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E. P. Gatty, College bills. English, 1886-9
Edmund Percival Gatty, of St John’s College (1866-1937): bills settled while an undergraduate at St John’s, 1886-9, with a valuation by John Swan and Son, Cambridge, of A8 New Court, taken in Oct. 1886 with the previous occupant, F. A. E. Leake (1864-). Gatty’s Tutor presenting these bills is Edwin Hill (1843-1933). Gatty was admitted to the College as ‘Percival Edmund’, but appears thus in several later sources, including Venn, and his son gives us this order.
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Roy Fuller, Three poems. English, 1950s
Roy Broadbent Fuller (1912-91): drafts of three poems, ‘Associations’, ‘Ambivalent Love’, and ‘Names’, no date but before 1962.
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Charles Foxley, ‘Ode to Futility’. English, c. 1954
Charles Foxley, of St John’s College (1865-1954): ‘Ode to Futility’, c. 1954. A poem of six verses, signed ‘C.F.’
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Clifford Evans, After-dinner speech. English, 1993
George Clifford Evans, of St John’s College (1913-2006): ‘Some Johnian Episodes’, text of a speech delivered at the College dinner on 27 December 1993, the Feast of St John the Evangelist. Fellows celebrating their eightieth birthday that year are by custom invited to speak at this dinner. In recent times the speeches have been recorded.
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D. J. Enright, Worksheets. English, c. 1960-3
Dennis Joseph Enright (1920-2002): worksheets for the following poems, written while in Singapore: ‘Viewing a Japanese master’, ‘Speckled and smelly’, ‘Chinese cemetery’ (first published in The Listener, 10 Jan. 1963, p. 96), ‘Ecology’, ‘Freshman [or First Year] poetry’, ‘Kind’, ‘A Chinese superstition’, ‘Everyday affairs’, ‘By the wayside’, ‘I was a gulli-gulli man’s chicken’, and ‘Parliament of cats’ (the last seven poems published in Addictions, London, 1962).
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John Webb Edge, Letters and bills relating to studies in Cambridge. English, 1809-14
John Webb Edge, of St John’s College (1790-1842): correspondence relating to his education and involving his father Thomas Webb Edge, his schoolteacher T[homas] Bourdillon, James Nunn, bookdealer, and Edge’s Tutor [Thomas Waldron] Hornbuckle (subsequently President of the College, d. 1848), some accompanying printed College bills, 1809-14. Including a letter written in an interval during the Senate House examinations of 1814, maintaining that the cold has affected his performance.
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J. E., ‘Dear Nic’. English, 1721
J[ohn] E.: verses addressed to ‘Dear Nic’ ‘at School of St John’ in Cambridge, 19 Oct. 1721. Nicholas Fayting (d. 1789) was admitted to the College in that year.
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E. Langstadt, Bibliography of G. G. Coulton. English, before 1972
Erich Langstadt (1910-89): bibliography of the works of George Gordon Coulton, Fellow of St John’s College (1858-1947).
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Sir Robert Forsyth Scott, Invitation to the Coronation of George V. English, 1911
Sir Robert Forsyth Scott, Master of St John’s College (1849-1933): invitations, orders of service and related papers concerning the attendance of Scott as vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge at the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, 22 June 1911. Including documents relating to carriage regulations at Westminster Abbey and the Naval Review.
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Richard Cowper, Certificate of non-payment. English, 1646
Richard Cowper [or Cooper], Fellow of St John’s College (BA 1632-3): certificate that Cowper, formerly Junior Bursar of the College, had not [at his ejection from the College after the visitation by the earl of Manchester during the Civil War] paid to Mr Dand, Fellow [and Senior Bursar] of St John’s ‘any present summe of ready money whatsoever’, 1 Apr. 1646.