St John's College W.3 (part)
Patricia Beer, ‘Witch’. English, 1964
Patricia Beer (1919-99): ‘Witch’, copied out and signed by the author. With a letter from Beer to Guy Lee, Librarian, 8 Jan. 1964.
St John's College W.3 (part)
Martin Bateson, Poems. English, 1919-21
Martin Bateson, of St John’s College (1899-1922): two poems: ‘To Samuel Butler’, 1919, and ‘I and love are land and sea’, 1921. The first of these was published in the Cambridge Magazine, 15 Nov. 1919.
St John's College W.3 (part)
Michael Baldwin, Poems and worksheet. English, 1963
Michael Baldwin (b. 1930): four poems transcribed from Death on a Live Wire (1962), together with a worksheet or first draft of his poem ‘A Skiffle for God in the City’. With a letter from the author to Guy Lee, Librarian, 14 Mar. 1963.
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Kingsley Amis, ‘Waking Beauty’. English, 1963
Kingsley William Amis (1922-95): ‘Waking Beauty’, poem of nineteen lines. With a work-sheet for the poem and a letter from Amis to Guy Lee, Librarian of St John’s College, dated 11 Feb. 1963. The poem was first published in The Spectator, 29 Mar. 1963.
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John Aislabie, Two signatures on legal documents. English, 1718
Transfer of title to Robert Knight Esq., 12 Mar. 1717/18, and Order for payment from Treasury Chambers, 16 May 1718.
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Catalogue of the papers of Dr Edwin Abbott. English, 1927-57
Edwin Abbott Abbott, Fellow of St John’s College (1838-1926): Catalogue of his papers bequeathed to the College in 1926 and selected for preservation by J. M. Creed, May 1927, compiled in May 1928. With letters to the Librarian from John A. Lamb, Librarian of New College, Edinburgh, and A. W. Buchanan, 1956-7.
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R.J. Fraser. Travel journal Malaya to UK
Robert John Fraser (1936-2000), BA MML/Economics St John's College, 1957. Typescript copy of journal written whilst travelling back from Malaya to the UK following his demobilisation. The period covered is 26 July 1959 to 26 May 1960. Countries visited were Burma, East Pakistan, India, West Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and France. The journal was bound by the family in 2011.