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Knowles : items found loose in the copy of Knowles' 'The Monastic Order in England' (Cambridge University Press, 1940) (Pet.569.14) presented by him to his father, Harry Herbert Knowles, inscribed 'To my dear Father from his son, 5 July, 1940'.
On his father's death in 1944 Knowles clearly reclaimed the book and in due course bequeathed it to Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (1927-2015) and it was subsequently sold by G. David.
The book, which has been many times reprinted, has sparse annotations, mostly to the index, and, inside the back cover notes of corrections (which found their way into the second edtion of 1963) to seven pages.
Lockyer : report of the Aeronautical Research Committee. T.2350. Typescript.
Preliminary experiments on two-dimensional flow round bodies moving through a stationary fluid.
Includes 5 blueprints and 15 photographs.
Mason : Letter to James Dodsley.
Maxwell, James Clerk : correspondence and papers.
The bulk of the material relates to family financial matters. Material from a variety of sources has been contributed at later dates.
McCabe : papers and photographs.
Also correspondence concerning the accession of the material and the deposit of items at the Scott Polar Research Institute.
MS letter to John Charles Burkill accompanying two pamphlets included in this volume of 'Peterhouse Pamphlets: F. H. Jackson'.
Brief reminiscences of his Cambrige degrees and account of his current mathematical endeavours.
Peterhouse chapel; war list; electoral roll.
Peterhouse List of Blues, 1829 - 1927.
The 1927 entries are added in pencil.
Richards : letter to Mansfield Duval Forbes of Clare College, Cambridge, literary critic.
Richards sends Forbes the first chapter, programme, etc. of his 'Practical Criticism' [not here present], thinking he might find it useful as propagandist material.
Roth : papers relating to Professor Klaus Friedrich Roth, mathematician (29 October 1925 to 10 November 2015), B.A. and Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse.
Routh, E. J. : Mathematical papers
Sams : 'Lighter moments in the I[ndian] C[ivil] S[ervice]'.
Typescript of reminiscences copiously annotated, evidently for intended publication, in ink (black and green), in biro, in blue crayon and in pencil. Many passages struck through. The annotations decrease in frequency from the earliest to the latest pages, and those in green ink are perhaps in a hand other than Sams'.
Originally in four ring binders, continuously paginated.
Sanders : MSS relating to the Fourth Gospel in the Alexandrian Fathers, Clement of Alexandria, Heracleon and Origen and associated papers.
There is an account of the papers in SANDERS 8 below to which the notes to 1-5 are indebted.
Selden : Guybon Goddard's annotations on Selden's 'Of the originall of Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction of Testaments', and, 'Of the disposition or Administration of Intestates goodes'.
Smith's Prize papers.
Steele : mathematical tracts.
Sydenham : copy of his dedication to John Mapletoft, M.D., Gresham Professor and F.R.S. of the third edition of his 'Observationes medicae' (1676) with a translation.
Tait : mathematical papers
Tait : papers and photocopies relating to Peter Guthrie Tait, other members of the Tait and Porter families, Lord Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell.
The receipt of the items is detailed in LC/M as noted.
Tawney : letters to Frederick Crossfield Happold.
Temperley : notes on his lectures and letter to him.
Typescripts included in assembled offprints and photocopies, otherwise of printed material.
Vellacott : lectures and notes.
Two boxes (1and 2) and, probably, five notebooks (7 (1-5)) date mostly from Vellacott's undergraduate days and one file (12) from his time as Head Master of Harrow ; the rest from his teaching days at Peterhouse.
Items 8 to 17 have been removed from ring-binders.
Walker, T. A. : notes, largely concerning Peterhouse and Peterhouse men.
The previous item 13 was wrongly attributed to Walker and is now A.W. WARD 108.
Ward, A. W. : literary and historical notes and papers.
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