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MCPP/IAR/I/1/45 · Item
Part of College Personal Papers

Front cover reads: "ORIGENS".

Pages marked with letters of alphabet followed by descriptions of words beginning with that letter: e.g. C = calculation, count, compare. Most letters left blank.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/IAR/I/1/46 · Item · 1948
Part of College Personal Papers

Front cover reads: "The "Educational" Drawing Block".

Art sketchpad. Pencil sketches of mountainous landscapes. Certain draft sketches feature notes detailing sections: 'snow', 'grass', 'rock', 'Lake Schwarrenbach' etc.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/IAR/I/1/47 · Item
Part of College Personal Papers

P.1 reads: "I.A.R all pen and brush Dec 29th".

Art sketchpad. Sketches and paintings of the countryside and mountains. Lists materials used on the back of drawings, e.g. brush, pen etc. often including chalk.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/IAR/I/1/49 · Item · 1913
Part of College Personal Papers

Front cover reads: "I.A. Richards Visual Communication".

Notebook with black and white paintings of countryside landscapes inserted. On first page: 'These drawings unidentifiable mostly... Perhaps 1913-14?' And one of the inserted paintings is dated 1976 on the back.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/IAR/I/1/5 · Item · c.1930
Part of College Personal Papers

P.1 reads: "Criticism Lec X".

Lecture notes on Criticism, a continuation of notebook number 4: 'Front cover: CRITICISM'. Notes include revisions, drawings, paste-ins, as well as loose ephemera kept between pages, including letters, newspaper cuttings, poetry, and more. General themes include completeness, significance, pleasure and emotion. Lecture series on Novels is also continued.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/IAR/I/1/6 · Item · c.1930
Part of College Personal Papers

Front cover reads: "LOGIC AND BEAUTY".

Essays on Logic and Beauty, including such headings as 'Beauty as Feeling'; 'Beauty as Pleasure'. Starting from the other end of the book, 'An Autobiography' and further essays on Poetry and Logic.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/IAR/I/1/7 · Item · 1928
Part of College Personal Papers

Front cover reads: "PRACTICAL CRITICISM Oct - March 1928-9".

Practical Criticism Lectures I-XVI including revisions, paste-ins, drawings, and notes to self.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/IAR/I/1/8 · Item · 1977
Part of College Personal Papers

Front cover reads: "scrap-book - from a Weeding Out of OLD NOTES [made in 1977]".

Brief notes on various themes, including this annotation by an unknown hand in red ink: 'What followed should have served as a useful warning to IAR on the futility of over-systematic (would-be) programmatics.'

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/IAR/I/1/9 · Item · 1932
Part of College Personal Papers

P.1 reads: "Essays Vol III. Cambridge, Feb 21st, 1932".

Essays marked by I.A. Richards: 'I have tried to show how I think your style would have been bettered'.

Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Notebooks
MCPP/IAR/I · Series · 1908 - 1977
Part of College Personal Papers
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
MCPP/BD/5 · Item · 2010
Part of College Personal Papers

Notes for the obituary of Brian Deakin which appeared in the College Magazine, No. 55 2010-2011.

Deakin, Brian Measures (1922-2010), Fellow and Benefactor of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Notes on Climbing
MCPP/GM/2/7 · File · c. 1922
Part of College Personal Papers

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.

Notes on Colour
MCCA/MCAD/13/1/17 · File · 23 June 2026 - 12 September 2026
Part of College Archives

'Notes on Colour' is an exhibition which brings together the work of three contemporary artists, Vicken Parsons, Jeff McMillan and David Batchelor, for whom colour has been an abiding preoccupation over many years.

The file consists of:
(1) Invitation to 'Artists in Conversation' and private view (electronic)

(2) Three versions of the exhibition poster

MCCA/MCAD/4/1/12/7 · Subseries · 1971
Part of College Archives

Letter from Enid Porter (Cambridge Folk Museum) to Pepys Whitely giving background information about photographs of Fisher's Lane and Ekin's Yard and the history of the tenants there from the late 19th century (the Bullen family, W. Child, A.J. Osbourne.

Also a list of tenants in 1925 and 1926 of Nos 18, 20 and 25 Magdalene Street.

MCCA/MCAD/1/1/3 · Item · 7 May 1687
Part of College Archives

(1) Notification from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Fellows of the suspension of John Peachell from the Vice-Chancellorship of the University and Mastership of Magdalene College.

(2) Modern transcript of the notification to the Proctors of the suspension. The original document is in the University Archives I.14.

MCCA/MCAD/1/1/9 · Item · 9 June 1760
Part of College Archives

Letter from the Fellows to the Visitor, the Countess of Portsmouth, informing her of a vacancy in the Mastership following the death of Thomas Chapman and recommending Laurence Eliot [Fellow, President, and Tutor] to be the new Master.

November
MCPP/FF/FPR/L/560 · Item · 1576-1641
Part of College Personal Papers
Ferrar, Nicholas (1593–1637), religious writer and administrator
MCCA/MCCS/1/7/1975/1 · Item · Michaelmas Term 1975
Part of College Archives

Black and white photograph of the crew on the river. The name of the stroke has been written in pen on the photograph (difficult to read accurately) but there are no other names given.