Item 670 - Scrapbook belonging to Frederick Cleveland Morgan while a student at Trinity College

1 vol., 1 portfolio

Given to Cleveland Stewart-Patterson by his grandfather Frederick Cleveland Morgan.

Gift of Professor Cleveland Stewart-Patterson (1952), Aug. 2022.

Album documenting Morgan's social life while at Cambridge, and in Montreal, Switzerland, and Egypt during holidays, dating from November 1900 to June 1903, with occasional notices from the Junior Dean, Senior Proctor, and his tutor at Trinity College. A variety of items have been pasted in to the album: photographs, concert programmes, dance cards, menus, letters, college notices, tickets, drawings, calling cards, newspaper cuttings, favours and pressed flowers. The photographs are primarily candids, and the menus include those printed for small dinners in student rooms, including fancy-dress dinners with signatures of guests, and identification of costume chosen, one accompanied by a photograph of Morgan in costume. Letters are usually invitations to events and are written by university friends, including M. H. R. Fletcher, William Holms Hoggan, Victor Lindemere, Samuel Strang Steel, Reginald J. Stone, James George Orr Thomson, with a few letters from female friends: Gertrude Brindley, Henrica Foster, May Mosse, and Margaret Searle. There are invitations to meetings for the Cambridge Entomological and Natural History Society, and the Sedgwick Club and fixtures for the Trinity College Hockey Club, Trinity Hooligans Hockey Club, and Trinity Outcasts Hockey Club. The few notes relating to Trinity College business include two from the Junior Dean reminding him of compulsory Chapel attendance, and a notice concerning arrangements on the day of the funeral of Queen Victoria and the service afterwards.

Holidays included a visit to Egypt over the Christmas holidays in 1901, which is documented with menus and a passport for the Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, a calling card for Mustapha Abd-El-Sadik, Guide & Dragoman, Luxor and Thebes, and a photograph of the touring party [at Luxor?]. There is also a brief programme for the visit of The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to McGill University in September 1901, a programme for the athletics Senior Championships Series between Montreal and Shamrock on 21 Sept. 1901, and tickets to attend events at the University of Glasgow Ninth Jubilee, 1901.

Some of the material dated 1903 is laid in loose in the album, and is accompanied by two photographs of a much later date, one of them a 1929 photograph of a man [Morgan?] and three women on steps of a building and a 1985 photograph is of two women, one of them in a mobility scooter in a garden. Twenty calling cards have been pasted on to the back inside cover.