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Letter from Harry Redfern to Talbot Peel (Bursar) hoping that the new panelling in the Chapel was satisfactory.

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) replacing the tapestries in the Chapel with French walnut panelling
(2) new entrance gates for the drive to the Master's Lodge

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) recommendation of Redfern to T.C. Wyatt of Feh House, Chaucer Road, Cambridge
(2) surveyor's final accounts for work on the undergraduates reading room and alterations to the kitchen
(3) proposal for the removal of tapestries from the walls of the Chapel and replacing them with oak panelling

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) alterations to the undergraduate reading room
(2) plan of furniture in the undergraduates reading room
(3) furniture, flooring and curtains for the common room and reading room
(4) changes to the kitchens

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) proposed enlargement of the common room

(2) letter to Christ's College recommending:
Sir Edwin Lutyens ["we found him most agreeable to deal with and took every pains to meet the wishes of the College"] and Harry Redfern ["He is especially good in catching the spirit of the present buildings and entirely effacing himself, making no effort to show a building that would call attention to himself"]

(3) a survey of the College buildings to be carried out by Mr Dean of the Estates Management School

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) a proposal to join part of the small house next to the fives courts to a smaller house in the approach to Mallory Court to make a house for a resident Porter, and to convert the remainder of the small house into two sets for undergraduates
(2) drawing of the cottages in Mallory Court showing the living room, keeping room, kitchen, bedroom, scullery, fuel store, and yard

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) repairs to the base of the pillars on the Pepys Building
(2) housing for a large refrigerator in the College kitchen and extension of the kitchen office
(3) colours for painting the window frames and door in Mallory Court

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) a lamp for the College gateway [ultimately rejected]
(2) electric light brackets for the entrance to the chapel and library from First Court
(3) proposed new dormer window in the set on the second floor off the chapel staircase and a proposed alteration in the window of the Combination Room
(4) drawing of the fireplace in the Combination Room with detail of the grate and estimate of costs
(5) repairs to the base of the pillars on the Pepys Building

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) a proposed dormer window in the keeping room on the top floor overlooking the garden and the proposed lowering of the sill of the window in the keeping room on the ground floor overlooking River Court
(2) design for a metal lantern to be fixed on the wall of the gatehouse opposite the entrance to the Porter's Lodge
(3) new boathouse [the purchase of the land for the boathouse was put off and so did not take place at this time]

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) repairing the stones on the front of the Pepys Building
(2) repairs to the chimneys on the Pepys Building
(3) addition of a new bedroom to the Old Lodge

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) roof facing Pepys Court
(2) the condition of the brickwork on the Hall and Kitchen facing the Pepys Building
(3) the failure of certain stones on the front of the Pepys Library
(4) the leak in the College roof above the organ and the need to replace the slates
(5) lights for the Pepys loggia and the screens
(6) a lantern for the wall in the gateway opposite to the Porters Lodge
(7) an electric light pendant for the Pepys cloister - designed like an old lantern commonly used in ships and therefore in keeping with Pepys [this was resected to Redfern's surprise and disappointment]

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) curtains and tables for the library extension
(2) proposed cycle house in the court in front of the Old Lodge
(3) payments of accounts for various work carried out by the builders Messrs Sindalls
(4) payment of accounts from Harry Redfern
(5) decay of stonework in First Court
(6) layout of a court in front of Old Lodge
(7) alteration to the cycle house to form a set next to the gateway
(8) letter to Talbot Peel from Sir Edwin Lutyens thanking him for photos and apologising for the trouble he has put him to

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) proposed new road
(2) remodelling Old Lodge [see MCAD/5/RED/2/1926
(3) annex to the Library
(4) conversion of the old brewery building in Ekin's yard to a hostel [now Mallory Court]
(5) proposed alterations to First Court [see: MCAD/5/RED/2/1926/2]
(6) alterations to the first floor of the Pepys Building
(7) taking down and rebuiding the wall of the Court next to Magdalene Street
(8) a door in the Old Lodge building
(9) light at the beginning of the path to Mallory Court

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) 'Highclere', 65 Grange Road
(2) surplice presses in the Ante-Chapel
(3) conversion of the old brewery building in Ekin's yard to a hostel, including costs and a memorandum of agreement between the College and William Sindall, builder, dated 17 April 1925 [now Mallory Court]
(4) installation of a radiator in the Parlour
(5) letter from Morris & Co (Decorators, founded in 1861 by William Morris) arranging to send a mahogany table and six chairs and oriental rugs for the new Parlour [the rugs were rejected]
(6) the condition of the Chapel roof
(7) a way to separate the Fellows' garden from the Master's garden by building a wall
(8) installation of heaters in the Chapel
(9) letter from Redfern on the death of the Master, 17 June 1925
(10) remodelling Old Lodge

Letters between Talbot Peel (Bursar) and Harry Redfern about:

(1) a small room at the end of the Hall near High Table
(2) 'Highclere', 65 Grange Road
(3) improvements to the Chapel and Library entrance
(4) iron gates
(5) conversion of the old brewery building in Ekin's yard to a hostel [now Mallory Court]
(6) lighting and steps to the new Parlour
(7) estimate for work on the new Parlour; and the chapel and Library entrance
(8) renewing brickwork on the side of First Court containing the Hall and Kitchen
(9) correct Coat of Arms for the Master which he wanted out in the new Parlour window alongside Lord Braybrooke's