Item 11.23 - Visitors' book for U. S. A. & Dominion Officers visiting Trinity College

1 volume, c. 205 x 165 x 11 mm. 70 ff. (ff. 1-65 only used).

Gift from the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, Mar. 1946.

Note on f. 1r: 'The College feels that it will be a matter of great historical interest in after times to have a record of the names, ranks, & home-addresses of those U.S.A. and Dominion Officers who are its guests during the war. Visitors are therefore requested to enter these (& any other particulars which they may care to record) in this book, together with the date of their visit'.

Note on f. 2 r. 'This book was bought, on the instructions of the College Council... on November 7th, 1942, & placed in the rooms at the north end of the Master's Lodge which were set aside as bedrooms for U.S.A. & Dominion Officers staying in College during the war. Before it was institute three officers had stayed in these rooms. As they had no opportunity to enter their names in the book, they have been entered by the Deputy Junior Bursar'. These three names then follow.

The rest of the book is filled in by the officers themselves; as well as dates of stay, names, rank, and addresses, places of education are often recorded; brief comments of appreciation of Trinity and Cambridge are often added. There is a poem by J. P. Clemenceau Le Clercq, 'A Ballade of Thanks to Trinity College', dated 9-10 Nov. 1944, on ff. 46-47