Including letters to Mansfield Forbes.
Includes letters from friends and colleagues with memories of Forbes including Lord Adrian, David Attenborough, John Betjeman, Alistair Cooke, Mrs T.S. Eliot, Margaret Diggle.
Reviews mostly from 1926-1927, including:
(1) review on William Blake, Poet and Mystic from The Athenaeum (1915)
(2) letters from The Times Literary Supplement 1922
(3) letter from Geoffrey Keynes about his bibliography of William Blake
(4) various reviews from the TLS, offprints of the Journal of the Burma Research Society (enscribed to Forbes from the author)
Photographs and other illustrations used for several chapters of Clare College, 1326-1926:
(1) chapter I (de Clare family and foundation of Clare College)
(2) chapter II (advowsons and estates)
(3) chapter III (architecture of Old Court)
(4) chapter IV and V (now VI) (plate) including old College chest.
Also includes:
(1) glass negative of stained glass window showing Gilbert de Clare (photographic print: Acc 1986/ 6: 14/ 5)
(2) reproductions (annotated by Mansfield Forbes) of portraits of John Moore, Martin Folkes, Edward Atkinson, and Henry Phipps (College Butler), photograph of the cricket team, 1858, and engraving of College barber.
Includes:
(1) printed old maps of Cambridge (reproduced on end-papers of Clare College 1326-1926)
(2) French engraving of south facade of Hall etc (based on view by Daniel Loggan) [nd 18th century]
(3) printed sketches, by Sydney Carline, of Old Court from roofs, 1925
(4) original and printed caricatures of cleric and of man in Boat Club clothing [nd]
Photographs of:
(1) Edward Atkinson [nd early 20th century]
(2) Henry Phipps (Butler) [nd early 20th century]
(3) views of Old Court especially from roofs, Kitchen, Fellows' Library and carved pew end, Avenue, bridge and gates, foundations of Memorial Court [nd,1922]
(4) Memorial Arch and views of New Court [nd c.1924]
(5) memorial to Robert Grumbold at church of St. Botolph.
Papers collected by Hugh Carey while researching the life of Mansfield Forbes for his publication Mansfield Forbes and his Cambridge (CUP 1984).
Includes letters with recollections of Forbes, articles, newscuttings and several texts with annotations by Forbes and other papers.
Includes articles on and by Mansfield Forbes.
Includes article by Margaret Diggle about Forbes as a teacher (The Cambridge Quarterly, Vol 6 No 2, 1973) and article on Cambridge by Elsie Elizabeth Phare (Cambridge Review, 1982).