John Horne Tooke, Signature on a subscription receipt. English, 1794

John Horne Tooke, of St John’s College (1736-1812): ‘Received of [name started and cancelled] Mr Donaldson fourteen shillings for the third volume of … The Diversions of Purley’, 3 Feb. 1794. Signed by Tooke, in the year of his imprisonment in the Tower of London and his trial and acquittal for high treason. The book Epea pteroenta. Or, The diversions of Purley survives in several editions in the College Library, e.g. the second edition, 1798-1805, at Dd.4.37-38.

Rosemary Tonks, ‘Story of a Hotel Room’. English, 1964

Rosemary Tonks (b. 1932): Worksheets for her poem ‘Story of a Hotel Room’, before 1963.

Rosemary Tonks, ‘Farewell to Kurdistan’. English, 1964

Rosemary Tonks (b. 1932): Worksheet for her poem ‘Farewell to Kurdistan’, signed and dated Mar. 1964.

Tithes in London. English, 1638

Minute extracted from the Register of the Privy Council relating to a joint assessment of the value of parishes in London to be carried out by the ministers and by the city authorities, 22 Apr. 1638.

Charles Taylor, College bills and correspondence. English, 1860-4

Charles Taylor, Master of St John’s College (1840-1908): four bills for the quarters ending 25 Mar. 1861, Christmas 1862, Christmas 1863 and Midsummer [?1864], submitted to Taylor while a junior member in account with his Tutors [John] Mayor and [Stephen] Parkinson. With a letter to Taylor from John Green, dated Woburn, 23 July 1860, sending him a draft for £40, returning a tutor’s bill and advising him to consider joining the Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Ralph Tatham, Notebook. English and Latin, before 1857

E. E. Sikes, 'The Birds of Aristophanes’. English and Greek, 1927 and later

Edward Ernest Sikes, Fellow and President of St John’s College (1867-1940): ‘The Birds of Aristophanes’, a lecture delivered to various Cambridge Classical Society events between 17 Nov. 1927 and Dec. 1933.

George Selwyn, Sermon at the reopening of St John’s College Chapel. English, 1869

George Augustus Selwyn, of St John’s College (1809-78): sermon preached at the consecration of the new Chapel at St John’s College, May 1869. Selwyn, formerly Bishop of New Zealand and now Bishop of Lichfield, preached on St John xxi.21-22, ‘Lord, and what shall this man do?’ The notorious denunciation of William Colenso is at p. 14.

Power of attorney granted by St John’s College to Robert Forsyth Scott. English, 1893

St John’s College, Cambridge: appointment of the Senior Bursar, Robert Forsyth Scott, as receiver of rental and other income for the College, granting him a general power of attorney in matters associated with the administration of the College estate, 19 June 1893. One of the two witnesses is John William Turner, Bursar’s Clerk.

Robert Forsyth Scott, Address on the history of St John’s College. English, after 1906

Sir Robert Forsyth Scott, Master of St John’s College (1849-1933): address on the medieval University and the early history of St John’s, delivered in the Hall at some unidentified date after 1906. With three pages of related notes.