Leather bound notebook (flyleaf inscribed ‘Sarah Ellen Mason, Girton College Cambridge Nov 1879’), into which Sarah Mason copied songs and poems about Girton and Cambridge life, usually including name of author and date and occasionally a note relating to publication.
The poems and songs date between 1872 and 1881 and are presumed to have been copied into the volume between 1879 and 1881.
Some items may have been copied in by S M's friend Charlie [Hannah] Lister (see diary entry for 8 December 1881 at GCPP Tebbutt 2/6). The songs and poems include:
Gaudeamus;
Girton my Friend (E Welsh 1873);
A White Sheet (E Welsh 1872);
Intercollegiate Song (words by E Welsh, Girton, music by Amy Bulley, Newnham, 1874);
Lament of a Graduate on Leaving Girton (D Pope 1876);
The Girton Pioneers (1873);
Farewell Song;
Ye Questionists (E Welsh);
Limericks (anon);
The College Over (parody by E Welsh on an Eton poem);
Farewell Dear Friends (C A Scott Xmas 1877);
The Groan of a Plucked Goose (M A Kingsland Dec 1875);
The Racquet Court (a fragment taken from an epic, named ‘Girton’ – C L Maynard Dec 1875);
The Lay of the Student (C A Herschel Dec 1875);
Sunlight & Moonlight (J Wood Dec 1875);
The Last Girton Student (E Welsh – 1877?);
Hitchin Revisited (L Lumsden June 1872);
Student Ravings (E Gibson June 1872);
A Not Impossible She (E? Lloyd June 1872);
On the Prospect of R S Cook, E Gibson, & I Townshend leaving College (S Woodhead 1872);
Sonnet to Girton College (E Welsh June 1872);
The Effect on the Universe (E Welsh June 1872);
The Search for the Examiner (A A Bulley June 1872);
A Challenge (M A Kingsland June 1872);
Geometry (anon);
Postcard written by R S Cook to the Five Students in the Little-Go Dec 1872 (in Latin);
The Charge of the Five Students (on the occasion of A Bulley E Welsh R Aitken J S Dove and M Kingsland passing the Little-Go at Cambridge Dec 1872 – C L Maynard);
The Vulture & the Husbandman (anon - appeared in ‘The Light Green’);
The ‘Post-Mortem’ Little Go 1873 (taken by M G C Hoskins alone - R Aitken April 1873);
The First Day of Moral Science Tripos Nov 29th 1875 (Taken by C L Maynard - E Welsh 1875);
Song (E Tomlinson);
The Great God Cram - Parody on Mrs G? B Browning’s ‘Musical Instrument’ (E Welsh Nov 1875);
An Invitation of the Day (To the garden of academe - copied from Punch Feb 21st 1880);
Ode to C A S [presumably Charlotte Angas Scott] Jan 31st 1880;
On C A S (J Arthur);
Muse of Athens! (appeared in the Cambridge Review March 1880);
The Girton Girl (March 1881);
Thoughts at Breakfast ( C St R A - from Cambridge Review 19 November 1881);
Sham Latin inscriptions.