St John's College W.34
S. M. Benians, Biography of Ada Benson. English, c. 1970
Mrs Sylvia Mary Benians, widow of E. M. Benians, Master of St John's College: biography of Ada Benson (1840-82), written c. 1970. With letters from the author's children Martin Benians, 20 July 1976, and Colette Williams, 20 June 1978, re the deposit of the MS at St John's and efforts to publish it through CUP and Macmillan.
St John's College W.34
S. M. Benians, Biography of Ada Benson. English, c. 1970
Mrs Sylvia Mary Benians, widow of E. M. Benians, Master of St John's College: biography of Ada Benson (1840-82), written c. 1970. With letters from the author's children Martin Benians, 20 July 1976, and Colette Williams, 20 June 1978, re the deposit of the MS at St John's and efforts to publish it through CUP and Macmillan.
St John's College W.33
F. P. B. N. Hutton, Journal. English, 1846-9 (with additions to 1917)
Francis Pierpoint Burton Norman Hutton, of St John's College (1826-84): journal of his life at Cambridge, 1846-9, including an account of a northern tour and a visit to Cambridge Assizes. Heavily illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches, often humorous, of people and views, some water-colours, and further drawings by the Revd Thomas Biddulph Hutton, for whom the diary was apparently written. T. B. Hutton was then working in New Zealand with George Augustus Selwyn, subsequently Bishop of Lichfield.
St John's College W.31 and 32
Edward C. Brooks, Life of William Whitaker. English, c. 1968-71
The Revd Edward C. Brooks, MA, BD, rector of Somerleyton, Suffolk: '"Dialogue and syllogism in the sixteenth century": a study in the life and theology of William Whitaker (ob. 1595), Master of St John's College, Cambridge 1587-1595 AD and Regius Professor of Divinity 1580-1595 AD', a thesis submitted to the University of Leeds for the degree of PhD, awarded 1971. Another copy of the dissertation is held at the Brotherton Library.
St John's College W.29 and 30
John Rogers, Writings on freedom of conscience and other matters. English, c. 1838-43
John Rogers, of St John's College, Cambridge (1799-1843): drafts for extended essays on Church government, freedom, religious liberty and other matters. Not dated, and the title page of the first vol. has been torn away.
St John's College W.28
John Rogers, Journal. English, 1820-4
John Rogers, of St John's College, Cambridge (1799-1843): private journal, 23 Oct. 1820 - 15 Nov. 1825 (1824?). Kept intermittently, and covering in some detail his years as an undergraduate of St John's. A curious and self-revealing chronicle of the author's ambitions, his sense of religion and morality, his unsuccessful attempt to win the Hulsean Prize, his time management, his gradual disillusionment with Cambridge, his intense dislike of 'Popery', and his relations with his family.
St John's College W.27
Alfred Bender, Life of General Garibaldi. English, c. 1890
Alfred Philipp Bender, of St John's College (1863-1937): 'General Garibaldi: his life and work. An Essay', no date, but probably c. 1900. An entirely uncritical account of Garibaldi's career, topped and tailed with laudatory verses. It seems to be the work of a young man, and assumes familiarity with the College; perhaps it was written as an undergraduate at St John's.
St John's College W.24 (James 610)
Henry Watson Fowler, Correspondence and letters. English, 1898-1916
Henry Watson Fowler, lexicographer (1858-1933): Correspondence with Henry George Hart (1843-1921), Fellow of St John's College and Headmaster of Sedbergh (1880-1900), on his principled resignation from a post at the school, 1898-9, and letters to his wife while on active service with the 23rd Bn Royal Fusiliers in France and after his return to Britain, 1915-16. With some notes on Aristotle's Ethics. See Sir Ernest Gowers, H. W.
St John's College W.23
Erasmus Darwin, Notes on lectures by William Heberden. English, 1752-3
Erasmus Darwin, of St John's College (1731-1802): Copies made as an undergraduate at St John's from works by William Heberden, Fellow of the College (1710-1801). The works are An introduction to the study of physic and (from the last page in the vol.) The doctrine of the pulse. The latter dated at the end 'St John's August 1 1753'. The texts are written on the recto, with further notes on the facing verso.
St John's College W.22 (James 571)
William Barnes, Notebooks. English, c. 1882
Dorsetshire Poet' (1801-86): notebooks containing: i. a list of his writings; ii. a list of articles written for the Dorset County Chronicle; iii. a list of publications in which his works had been noticed; iv. a list of his writings 'not yet published'; and v. some interesting biographical notes. The notebooks were compiled at the end of his life. In a letter to an unknown recipient, also in the collection, dated 18 Nov.