File 2 - University of Cambridge papers

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Add. MS a/719/2

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University of Cambridge papers

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  • 1961-1968 (Creation)

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2 folders

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Larkin's University of Cambridge papers primarily relate to Larkin's athletics career, with fixture lists, results sheets, dinner menus and other items for the Cambridge University Hare and Hounds, including a photograph of the Hare and Hounds second team in 1962, a letter announcing his selection for the Hare and Hounds versus Oxford in November 1963, and two candid race photographs. There are also Cambridge University Athletic Club fixture lists and programmes and his running diary for 1963.

There are also Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos papers for Part I, May 1962; part II prelims., May-June 1963; and finals, May 1964.

A small collection of club and society ephemera consists of two Cambridge Union Society programmes for Michaelmas Term 1962 and Lent Term 1963, the Société Française de l'Université de Cambridge programme of events for Michaelmas 1966, programmes for the C. U. Mummers and Preston Society production of 'The Taming of the Shrew' in 1966. There are also two menus for the annual dinner of the Cambridge Old Bexhillian Association in May 1962 and 1963, with signatures of attendees.

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