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Outline of 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition

The party consisted of Charles Bruce (expedition leader), Edward Norton (2nd in command and mountaineer), George Mallory (mountaineer and lead of the climbing team), Bentley Beetham (mountaineer), Geoffrey Bruce (mountaineer), John de Vars Hazard (mountaineer), Dr Richard Hingston (expedition doctor), Andrew Irvine (mountaineer), John Noel (photographer and movie camera operator), Noel Odell (mountaineer and geologist), Edward Shebbeare (transportation officer and interpreter), Dr Howard Somervell (mountaineer and medical doctor)

March – Sea journey from England to India on board the R.M.S. California and start of the trek to Everest

April - Journey through Tibet to Everest. Charles Bruce was taken ill with maleria en route and Edward Norton took over command of the Expedition. Mallory was named second in command and lead of the climbing team. They reached Base Camp by the end of the month.

May - Was spent establishing camps and making plans.

1 June - Bruce and Mallory made the first attempt on the summit.
2 June - Norton and Somervell made the second attempt on the summit.
5 June - Mallory and Irvine were in Camp IV. On 6 June they departed for Camp V. On 7 June they moved on to Camp VI.

They were last seen alive by Noel Odell on 8 June.

Letters written to his wife Ruth from the time of their engagement in 1914 until his death in 1924. They cover his time as master at Charterhouse, his time serving in the First World War, his lecture tour in America, and the three trips he made to Everest.

Letters received from his wife Ruth from the time of their engagement in 1914 until his return from war in 1919.

Album of photographs of Fellows arranged in order of seniority, from Murphy to Burchell. The following people are in the album:

Mr Murphy – five photographs, three black and white, two colour (1977-2001)

Dr W.J.R. Mitchell (1977) – one photograph

Dr R. Luckett (1978) – one photograph

C.J. Greenwood (1978) – one photograph

Dr E. Duffy (1979) – three photographs, one black and white (1979), two colour, (one captioned ‘Dr Eamon Duffy President 2001’, taken by Tony Jedrej)

D.C. Calcutt (1980) – one photograph, captioned ‘F.Comm’ (Fellow Commoner)

Dr R.A. Klein (1981) – one colour photograph

Dr M.A. Carpenter (1983) – one photograph

Dr D.C. Clary (1983) – one photograph

Mr A. Sale (1980) – one photograph of drawing, captioned ‘F.Comm’ (Fellow Commoner)

Professor D. Hull (1984) – one photograph

Dr J.D. Lewins (1985) – one photograph, with note: ‘Jeffrey David Lewins, taken Dec ‘85 while visiting Redfern at University of Washington, Seattle’

Dr N. Rushton (1984) – one colour photograph

Dr H.A. Chase – two photographs, one black and white (1984), one colour, captioned: ‘Professor Chase at a jolly party in parlour, Xmas 2001)

Dr G.S. Garnett (1987) – one photograph

Dr J.R. Patterson (1986) – two photographs, one (1986) taken by Neville Atkinson

Revd. Dr D.M. Hoyle (1988) – one photograph

Dr A.S. Brown (1989) – one colour photograph

Prof. W.R. Cornish (1990) – one photograph

Dr B.J. Burchell (1990) – one colour photograph

Dr M.D. Buhmann (1989) – one colour photograph, captioned ‘R. Fell’

T.G.M. Keall – three colour photographs

James Hunt – one colour photograph, captioned ‘80th birthday’

Album of photographs of Fellows arranged in order of seniority:

Sir Derek Oulton (1990) – one photograph

Dr S. Martin (1990) – one colour photograph

Mrs E.M. Coleman (1990, Fellow Commoner) – one photograph

Dr P.A. Cunich (1991, fellow Commoner) – one photograph

Dr K. Patel (1992) – one colour photograph

Dr S.M. Springman (1991) – one colour photograph

Mr A.J. Hanscomb (1992, Fellow Commoner)

C.T. Whelan (1992) – one photograph

Dr B.A. Kumin (1993, Research Fellow) – one colour photograph

Prof. R.S. Ellis (1994) – one photograph

Dr J.M. Rawson (1995) – one colour photograph

Prof. P. Bew (1996) – one colour photograph

Dr P. Dupree (1996) – one photograph

Dr N.G. Jones (1996) – one photograph

Mr N.J. Tobin (1997) – two colour photographs

Dr M.D. Billinge (1982) – one colour photograph

[Six uncaptioned photographs]

Framed black and white photograph of Sir Derman Christopherson (Master).

Framed black and white photograph of Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce (Lord Justice of Appeal).

Framed black and white photograph of Lord Michal Ramsey (Archbishop of Canterbury).

Parties: (1) Mrs Ann Wentworth and Mr James Wentworth, (2) Christopher Pemberton (solicitor)

Demise of hereditaments in relation to properties in Chesterton Road as collateral security for £800 and interest.

Parties: (1) Mrs Ann Wentworth, (2) Christopher Pemberton (solicitor).
Mortgage for securing £200 and interest.

Release from certain creditors of the late Mr James Wentworth from a sum of money directed to be paid to them by the will of the late Mrs Ann Wentworth and charged upon a freehold estate in Chesterton Road.

Parties: (1) Arthur Read Davies, (2) Stephen Rowley (fellmonger)

Counterpart lease of a dwellinghouse and premises in Chesterton Road.

Will of Frances Read Wentworth (spinster).

Receipts for legacies received under the will of William Frampton Andrews.

Valuation prepared for the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College by Messrs Bidwell& Sons of 13 and 14 Magdalene Street, 1-6 Northampton Street and 1-2 Briggs Court.

Plan of Old Brewery Yard (between Magdalene Street and Bin Brook) showing the different buildings with a list of tenants, a description of the building (house, stable, warehouse, sheds, cottage etc) and the rent per annum.

The plan is undated but there are a number of leases of these properties to these tenants in 1923.

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.

Bell Lane is now known as Northampton Street.

No. 56

A Change of Statutes
A Change of Masters

Articles
Looking at Magdalene by R. Hyam

Samuel Pepys's Chinese Almanacks by R. Luckett

Morshead and Kelly by R. Luckett

The Chemistry of Bernard Charles Saunders by A. Buell [includes the story about rice pudding at High Table]

The Boat Race has become the Boat Races by Pat Marsh

Magdalene Memories by John Hudson

New Series No. 25

Obituary
Jack A.W. Bennett

Images
Jack Arthur Walter Bennett and his wife [Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English and Fellow of Magdalene, 1964-1978]

The College Archives: A Personal Note by C.S. Knighton

Fifty Years of Benson Court by R. McD. O'Donnell

Escape from the sea [a slightly edited transcript of an impromptu interview given by Uberto Limentani to an Italian journalist in May 1940]

New Series No. 28

Obituaries
Bernard Saunders
Richard Martineau
Lord Michael Adeane (admitted to Magdalene in 1928; Honorary Fellow 1971)
Frederick Ernest Cleary, Honorary Fellow
Sir William Empson (admitted to Magdalene in 1925; Honorary Fellow 1979)

Articles
Smyth versus Smith: Magdalene in the Reign of Charles I by Eamon Duffy

Images
Bernard Saunders (1903-1983)

New Series No. 24

Articles
Reorganisation of the College Archives

The Samuel Pepys Club by Robert Latham