The titles of the verses and cartoons are as follows:
1) ‘New substitute for the Red Herring. Red Octopus’, cartoon by Alison A B Fairlie
2) ‘When dons delight in argument’, sonnet, by Muriel C Bradbrook
3) ‘High Table conversation’, 4 verses, by T R Peace, 1947
4) ‘Spring comes to Cambridge’, poem, 1929
5) ‘Her Public Duties, for the moment, over’, Janet R Bacon to Mary Clover and Kathleen Peace: verse, 12 May 1930
6) ‘Reply. The Efforts of a Substitute untried’, Kathleen Peace to Janet R Bacon, verse
7) ‘A substitute who plies so apt a wit’, Janet R Bacon to Kathleen Peace, verse, 13 May 1930
8) Janet R Bacon to the Master of Emmanuel College, 13 May 1930, with copies of the three poems above (GCPP Peace 2/3/5, 6 & 7)
9) Lines written by the Secretary of Girton to her Predecessor in Thanks for a Gift’
10) ‘Litany for College Officers, particularly such as are Administrative Officers; to be said at all seasons but especially before Committee Meetings’
11) ‘Apotheosis of J R B [Janet R Bacon]’, by Helen M Cam, 29 July 1935
12) ‘To KMP 27 August 1938 VALE’, verse by Janet R Bacon, found inside front cover of Seton Gordon ‘Thirty Years of Nature Photography’ (Cassell, London, 1936).
13) ‘Post-War Song of College Administration’, May 1946
14) ‘Education Board’: ‘The bats are weaving in our hair’, by Muriel C Bradbrook, May 1946
15) ‘Girton College. Meeting of Special Purposes Committee. 29 February 1950’. Parody (cyclostyled typescript)
16) ‘Round and round a table sat/The Education Board to chat’, poem by Alison A B Fairlie, 8 March 1950
17) ‘The Governors in silence sit’, poem written by Alison A B Fairlie at a Governors’ Meeting, 1950-51
18) Parody of a letter from an Entrance and Scholarship Examination Candidate, written by Alison A B Fairlie during Education Board Meeting, 25 October 1950
19) Parody of a letter from a candidate who has mislaid her entry form, with details of her educational qualifications, written by Alison A B Fairlie on the same occasion
20) ‘To the Fellows’ Mutiny’, poem, by Muriel C Bradbrook
21) ‘Diagram of Exasperometer’, by Alison A B Fairlie, designed at the Education Board Meeting of 27 January 1954
22) ‘Disjointed Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in Doodling, Idle Thought and Irrelevance’, Nora to Kathleen Peace, 4 November 1950, (cyclostyled typescript)
23) ‘Addendum to Council Minutes of 27 October 1951’: ‘There once was a Master of Clare’, limerick by Muriel C Bradbrook
24) ‘To KMP. Suggestions for the Rose Garden’, poem by Alison A B Fairlie, written at the Fellows’ Meeting of 30 January 1952; with a ‘Schematic diagram of the proposed amelioration of the Rose Garden’
25) ‘Appointment Committee’s Song’, by Muriel C Bradbrook, 25 January 1952
26) Drawing of a porteress (?) opening the gate, by H D M [Helen D Megaw], 9 February 1952
27) ‘The Ballad of the Yarrow Board’, by Kathleen Peace, 5 February 1952; with ‘Postscript by B Jeffreys’ [Bertha Jeffreys]
28) Drawing of the acoustic screen, by H D M [Helen D Megaw?], 27 February 1952
29) ‘Recording angel (Kathleen Peace 1923-1953)’, poem, by Muriel C Bradbrook
30) ‘I’d sing a hymn of praise ... Our K M P’, by Alison A B Fairlie, October 1953
31) ‘Frivolous song of prophecy’, by Alison A B Fairlie, written at Fellows’ Meeting, 4 February 1954
32) ‘Secretary - Luminary’, by Alison A B Fairlie, 24 April 1954
33) ‘A Respectful Tribute on the Approaching Decease of the Governors’, poem, by Muriel C Bradbrook, May 1954
34) ‘The Council met for hours and hours’ and ‘Fragments’, poems by Alison A B Fairlie, 12 November 1954
35) ‘A bad plan’ [re plan for College Grounds], drawn by Alison A B Fairlie, 3 December 1954
36) ‘Disordered Reflections’, poem, by Alison A B Fairlie, 4 December 1954
37) ‘Poem for a poor pluralist’ [Sheila Gillies?], by Alison A B Fairlie, 10 February 1956
38) ‘The Deposed Director’, poem, written by Alison A B Fairlie at the Council Meeting of 3 March 1956
39) ‘Those who like feathers more than flowers’, poem by sister/brother (?) of K M
40) ‘Lines on the choice of a scientific Founders’ Lecturer’, poem written at the Council Meeting of 12 February 1960
41) ‘To Kay [Kathleen Peace]’, poem by Muriel C Bradbrook, December 1961
42) ‘When I see my Ordinances’, poem, by Sheila Gillies (?), 12 June 1964
43) ‘There was a strong man on a syndicate’ anonymous.