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Includes:

(1) correspondence between the Clare College Librarian and the University Library concerning loan of books to the University Library for long term deposit,1973-4;

(2) signed copy of agreement between Clare College and the University Library concerning the deposit of the books,1st October 1974;

(3) correspondence concerning and papers relating to the sale of duplicate copies of books to the Smithsonian library, 1974;

(4) list of the books given to the College by Wane, 1970

Correspondence relating to Clare College matters including the retirement of the Master, Eric Ashby, in 1975.

Includes:

(1) letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Thirkill thanking him for his welcome to Clare, how much he had enjoyed being with him and sending him an extract 'Early morning, long ago' from the Weald of Youth [see below for a transcript of the letter]
The letter was originally with this extract which is retained in the Forbes Mellon Library, Clare College (see i Discover)

(2) a letter from Lord Adrian (as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University) about Thirkill's retirement from Financial Board, 1958

(3) note from C.P. Snow, 1960

(4) letter of thanks from Sir John Baker, 1961

(5) note about Honorary Membership of Marylebone Cricket Club, 1964

(6) Christmas card from K.S. Duleepsinhji, nd

(7) letters received as Master of Clare College relating to King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 1941-1943

(8) letters relating to Honorary Degrees during Thirkill's time as Vice-Chancellor, including letters from Clement Attlee, Louis Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, Field-Marshall Montgomery and Henri-Paul Spaak

(9) seating plans and orders of events for honorary degree ceremonies,1945-1947

(10) letters of congratulations for his knighthood, 1951

Including letters from Bernard Ashmole, W. Denis Browne, Sydney Cockerell, Edward Dent, T.S. Eliot, Jacob Epstein, John Maynard Keynes, Henry Lamb, F.R. Leavis, J. Middleton Murray, Walter de la Mere, Paul Oppe, Arthur Quiller Couch, and Ivor Richards.

Letters mainly from James (Jim) Marris to his parents (Pop and Mum), George Christopher and Nancie Marris and his brother, Tyrell Marris, while at Clare between 1942 and 1943. They mention work, attendance at lectures, debates and the theatre, fire watching, rowing and participating in the bumps, sailing, setting up the College Labour group and joining the STC (Student Training Corps).

Includes correspondence with Hugh Carey, Mrs. Eliot, publishers, Canon Adrian Carey and Alan Powers

File of correspondence from F.W. Lodington and members of his family concerning his bequest to the College.