Downing College Literary Society

Organization

Staff Only

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Sub-Management Group

Academic Societies, 1920-[1984]

Sub-Management Group

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCCS/4

Scope and Contents

Records of Classical Society, Cranworth Society, Debating Society, Doughty / Literary Society, Maitland Historical Society, Medical Society, Scientific and Danby Societies.

Dates: 1920-[1984]

Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series (such as minutes) are subject to closure periods for GDPR and confidentiality reasons.

Found in: Downing College / Clubs and Society Records

Series

Dinners and Menus (Ephemera), 1920-11-25 - 1921-02-08

Series

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCCS/4/4/2

Scope and Contents

Menu cards for dinners 25 November 1920 and 8 February 1921.

Dates: 1920-11-25 - 1921-02-08

Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series (such as minutes) are subject to closure periods for GDPR and confidentiality reasons.

Found in: Downing College / Clubs and Society Records / Academic Societies / Literary Society (later the Doughty Society)

Fonds

F R Leavis Collection, 1934 - 2016

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/LEA

Scope and Contents

Letters from F R Leavis to L. C. Knights, David Holbrook, Frank Bradbrook, C B Winder, R O C Winkler, A I Doyle, John Tasker, Geoffrey Walton, Canon Frank Telfer, Ronald Hayman, Robert Tudor Jones, Peter Coveney, Michael Yudkin and others (mainly Downing alumni). Also includes reading list suggestions, newspaper articles and photos, memoirs by former students and correspondence concerning donation.

Dates: 1934 - 2016

Conditions Governing Access: Most letters are open to researchers, but some closure periods apply.

Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates

Fonds

Literary Society (later the Doughty Society), 1920-[1928]

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCCS/4/4

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Management Group:

Records of Classical Society, Cranworth Society, Debating Society, Doughty / Literary Society, Maitland Historical Society, Medical Society, Scientific and Danby Societies.

Dates: 1920-[1928]

Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series (such as minutes) are subject to closure periods for GDPR and confidentiality reasons.

Found in: Downing College / Clubs and Society Records / Academic Societies

Item

Note re The 'Dublin's coverage of his 150th memorial address to the Doughty [Society at Downing], 1950

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/COX/1/19

Scope and Contents

Numbered 19.

Dates: 1950

Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: Sensitive letters removed by Marjorie Cox remain closed. See DCPP/COX/3 for correspondence between Marjorie Cox and Ian McKillop.