This contains minutes of the General Meetings and the Finance Committee Meetings. After this volume the two series of minutes continue separately, For Minutes of the Financial Committee see MCCS/2/2.
‘Mount Everest Expedition, 1924. Agreement with the Members of the Expedition’, signed by ‘G. H. Leigh- Mallory’, dated ‘Feb. 13, 1924.’
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An edited version of the diaries of Robert Broadbent covering his time at Magdalene College. This was prepared by Broadbent for the College in 1980. There is a foreword in which he describes his family and early life including his time at Charterhouse School. Also includes three indexes:
(1) Principal characters
(2) Last days in India, 1947 based on letters to his wife
(3) one term's accounts as an undergraduate
Colour photograph of Natasha McDowell, Research Fellow.
Black and white photograph of Neil Bourne, elected Senior Research Fellow in Physics and SERC Advanced Research Fellow in 1993.
Inscribed 'W. K. A. Richards'. A diary in which to record climbs, likely shared between Ivor and his brother, William Kenneth A. Richards, owing to two styles of handwriting throughout.
Information on the climbs includes the weather, orientation and planning, the remarks and actions of company, landmarks along the way, and events of interest e.g. a 'Narrow escape from falling boulder' on August 3rd, 1909. Climbs take place in North Wales, Dartmoor, and frequently the Alps.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeFrom one end of the notebook, sketches and paintings of flowers from 1907 to 1911, concluding with a poem 'To Emily Wilding Davison'. From the other end of the notebook, sketches of women, lettering, watercolours of trees, concluding with further sketches of flowers, some dated 1932. Two used embroidery patterns inserted.
Richards [née Pilley], Dorothy Eleanor (1894-1986), journalist and mountaineerP.1 reads: "Finally in 1868 he gained the coveted summit".
Essay on mountaineering followed by miscellaneous notes.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeFront Cover reads: "CLARK Lectures".
Miscellaneous notes throughout on poetry and criticism, sometimes in preparation for a lecture, including a commentary on Paradise Lost.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeP.1 reads: "Magdalene College Roofs and Climbs".
A diary of I.A Richards' night climbs over various buildings in Magdalene College, recounting one climb in which they got caught. Attached is a mock-serious tale of the 'devilkin' - a strange doll they managed to attach to the clock tower.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeFront cover reads: "PSYCHOLOGY 1925 GENERAL + GENERAL 1929".
Miscellaneous notes throughout on psychology in a range of topics, especially the research of 'Stern'.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeFront cover reads: "Psychology".
Notes taken from Psychology lectures as an undergraduate, accompanied with doodles.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeCover reads: "Psychology"; opposite cover reads: "Ethics".
At 'Psychology' end of book, a short story exploring philosophical themes. At the 'ethics' end, possibly the draft of a paper for the Moral Sciences Club.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeFront Cover reads: "Modern Poetry Materials Oliver Cromwell!".
Miscellaneous notes on the subject of Modern Poetry, especially D. H. Lawrence
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeFront Cover reads: "LOGIC".
Undergraduate notes on the topic of Logic.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeFront Cover Label reads: "If lost reward will be given by I.A. Richards Magdalene College, Cambridge England".
Climbing diary, including Dent Blanche, Courmayeur and Canada.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeP.3 reads: "Biog. Lit. XVI".
Notes for a lecture series on the Theory of Criticism.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeFront cover reads: "1924-25 Modern Poetry".
A book of notes on two lecture series: Criticism ('What criticism ought to do and be'), and Modern Poetry ('Not a review of the best moderns, plenty of bad ones mentioned, but a series of controversial remarks as suggestions on How to approach modern Poetry'). The notes are a mixtures of aphorisms, ruminations, notes to self, and sometimes drawings. Slips of paper with more notes are frequently pasted into the book. 'Pencillings [sic] of 1927 on Return from 1st World Circuit' suggest certain notes are made after delivering the lectures.
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, CambridgeP.2 reads: "South Wind Wyndham Lewis Tarr".
Notes for a lecture series on 'Novels'
Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1893-1979), literary critic, linguistic philosopher and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge