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Marking 50 years since the death of C.S. Lewis:

(1) Service booklet from Westminster Abbey: 'A Service to Dedicate A Memorial to C.S. Lewis Writer, Scholar, Apologist', 22 November 2013 plus copies of photographs of the memorial stone in Poets' Corner and an article from The Telegraph

(2) Service booklet for 'Choral Evensong commemorating C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)' 3 November 2013

(3) Article from The Times 'JFK Overshadowed the Death of Two Greats' [Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis], 23 November 2013

(d) Programme for 'Lewis as Critic' held at Magdalene College on 23 November 2013

Printed annual balance sheets for the Amalgamation Club, 1890 - 1907 [missing 1902], 1913-14, 1918-19, 1919-20. Also hand written statement of receipts and expenses in connection with the new ground from the date of purchase up to 23 September 1911 and a list of subscriptions gathered giving name and amount.

Articles and papers about C.S. Lewis:

(1) 'C.S. Lewis in Cambridge: some personal reminiscences' by R.W. Ladborough (chapter 11 of James T. Como, ed., C.S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table, and Other Reminiscences)

(2) Articles in Fifty-Two: A Journal of Books & Authors, Spring 1964, No.13:

• 'Heaven? It's a venture' by C. S Lewis, pp. 3-5
• 'C.S. Lewis, an appreciation' by J.B. Phillips, pp. 6-9
• 'C.S. Lewis, Scholar and Christian Apologist' from The Times, pp. 10-12

(3) Moynihan, Martin, The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis to Don Giovanni Calabria of Verona and to members of his congregation 1947-61, (Westchester, Illinois, 1987)

(4) Mineko Honda, ‘C.S. Lewis’s approach to supernatural reality, II ’ (1997)

(5) Mineko Honda, ‘C.S. Lewis’s science fiction’ (1997)

(6) S. Logan, 'Old Western Man for Our Times' (2001)

(7) Jacqueline Glenny, 'C.S. Lewis's Cambridge: a walking tour guide' (Round Church, Cambridge 2003)

(8) 'Science Fiction in First Court': CSL, Brian Aldiss & Kingsley Amis, 1962, College Magazine, No. 45 (2000-01)

(9) 'C.S. Lewis, Renaissance Man' 22 April 2006 (Literary Festival)

(10) ‘C.S. Lewis at Magdalen’ (Magdalen College Oxford 2013)

(11) Prof. Helen Cooper, blog post (2016)

(12) Photocopy of an article: ‘Interim report, Comparing Oxford and Cambridge' by C.S. Lewis, published in Walmsley, Lesley (ed), C.S. Lewis, Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces (2000), No. 96

Service sheet A Celebration of the Life of Professor Bill Cornish, held in Cripps Court 19 March 1999
Two photographs (electronic)

Minutes of the Magdalene Boat Club Committee of Management meetings held on the following dates:

Special Meeting, 11 Jun 1982
First meeting: 15 Oct 1982
25 Jan 1983, 29 Apr 1983, 14 Oct 1983
28 Feb 1984, Captain's Report as at 9 May 1984
8 Jun 1985, 25 Oct 1985
14 Jun 1986
30 Oct 1987 [agenda only]
20 May 1994, 26 Oct 1994
27 Jan 1995, 5 May 1995, 17 Jun 1995, 5 May 1995
13 Nov 1997, 17 Nov 1997
16 Feb 1996, 14 Nov 1996,
Treasurer's Report for Lent term 1997
13 Nov 1998, Lent term 1998, May term 1998
Treasurer's Report for Lent term 1998
25 May 2003

File about Mallory's book Boswell the Biographer including letters from John Murray (publishers), Smith, Elder & Co [who published the book]; an account showing sales; Mallory's account showing he had ordered six copies to be sent to Charterhouse (3 copies), G. Sayle, G. L. Keynes, and St John's Vicarage [his parents]; and press cuttings of reviews.

Also a copy of the book text published by Amazon 2016 (Create Space Independent Publishing Platform), printed in Poland.

Celebrations to mark the centenary of the birth of C.S. Lewis:

(a) Programmes of events in Belfast, Oxford, and Magdalene
(b) Working script of ‘Readings from the works’, Benson Hall, Dec 1998, ed. Prof Stevens
(c) Poster for A.N. Wilson’s lecture
(d) Text of Bishop Barrington-Ward’s sermon, 11 Oct 1998
(e) Occasional Paper 23, Centenary Readings from C.S. Lewis and correspondence relating to the publication
(f) Photocopy of a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury (The Rt Revd Lord Runcie) to The Revd Hueston Finlay (Chaplain of Magdalene), 13 Nov 1996, declining to preach on C.S. Lewis.

Handwritten notes on teaching art.

Proposed history course, letter to the Headmaster explaining the course and two draft lectures.

Letters from V. Vernon-Jones [20 January 1901], S. A. Donaldson [2 May 1905], and A. C. Benson [5 May 1905] accepting honorary membership of the Amalgamated Club. One letter from Selina Gill [mother of W. A. Gill (Fellow), founder of the Club], acknowledging condolences on his death.

Contains secondary sources about C.S. Lewis.

Photocopies (enlarged) of annotations in his Arden Shakespeare copies of King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Love’s Labour’s Lost.

Also:
(1) R. Lyne, ‘C.S. Lewis and his Arden Shakespeare’, College Magazine, No. 42 (1997-98), pp. 48-52

(2) Copy of Lionel Adey’s article: 'C.S. Lewis's Annotations to His Shakespeare Volumes' in the Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society Vol 8 (1977)

(1) Copy of a photograph of Cyril Fox
(2) Copy of B/442 - 16 Feb 1924 Governing Body Minute electing Fox to a Kingsley Bye-Fellowship for one year with a stipend of £50
(3) Copy of B/443 - 20 Nov 1952 Governing Body Minute electing Sir Cyril Fox to an Honorary Fellowship
(4) Copy of Benson's Diary, vol. 173 (1924) in which he records suggesting giving Fox the Kingsley Bye Fellowship
(5) Copy of Benson's Diary, vol. 175 (1924) in which he is vexed Fox had accepted curatorship of the Irish Museum
(6) Copy of Benson's Diary, vol. 176 (1924) in which he records his meeting with Fox
(7) Copy of letter from Benson to Fox informing him of the decision of the Governing Body [original held at the National Library of Wales]
(8) Copy of Admission to Bye Fellowship, 24 Feb 1924 [original held at the National Library of Wales]

Copies of the order of service and the eulogies given by Sir Christopher Greenwood, Frank Salmon, and Margaret Greaves at the memorial service held for Duncan Robinson held at Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge on 22 April 2023.

Copy of a short biography of Edward Digby, who matriculated at Magdalene in 1792 but doesn't appear to have proceeded to a degree. Was tried for a 'Foot-pad robbery' at the Old Bailey in 1802. A transcript of the trial can be read at the Old Bailey Online website: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18021027-119?text=%22medical%20gentleman%22.

Contains articles and copies of photographs about George Mallory:

Articles
(1) Article from Vanity Fair (No. 469), 'The Riddle of Everest' by Bryan Burrough, Sept 1999

(2) Press cutting from The Independent 'A Storm Rages in the Death Zone' by Jochem Hemmleb, 8 Oct 1999

(3) Press cutting from The Daily Mail about George Mallory by Jeffrey Archer, 14 March 2009

(4) Book review from The Financial Times of Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davies, November 2011

(5) Photocopy of an article from a newspaper about the auction of Mallory's ice axe, 2014

(6) Article from The Winchester College Record No. 117 'George Mallory and the Mystery of the Everest Compass*, May 2004

(7) ‘The 93-year-old- question. Were Mallory and Irvine the First Men on the Summit of Everest in 1924?'’, by Rupert Wilkey (9 Dec 2017)

(8) Article in the College Magazine 'The Unlikely Hero of Everest: The Other Side of George Mallory' by Dr Ronald Hyam, 2018

(9) Article from The Sunday Times about the 1921 expedition, 21 Oct 2018

(10) Article from the Daily Telegraph containing an interview with Ang Tsering Sherpa the last surviving member of the 1924 expedition, undated

Copies of Photographs
The Archive doesn't contain any original photographs although there are a number of copies in this file which can be used for reference.

Copy of 'A Close and Friendly Alliance': Biology, Geology and the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928-1929, by Tom Spencer, Barbara E. Brown, Sarah H. Hamylton and Roger F. McLean

Copies of obituaries.

Letters of condolence written to Ruth Mallory on the death of her husband George Mallory on Mount Everest from:

Mary Anne O'Malley; Jelly d'Aranji; Geoffrey Keynes; Geoffrey Young; Robert Graves; E. F. Norton; George Trevelyan; Will A-Forster [whom Ruth married in 1939]; KA Forster; Alan Goodfellow; M. J. Rendall; Arthur Hinks; F. Keeling Scott; J. N. Collie; T. Howard Somerville; A. C. Benson; message of condolence from the King sent to Sir Francis Younghusband and passed on to Ruth; Noel Odell; and various Climbing Clubs.

Also a booklet in which his John Mallory [son] has transcribed the letters for George and Ruth's descendants.

List of crews for:
Lent Bumps: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984,
May Bumps: 1983, 1986, 1996 (includes results), 1997
Fairbairn Cup: 1981, 1985
Cam Head Race: 1983

Copies of photographs showing the outside of Mallory Court, a room inside Mallory Court, the stone memorial inscription on Mallory Court (a gift of A. C. Benson), a black and white slide of Mallory Court, and the brass memorial to George Mallory in the College's Chapel

Drafts of articles and lectures about climbing including one called The Art of Climbing and another called Death in the Alps in which he expresses his views on the risk of dying whilst climbing.

(1) ‘The Uncontemporary Apologist' in Theology LXVIII, (No. 536), Feb 1965, by Simon Barrington-Ward (Fellow and Dean of Magdalene College)

(2) Photocopy of an obituary by Helen Gardner in Proceedings of the British Academy LI (1965)

(3) Printout of a copy of an obituary in The Times, 25 November 1963

Copy of a Royal Navy press release naming a new Testbed Ship XV Patrick Blackett

A volume giving a full report on the Poppy Day fundraising events to help future organisers. Includes black and white photographs.

16 small black and white photographs and negatives in the original Kodak Wallet of Rag Day 1951 and the Poppy Day events, c. 1952 or 1953.

Contains documents and photocopies about Rudyard Kipling:

(1) Typescript copy from his diaries of motor tours, taken between 1911-14 and 1920-1926 (originals held in the Macmillan Archive).

(2) Photocopies of the wills of Rudyard Kipling, Caroline Kipling (wife) and Elsie Bainbridge (daughter) (originals are held in the University of Sussex)

(3) Copy of the Pocket Edition of Kim, 1960 (the ‘Heatthen edition’)

(4) Copies of Magdalene College Occasional Papers:
Kipling and His 'Coll' by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 9)
The Kipling that Nobody Reads by Thomas Pinney, (No. 19)
The Ramsay - Mrs Kipling Letters by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 25)
The Kipling Onetime Governess: Sylvia Thompson's Memoir by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 26).

Also:
The Kipling Journal, June 2001;
Rudyard Kipling's IF - in Translation, edited by Jeffrey Lewins, August 2001;
Kipling on Magdalene, Two Un-published Letters about his Honorary Fellowship from the College Magazine, No. 41 1996-1997.

(5) Papers relating to the Kipling Centenary Conference held in Magdalene College, on 5-7 September 2001 to mark the centenary of the publication of Kim. Includes the programme, attendance list, and abstracts of papers given.

(6) Photocopy of a photograph of a plaque at the University of Cape Town

Copy of the speech given by Sir Christopher Greenwood at the lunch to celebrate the 90th birthday of Sir John Gurdon.

Copy of a talk about Major Sir Robert Dalrymple Arbuthnot, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps, who died 30 June 1944 aged 24. He entered Magdalene College in October 1937 to study for the History Tripos. He joined up at the end of his second year and therefore did not complete his degree. The paper includes photographs. The talk was given by Mrs Roberta Matulja, Churchwarden, Nash and Boraston, South Shropshire.

Handwritten and typed notes for a novel called The Book of Geoffrey in which he was able to explore his views on morality and the existing educational system.

File containing items relating to Winchester School where George Mallory was a pupil:

(1) Booklet with the College crest and moto on the cover containing 16 photographs of the College and pupils
(2) Letter dated 27 Sept 1911 to Mallory from 'ERM' asking him to send a contribution to Rendall's present
(3) Letter dated 13 Nov 1911 to Mallory from John Stainton thanking him for his contribution to Rendall's present
(4) Letter undated except for 'Wednesday' to Mallory from Rendall asking him to confirm whether he had made a contribution to the museum which he thinks he did and also inviting Mallory to bicycle over to Farnham Castle to tea before attending the lecture he was giving on Mount Sinai
(5) Letter dated 20 Jul 1914 to Mallory from Rendall letting him know he was having the rug sent down from London
(6) Letter to Mrs Mallory from Rendell commenting on the pamphlet George Mallory wrote for school children in 1915 called War Work for Boys and Girls
(7) Letter dated 27 May [possibly 1923] to Mallory from Rendall congratulating him on his new post which he had heard about from A. C. Benson and commiserating with him about Everest