Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Letters mostly to Clark, with some to his wife Frances Clark (d.1908), Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and others, mainly routine in nature, and collected for their autograph value. Another volume, containing letters of scientists, was not acquired. The original numbering in each volume has been retained; in this catalogue the letters are grouped by subject.

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Acceptances

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Prospectus, Correspondence, Reports, Minute Books, Memorandums and Articles of Association, Proposals, Financial Documents, Speeches Syllabus, Examinations and Notes relating to the schools of the Graduated County Schools Association. Also documents related to the lawsuit between the Association and J. L. Brereton.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook on the elections of University M.P.s, the Chancellor and the High Steward. "Previous proceedings and correspondence are in another book", not preserved with this scrapbook. The volume contains letters, flysheets, pamphlets and additional papers relating to the selection of the Conservative candidate H. Cecil Raikes for the University, 1882 (pp.1-47,186-187); the formation of the Cambridge Conservative Association, 1891 (with letters from G.H. Darwin, G.F. Browne and J.H. Gray)...

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Most of the letters are replies to appeals by Porter for contributions to a memorial to Henry Fawcett and the cost of portraits of the seventh Duke of Devonshire, J.B. Lightfoot and B.F. Westcott; or replies to his invitations to a dinner in honour of recipients of honorary degrees (1883), and the celebration of the six hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Peterhouse (1884); or concern an address of support from members of Senate to the Liberal Unionist leadership (1887).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Joseph Frank Payne: degree certificate, medical studies, Berlin University, signed by Isaak A. Dorner (1865); MS book of 'translations and original verses addressed... to Ellie Macpherson'; letters of condolence on the death of J.B. Payne from Basil Champneys and Henry Sidgwick (1869); the last page of Payne's letter to George Eliot on his mother's death (1875), with a typescript of the whole letter; letters from Comte Loris-Melikov and unidentified (1879); MS poem 'Summer memories' (1885);...