With a letter from C.E. Garrad (Clare 1894) in 1955 offering the letters to the Library.
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 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).
Many apparently kept for signatures.
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.
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.
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.
Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine (1886-1967) poet and writerIncludes designs for stands With printed notices about Gomm Schools, Rotherhithe, 1872
Letters from Robert Davies Roberts (admitted 1871) about gift of silver teapot, 1890, and from William Macfarlane-Grieve (admitted 1896) about gift of fish knives, 1896 With letter from Macfarlane-Grieve about gift of copperplate of Archbishop Tillotson (by J. Houbraken, 1747), 1899