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Digital copy of the manuscript letter sent from Arthur "Oc" Asquith to his sister, Violet Asquith, giving an account of Rupert Brooke's last days.

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This collection brings together items by and about Rupert Brooke from a variety of sources. It includes manuscript and typescript copies of Brooke's poetry and prose, correspondence between Rupert Brooke and others and a number of photographs. A limited amount of biographical and supplementary material, concentrated on items originating after Brooke's death, can also be found in this collection.

Scope and Contents Manuscript autographed letters from Rupert Brooke to Marchesa Agnes Mannucci Capponi: -4 September 1913, RB writing from Vancouver, BC, Canada. Includes envelope. -17 September 1913, RB writing from San Francisco, US. -22 September 1913, telegram from RB in San Francisco, US. Includes envelope. -26 September 1913, RB writing from San Francisco Bohemian Club -7 October 1913, RB writing from 'S.F.' [San Francisco, US]. Includes envelope. -12 October 1913, RB...

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Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

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A compilation of remarks made by Robert Whitelaw in form at Rugby School to various pupils, including Rupert Brooke. At the front of the volume are two epigrams on Whitelaw by Brooke. Many of the pages are unused.

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The file comprises contact prints of photographs and postcards acquired during research for a BBC programme on Rupert Brooke, made in the late 1970s. The prints include photographs from King's College, Rugby School Album (Rugby Public Library, Local History Collection), Cambridge Public Library (Cambridgeshire Collection), and Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
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Records of 44 clubs and societies of King's College and Cambridge University

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Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953), patron of the arts and for many years private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill, was a close friend of Rupert Brooke, and wrote the Memoir introducing Brooke's Collected Poems in 1918. Frances Cornford's letters provided him with much information about Brooke and his circle of friends.

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All the letters from Brooke to Dent are copies, the originals having been 'given to E[ddie] Marsh'.

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This series comprises diary entries by Charles Ashbee and his wife Janet, letters to both, photographs, picture postcards, cartoons, poems, newspaper cuttings and other printed ephemera.

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One autograph letter signed.

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1 autograph letter, signed. Undated.
This file also contains printed details of the 'Rupert and Alfred Brooke Fund' at King's College, [after 1930].

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Two Letters from Edward Marsh to Capponi dated 3 Aug 1915 and 9 Nov 1915, largely concerning Rupert Brooke and his death in April 1915.

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7 autograph letters signed and 6 autograph postcards signed.

Scope and Contents Original letters to Hugh Meredith: -3 ALS from Lytton Strachey, 3 Oct 1903, 26 Mar [1905] and 5 May 1909, with 2 envelopes; -2 ALS from Lascelles Abercrombie, 30 May [c. 1907-9] and 9 June 1907; -1 ALS from A[rthur] C[hristopher] Benson, 16 Dec 1910; -1 ALS from Rupert Brooke, 5 Jan 1911, with envelope; -1 ALS from Bertrand Russell, 13 Apr 1911, with envelope; -1 TLS from [EM Forster], with envelope postmarked 21 June 1911; -1 ALS from G[odfrey] H[arold] Hardy, with envelope postmarked 2 Jan...

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Charles Edward Sayle (1864-1924), fifth son of the Cambridge draper Robert Sayle, was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. He joined the staff of Cambridge University Library in 1893, and was Assistant Librarian from 1910 until his death. These letters are mostly short communications, written on postcards, but including Brooke's views on various subjects, literary and otherwise.

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Brooke and Fry met as undergraduates at King's (Fry having come up in 1905, a year before Brooke), and continued their friendship after Fry left Cambridge in 1908. The letters form only a portion of those that Fry received from Brooke, others having been given by him to Edward Marsh while the latter was writing the memoir that introduced the collected edition of Brooke's poems published in 1916.

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Letters from Rupert Brooke and from Brooke's mother.

Scope and Contents The volume comprises heavily revised drafts of 'The Weald of Youth', together with notes on the progress of Sassoon's autobiography and 'Preliminaries for Part 3' (1914-1918); in pencil and ink. NB. The published chapter numbers to which the drafts relate are provided in brackets, where different. It includes: - abstract watercolour frontispiece and watercolour title ('The Weald of Youth'): /1r-2r. - note on Sassoon's writing schedule, with word counts: /2v. - note on the book, and structure...

Scope and Contents The volume comprises preliminary notes and heavily revised drafts of 'The Old Century', and notes on various subjects, chiefly autobiographical, including the summer of 1914 (later incorporated into 'The Weald of Youth'). These are interspersed with diary entries dated June 1937 - February 1938. It includes: - watercolour frontispiece entitled 'Memories': /1r. - note on sequence in which Sassoon wrote his notes and drafts in various notebooks from March 1936-January 1937: /1v. - quotations:...

Scope and Contents The file contains press cuttings, reviews, articles, photographs, programmes and other printed material relating to productions of Greek plays and operas at Cambridge. It includes the following items, with other material not listed in detail:- Photographs of actors in costume including Rupert Brooke, George Lyttelton and Clive Carey;- Postcard from J. W. Clark to Carey, 31 May 1903;- Letter from Alwyn Scholfield to Carey;- Letter from J. T. Sheppard to Carey, 1915;-...

Scope and Contents The file contains papers seeking to correct errors in books relating to Rupert Brooke and the 'Neo-Pagans' (principally Brynhild Olivier and Hugh Popham), comprising:- Typescript 'Comment and corrections' by Howard Moseley on 'Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth' by Nigel Jones (1999). 2002;- Correspondence between Anne Olivier Bell and Paul Delany regarding his book 'The Neo-Pagans' (1987). 1979-1988;- Correspondence between Anne Olivier Bell and various authors regarding the...

Scope and Contents Notebook comprising poetical drafts and notes, with additional pages of loosely inserted leaves. The outer cover is illustrated with a rough sketch of a male face. The notebook begins with draft poems, some of which have watercolour illustrations. After folio 49v entries consist of notes for a poetical autobiography, beginning from the back page. Contents include: Title pages marked 'Poems', illustrated in watercolour: /1r & 2r. Draft poems (some illustrated):...