Copies of photographs of opening of Forbes Mellon Library, material about Forbes, Mellon, and Siegfried Sassoon.
Copies of views of College including old postcards, heraldry, famous alumni etc.
Information cards for items put on display in the library for Parent's day usually held in February.
Comprising pamphlets and offprints by:
James Burdakin (admitted 1816), 1850
Joseph Power (1817), 1854
Henry Thomas Day (1830), 1858
Montagu Pennington Sparrow (1839), 1875
Arthur Wolfe (1844), 1859
Samuel Bache Harris (1847), 1868
Richard Henry Manley (1854), nd (1876-1915)
John Peter Taylor (1861), 1898
Robert Davies Roberts (1871), nd (1890-1911)
Alexander Larmor (1881), 1886
Alfred Young (1892), 1902
Horace Frederick Moule (1893), 1901
William Barrett Frankland (1894), 1905
Charles George Lamb (1894), 1922
Ffrancon Roberts (1907), 1916
Leslie Fernandes Taylor (1908), 1916
Cresswell Shearer (1911), 1912
Harry Godwin (1919), 1929
Raymond Williamson (1930), 1957
Thomas Edward Easterfield (1934), 1940 and 1956
Some anecdotes of the late Revd Barnabas Oley communicated by the Revd Dr Walton of Upton to Revd Mr Bigg
William Walton (admitted 1728) was rector of Upton, 1748 - 1789
John Bigg (admitted 1736) was vicar of Great Gransden, 1760 - 1795, and one of the trustees of the Oley Trust.
Includes:
(1) notes on Nicholas Ferrar and his contemporaries, and on Clare family, with notes on relic found at Clare castle (Suffolk) in 1865
Loose papers include:
(1) part of a notebook containing extracts from documents, and historical notes about College properties, Statutes of Clare College, nd (1858), with related papers, 1857-1860
(2) 'Report of the proceedings of the Congress of the Architectural Society, held at Cambridge...', 1860
(3) notes on Rotherhithe (Surrey), nd
(4) letters about Nicholas Ferrar from William Hopkinson (admitted 1859), including offer to subscribe to copy of Ferrar's portrait, 1864, with poems about Little Gidding, nd (1863)
(5) Charity Commission scheme for Oley Trust, 1865
Vol I: Bedfordshire to Norfolk
Vol II: Northamptonshire to Yorkshire and Anglesey to Radnorshire
Gives names and addresses of landowners and acreages and rentals of land. Also gives population of each county in 1871, with number of parishes and inhabited houses
Letters rejecting offer to sell first edition of plays of William Shakespeare, including one from Joseph Power, Fellow of Clare College and University Librarian. With covering letters about discovery of this correspondence, 1938.
Manuscript and typescript copies, apparently made by Major E.T. Newton-Clare. Envelope post-marked 1944.
'The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillani', translated from the French of Monsr. Le Sage by A.L.W