Letter from Sir Francis Younghusband to Ruth Mallory on the death of her husband George on Mount Everest in which he conveys a message form King George V
Will married Ruth Mallory in 1939 a year after the death of his wife.
Autograph letter in French, signed, probably to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer.
Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomatPrinted letter signed by George Mallory as Captain of the Boat Club asking for donations so that an Eight could be sent to Henley.
Autograph letter in French, signed as “Guillaume Pr d’Orange”, to an unidentified recipient. He acknowledges the best wishes sent to him on the birth of his second son.
Van de Weyer, Jean Sylvain (1802-1874), diplomatLetters and papers relating to the University Commission.
The Revd Mr Buck Bursar to Magdalen College to John Rainforth Quarter ending 19 December 1794
Gate Bill
Gives weekly totals for 12 weeks with a quarterly total of £2 8s 0d
College Letters
Daily record of letters sent for this quarter with additional items:
Stamp paper = £0 0s 2½d
Quarterly total = £0 8s 5½d
Gate bill = £2 8s 0d
Courts, street & walks = £3 0s 0d
Combination Room = £0 15s 0d
Total = £6 11s 5½d
January 18 1795
Received the contents by me John Rainforth
[initialled R.B. – Revd Richard Buck, Bursar]
Bill for:
College Letters and Stamps: £0 8s 11½ d
Combination room: £0 15s 0d
is recorded in the Necessary Expenses Book [MCAD/3/3/3] but is missing from the bundle.
Two letters from the 1st Earl of Suffolk to the Master and Fellows (contemporary copies).
Two letters from Merton College, Oxford, about the enfranchisement of the copyhold estate (Copped Hall).
Letters of administration to the effects of Thomas of Thomas Harding.
Letters of condolence written to Ruth Mallory on the death of her husband George Mallory on Mount Everest from:
Mary Anne O'Malley; Jelly d'Aranji; Geoffrey Keynes; Geoffrey Young; Robert Graves; E. F. Norton; George Trevelyan; Will A-Forster [whom Ruth married in 1939]; KA Forster; Alan Goodfellow; M. J. Rendall; Arthur Hinks; F. Keeling Scott; J. N. Collie; T. Howard Somerville; A. C. Benson; message of condolence from the King sent to Sir Francis Younghusband and passed on to Ruth; Noel Odell; and various Climbing Clubs.
Also a booklet in which his John Mallory [son] has transcribed the letters for George and Ruth's descendants.
Letters patent of James I with part of the Great Seal attached. Inspeximus of the title and foundation of John Spendluffe.