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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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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]

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)

Contains secondary sources about C.S. Lewis.

Correspondence between Magdalene College and St John's College about the development of Merton College's property in the Backs (Cambridge).

File containing letters sent to F.R. Salter, when he was researching the College history, about the letter written by the Duke of Norfolk, 1565 which is copied into the volume containing the original statutes. Also includes a transcript of Carte MSS in the Bodleian Library and Salter's typescript essay on the Statutes.

Correspondence concerning the Merton College estate and former beerhouse known as the 'Brick Kiln' belonging to Francis Eaden.