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Sir Maurice Hayward, Autobiography. English, c. 1960
Sir Maurice Henry Weston Hayward, of St John’s College (1868-1964): autobiography, including his service as a judge in the Bombay High Court, c. 1960.
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John Fearby Haslam, College bills. English, 1832-5
John Fearby Haslam, of St John’s College (d. 1850): College bills showing expenses incurred as an undergraduate, 1832-5. With a valuation of furniture – ‘Haslam’s Goods’ – by John Swan of Sidney Street, Cambridge, dated 8 Oct. 1835. Haslam’s Tutor was the Revd Thomas Crick (1801-76), subsequently President of the College.
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Claude Guillebaud, After-dinner speech. English, 1970
Claude Guillebaud, Fellow of St John’s College (1890-1971): text of a speech delivered at the College dinner on 27 December 1970, the Feast of St John the Evangelist. Fellows celebrating their eightieth birthday that year are by custom invited to speak at this dinner. In more recent times the speeches have been recorded.
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T. R. Glover, Verses on College catering. English, after 1919
Terrot Reavely Glover, of St John’s College (1869-1943): untitled verses, beginning: ‘The “black ’orse” – yes, I told you we had two’, and ending ‘You can’t have profits and have apple pies!’
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Sir William Gee, Will. English and Latin, 1611
Sir William Gee, of St John’s College, ?matric. 1577 (1562-1612): will, 2 Nov. 1611, including among the provisions a benefaction to the College as described in A. F. Torry, Founders and Benefactors (Cambridge, 1888), p. 100. Signed by Henry Watkinson. Torry records that the benefaction of land in and the advowson of Bainton, Yorkshire, ‘was afterwards lost to the College, although we twice presented to the Rectory’. The will has a very striking and individual preamble, of a distinctly reformist hue.
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E. P. Gatty, College bills. English, 1886-9
Edmund Percival Gatty, of St John’s College (1866-1937): bills settled while an undergraduate at St John’s, 1886-9, with a valuation by John Swan and Son, Cambridge, of A8 New Court, taken in Oct. 1886 with the previous occupant, F. A. E. Leake (1864-). Gatty’s Tutor presenting these bills is Edwin Hill (1843-1933). Gatty was admitted to the College as ‘Percival Edmund’, but appears thus in several later sources, including Venn, and his son gives us this order.
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Roy Fuller, Three poems. English, 1950s
Roy Broadbent Fuller (1912-91): drafts of three poems, ‘Associations’, ‘Ambivalent Love’, and ‘Names’, no date but before 1962.
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Charles Foxley, ‘Ode to Futility’. English, c. 1954
Charles Foxley, of St John’s College (1865-1954): ‘Ode to Futility’, c. 1954. A poem of six verses, signed ‘C.F.’
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Clifford Evans, After-dinner speech. English, 1993
George Clifford Evans, of St John’s College (1913-2006): ‘Some Johnian Episodes’, text of a speech delivered at the College dinner on 27 December 1993, the Feast of St John the Evangelist. Fellows celebrating their eightieth birthday that year are by custom invited to speak at this dinner. In recent times the speeches have been recorded.
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D. J. Enright, Worksheets. English, c. 1960-3
Dennis Joseph Enright (1920-2002): worksheets for the following poems, written while in Singapore: ‘Viewing a Japanese master’, ‘Speckled and smelly’, ‘Chinese cemetery’ (first published in The Listener, 10 Jan. 1963, p. 96), ‘Ecology’, ‘Freshman [or First Year] poetry’, ‘Kind’, ‘A Chinese superstition’, ‘Everyday affairs’, ‘By the wayside’, ‘I was a gulli-gulli man’s chicken’, and ‘Parliament of cats’ (the last seven poems published in Addictions, London, 1962).