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No. 57

Obituaries
A.W.B. Vincent

Articles
The Nobel Prize by J.B. Gurdon

It's a Proctor's Life by Dr Christian Skott

One of our portraits is missing! Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) by G.W. Atkins

The art of the physician: Pepys MS 1662 by M.E.J. Hughes

From the Hermannsburg Mission to the College of St Mary Magdalene by D.D. Robinson

College rooms in Victorian times: a photographic essay by R. Hyam

No. 58

Obituaries
Seamus J. Heaney
Nelson Mandela
A.M.C. Brown

Articles
The College and the Great War - Magdalene's 'lost generation', 1914-1918 by Ged Martin

'A pint or two of wine and a dish of anchovies' - Pepys and the wine trade by M.E.J. Hughes

Reading the seventeenth century - An Old Library commonplace-book by M. Hetherington

The Fox Glacier, New Zealand, by Kate Fagin (1948-2012) by Rosemary Boyle

No. 59

Obituaries
Sir Christopher Staughton
A.D. Rawley

Articles
Kings of Orient - Sultan of Perak by R.D. Williams

Ireland, India and the British Empire by Jane Ohlmeyer

Manuscripts of the Old Library - six of the best by M.E.J. Hughes

Nuclear energy in the UK - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by R.L. Skelton

From book to film - five minutes of fame by Jane Hellyer Jones

Mary Magdalene by Jane Williams

No. 60

Obituaries
Lord Ezra

Articles
Pepys and the anatomists by M.E.J. Hughes

Reading a sonnet with C.S. Lewis by E.H. Cooper

T.S. Eliot and Magdalene by R.D. Williams

Chapel stall-plates by R. Hyam

W.B. Yeats and the Steinach operation by N. Rushton

No. 61

Obituaries
Lord Braybrooke
John Dwight
Sir Derek Oulton
Sir Anthony Jay

Articles
Building a new library, seventeenth century fashion by M.E.J. Hughes

Telescopes, time, and an incredible evolving Universe by J.J. Wiseman

Pepys and bibliomania by J.R. Raven

C.S. Lewis considers Hamlet by E.H. Cooper

No. 62

Articles
The unlikely hero of Everest: the other side of George Mallory by R. Hyam

'Good discourse among the old men - of Islands now and then rising and falling again in the sea': Samuel Pepys and fantastical islands by M.E.J. Hughes

'Stuck in reverse': the disappearing Suffolk coast by T. Spencer and Susan Brooks

Return to Valhalla: The portrait of Professor William Farish by Henry Perronet Briggs by J.M. Munns

Natural disasters by E.K.M. So

No. 63

Articles
A note on the tapestry room: 30 Thompson's Lane by R. Hyam

Nicholson's portrait of Benson: An unusual piece of College art history by R. Hyam and J.M. Munns

Global Science, National Horizons by S. Dubow

Turbulent Water: The Irish Sea in culture by C. Connolly

Margaret, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sawawak by Susannah Roberts

Framed view of Magdalene College from the street.

A copy of Magdalene College. A little view of its buildings and history by A.C. Benson, Master.

Includes a handwritten letter dated 12 July 1954 to 'Fredo' [Alfred de Ledesma] from Colin Methven gifting him the copy and commenting on it and Benson's knowledge of farmers.

Methven's bookplate is on the inside front cover.

George Mallory was an undergraduate at Magdalene College between 1905 and 1908 and studied history under A. C. Benson. He was secretary and later Captain of the Boat Club, a member of the College's Kingsley Club, the University's Fabian Society, and the Marlowe Dramatic Club. He was the College's representative on the committee of the University's Women's Suffrage Association. His circle of friends included many members of the Bloomsbury Group including Lytton and James Strachey, Duncan Grant (who painted several nude studies of him 1912-1913) and Maynard Keynes.

After graduating he stayed in Cambridge for a year to write an essay which he later published as Boswell the Biographer (1912).

Black and white photograph of the crew on the river. No names are given.

Menus for the Macfarlane-Grieve dinner for graduands held in June. Includes a list of graduands. Menus for the years:

2003, 2006, 2007, 2012 - 2019, 2021 (the dinner was cancelled)

Mounted colour formal photograph with names and an informal black and white photograph.

Names given:

E. Zaayman, J. Dresvina, T.J. Kuryuzawa, S. Gluck, A. Stevens, E.H. Reynolds, J.J. Bulman, J.M. Gee, W.I. Smith, G. Georgopoulos, P.G. Vick, N.F.B. Daley, A.C. Morgan

D.M. Gould, T.D. Daff, N.J.T. Gill, A.K. Ward, M.T. Doris, J.M.D. Ballard, J.E. Powell, T.O.M. Evans, D.C. Brass, P. Dickson, S.D. Strauss, C.L. Scates, E.A.M. Hartnett

T.N. Walsh, J.C. Walker, K. V. Shah-Tanna, J.M. Bosten, K.A. Matthews, C. Ardid, M.Y. Lim, K.H. Peel, A.C. Storey, S.S. Sadigh, C.M. Morley, C.S. Harris, V.C. McGregor

M.P. Firth, S.J.G. Burton, A.P. Peevor, E.J. Costar, W.J. Boddy, M.L. Broadstock, E.S. Fulton, W.A. Hanson, H.A. Nash, K.J. Walker, J.R. Groves, E.E. Martin, H. Storhaug, L.E. Coggins, J.R. Rosales

S. Ng, M. Hastie-Oldland, M.C.J. Malins, J.J.H. Heffer, C.V. Northridge, A.M. Claxton, Master, Praelector, L.M.M. Coiffait, F.E. Fawcett, J. Sumoy, F.Fulminante, B.P.M. Lam, L.E.I. Webber, J.R.H. Morton

Mounted colour photograph. No names given.

Isometric sketch of a proposed new bridge over Bin Brook.

Titled '1/8th scale sketches of Mallory Court'

Half elevation facing north, and half elevation facing south. First floor plan marked up for accommodation for 38 sets of student rooms and 2 sets of Fellows rooms. Individual rooms are marked sitting rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, studys, and gyp rooms.

Plan for a proposed new court on the west side of Magdalene Street by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The plan shows a three sided court open to the river.

Coloured details (elevations, long section, and cross section) of a proposed new bridge over Bin Brook.

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

Documents relating to the following property in Longstanton - Farm, house, buildings, 2 cottages and 109 acres, 1 perch, 2 roods of land and the Advowson of the Rectory of St Michael.

Recorded in the Muniment Book pages 64-73.

Annual accounts for receipts and payments listing all members of College in order of seniority.

Receipts are recorded under the headings Annual Payment; Commons; Sermons; Exercises; Arrears. Expenses are recorded under the headings Library; Pavement and Lighting; Disbursements; Poor; Steward’s Stipend; Butler’s Stipend; Stamped Circulars

‘Caterer’s Book’ is written on the first page.

Copy of a College order dated Nov. 14th 1836 is written out on the next page and reads:

"At a College meeting called by the Master for the purpose of taking into consideration the responsibility of the Steward and other matters.

It was agreed:
the Caterer be no longer responsible for the Masters of Arts annual payments for keeping their names on the boards
that the Caterer’s accounts be kept separate and submitted to the College at the Peckard audit
that he receive a salary out of the said account of £50
that the accounts be kept by the Butler with a salary of £20 from the same fund and overlooked by the Caterer
that the resident Bye-Fellows and Sizars and the non resident Bas be exempt from any payment to this account

Copy of a College Order dated May 18th 1837

At a College meeting called by the Master it was agreed…..to confirm the following rate of Composition in lieu of the annual payment of £2 3s 6d for members of the Senate retaining their names on the boards viz:

For commencing Master of Arts £25
M.A. (or other degrees of more than 10 years standing) £20
M.A. (or other degrees of more than 20 years standing) £15
With a deduction of £5 in each case when the party is not in orders.
Annual accounts for receipts and payments listing all members of College in order of seniority: