Arthur Pressland, Article on Lady Margaret Beaufort’s birthplace. English, 1928

Arthur James Pressland, of St John’s College (1865-1934): ‘Lady Margaret [Beaufort]’s birthplace’, and article written and submitted in 1928 for The Eagle, but not published there, possibly because the work remains unfinished. Lady Margaret was born at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.

Peter Porter, Worksheets. English, 1964 and earlier

Peter Porter (1929-2010): worksheets and early drafts of poems including the works that became ‘The Frankenstein Project’ and ‘Your Attention Please’, no date, but before 1964.

William Philpot, Cambridge bills and an IOU. English, 1839-69

Isaac Pennington, Index to a collection of theses. Latin and English, c. 1800

Isaac Pennington, Fellow and President of St John’s College (1745-1817): alphabetic index to a collection of eighteen volumes of theses, printed in Latin, for medical degrees awarded at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow between 1782 and 1796.

Isaac Pennington, Power of Attorney. English, 1795

Isaac Pennington, Fellow and President of St John’s College (1745-1817): appointment of William Pennington, Edward David Batson, Edward Stephenson, John Stephenson, William Remington and John Smith as his attorneys to receive payments from the Exchequer on account of his salary as Reader of Physic at Cambridge, 11 Apr. 1795.

Richard Pendlebury, ‘Mountaineering in 1872’. English, 1872

William Pearce, Notebook of College affairs. English, later eighteenth century

Probate of the will of Edward Henry Palmer. English, 1883

Two legal documents relating to the estate of Edward Henry Palmer, Fellow of St John’s College, following his murder in the Sinai in 1882: (i) Probate of Palmer’s will dated 29 Jan. 1883, extracted by Hardisty and Rhodes of Great Marlborough St London, 29 Jan. 1883; (ii) declaration of trusts of a sum of £6000, 8 Mar. 1883, paid out of public funds for the benefit of Palmer’s children, signed by the trustees Frederick Pollock, Walter Besant and Robert Wilson.

Edward Henry Palmer, Correspondence about copying his portrait. English, 1933

Correspondence between the Master of St John’s College, Sir Robert Forsyth Scott, the Senior Bursar, Sir Henry Howard, the Junior Bursar L[ewis] E[rle] Shore, the artist and W[illiam] H[enry] D[enham] Rowse, former Headmaster, re arrangements to copy the posthumous oil portrait by John Collier of Edward Henry Palmer (1840-82), Fellow of the College, to hang in the Perse School, Cambridge, 8 May – 27 Nov. 1933. The copy was made by H. W. G. Betteridge.

William Owen, Untitled verses. Latin, early nineteenth century

William Owen, Fellow of St John’s College (1792-1823): verses possibly addressed to the Master or President of the College, no date but apparently c. 1815 when Owen was elected a Fellow of the College. The name W. Owen at top right.