Correspondence relating to a plaque commemorating Welsh Johnians. English and Welsh, 1951-2

Charles Jenkinson and T. Farraine, Legal question. English, 1763

Harold Jeffreys, After-lunch speech. English, 1981

Sir Harold Jeffreys, of St John’s College (1891-1989): Notes for a speech delivered at a lunch given in honour of his ninetieth birthday, 25 Apr. 1981.

Komair Latifi, Undergraduate account book. English, 1930-4

Komair Latifi, of St John’s College (b. 1912): Notebook containing detailed accounts of his income and expenditure as an undergraduate, Oct. 1930 to May 1933, with a few entries running into the following year. Much detail is presented to illustrate undergraduate life in the period. Latifi lodged with Mrs J. Child, Bridge Street, during his first year.

Philip Larkin, ‘A Study of Reading Habits’. English, 1961

Philip Larkin (1922-85): ‘A Study of Reading Habits’, 1 Nov. 1961. A poem of three six-line verses.

Gilbert Jackson, Notes from lectures by Charles Fay on Political Economy. English, 1909

Gilbert Edward Jackson, of St John’s College (1890-1959): notes on lectures on political economy delivered by Charles Ryle Fay, then a Fellow of Christ’s College ‘in the Fellows’ Building of Christ’s College … in the Spring of 1909’. Fay has inserted a letter from Sadie Jackson, 1 July 1959, in the notebook, as well as the letter noted below.

Charles Hutton, Genealogical notes. English and Latin, c. 1917

The Revd Charles Frederick Hutton, of St John’s College (1857-1931): notes relating to his family, including his father Francis Pierpoint Burton Norman Hutton, of St John’s College (1826-84), whose diary of undergraduate life in Cambridge, much quoted here, was presented by Charles in 1917 and is in the Collection at W.33. The notes are elegantly and elaborately compiled, with hand coloured coats of arms and rubricated pedigrees.

Sir Joseph Hutchinson, Autobiographical lecture. English, 1977

Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson, Fellow of St John’s College (1902-88): ‘Reflections on a research career’, the St John’s College Lecture delivered in the University of East Anglia, 10 May 1977.

Henry Hughes, List of Library books. English, before 1884

Henry Hunter Hughes, Fellow of St John’s College (1796-1884): list of books from his library ‘to be sent to St John’s College Library Cambridge by my executor’. The accompanying papers record the process of identifying superfluous duplicates, finding alternative homes for some, and securing a valuation for others. Some 338 books were eventually brought into the Library collection. Hughes was for many years Rector of Layham, Suffolk.

John Herschel, Solution of the Chinese theorem. English, no date

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Fellow of St John’s College (1792-1871): ‘Proof of the Chinese theorem that (2n-2)/n is an integer whenever n is a prime, not otherwise’, no date.