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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Archives of the Faculty of Classics, 1923 - 1993

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CLAS
Scope and Contents

The archives cover faculty governance, award of graduate degrees and accommodation.

Dates: 1923 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives / Teaching, learning and research records
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Glass lantern slides taken on expeditions to Asia Minor, 1929 - 1932

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/6/2
Scope and Contents 81 glass slides in two wooden boxes, marked in hand on the outside 'Slides for talk on Asia Minor'. Includes index to (most of) the slides on three sheets. One box contained numbered slides and a corresponding indexed list, including additional slides which appears to correspond with some slides in the second (unnumbered) box. Some of these are similar or identical to plates in the published 1933 volume relating to the expeditions. Where possible, titles are those from the handwritten...
Dates: 1929 - 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Access permitted via the Cambridge University Digital Library. Requests for publication to be directed to the College Archivist to pass on to Dr Guthrie for permission.
Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates / Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection / Photographs and slides
 Series

Jane Ellen Harrison, 1870 - 1944

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/2911/MIR/1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, lectures, photographs, verse, etc

Dates: 1870 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: This collection is available to researchers at Newnham College Archive
Found in: Newnham College Archives / Hope Mirrlees Papers
 Collection

Jane Harrison Collection

 Collection
Reference Code: GBR/2911/HAR
Scope and Contents The Harrison Collection comprises the papers of and about Jane Harrison collected after her death principally by Hope Mirrlees and Jessie Stewart, former students of Harrison, for the writing of a biography. Most important is the collection of letters to Gilbert Murray and Lady Mary Murray that form the basis of Jessie Stewart's "Jane Ellen Harrison: A Portrait from Letters" (1959). There are also Mirrlees's and Stewart's own letters from Harrison, their manuscripts and drafts for potential...
Dates: 1870-2000
Conditions Governing Access: This collection is available to researchers at Newnham College Archive
Found in: Newnham College Archives
 Item

Letter about his third year studies for the Classical Tripos Part II, 1927-10-09

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/9
Scope and Contents

Thanking her for sending a presscutting regarding Cross and Sandbach, two classical fellows in his first year at Cambridge. In his final year, he is changing to 'double supervisions' with [Francis] Cornford for philosophy and Robertson for 'Comps' (literature). He is considering both history papers and going to see Adcock at King's for advice. St Columba's church has been redecorated during the vacation and his new furniture makes his room look cosy. With envelope.

Dates: 1927-10-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates / Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection / Personal correspondence and family papers / Letters from W. K. C. Guthrie to his sister, Katharine
 Item

Letter inviting his sister to the Trinity Balls and about his reading, 1927-05-01

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/4
Scope and Contents

He has secured two tickets for the First and Third Ball and describes a dinner and lunch (also attended by Dixen, Mallinson and Wilson of Cambridge) attended by Heppenstall and Bakhle from Oxford. He is finding Plato's Theaetetus 'hard' but 'awfully fascinating' and Plato is 'so all-embracing'. He has been reading essays by the late Times critic A. B. Walkley and R. D. Hicks' book on Stoics and Epicureans.

Dates: 1927-05-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates / Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection / Personal correspondence and family papers / Letters from W. K. C. Guthrie to his sister, Katharine
 Item

Letter regarding his Classical Tripos exams, 1927

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/3
Scope and Contents

With envelope.

Dates: 1927
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates / Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection / Personal correspondence and family papers / Letters from W. K. C. Guthrie to his sister, Katharine
 File

Minutes of meetings of the Cambridge Classical Society, signed, 1903-04-27 - 1950-01-25

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.43.1
Scope and Contents

The volume has been used to record general, committee and subcommittee meetings; and notes of speakers with titles of papers given. Correspondence, printed copies of the laws of the society are tipped in between pages.

Dates: 1903-04-27 - 1950-01-25
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Cambridge University Archives / Student administration and support records / Clubs and societies records
 Series

Papers relating to academic work and publications, 1933 - 1982

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/8
Scope and Contents

Includes reviews relating to Guthrie's various books etc, including 'In the Beginning', 'The Greeks and their Gods' and his multi-volume 'History of Greek Philosophy'. Also includes drafts and copies of speeches made to Schools etc.

Dates: 1933 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.
Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates / Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection
 File

Photographs - mainly relating to Asia Minor, with some possibly family images, 1916 - 1940

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/6/1
Scope and Contents

Includes various original photographs, including one of a group in Asia Minor (Turkey), W. H. Buckler, W. M. Calder and Guthrie (front right), and one of Guthrie as a young man, possibly with his parents. Includes photographs of the Acropolis and ?Delphi, Granada, signed 'WKCG Granada 1933', and several published photographs showing various sarcophagi and buildings, including La Porte doree aux Sept-Tours and Entrée principale de Sainte Sophie.

Dates: 1916 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.
Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates / Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection / Photographs and slides
 Fonds

Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection, 1915 - 1982

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH
Scope and Contents

Includes: personal papers and family correspondence, photographs and slides from travels, including holidays, speeches and reviews re Guthrie's various publications, with some limited papers from his tenure as Master.

Dates: 1915 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.
Found in: Downing College / Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates

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