Louis Chauvet, Act of Naturalisation. English, 1749-50

Thomas Abraham Ogier, Louis Chauvet, father of John Louis Chauvet of St John’s College (d. 1794), and others: official copy of the private Act of Naturalisation, 23 George II c. 3.

Sir Hugh Casson, 'The Future of the Past’. English, 1979

Sir Hugh Casson, of St John’s College (1910-99): ‘The Future of the Past’, Johnian Society Lecture delivered on 9 Mar. 1979. As considered for publication in The Eagle. The Editorial Committee decided against publication but suggested retention in the Library.

Correspondence re the library of John Carr. English, 1874

Lewis Dibdin, Undergraduate expenses. English, 1869-74

Robert William Dibdin, of St John’s College (d. 1887): summary account of income and expenses incurred by his son Lewis Tonna Dibdin (1852-1938) while studying at St John’s College, 1869-74. It seems clear that Dibdin senior relied on funds from third parties ro support his son at Cambridge. Lewis’s total expenses, excluding vacations, amounted to £743 18s. Sir Lewis Dibdin was an Honorary Fellow of the College from 1923.

Edward Samuel Dewick, Miscellaneous notes on liturgical subjects. English, French and Latin, 1897-1903

Somerset Davies, Application for dispensation from a University Statute. English, 1776

Donald Davie, Poems and worksheets. English, 1956-9

Donald Davie (1922-95): ‘Under St Paul’s’ and other poems, together with drafts and worksheets.

Kenneth Craik, Poems and other papers. English, 1931-43

Kenneth James William Craik, Fellow of St John’s College (1914-45): miscellaneous writings as listed. Craik was killed in an accident in Cambridge on the eve of VE Day. For an obituary notice by F. C. Bartlett see The Eagle, 52, 454-65.

1. ‘On revisiting and old classroom’, and other poems, 1931-2. 29 pp.

2. ‘Selections from diary of a Norwegian Holiday’, 23 July to 13 Aug. 1935. ‘Diary X’. 26 pp.

3. Extract from diary, 15-22 Oct. 1935. 10 pp.

Samuel Butler, ‘The Holy Land’. English, 1800

Samuel Butler, Fellow of St John's, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (1774-1839): ‘The Holy Land’, a poem written for the Cambridge University Seatonian Prize competition of 1800 but submitted too late for consideration. Butler writes on the cover that ‘for this reason it is not published, lest it should seem as an appeal from the judgment of the university to the tribunal of the public’. Francis Wrangham was awarded the Seatonian Prize for his poem on this set theme.

R. P. Burnett, Memoirs of life in India. English, c. 1905

The Revd Richard Parry Burnett, of St John’s College, rector of Cornwell, Chipping Norton (1853-1930): ‘Twenty years in India (1880-1900) or Reminiscences of a Madras chaplain’, no date [c. 1905].