prepared as talks.
Newspaper cuttings and extracts on members of the Housman family, 1896-1990s, including several on Tom Stoppard's play about A. E. Housman, The Invention of Love. A number are mounted on paper, with dates and other annotations by Gerald Symons.
Sin títuloIncludes: a manuscript account of a tour by yacht on the Norfolk Broads, perhaps by Huia Onslow's governess Helen Moodie; several items from Onslow's time at Eton College, such as a printed programme for an Eton College Scientific Society Conversazione, in which Onslow features as demonstrator and lecturer and two copies of another lecture given by Onslow.
There are also pieces of creative work such as a poem, The Story of the Lost Ice Age, written at Eton for a prize, and a draft of a story, The Sobbing Water. Poems appear too with notes on ascents of the Croda del Lago and lists of books about the Dolomites, showing Onslow's interest in mountaineering. Also present are Onslow's translations of poems from Les Amours de I. du Bellay, by Joachim du Bellay, which according to the memoir published by his wife he was thinking of publishing in 1913-1914.
Two items are posthumous: the order for the memorial service for Onslow held at Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1922, and uncut proofs for first chapter of Huia Onslow: a Memoir by his wife Muriel Onslow, published in 1924.
There is documentation of Synge's appointment: his headship of the Department of Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry, including research programmes, equipment and staff; Agricultural Research Council Visiting Groups; and quite extensive administrative material. There is also material relating to the Institute's Strathcona Club of which Synge was a loyal member, and a little memorabilia.
The material is presented as follows:
C/1-C/2: Appointment
C/3-C/56: Protein and Carbohydrate Chemistry Department, including: C/3-C/7, research programme and reports; C8-C/20, estimates; C/21-C/37, equipments and supplies; C38-C/45, staffing; C/46-C/52, departmental notices; C/53-C/56, miscellaneous.
C/57-C/63: Agricultural Research Council
C/64-C/78: RRI administrative notices
C/79-C/92: RRI annual reports
C/93-C/96: RRI newletters
C/97-C/100: The Strathcona Club
C/101-C/103: memorabilia
Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, with Appendix.
Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, with Appendix.
1-79: Trading with the Enemy - routine material. Reports; parliamentary acts; correspondence; memoranda etc.
80-98: Trading with the Enemy & Post-War Reconstruction: reports etc
Several letters written before the Babington Smiths' marriage on 22 Sept 1898.
57: 12 Sept 1899, Grass-of-Parnassus flower enclosed.
90: 7-9 May 1900, enclosing 5 press cuttings (2 English, 2 French) on Henry Babington Smith's activities in Constantinople.
97, 99, 103: all May-June 1900, and largely in French.
Some letters in shorthand.
The material is presented alphabetically, with dates and a brief indication of any information of particular interest.
Taylor's undimmed scientific reputation, the high respect he enjoyed, and the eagerness with which younger scientists continued to seek and accept his advice, emerge with remarkable clarity from the letters, most of which date from the later period of his life.
As with the personal correspondence in Section A, only incoming letters usually survive. Professor G.K. Batchelor was, however, able to obtain originals or photocopies of Taylor's letters from some of his correspondents, and thus reconstruct a relatively complete sequence. Examples of this can be found at D.7, D.13, D.18, D.29, D.43-D.46, D.52, D.60, D.64, D.65, D.71, D.87.
Apart from these more substantial exchanges, some ms. drafts or copies of Taylor's replies to individual correspondents also survive. They are noted in the relevant entries. A full list is appended below for ease of reference.
D.6, D.7, D.9
D.10, D.12, D.13, D.14
D.21, D.24, D.29
D.30, D.35
D.41, D.44
D.50, D.52, D.53
D.60, D.64, D.65
D.71, D.72, D.74, D.76
D.87
D.91
There were two clubs known as the Second Trinity Boat Club: one, from 1831 to 1838, often referred to as 'Reading Trinity;' and from 1840 to 1876, a second club with no connection to the original club of that name.
Sin títuloThe materials included in this section primarily date from amalgamation of First Trinity Boat Club and Third Trinity Boat Club in 1947. Material relating to the May Balls in their entirety have been moved to section F, Trinity May Balls. Some papers relating to silver carry start dates of 1942 but continued to be updated after amalgamation.