Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS d/1
Title
Robert Burn: subscription account book for the Kennedy Latin Professorship fund and for the Martin and Grote memorial funds
Date(s)
- c 1865- c 1869 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 ms volume; 36 ff. Printed letter with list of contributors, 1 bifolium.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Given to Trinity College by Burn's widow Augusta in 1904 (as recorded in bookplate).
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Accounts of the 'Kennedy Professorship Fund' with contributions at the beginning of the book and expenses at the back. Printed letter from E. Atkinson, Vice-Chancellor, to the Public Orator, Rev. W. G. Clark, expressing thanks to the subscribers for offering the fund to Cambridge University for the establishment of a Latin Professorship; a list of subscribers and their contributions is also printed.