Showing 173 results

The miscellaneous writings consist of notes for a lecture given in Tokyo and Kyoto Universities in early 1983 on "Hamlet and the ethics of the revenge," a review of the Marlowe Society's Hamlet dated Apr. 1980, and an Appendix B to an autobiography [?] explaining his change of career. The miscellaneous notes include several headed "Prosser" with notes on a book on Hamlet [by Eleanor Prosser?]; accompanied by cuttings from two Italian newspapers in April 1970 reporting on his lecture on Hamlet and Ophelia at a British Council conference in Naples.

Drafts for a book of essays which had the earlier proposed title, "Essays on Hamlet problems." Some of these drafts are lecture scripts carrying revisions and with footnotes added. The sequence of the essays changed over time and consequently there are varying chapter numbers at the top of drafts of the same essay. Some essays are represented by one or two drafts, while others are represented by five or six drafts. One or two pages are written on verso of letters received in 1991 and 1992.

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 material is not extensive, and is arranged as follows:

D/1-D/12: General correspondence and papers: including papers relating to Synge's appointment; his plan of research; and material relating to Lord Rothschild's 1971 Green Paper 'A Framework for Government Research and Development' (D/5-D/7),

D/13-D/17: Chemistry Division: administrative papers

D/18-D/19: Project reports on Synge's research

Letters, documents, printed material, photographs, and ephemera documenting Larkin's years at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1961-1964 and 1965-1968, particularly his academic and athletics achievements. These are accompanied by a memoir written in 2024, "An Undergrad at Cambridge."

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

The material includes correspondence and papers relating to Synge's appointment at the Lister Institute including his statement of proposed work, inventories of equipment and chemicals, and miscellaneous administrative material. B/7-B/13 comprise papers relating to Synge's visit to Tiselius's laboratory, and travels in Sweden and Norway, in 1946-1947: equipment, chemicals etc required and expenses of the visit.

The material covers twenty-four UK and overseas organisations with which Synge was involved, c 1936-1993. These are presented alphabetically, as follows:

H/1: Aberdeen Biochemical Association
H/2-H/26: Agricultural Research Council
H/27-H/42: Association of Scientific Workers
H/43-H/55: Biochemical Society
H/56-H/58: British National Committee for Biochemistry
H/59-H/67: British Nutrition Foundation
H/68: Cambridge University Natural Science Club
H/69-H/70: Chemical Society
H/71: Chemical Structure Association
H/72: Haldane Research Centre, India
H/73-H/74: Joint Consultative Organisation for Research and Development in Agriculture and Food
H/75: Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine
H/76: Medical Research Council
H/77-H/79: Nutrition Society
H/80: Ray Club
H/81-H/82: Royal Institute of Chemistry
H/83-H/95: Royal Society
H/96-H/101: Royal Society of Chemistry
H/102: Royal Society of Edinburgh
H/103: Société de Chimie Biologique
H/104: Society for Analytical Chemistry
H/105-H/109: Society for General Microbiology
H/110: United Kingdom Council for Food Science and Technology
H/111: Wallace & Tiernan Ltd

Notebooks, papers and correspondence documenting the bulk of Synge's research work. The material is presented as follows:

E/1-E/48: Notebooks, 1936-1933. The notebooks document Synge's research from postgraduate studies in the mid 1930s, through work for the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Rowett Research Institute and Food Research Institute, to post-retirement work in the 1990s on electronic storage of chemical information. The bulk of the notebooks are a sequence I-XXVII running from 1938 to c 1979. There are also notebooks used for references from searches of the Science Citation Index. At E/43-E/48 are notebooks used by three collaborators: J.C. Wood (1952-1954); M.A. Youngson (1958-1962); and S. Matai (1968-1969).

E/49-E/101: Research notes, 1938-1987. The material includes: reports on work on proteins for the Wool Industries Research Association (E/49-E/59, 1938-1943); wartime work on grass protein (E/60-E/63, 1939-1943) and gramicidin (E/67, 1944-1946); studies on the nutritive value of by-products of the herring industry (E/75-E80, 1949-1951); papers relating to computer searching for chemical information (E/89-E/94,1981).

The material is presented as follows:

F/1-F/118: Publications (1940-1992). This material is further divided as follows:
Drafts, F/1-F/7. A chronological sequence of material relating to publications, or to the intention to publish. Where applicable reference has been made to the bibliography of Synge's published work in the Royal Society memoir of Synge (A/1) in the form Bibliog. .. (1940-1992)
Translations, F71-F/90, (c 1940-1977)
Editorial correspondence, F/91-F/118. Arranged alphabetically by publisher or journal title (1940-1992)

F/119-F/171: Lectures (1942-1984)

F/172-F/176: Broadcasts (1947-1961)

F/177-F/192: 'Unpublished Etc' (c 1938-1979). Contents of Synge's two folders so inscribed. The second folder was found inside the first. Chiefly drafts by Synge, including book-reviews.

F/193-F/197: Off-prints (1937-1992 and undated)

The correspondence in this section is presented as follows:

J/1-J/341: Alphabetical by correspondent, 1927-1994.
J/342-J/412: Shorter scientific correspondence, 1936-1993. Presented in chronological order; indexed.
J/413-J/422: Requests for off-prints, 1940-1990. Presented in alphabetical order; not indexed.
J/423-J/443: References and recommendations, 1948-1985 and undated. Further subdivided as follows:
J/423-J/424: Grants and funding, 1948-1976
J/425-J/430: Higher degrees, 1950-1980
J/431-J/435: Royal Society, 1951-1985
J/436-J/437, Honours and awards, 1951-1983
J/438-J/442: Appointments and promotions, 1954-171
J/443: Requests for advice
Note that some recommendations etc appear in the files of correspondence arranged alphabetically by correspondent, J/1-J/341.

The papers mainly relate to McKerrow’s Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students, first published in 1927, and two unpublished works—a bibliography of reprints of 16th and 17th century dramatists, and an essay on the elements of bibliography.

This small collection comprises a number of newspaper cuttings relating to A. E. Housman (1-22) and two letters exchanged between Gerald Jackson and Housman’s biographer, George L. Watson (23-4).

Thomson's association with Trinity College, Cambridge began in 1876, when he arrived as an undergraduate to study Mathematics. After graduation in 1880 Thomson remained in Cambridge and undertook research in physics under Lord Rayleigh. He was made a Fellow of Trinity College in 1880, College lecturer in 1883 and in 1884 was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1918 Thomson was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, a position he held until his death in 1940. The material in this section relates entirely to the period of Thomson's Mastership, and is arranged as follows.

C/1-C/80: Correspondence. Received by Thomson on his appointment to the Mastership of Trinity College Cambridge in 1918 (C/1-C/10) and as Master 1918-1939 (C/11-C/80). Most of the correspondence relates to a wide range of College matters including students, Fellows, meetings, lectureships, appointments to Church livings held by the College, gifts and endowments etc., but the material also includes personal and business letters and correspondence and papers for other bodies on which Thomson served, most notably the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. There is a very little posthumous material relating to Thomson's Mastership.

C/81-C/130: Invitations received by the Thomsons, as well as replies to invitations to College social events hosted by the Thomsons between 1918 and 1938.

There are also a small number of Trinity College entrance examination papers and scripts from Dec 1937: C/131-C/137

This collection includes correspondence and papers of R. B. McKerrow relat-ing to a variety of bibliographical topics.

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

1-30: Anglo-French Financial Mission to the USA, 1915
31-47: British-Italian Corporation
48-56: British War Mission to the USA, 1918
57-60: Mortgage Company of Egypt, Ltd.

Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, with Appendix.
Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, with Appendix.