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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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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.
To request these photos please request call mark: Misc. 30/21

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Records of 41 clubs and societies of King's College and Cambridge University

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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...

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...