Item 3 - Robert Burn: minute book of meetings of a committee to endow a Kennedy Latin Professorship, with flysheets

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Add. MS d/3

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Robert Burn: minute book of meetings of a committee to endow a Kennedy Latin Professorship, with flysheets

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  • 1865-1997 (Creation)

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1 bound volume; several loose items pasted in.

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Given to Trinity College by Burn's widow Augusta in 1904 (as recorded in bookplate).

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Items pasted in include printed letters relating to the fund; list of subscribers; notices of meetings; notice requesting applications for the professorship; handwritten copies of 'My Psalm' by John Greenleaf Whittier 'Sent from Acton by A. B. on Oct 22 1897', biblical references, and [Tennyson's] "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale".

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