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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

'The Type Designs of Will Carter' by Sebastian Carter, The Typophiles, New Series No. 32

Printed valuations of investments prepared by McAnally, Montgomery & Co.

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 typed statements for Tutor's accounts, 1909-1926 with some related correspondence from the Chartered Accountants.

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.

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

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

Tradesmen's receipts submitted to Mr Hodson (Bursar of Magdalene College) for work carried out on John Bull's farm in Longstanton:

(1) Carpenter’s bill submitted by John Rowell. Payment received 31 Aug 1776

(2) Bill submitted by William Townsend for iron work for the great barn. Payment received 20 Feb 1777

(3) Brick layer's bill submitted by William Harvey. Payment received 29 Mar 1777

(4) Bill submitted by George Freeman for Messrs Caton & Butler for the provision of battens, oak posts, bricks, lime and deals. Payment received 21 Apr 1777

(5) Surveyor’s bill submitted by John Smith. Payment received 10 May 1777

(6) Timber merchant’s bill submitted by Henry Butler. Payment received 15 Jun 1778

(7) Bill for lime and bricks submitted by Robert Ding. Payment received 24 Jun 1778

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.

Photocopies of ten letters written by Charles Acton to his mother (in French) and sister Elizabeth (Mrs Throckmorton).
including a letter to his sister (8 April 1831) about rebellion in Bologna (and Papal States), which the Cardinal was able to escape when replaced as Vice-Legate on the death of Pius VIII.

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

File concerning changes to the statutes which were finalised in 1926.

File concerning changes made to individual statutes and to a revision of the whole statues under the 1877 Act. Includes copies of the statutes, Crown approval, and correspondence.

(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

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.

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

Magdalene College Prospectuses for the following years:

1972/73, 1973/74, 1974/75, 1975/76, 1976/77, 1977/78, 1979
1981/82, 1983/84, 1988, 1989/90
1990/91, 1996
c. 2002/3, c. 2003/4, c. 2008, 2009 [A glimpse.. not a full prospectus], 2010, undated [c.2013-2020]

There are also 4 editions of an informal prospectus for the years 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988. This was a typed leaflet providing information to prospective students whilst Cambridge Admissions were undergoing major reform. It was felt it was better to produce these rather than a glossy prospectus until the new arrangements were made known so it would not go rapidly out of date.

Includes a letter from T.E.B. Howarth [Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions] about G. Harper's suggestions about the prospectus, 25 May 1976.

Letters written by Acton while in residence in Magdalene. Seventeen letters sre written to his mother Lady Acton in French and two are to his brother Sir Richard Acton (in English).

A short digest in English was published by Prof F.C. Green in the College Magazine, No. 77 (Dec 1938), pp 325-328:

Digest:

2. 16 February 1820
   George IV proclaimed in Cambridge. Lodgings in College good though street noisy. References to his brother Richard and François

3. Cambridge, 18 February 1820
   Matriculated, took oath on the Bible to obey the laws of the University and Vice- Chancellor" in everything just and equitable". Did not take other oaths which he describes as " monuments of the infatuation and bigotry of the Reformation". Reference to Mr Fortescue, Fellow of the College, who was polite to him. The older undergraduates tell him that the discipline is light. Not obliged to go to Greek lectures since the Professor gives private lessons. The same Professor gives private lessons in Mathematics. At first Acton went to lectures thinking they were compulsory and after being complimented on his diligence continued going. Lectures are badly attended. References to his brother Richard who is to matriculate in the Easter Term

4. Cambridge, 15 March 1820
   Letter from Acton (in English) to his brother Richard. He refers to the following friends: Gilbert Elliot (in his second year at St John's), Barker of Christ's, Mildmay, Turner, Gage, Irish, a Fellow Commoner of Magdalene aged about 30, Pile, the other Fellow Commoner of Magdalene, and Williams, also a Magdalene man, from Shrewsbury. Acton says that "several men come from the same Academy because there are Scholarships open to them only".

5. Cambridge, 10 May 1820
   (Lady Acton is in London.) Examinations are to take place on the 20th. Acton will go down about the 25th.

6. Early in May 1821, probably the 1st
   A note to his mother from Calais announcing that he will embark for England next day.

7. 7 May 1821
   Mentions crossing from France to Dover. No customs duties to pay. Apparently stopped with friends called Jones on his way to Cambridge. Reference to Cambridge friends called Kaye.

8. Cambridge, 10 May 1821
   Reference suggesting that Mr Wynne is a Member of Parliament. Acton received by the Kayes.

9. 14 May 1821
   Acton has been with Mr Wright at Walton where he met a Catholic friend of Wright's called Slaughter who was visiting Newmarket Races. Wright has gone to Cheshire where he has property. Refers to the Jerninghams at Copley. Acton now in a new set of rooms overlooking the Garden and belonging to one of the Fellows, Benson; "consequently", says Acton, "one of the best sets". He will occupy this set until the return of Benson in October.

10. 17 May 1821
    Visited Ely. Not impressed by cathedral. Weather bad; windy and cold. Acton is learning how to keep a coal fire alight. References to Cambridge friends Gilbert Elliott and Gibbons.

11. 21 May 1821
    Acton has been to Newmarket Races where he saw the Duke of York. Lady Acton is apparently going to Italy. Refers to bad political conditions in Naples. Acton in favour of ruthless suppression of the rebels.

12. 24 May 1821
    Lady Acton apparently complaining of lack of news. Her son replies that there is nothing worth mentioning. One of the family servants apparently now in Cambridge with him. Still obliged to have a fire. Invited by a Mr Crawley to dine.

13. 28 May 1821
    Invited to dine by Mr Wright.

14. Cambridge, 4 June 1821
    Lady Acton was in Paris, 130 rue du Faubourg St Honoré. Acton refers to a misunderstanding with his Tutor, Mr Wynne, who reproached him with not having announced his return. Acton dined with Mr Wright before leaving Cambridge for London.

15. Cambridge, July (no date, but from the postmark it was received in Paris on the 16th)
    Acton refers to a letter from Mr Wynne who is at Dropmore, at Lord Grenville's. Wynne wants him to spend his holidays with Mr King of Cambridge who is at present in Bangor. Acton, on the other hand, decides not to go but to ask Mr Wynne's permission to allow him to leave Cambridge at once on condition that he returns in February. Apparently Wynne is willing to let him go if he comes back in October, but this would prevent Acton accompanying his mother. If Wynne consents, Acton will have time, apparently, to go to Naples and back. Acton really wants to leave Cambridge for good on account of the exorbitant expenses; his Tutor, on the other hand, is trying to persuade him to stay, pointing out the advantages to be derived from a longer sojourn. Acton apparently wants to go into the Church, whilst his Tutor wants him first to study Law at the Temple.

16. 17 July 1821
    Two days before the Coronation. Acton wants to get away from Cambridge so as to be with his mother in Naples. Has not succeeded in persuading Mr Wynne to let him go. The latter suggests that he ought first to study Law at the Temple. Acton wants to miss the Michaelmas Term; thinks he may persuade a Mr Neville to allow him to do so.

17. c. 20 August 1821 (received 24th in Paris)
    Note announcing arrival at Dover after a good crossing.

18. Aldenham, 26 August 1821
    Acton could not leave London earlier for Aldenham because the coaches were filled with University of Oxford electors, a bye- election having been caused by the promotion of Sir William Scott to the peerage. Acton going to Liverpool. Intends to resume his studies which have suffered from interruptions. If he gets Mr Wynne's permission, he will stay some time at Aldenham and later visit his friend Gibbons and study with him. Reference to his own philosophic character, serious melancholy, but only really disturbed by private sorrows. Once he has acquired some self-mastery, he tells his mother, he will be quite happy. Points out that although he may be considered cynical, it is a fact that external experiences do not affect him. Reference to Richard who is too lazy to write.

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.

Letters and papers relating to the University Commission.

Each tutor was given a number which was used in various student records.

Newspaper articles about nuclear power.

Text extracted from Dorothy James's account of the James Family, 1752-1952, covering James Lyne Beaumont James's time at Magdalene College, 1906-1910.

Copies of obituaries.

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

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.

Contains:

(1) Photocopy of a letter from Penrose to Mr Pattrick enclosing a bill from Smith & Sons for an oven, 26 Feb 1884 [for the original letter see MCAD/1/2/LN/44]

(2) Photocopies of four letters from Penrose to Mr Pattrick concerning the design and building of a strongroom, 27 May, 22 Jun, 2 Jul, 5 Jul 1889 [for the original letters see MCAD/1/2/LN/61]

(2) Photocopies of two letters from Penrose to the Master about putting a window into the antechapel, 27 Jun and 7 Jul 1900 [for original letters see: MCAD/1/2/LN/42]

Correspondence mainly concerning College bills.

File relating to land at Stow Cum Quy containing:

(1) Declaration from John Sterne that he had received from Mary Brace of Cambridge (widow) the sum of £20 of the £70 for the purchase of 10 acres of his 40 acres of land and gives further details, 28 Aug 1654 [see: MCAD/4/1/14/20]

(2) Letter to the Master of Magdalene College from Thomas D’ayd explaining the difficulties he was having letting land at Stow Cum Quy at the rent the College was asking, 13 Dec 1691

(3) Letter from the Revd Mr Bywater addressed to John Claridge, at the Salopian Coffee House, Charing Cross, London asking for a copy of the terrier that John Martin was covenanted to produce in his lease from the College, 25 Apr 1787

(4) Letter from John Claridge to the Revd Mr Bywater assuring him that he had asked Mr Kettle to produce a careful copy of the terrier. He would be happy to agree with him for a new lease and thought he and the College would deal liberally with Mr Martin who had spend £200 on part of the estate which had led to it increasing in value, 4 May 1787

(5) Letter from John Claridge to the Revd Mr Bywater – he was highly pleased with Bywater’s letter and would communicate it to Mr Martin who would be pleased with the liberal conduct of the College on the renewal of his lease, 12 March 1788

(6) Letter from Mr Kettle to Mr Custance – he had written to Mr Martin twice to ask for a copy of the terrier but had not received a reply, 5 Sept 1807

(7) Letter from Mr Custance to Revd Mr Lowe saying that he had been to Quy with the College terrier but he needed the plan of the parish which he had asked Mr Kettle for but had not received. He did not know if they should make out a new lease without the plan as the lands were ill known but Michaelmas was approaching. He would do his best to deal with Mr Kettle in the interests of the College but would like his approbation before he concluded anything, 6 Sept 1807

(8) Letter from Mr Custance saying that he had received a letter from Mr Kettle saying he had received the map of the Quy estate from Mr Martin. He had arranged to go out on 17th to make out the lands, 9 Sept 1807

(9) Note from Mr Claridge to Revd Mr Bywater thanking him for his invitation which he couldn’t accept as he was leaving Cambridge by fly at an early hour. The Revd Mr Bywater should rest assured that any map or terrier that the College needed would be available at all times, undated

(10) Instructions for the lease of Quy Farm as follows:
Magdalene College to James Thomas Martin
Term: 10 years from Michaelmas 1839
Quantity: 64 acres, 1 rood, 32 perches
Rent: £135 to be paid half yearly
Tenant to farm land according to the custom of the parish, to keep and leave farm house and buildings in good repair
To fence new allotment and raise a good ?
To pay rent charge in lieu of tithes and all other outgoings
Expense of lease to be divided
Martin Nockolds