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Three letters to Meynell (1927, 1935, 1940). With them are a printed order of service (2 copies, one revised from the other) for the memorial service of Amy Catherine Wells (died 1927) apparently designed for Wells by Meynell; and miscellaneous typescript notes by Meynell about Wells.

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Reading 'Isadora'; accounts of various social engagements including the Russian Ballet, the Reform Club with Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells, and a trip to Max Gate [home of Thomas Hardy]; has not done much writing.

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The collection largely comprises letters addressed to Sassoon although there are few other recipients such as Glen Byam Shaw and Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, Siegfried Sassoon's mother. There are also some postcards; draft and unpublished copies of poems; bills; and other related papers.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Approximately one third of the bulk of papers comprise working papers and notebooks. About another quarter comprises correspondence, certificates and ephemera relating to honours awarded by various bodies or relating to Frederick Gowland Hopkins' association with learned societies. The remaining material is a combination of papers and photographs generated by Frederick Gowland Hopkins' family (much of it predating his birth); together with correspondence and papers he generated in a personal...

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A 'terribly difficult novel' has prevented him thanking Money before for his writings: 'When I admire you I feel like a coal hammer admiring a clock - or a mincing machine. While I tap off lumps you chop up, arrange, put away.'; autograph on card

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Possibly congratulating Money - in rather oblique fashion - on his knighthood; autograph

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An appreciation of Money's writings: 'I do wish you'd come in with me and try and broaden out ... the Fabian Society. Well, anyhow if you won't I'm still very much yours.'; autograph

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Admires Money's Riches and Poverty and hopes to make his acquaintance: 'I'm trying to revive the youth of the Fabian Society and set a propaganda going among the student class and the middle class youth generally in London.'; autograph

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Honoured by references to him in 'samples'; 'But it is aphorism really to be used in this way?'

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Minutes, accounts, lists of books recommended and considered, letters from English and French committee members and prizewinners, and newscuttings. Letters from prizewinners: Percy Lubbock, Mary Webb (6), Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, H.M. Tomlinson, Charles Morgan (7), Stella Gibbons/Webb (4), Elizabeth Jenkins (2), L.H. Myers (2), Margaret Lane, Richard Church (2), and Robert Graves. Letters from French prizewinners: Joseph Kessel, François Mauriac, Marion Gilbert (2), étienne Burnet...

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Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library, together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.

Scope and Contents Bateson left Liverpool for New York on 16th Dec. 1921. He travelled on to Canada, attending meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Toronto, 27-31 Dec. 1921, delivering the general address titled 'Evolutionary Faith and Modern Doubt' and the after dinner speech at the American Society of Zoologists’ symposium on orthogenesis. This was followed by a series of lectures at the University of Toronto, c.3-12 Jan. 1922. He then visited the USA, staying at the...

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Two corrected copies of AFB's article for the Ethical Record (summarised from a lecture) on his memories of George Orwell [also Eric Blair], Bertrand Russell [3rd Lord Russell], H G Wells and George Bernard Shaw.

Scope and Contents The volume comprises Sassoon's own transcriptions of his diaries for March-November 1925 (folios /2v-23r) and 8 March 1923 - 19 May 1924 (folios /24r-29r); abridged, with occasional annotations. Entries are arranged in two columns, numbered consecutively. The transcripts for 15-19 May 1924 (folio /58r) match those in Sassoon's diary at MS.Add.9852/1/20; there are no other corresponding diaries in the archive. The 1925 diary includes: /2v. passages on Sassoon's travels abroad with Frankie...