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Notebook kept by John Wordsworth: 'English Verse Modern Common Place book'
O./12.6 · Item · 1833 onwards
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

MS note on inside front cover, 'J. Wordsworth Trin. Coll Camb. 1833'; similar note inside back cover. List of contents on verso of front free endpaper, along with a long note on how to refer to this volume. Margin drawn on left hand side of each page, with annotations occasionally added here.

The contents list names the following writers or sections: Milton; Shakespeare; Collins; 'Moore's Lallah Rookh'; Cowley; Beaumont & Fletcher; 'Miscellanea'; 'Hazlitt's British Poets - Spenser'; Drayton; Daniel; Suckling; Wither; Marvell; 'Epigrams'; 'Wordsworth's Sonnets'; Philip van Artevelde; Talfour; 'Rev'd Wm Grave'; Philips; Campbell; Basil Montagu; 'Davis's Travels'; 'Guide to domestic happiness'; 'Moore's Life of Sheridan'; Burns; 'Mansel's Epigrams'; 'Pope's Epigrams'; 'Sir Ed. Coke's and Sir Wm Jones' rules for distribution of time'.

Five sheets, seemingly removed from a similar volume, loose inside, the first sheet headed 'Commonplace book for 1828. Extracts from Modern poets fugitive verses. Cowley's Essays. Byron Milton -'; there are also extracts from Shakespeare.
Notebook kept by John Wordsworth: 'Foreign Common-Place Book. Journal in Switzerland and North Italy'
O./12.7 · Item · [1830s]
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

MS note on inside front cover, 'J. Wordsworth Trin. Coll Camb'; similar note inside back cover. List of contents on verso of front free endpaper, along with a note on how to refer to this volume. Notes to self on facing page on how to keep the book, on the separation of English and foreign authors in commonplace books etc.

The contents list names the following writers or sections, with page numbers: 'La Henriade' [Voltaire]; 'List of the most eminent French poets'; 'Miscellaneous Verse'; 'Miscellaneous Prose'; 'Memoires de Sully'; 'Cardinal de Retz's Memoirs'; 'Caractères de la Bruyere'; 'Eloge de Massillon'; 'List of French preacher and divines'; 'Corinne' [de Staël]; 'Contes Moraux de Marmontel'; 'Memoires sur Josephine'; 'Schlegel sur la langue et la literature Provencale'; 'Voltaire. Catalogue des Ecrivains'; 'Montesquieu's letters and discourse'; 'Rousseau'; 'Memorandua of tours upon the continent - French and Italian phrases - Rules for learning foreign languages - Expenses of journeys, times and distances &c &C. Observations on the rules of French and Italian grammar'; List of the most eminent Italian prose writers and poets'; 'List of the most authentic French works relating to the times of Henri IV'

'Index to memoranda of tours on the Continent from July 2nd 1833 to November 19th 1834 and in other years [including visits to Belgium and Germany in 1837]' written on out on p. 242

Margin drawn on left hand side of each page, with annotations frequently added here.
Miscellaneous Butler family papers
RAB/D/1 · File · [c 1900]-[1948]
Part of Papers of Lord Butler

Report of speech by M. S. D. Butler, article on Charles Sorley, article on hereditary genius citing Butler family, funeral service sheet of John Perceval Butler, Christmas card to Montagu Butler.
Letter from Roger Fry to R. C. Trevelyan
TRER/13/21 · Item · [July 1904]
Part of Papers of Robert Calverley Trevelyan and Elizabeth Trevelyan

22 Willow Road, Hampstead. - Is writing to Bob's mother to say he will do the pastel, but not until the autumn; he and Helen hope to get to Oxford on Thursday to stay with Mrs [Christiana] Herringham and Mrs Flower if Helen is well; she has been 'very seedy' following a miscarriage but is 'wonderfully well in mind'. Has had 'another beastly summer' and cannot leave if she is not allowed to, as Edith [Helen's sister] will leave for her holiday soon. Is starting his article for the "Independent [Review?]" but wishes he had not promised it. Bob's story about Millais is lovely. Etching originally enclosed; 'a first attempt without any lesson so it was all guesswork', but means to return to it later, and to do the picture for Bob this year. Yes, the [book on] Titian is by 'the same [Georg] Gronau'; it is very good but dull to read, and not as good as his later book on Leonardo; is reviewing it [for the "Athenaeum", Sept 10 1904].

Has been to stay with [Neville] Lytton. States ironically that the [Royal] Academy has discovered that the Inquiry [by a Select Committee of the House of Lords into the Academy's administration of the Chantrey Trust] is really intended 'to advertise Lytton's drawings'. His own evidence was not printed in the papers, and lasted only half an hour; Lord Carlisle tried to catch him out 'by quoting the Athenaeum' but did not succeed. The Royal Academicians 'are physically mentally & morally on the level of small tradesmen'. [Dugald] MacColl was 'wonderful': gave evidence 'for 4 hrs without a slip' and would have 'made his fortune at the bar'.