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Dennis Nicholas Herbert Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford met Siegfried Sassoon in October 1954, when the latter visited Cambridge to read selections from his poetry. This collection consists of letters and postcards from Sassoon to Herbert between 1954 and 1959.

Letters Patent of George IV revoking the clause in the 1551 Statutes restricting Fellowships by area.
With large seal attached and a printed statement by the Master (Edward Atkinson) about Fellowships on Coles Foundation, 1885.

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.

Many apparently kept for signatures.

With letter from Lucy Don, 1917, photographs of Archie Don (3 copies) and unknown man, perhaps Don's father; also memoir of Archie Don by Forbes (three copies, 2 typescript).

Includes letters about donation to the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy Note: John Bigg (admitted 1736) was a Trustee as vicar of Great Gransden, 1760-1795.

With a letter from C.E. Garrad (Clare 1894) in 1955 offering the letters to the Library.

Note: these alterations were intended to modernise the Lodge after the election of William Loudon Mollison as Master.

"Mr Manley's catalogues" comprising:

(1) notes on books on shelves in middle of room

(2) catalogue of books on library table and in drawers

(3) copy of report of Master and Fellows in College about library

(4) notes on method of inspection

(5) memoranda of missing books and of books on shelves but not in class catalogue