Janus: Richard Gooch: Papers

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.2611	Denny Abbey, Cambridgeshire: rental
MS Add.2612	Library of Trinity College, La Tour: correspondence and related papers
MS Add.2613	William Hayley: letters to William Long
MS Add.2614	Hartmann Deutshold: Des Heiligen Römischen Reichs Adels Ursprung
MS Add.2615	Clare Hall, Cambridge: papers, mostly relating to John James, and to the mastership of William Grigg.
MS Add.2616	Richard Gooch: Papers
MS Add.2637	Nicolaus Schroeder: Commentary upon the minor Old Testament prophets, Joel to Zechariah
MS Add.2638	'Thestylis', religious verse play in three acts
MS Add.2640	John Smyth: Notebook
MS Add.2641	Hendrik Niclaes: 'The Seconde Exhortation of HN to his Children and to the Famely of the Love of Jesu Christ'
MS Add.2642-2653	Sir Frederic Madden: catalogues and memoranda
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Richard Gooch: Papers

Title	Richard Gooch: Papers
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.2616
Creator	Gooch, Richard
Covering Dates	1823–1839
Extent and Medium	6 boxes; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

A collection of treatises, published and unpublished, extracts, notes, drats and verses, many relating to the University of Cambridge. Includes drafts of the following works by Gooch: 'Liber Cantabrigienses', unpublished biographical notes on officials and students of the University of Cambridge; 'The British Youths' Familiar History of the Town and University of Cambridge', unpublished; 'America and the Americans', unpublished, with 15 watercolour sketches; 'Cantabrigia', newspaper cuttings and notes re University personalities, 1837-9; 'Facetiae Cantabrigienses', published 1825 and 1836; 'The Banquet of Humour', unpublished; 'Memoirs Miscellaneous', unpublished; 'The British eccentric biographer', unpublished; 'Elegiac stanzas addressed to Lady Heathcote', printed in Redemption (1832), pp. 137-8. Miscellaneous poetry. Also includes (at 5, fo. 266) copies of St John's College examination papers, 1823.

In the Library since 1887.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Richard Gooch: Papers, MS Add.2616

Index Terms

Cambridge

Poems

University of Cambridge

St John's College, Cambridge

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