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Presenting a book to the Library; found in the book (unspecified)

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11 Mar 1796 to an unnamed correspondent Dr. Jowett persuaded the Syndicate to print first volume of lectures at their expense. Asks correspondent to proof-read sheets. Index to come when all volumes complete, predicts five in all.

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1 card, 6 May 1974, describing his relationship with Edward Titus, American director of Franco-American quarterly magazine 'The Quarter'

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[20-24] SIR ARTHUR BLISS Letters 20 SEP 1922 – 25 NOV 1953 Referring to compositions, visiting J.B.Priestly to discuss writing an opera The Green Bough. [25] ALAN DUDLEY BUSH Letter 28 MAR 1943 in response to Newman's article in The Times which disagreed with a statement made by Bush on British composers.

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Letter 27 April 1831 to a supporter about Cambridge University seat in General Election

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[27-35] HANDLEY CARR GLYN MOULE Letters 1884-95 following Townshend's curacies; other Anglican Church matters. [36] HUBERT SEYMOUR ISAACS Letter 1888 to 'My dearest Brother' referring to a tournament and also church services. [37] GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS SCHUTT SCHNEIDER (1858-1941) Letter 15 JUN 1886 on amount due for rooms. Mention of forthcoming examination results.

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1 letter 20 January 1767, asking for 'a nautical almanac stitched in blue

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News of Sir William Barrett's death; question of a Society for Psychical Research 'volume of literary research'. A.W. Trewethy and Herbert F. Saltmarsh (1881-1943), writers on spiritualism.

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1 letter, 19 JUN 1939, sending a copy of his book: recommending other books for London Library

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[89] Obituary of MCJ, in The Cambridge Chronicle, 17 MAY 1933. [90] Photograph of 'the late Mrs. Francis Jenkinson', unnamed paper, n.d. [91] Photograph of Mrs. Jenkinson, by J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge, n.d. [92] Photograph of Francis Jenkinson, by Whyte, Inverness, n.d. [93] Photograph of Richard Rowe, Trinity College.

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5 letters, 1889-98, encouraging HCM to write a book mixing literature with scandal; disappointed 'more by the treachery of friends than by the actual loss of the post' of University Librarian; his collection of Cambridge periodicals; declining to address Odd Volumes; keen to visit Nadrack; teetotalism; references to Ernest Clarke.

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Adverse criticism of Herbert's Cyclops Christianus; or, An argument to disprove the supposed antiquity of the Stonehenge and other megalithic erections in England and Britanny (London, 1849)

Scope and Contents [173] NEVIL MASKELYNE: LETTER TO DAVIES GIDDY, 1809 Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811)), Astronomer Royal; Davies Giddy (later Gilbert) (1767- 1839), MP scientific administrator, mathematician. 11 AUG 1809: Dunkin, computation of Nautical Almanac, Board of Longitude; with (ii) scrap from another letter, and (iii) engraved portrait of Maskelyne. [174] JOHN POND: LETTER TO AN UNNAMED PERSON, n.d. John Pond (1767-1836), Astronomer Royal, 1811-35. N.d., Kaln and Herschel are to try out the...

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27 July 1781, did not find in CUL several scientific books which Ashby requested he borrow for him; congratulations on Ashby's papers on 'the Ancient Fire'; read Sonnerat's Voyages with great pleasure; looks forward to completion of Captain Cook's Last Voyage, by King; Master of St. John's going to Isle of Wight for recuperation.

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John Grierson (his signature in same hand), lines from John Milton, Paradise lost, with notes 'of frets or guilochis', 1 sheet

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Investigations of four-pole lenses. An electron microscope corrected with respect to spherical aberration. Photostat of typescript, 1955, for Farrand Optical Co. Inc., New York.

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Portrait photograph of Pike in theatrical costume, by Scott & Wilkinson, 'adjoining New Theatre, Cambridge'.

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Asking MCB to review Henri Lhoti, The search for the Tassili frescoes

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Keynes purchased a picture of Sir Nicholas Bacon in 1953, from the collection of the late Prince Duleep Singh. The picture now hangs in the Keynes Room at CUL. These notes were formerly attached to the back of the picture. [182-186] Keynes's notes on provenance of his picture, page of sale catalogue, photograph of it and National Portrait Gallery version.

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Biographical materials collected by Lucjan Lewitter, presented by him with an explanatory letter [187] JP, article 'Trzy niespodzianki' (Three surprises) in Mysl Polska, 1941, photocopy. [188] Letter, JP to Lewitter, 2004. [189] Stefan Jurkowski, 'Jerzy Pietrkiewicz', in Tydzien Literacki, 2004, with some of his early poems. [190] Press release on JP, by Macmillans, photocopy. [191] Explanatory letter, LUCJAN LEWITTER to CUL, 16 NOV 2004, presenting items.

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1 sketch, blue pen and wash, 'Maison de 'La femme seule'

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1 letter, 23 October 1930

Scope and Contents [194] THERESA KISHKAN: POEM SONG FOR THE ABSENT SALMON, n.d. Theresa Kishkan (1955- ), Canadian poet. Found in Theresa Kishkan, Arranging the gallery [2001.8.1466]. [195] PAUL MATTHEWS: letter to PAUL BURNS, n.d. Found in [2001.8.3738]. [196-198] RENNY ENGLEBERT: to MAX _____, enclosing copies of correspondence with JAMES J. MACDONNELL (1915-83) (Auditor General of Canada, 1973-80), about book Cordial but not cosy, 1979. Found in [662:9.c.95.180] [199-211] WALTER BAUER (1904-76), poet, T/S...

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[230] M.R. JAMES, 27 JAN n.y., proposes a subsyndicate on best way of reproducing Codex Bezae by photography. [231-233] AUBREY STEWART, n.d., questions about placenames in Fabri's Evagatorium.

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25 JUL n.y., wants to present a 'good spectroscope' to Newnham College's laboratory