Somerset Davies, Application for dispensation from a University Statute. English, 1776

Donald Davie, Poems and worksheets. English, 1956-9

Donald Davie (1922-95): ‘Under St Paul’s’ and other poems, together with drafts and worksheets.

Kenneth Craik, Poems and other papers. English, 1931-43

Kenneth James William Craik, Fellow of St John’s College (1914-45): miscellaneous writings as listed. Craik was killed in an accident in Cambridge on the eve of VE Day. For an obituary notice by F. C. Bartlett see The Eagle, 52, 454-65.

1. ‘On revisiting and old classroom’, and other poems, 1931-2. 29 pp.

2. ‘Selections from diary of a Norwegian Holiday’, 23 July to 13 Aug. 1935. ‘Diary X’. 26 pp.

3. Extract from diary, 15-22 Oct. 1935. 10 pp.

Samuel Butler, ‘The Holy Land’. English, 1800

Samuel Butler, Fellow of St John's, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (1774-1839): ‘The Holy Land’, a poem written for the Cambridge University Seatonian Prize competition of 1800 but submitted too late for consideration. Butler writes on the cover that ‘for this reason it is not published, lest it should seem as an appeal from the judgment of the university to the tribunal of the public’. Francis Wrangham was awarded the Seatonian Prize for his poem on this set theme.

R. P. Burnett, Memoirs of life in India. English, c. 1905

The Revd Richard Parry Burnett, of St John’s College, rector of Cornwell, Chipping Norton (1853-1930): ‘Twenty years in India (1880-1900) or Reminiscences of a Madras chaplain’, no date [c. 1905].

T. G. Bonney, Miscellaneous papers. English, various dates

Thomas George Bonney, Fellow of St John’s College (1833-1923): miscellaneous papers relating to Bonney and his family, for the most part without date. The collections consists of

1. The Bonney family tree, (a) ‘made out by me H[enry] K[aye] Bonney, DD’, 23 June 1840. With an elaborated version (b) prepared by Thomas K. B. Nevinson, 1896, and subsequently by Bridget Nevinson.

2. Notes on genealogical matters relating to the family.

T. G. Bonney, Sermon preached in St John’s College. English, 1881

Thomas George Bonney, Fellow of St John’s College (1833-1923): sermon on Deuteronomy xxxiv.4, preached in the Chapel of St John’s College on 29 May 1881 after an unsuccessful candidature in the Mastership election that year. Bonney was leaving Cambridge to work in London. See Bonney’s published memoirs, Memories of a long life (Cambridge, 1921), pp. 42-3.

Miles Bland, Miscellaneous papers. English, 1806-19

Miles Bland, Fellow of St John’s College (1786-1867): miscellaneous papers relating to his residence as an undergraduate and as a Fellow at St John’s. Comprising

1. Latin letter (Long Vacation exercise) addressed to the President of the College and to others, 23 Nov. 1806.

2. Examination paper for the College ‘Morality’ [or Moral Philosophy] Prize, 7 Mar. 1808. ‘R[alph] Tatham Examiner’. ‘Adjudged to Ds Bland’. See the University Calendar for 1809, p. 219.

James Bland, Poems. English, 1787

James Bland, Fellow of St John’s College (1760/1-88): fifteen poems, written in 1787.

June Benians, Poems. English, 1964

June Benians (d. 2005): two poems: ‘Variety’ and ‘The Cherry Tree’, both with worksheets. With a letter from Benians to Guy Lee, Librarian, 4 May 1964.