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Offprints and articles concerning Pepys and the Pepys Library. Known formerly as the "Pepys Library Files".

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]

Report in French on headed paper to the Comité de Salut Public, addressed from Paris, signed by an unidentified person.

The document is dated in the French republican calendar system: "le 24 frimaire de l'an troisième de la République Française".

Partial transcription:
"Paris le 24 frimaire de l’an troisième de la République Française, une et indivisible.
Rapport
Au Comité de Salut Public
Le Citoyen Henrion Directeur général des transports militaires de l’armée de Sambre et Meuse, nous fait connaitre le trait de Bravoure du C[itoye]n Pomme Charretier de la division Hautenot, qui n’a pas craint de s’exposer à une mort presque certaine en bravant le feu de l’ennemi pour sauver à la republique la perte de deux chevaux qui s’etaient échappé et avaient été sous les palissades entre la porte de la ville et le fort st jean.
Le trait de Bravoure du cit[oy]en Pomme ne doit pas rester sans récompense : mais comme la capacité et les connaissances de ce citoyen ne répondent pas à son généreux dévouement à l’intérêt de la république, il est impossible de l’élever a un grade supérieur, on ne peut que le reconnaitre par une simple gratification.
Le comité est prié de fixer la récompense que mérite le citoyen Pomme."

Retailing in the next Millennium GKN Lecture 1999 by Sir Richard Greenbury.

Rolls-Royce. A History of Enerprise by Francis, Lord Tombs of Brailes.

Contains documents and photocopies about Rudyard Kipling:

(1) Typescript copy from his diaries of motor tours, taken between 1911-14 and 1920-1926 (originals held in the Macmillan Archive).

(2) Photocopies of the wills of Rudyard Kipling, Caroline Kipling (wife) and Elsie Bainbridge (daughter) (originals are held in the University of Sussex)

(3) Copy of the Pocket Edition of Kim, 1960 (the ‘Heatthen edition’)

(4) Copies of Magdalene College Occasional Papers:
Kipling and His 'Coll' by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 9)
The Kipling that Nobody Reads by Thomas Pinney, (No. 19)
The Ramsay - Mrs Kipling Letters by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 25)
The Kipling Onetime Governess: Sylvia Thompson's Memoir by Jeffery D. Lewins (No. 26).

Also:
The Kipling Journal, June 2001;
Rudyard Kipling's IF - in Translation, edited by Jeffrey Lewins, August 2001;
Kipling on Magdalene, Two Un-published Letters about his Honorary Fellowship from the College Magazine, No. 41 1996-1997.

(5) Papers relating to the Kipling Centenary Conference held in Magdalene College, on 5-7 September 2001 to mark the centenary of the publication of Kim. Includes the programme, attendance list, and abstracts of papers given.

(6) Photocopy of a photograph of a plaque at the University of Cape Town

Rugby cap belonging to C. M. Vignoles.

Colour photograph. Names on the board:

Oli Ross, Calum Harvey-Scholes, David Walker, Dave Shone, Ed Hall, Laurence Orchard, Alex Read
Andrew McCredie, Oli Sanders, Oli Thickness, Tom Hargreaves, Oli Humes, Chris Meiring, Frank Sanders, Jonny Brown
Andy Webster, George Clark, Alex Taylor (Co-Captain), Bob Smith (Hon Secretary), Hugo Cobb (Co-Captain), George Morrisey, Fred Bromley

Colour photograph. Names on the board:

J. Livingstone, C. Berry, J. Bowshill
T. Allie-Ebrahim, N. Widdows, J. Long-Martinex, J. E. K. Hamilton, J. G. E. Richardson
J. Bennett, L. Orchard, E. Thicknesse (Captain), B. Smith (Honorary Secretary), S. Schusman (Vice Captain), A. Kozak Eskenazi

Colour photograph. Names on the board:

M. P. M. Alderton, T. Ingldew, A. T. Josaitis, S. S. H. Robson
H. E. Wantsit, J. E. Girling, M. S. Rowlands, G. Hart, K. C. Baker, H. H. B. O’Neill, O. A. Kontkanen, Y. M. Maait
H. S. M. Begley, A. J. Veale, S. C. Lewis, A. Courtaulo (Captain), B. Smith (Hon. Secretary), S. C. Atkins (President), T. D. Bilclough, J. S. Chapman, A. D. W. Cross

Cambridge Colleges Shield Final Winners 2017.

Colour photograph. Names on the board:

O. A. Kontkanen, A. M. Ruben, M. S. Rowlands, T. Ingledew, S. Burgess, T. Leung
S. S. H. Robson, W. P. Liebrecht, J. S. Brassington, J. Long-Martinez, J. E. K. Hamilton, K. T. C. Baker, H. C. Alexander, G. M. Barbantan
S. Lewis, J. Bennett, A. Coyne-Grell (Vice-Captain), B. Smith, J. Bowskill (Captain), S. A. Schusman, H. S. Begley

The Rugby Club was formed in 1875 after a meeting was held in Mr Pine's rooms on 25 October.
The Captain of the Boat Club took the chair at the first meeting and was elected to the Presidency of the new club. Mr Whitehead was chosen as the first captain.
The first rugby match was played on the Corpus ground on 29 October and ended in a draw in favour of Corpus by 5 tries to nothing. The next game against Clare was played on Parker's Piece (the scene of University rugby matches until the municipal authorities objected tot he damage done). The result was a draw in favour of Magdalene by one try and a touchdown to nothing. The final game of the first season was against a joint team from St Peter's and St Catherine's and the score was Magdalene 5 touchdowns, Combined Colleges 3 tries and 2 touchdowns. Under the old rules no match could be won unless a goal was kicked. New rules came into force in November.
The game was then very different to the modern game with most international and club sides having 13 forwards and 7 outsides.
For further information see: College Magazine, No. 80, May 1949, pp. 15-17

Photos of the Rugby XV for 1911, 1933-1934, 1935-1936, 1947-1948 see MCPH/3/1

Photos of the Rugby XV for 1907, 1910 see MCPH/3/2

Photo of the Rugby XV 2000-2001 see MCPH/3/5

Cambridge University Rugby Football Club (CURFC) programme for a match against Harlequins. Of the 17 players names in the CURFC team (and replacements) 8 were from Magdalene - W. M. H. Rose, R. J. Boyd-Moss, C. J. Kingston, N. J. Baldock, C. W. Biddell, P. J. Lillington, D. Taylor, S. Cooke.

Colour photograph of the reunion dinner held in Hall.

Black and white photograph of the Rugby XV. No names given.