Notes made and collected by Forbes relating to individuals and historical ideas.
Includes essays Forbes wrote whilst at school.
Correspondence relating to Forbes' work on the Scottish Enlightenment. Includes letters between Forbes and Janet Carleton, Nicholas Mulligan, Ian Clark, Alice Leven, Gordon Schochet, George Davie, Ransom Bradford and Thomas Rae.
Correspondence from various individuals relating to the publishing of material by Forbes or the publishing of material that Forbes reviewed before being published. Also includes notes and comments from individuals on Forbes' work.
Notes made by Ford concerning members of the Morel family.
Papers relating to the organisation of the second Cambridge Symposium on Neo-Latin Literature. Includes members lists, samples of papers given by speakers, programmes, costs of attending the conference, minutes of the steering committee of the Symposium concerning the organisation of the conference, correspondence relating to the organisation of the conference, copy of the statues of the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies.
Comprising:
(1) ''Phenylbromacetic acid...'' (offprint from Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1891)
(2) ''The resin acids of the Coniferae. Part I. The constitution of abietic acid'' (Transactions of the Chemical Society, 1904)
(3) With Victoria University College University of N. Z. The Foundation Professors (Wellington, New Zealand, 1934), containing portraits and biographies of Easterfield and 3 other professors, with covering letter, 1935.
Presented to Clare College by Rev. Frederick Kent Clarke (admitted 1851) in 1888.