Hugh Francis Russell-Smith, Humorous verses. English, 1910 and undated

Hugh Francis Russell-Smith, Fellow of St John’s College (1887-1916): letter in blank verse to E. A. Benians, Fellow and later Master of the College, thanking him for sending ‘cap and ribboned gown, proud emblem of BA’, 2 Dec. 1910. Written while a temporary schoolmaster at Rugby. Also ‘A Sonnet (prosy) written in the Chetwynd Lecture Room’, no date. The Sonnet disparages King’s College. Russell-Smith died of wounds sustained during the early stages of the Battle of the Somme.