File contains:
(1) Service sheet A Celebration of the Life of Professor Bill Cornish, held in Cripps Court 19 March 1999
(2) Two photographs (electronic)
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 Royal Navy press release naming a new Testbed Ship XV Patrick Blackett
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
(1) Copy of a photograph of Cyril Fox
(2) Copy of a Governing Body Minute of 16 Feb 1924 electing Fox to a Kingsley Bye-Fellowship for one year with a stipend of £50
(3) Copy of a Governing Body Minute of 20 Nov 1952 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]
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.
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 secondary sources about C.S. Lewis.
Copies of obituaries.
'The Type Designs of Will Carter' by Sebastian Carter, The Typophiles, New Series No. 32
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.
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]
(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
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)
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:
(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
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.
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
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.
File concerning changes to the statutes which were finalised in 1926.
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.
Letters and papers relating to the University Commission.
Entrance examination and undergraduate selection annual file.
Entrance examination and undergraduate selection annual file.
Entrance examination and undergraduate selection annual file.
Entrance examination and undergraduate selection annual file.
Entrance examination and undergraduate selection annual file.
Entrance examination and undergraduate selection annual file.