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Fair copy of an essay on aesthetics

Front cover reads: "[?] BAN on Iliad".

Contents on page 1:

p1-3 Columbian mythologies quotes
4 Powers & Limits of Signs
30 Achilles: further prints...
60 Letter to Ben Brower
50 Mar 1st Job matters
Bacon 'Of Atheism' p.9
10 Mouton Volume
28 Outcomes in classroom plays of BAT
39 That versus this
41 One way
52 Lost, stolen, strayed
55 Battledore & shuttlecock
58 Et ego

Front Cover reads: "Ghana Speeches".

Various speeches and notes for a trip to Ghana where Richards sought to teach Basic English. According to John Paul Russo, 'Richards himself went to Ghana to interest Kwame Nkrumah in Basic in late 1963, and seemed on the verge of success until moments before his departure.' [1]

[1] Russo, John Paul, I.A.Richards: His Life and Work, 1989, p.453

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.

1794 Michaelmas to Christmas Quarter "Magdalen Coll" to Robert Painter

For work done by order of the Revd Mr Buck Bursar

Aug 6 - 5 ft of old glass new leaded
6 squares of glass

Sep 8 - Staircase in the cloister
3 ft of old glass repaired
2 crown squares

Sep 26 - 3 crown squares

Oct 7 - The Butlers Room
4 ft of old glass repaired
2 crown squares
Cleaning of windows

The Kitchen
3 squares of glass

Oct 22 - The Masters Lodge
Cleaning of two pair of sashes
2 crown squares

Nov 8 - The Buttress
Cleaning of windows

Nov 19 - The Masters Lodge
A days work two men cleaning two windows

Nov 20 - 3/4 days work two men cleaning windows
4 crown squares

Nov 21 - The Combination Room
Cleaning of two pair of sashes

Nov 25 - Masters Lodge
14 foot of old glass new leaded
18 squares of glass

Nov 27 - At Mr Hulls
6 crown squares

Total = £2 8s 4½d

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

Received of the Revd Mr Buck Burser the sum of £2 8s 4d as for bill annexed for two quarters viz michaelmas to Christmas 1794
Robert Painter Junior

[1] Staircase
[2] Cloister

Smiths work done for "Magdalaen Colledge" by J. Fuller

Oct 6 - repairing the steel yard and cleaning the kitchen
Oiling the smock jack [1]
laying a poker

Oct 28 - 3 new bars for the copper

Nov 3 - Cleaning the Combination fire iron and fender
laying a poker
cleaning a horse

Nov 12 - grinding knives and cleaves
mending the jack chains
repairing a lock of a door in the kitchen

Dec 3 - grinding a chopper and two knives
laying a poker
an iron for a door port in the back yard
½ staples and nails and staple to another
straightening of bars of the kitchen range

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

Total = £1 7s 5d

Dec 26 1794 received the contents J. Fuller

[1] a machine for roasting meat on a spit driven by hot gas rising from the fire

The Master & Fellows of "Magd Colledge" to Revd Richard B. Gillam

Workmen - William Covill

Materials - hods [1] of brick mortar, hair mortar [2], Ely bricks, blew bricks, tiles, ridge tiles, oak laths, nails, "1 Hod of fine stuff", Dutch tiles,

Work done around College:

work done at the kitchen range

mending the tiling and slating about the College

mending and tiling and slating over the Chapel and round the first Court etc

mending some tiling at the Master's Lodge and repairing the College kitchen copper

stopping some rat holes in the kitchen

cleaning the oven and mending the brick work and pointing up the brick work in the kitchen

Total = £5 16 2½d

[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]

Received of Revd Mr Buck the sum of five pounds six shillings and two pence half being the contents of this bill
Richard Gillam

[1] hod = open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks or stones
[2] hair mortar = potentially meaning lime mortar which was commonly mixed with hair

Revd Mr Farish Pupils bills for St Thomas 1794 to John Favell

Painting some work up G staircase for Mr Green. The bird cage

Doors, shutters, skirting boards etc chocolate lite colour

Total = £0 12s 0d

Dec 24 1794 received the above J. Favell

"mem. this bill belongs to the College, but by mistake was brought in to Mr Farish. R. Buck"

[printed form completed by hand]

General Post Office London

Revd Bursar Magd College for John Briggs
1778

Jan 5 [St Thomas?] thro to April 5 - £0 14s 6d
Received April 1778 William Gregory

Revd above is your account which please to pay to Mr W. Gregory or Order & you will oblige your most obedient servant
John Briggs

[Printed form completed by hand].

From the office of the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance of houses and goods from loss or damage by fire, on the Royal Exchange, London.

No. 23819

The second day of March 1778 received of the Bursar of Magdalene College the sum of £3 15s 6d.

Payment of assurance of £3000 from 2 March 1778 to 2 March 1779 by the Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance aforesaid.

Thomas Paris
Cambridge Agent

Following WW2 Magdalene College set out to produce a comprehensive ‘War List and Roll of Honour’ to memorialise those members of the College who were lost in the war. A circular was sent out in 1947 “to every old member of the College matriculated since 1900” requesting information to be returned on a provided notecard “to include civilian national service as well as service in the armed forces, and to include all honours, awards, and decorations.”

Over the next few years, the individual notecards were returned to Magdalene College Office. The College Office processed and consolidated the returned notecards and later commemorated those who were lost on the World War Two memorial located in the Chapel. The individual notecards were preserved and are now in the Archive.

Transcript of the 1947 Circular
'War List and Roll of Honour. Since the publication of the second College Bulletin and War List in September 1941 the College Office has attempted to maintain similar records. The office has been handicapped, however, by shortage of staff and the absence of regular information, and these records are known to be incomplete and inaccurate. The College now contemplates the production of a comprehensive War List and Roll of Honour. In order to secure the greatest possible completeness and accuracy of detail, this circular is being sent to every old member of the College matriculated since 1900. The College would be grateful for the completion and return of the enclosed card, so that existing records may be corrected and brought up to date. It is intended to include civilian national service as well as service in the armed forces, and to include also all honours, awards and decorations. Where an old member of the College is known to have lost his life as a result of the war, this circular is being addressed to his parents; it is hoped that they will supply details of their son's war service. There may be cases, however, where the College has no record of death, and where in consequence the form of address used may have caused pain to widow or parents. To them the College desires to offer the most since apologies; every effort has been made to avoid such mistakes, and it is hoped that it will be understood that those which remain are due solely to the incompleteness of the available information. Some old members of the College, or their parents, who have visited Cambridge recently or maintained correspondence with the Master or one or the Fellows, may know that the information now requested has already been given; it has been thought, however, that any attempt at discrimination in the distribution of this circular would have been likely to lead to further errors, and that the probability of some duplication was preferable to the risk of any omission. War conditions have undoubtedly caused many unrecorded change of address: many of the circulars sent out before the compilation of earlier lists were returned by the Post Office marked 'not known'. Further, the replies now received will provide the material for a thorough revision of the College address-list. The largest possible number of replies is therefore desired. Any information likely to be of assistance towards this end will be greatly received: for instance, information from one old member of the College regarding another's change of address, or concerning men matriculated before 1900, to whom, before of their war service, a copy of this circular should have been sent.'

Replies
Although most returned the completed postcard containing details of war service, others also included additional material such as letters, funeral cards, obituaries, and official military papers e.g. copies of release orders.

Statistics Gained from the Returns
747 card replies
104 additional items e.g. letters etc
784 total names (7 duplicate names listed)

129 names on the WW2 memorial
115 names on WW2 memorial have additional information on the replies [see Excel box list]
14 names on WW2 memorial, no data in Excel box list
65 names on WW1 memorial, 1 name on Excel box list

705 served in WW2
6 served in WW1
5 served in both

336 British Army
9 British Indian Army
10 Indian Army
2 Government of India
75 Civilian Defence/Service
60 H.M. Government
112 RAF
60 Royal Navy
7 US Forces
1 Merchant Navy
1 Military Police
1 United Nations Relief
2 Conscientious Objectors

14 Prisoners of War
52 mentioned in dispatches
129 medals/awards won:
26 Military Cross [these were included on the memorial]
6 DFC [Distinguished Flying Cross]
6 DSC [Distinguished Service Cross given for service at sea]
1 KCB DSO [Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and Distinguished Service Order awarded to Trafford Leigh-Mallory]
1 GM [George Medal awarded to David Alexander Methven]

New Series No. 24

Articles
Reorganisation of the College Archives
The Samuel Pepys Club

New Series No. 25

Articles
In Memoriam: 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

New Series No. 28

Articles
Smyth versus Smith: Magdalene in the Reign of Charles I, pp. 46-51

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)

Images
Bernard Saunders (1903-1983)

Prior to 1781 the Registers contained a record of more or less everything in College, including Governing Body decisions.

Post 1781 see MCGB/4/2 - Order Books.

Contains:

(1) Sunday receipts and payments on the Poor Account
(2) Statement of land tax, licences, and parish rates

Volume recording the date, place in College that needed repair, details of the repair, and amount. The main part of the book relates to buildings on the College site but there ae a small number of entries at the back of the book detailing repairs to College owed property in Cambridge.

Contains a record of the admission of Masters, Fellows, Scholars and other members of the College; accounts; audits; decrees and orders; leases; presentations; and notes on College properties and business.

Parties: (1) Edward Day (2) Henry Smith

Mortgage in fee (enrolled) of 5 acres, 1 rood, 1 perch of land and a little orchard adjoining in Stow Cum Quy for securing £52 and interest.

Livery of seisin endorsed.

Probate of the will of Edward Day in which he gave his house, ground and land in the fields to his wife Johanne for 14 years after his death to redeem his land mortgaged to Henry Smith and then he gave these said premises to his son Edward Day and his heirs. Will proved on 17 June 1620.

Parties: (1) William Green and his wife and Henry Culpey (2) Robert Lawrence

Copy of a bargain and sale of 10 acres of land in Quy and Little Wilbraham. A terrier of the lands is included.

Parties: (1) Mary Brace (2) George Ward

Power of attorney to receive possession.

Parties: (1) Edward Day (2) Samuel Spalding on behalf of Mary Brace

Agreement for the purchase of premises in Quy.

Parties: (1) William Smith (2) Nicholas Jacob

Deed of covenant to levy a fine of 57 acres 3 roods and 0 perches of land to Nicholas Jacob, his heirs, and assigns. A terrier of the lands is attached.

Parties: (1) Nicholas Jacob and his wife (2) James Duport

Lease and release of lands except the Advowson [see MCAD/4/1/14/26]