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Includes correspondence with Montague Rhodes James, notes on classical literature and translations, correspondence and material relating to the University Library.

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The letters and papers catalogued below were preserved by C. R. Fay's father, who pasted them into an unused copy of Smith's commercial scribbling diary for 1902; Mr Fay adopted a generally chronological arrangement, but does not seem to have felt himself to be bound strictly by this. Many of the documents are addressed to the elder Fay, and the collection can be regarded as being as much the papers of the father as of the son.

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Letters concerning the purchase of a copy of the block-printed collection of Tibetan Buddhist literature known as the Kanjur (bKa' 'gyur) by Cambridge University Library; included in the collection is a receipt for Charles Taylor's gift in the sum of £275. The Kanjur in question is now located at Cambridge University Library Tibetan.1-104. [Some alternative transiterations of the name of the Tibetan Canon are bKángjur, kang-gyur, kan-jur, Kangyur or bka'-'gyur].

Scope and Contents The Sandars Readership in the University of Cambridge was established under the will of Samuel Sandars (1837-94) [son of George Sandars MP] who was educated at Harrow and Trinity becoming MA in 1863. Sandars was called to the bar from the Inner Temple 1863. He became a JP and High Sheriff for Buckinghamshire and in addition to benefactions to Great St. Mary's, Cambridge, and the University Library, he. left £2,000 for the endowment of an annual lecture or course of lectures in the fields of...

Scope and Contents The collection contains letters and papers relating to the life and career of Hugh Fraser Stewart and to the lives of the members of his family. The papers include correspondence of Stewart's wife Jessie, and of her father, mother and sisters. There is also correspondence of Stewart's brother-in-law Francis Jenkinson, as well as papers acquired by Stewart for his Memoir of the late librarian, published in 1926. The Stewart and Crum families's shared interest in music is represented in the...

Scope and Contents William Rhodes James (d. c.1847) married Caroline Pope (fl.1814-1855). The children of the marriage included Herbert (1822-1909), William Rhodes, Montagu (1830-1854), and Thomas (d.1850). Herbert James married Mary Emily Horton, daughter of Admiral Joshua Sydney Horton, and became rector of Livermere, near Bury St. Edmonds. They had four children, Sydney Rhodes (1855-1934), who married Linda Hoare, Herbert Ellison Rhodes (1857-1939), Grace Caroline Rhodes (c.1860-1936), who became Mrs....

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The letters comment on Fay's career, Browning's health and historical writing, other historians and their works, and Cambridge affairs (including adverse remarks on M.R. James). All but the first were written after Browning's departure from Cambridge in 1909, The place named in the each letter's description is the place of dispatch of the letter.

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Notes from a lecture on the Abbey Church, Bury, from Lecture Day at the Athenaeum, 21 April 1932

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'Collections of Manuscripts at Cambridge, their History, Sources and Contents', the Sandars Lectures for 1903, 48 folios. A list of slides shown follows the text (fo. 45). The versos are blank throughout.

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Papers mostly relating to James' work on biblical apocrypha and cataloguing manuscripts, including notes and transcriptions of texts, plus other miscellaneous material.

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Annotated copy of the published work, with inserted notes and letters to James.

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Published work with annotations and inserted notes and letters to James.

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Reports, correspondence and lists of manuscripts for M.R. James's recataloguing of Cambridge University Library medieval manuscripts.