Janus: The Papers of Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Manuscripts/MS Add.7620 contains:
1	Material generated or accumulated as an academic post holder
2	Notebooks and loose notes
3	Material relating to consultancies
4	Material generated by honorific positions and associated activities
5	Biographical studies, obituaries, and memorial publications
6	Material generated by personal and family matters
7	Miscellaneous newspaper cutting of a letter to the editor of an unspecified paper from A[rthur] H[eygate] Mackmurdo re Professor Elliot Smith and natural selection
8 (N)	Photographs and ephemera

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The Papers of Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Title	Material generated by personal and family matters
Reference	MS Add.7620/6
Covering Dates	1800–1947 (early 19th century - 1947)
Extent and Medium	1 box; paper; parchment; photograph; wood

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See also section MS Add.7620/8 or MS Add.7620/N which is largely of a personal nature.

Manuscripts/MS Add.7620/6 contains:

Family correspondence on a variety of subjects; together with a certified copy of the registered record of Frederick Hopkins' baptism in 1827 made 1844.
1 folder; paper.

1800–1873

Notes on family history; together with pedigrees of Edward and Martin Hopkins, undated; and letter from Clark Hopkins (Madison, Connecticut) suggesting a family link, 1938.
6 items; paper.

1800–1938

Manuscript knitting pattern for a counterpane.
2 sheets; paper; The condition is poor. One sheet is split in two..

1825–1875

Correspondence concerning Frederick Hopkins' attendance of a school in Margate.
3 sheets and 1 envelope; paper.

17 June 1832–27 Mar. 1833

Notebook used as index of definitions of religious, philosophical and scientific terms. The notes are in the hand of Frederick Hopkins.
1 volume; paper.

1835–1860

Printed views of Eastbourne; together with one print of Ramsgate Royal Harbour. Ten of the prints were published by 'F. Hopkins' or 'The Misses Hopkins'. A print of Egyptian artefacts and one of Aston Hall are mounted on the reverse.
21 prints (11 mounted together, six bound, 4 loose); paper.

1835–1865

Notebook entitled ''Scribblings of a [word illegible] Muse'' and containing poetry and short stories. The volume is partly blank. It contains some sketch illustrations.
1 notebook; paper.

1840–1846

[?Draft] letter between unknown correspondents re the art of drawing. The letter is on the reverse of a lithographer's advertisement.
1 sheet; paper.

1840–1849

Certified copy of the registered record of Elizabeth Stafford's birth in 1795.
1 sheet; paper.

25 Apr. 1842

Certificate of Frederick Hopkins admission as a freeman of the City of London.
1 rolled sheet in a document tube; parchment; wood.

14 May 1844

Draft manuscripts of a playscript entitled ''Russian Taxidermy - or ''A slight Mistake''. A Tragic drama in one act.''.
2 loose quires; paper.

1850–1859

Portrait photographs of [?Frederick Hopkins and Frederick Gowland Hopkins].
3 photographic prints on mount boards (largest: 96 x 140 mm); photograph.

1850–1878

Tintype studio portrait of an unidentified gentleman. The sitter is in his late forties or fifties.
1 cased photographic print (61 x 86mm); photograph; The image has chemically deteriorated..

1856–1899

Diary kept by Frederick Hopkins. This volume is partly blank. From 1858 it is often written retrospectively.
1 volume; paper.

9 Nov. 1856–20 Aug. 1862

15A

Studio portrait photographs of Elizabeth Gowland and Frederick Hopkins. The images show:. /1. Elizabeth seated, with a table and to books, probably prior to her marriage. /2-3. Elizabeth seated with Frederick standing, possibly in mourning dress [?for her father].
Creator: E. Glynn, Cheapside.
2 glass plate positives; 1 ambrotype; 2 photographs on paper; photograph; The items are all showing damage to various layers of the image..

1850–1860

15B

''F. Hopkins' Tide Table for Eastbourne''. A printed instrument card with attached rotatable printed disks which can be manipulated to predict high and low tides.
Creator: Frederick Hopkins.
1 card; paper.

1860–1869

Notebook containing daily weather observations; including thermometer and barometer readings. The volume is largely blank.
1 volume; paper.

1 July 1861–14 Apr. 1862

Portrait photograph of [?Elizabeth and Frederick Gowland Hopkins]. The image is of a mother and baby.
Creator: G.W. Hale, St. Leonard's Villa, Eastbourne.
1 framed photographic print (60 x 92mm); photograph.

1862

Personal correspondence of Frederick Gowland Hopkins. Items include for example: a letter to his mother re his future plans; consideration of Oundle as a school for Frederick Edward Gowland Hopkins; letters and telegrams of congratulation at Frederick Gowland Hopkins' 80th birthday; and letters of thanks for his and Lady Hopkins' hospitality.
3 folders; paper.

21 Jan. 1870–14 Feb. 1944

Term account from the City of London School; together with a bill from the Alexandra Park College. /1. Term Account for Easter 1874, Frederick Gowland Hopkins at City of London School, for school books totalling £4.12.4. /2. Bill from Alexandra Park College, Hornsey, for books bought in Christmas Term 1877, totalling £1.3.2.
Creator: City of London School; Alexandra Park College.
2 sheets; paper; The condition of both items is poor. There are edges tears and losses..

Mar. 1874-Feb. 1878

Essay entitled ''Tillitudlem Castle''. The essay takes the form of a playscript written at the City of London School.
11 sheets; paper.

1875

Images of family homes. The images comprise: a commercial photographic print of Marine Parade, Eastbourne; a postcard of Fortescue Villas, Enfield; and two copy photographs of Saxmeadham, Grange Road, Cambridge.
4 photographic prints of which 1 framed (largest: 121 x 165mm); photograph.

1875–1920

Photographs of Barbara Elizabeth Hopkins and Frederick Edward Gowland Hopkins. Two are studio portraits and one a family shot posed in a garden.
Creator: J. Palmer Clarke , Cambridge (in part).
3 photographic prints, one on a mount board (largest: 105 x 150mm); photograph.

1907–1910

''Melrose School Magazine'' Summer Term, 1914 in which Barbara Elizabeth Hopkins is noted as a prize recipient.
1 pamphlet; paper.

1914

/1. Personal letter from Sir Archibald Garrod (9 Chandos Street. London) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re his sons killed in the war; /2. a photograph of two of his sons in uniform; /3. a portrait photograph of [?one of the sons]. Written in response to Frederick Gowland Hopkins condolence. /2. is an enclosure of /1.
Creator: Archibald Garrod.
1 sheet; 1 photographic print; paper; photograph.

18 May 1915

Official documents accumulated by the Hopkins family during the Great War; together with an item from the Red Cross. /1. Four National Registration cards for Frederick Gowland Hopkins and family (not Jacquetta), 1915. /2. Printed sheet of instructions for civil population in the event of an enemy landing, January 1915. /3. Court summons by Cambridge JP on Hopkins for violating blackout regulations. /4. Six sugar tickets at Messrs Hallack & Bond of Cambridge, for the whole Hopkins family, and Harriet Moody [presumed servant]. /5. Victory greetings card Christmas 1918 from the Red Cross.
5 items; paper; The condition of item /2. is very poor. It has fold damage, edge tears and losses..

1915–1918

Diary kept by Frederick Gowland Hopkins. The volume is largely blank.
1 volume; paper.

28 Aug. 1916–24 Sep. 1916

27A

Studio portrait photographs of Frederick Gowland Hopkins.
Creator: J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge.
1 photographic print on a mount board (print 96 x 145mm); 1 photographic print (70 x 89 mm); photograph.

1920–1939

27B

A photographic album entitled ''A Souvenir of a Journey to Japan'' given by the Lenox-Conygham's to the Hopkins's as a Christmas gift. Photographs of sea voyage in 1926 to Japan via Marseilles, Naples, Port Said, the Red Sea, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Images show ships, coastlines, passengers, the Lennox-Conyham's, and street scenes and residents in places visited, . A photographic Christmas postcard of a child on a windsor chair, signed JS, is enclosed.
Creator: Sir Gerald Lenox-Conyngham, 1867-1957.
71 photographs (41 x 60mm) mounted on 1 sheet; 1 postcard; photograph; paper.

1875–1926

Photographs of family groups and activities. The images depict:. /28.1 ?Jacquetta, ?Barbara and ?Frederick Edward Gowland Hopkins picnicking,. /28.2 Unidentified young man, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and ?Jacquetta in a ?Mediterranean or ?Middle-Eastern city,. /28.3 Frederick Gowland Hopkins in the garden of ?Saxmeadham, Grange Road, Cambridge,. /28.4 Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Jean Gowland in a doorway, and. /28.5 Frederick Gowland Hopkins and ?Jessie Ann Hopkins fishing from a river bank.
5 photographic prints (largest: 85 x 135mm); photograph.

1927–1947

Letter from ?N. Dunham] (Budleigh Salterton) to Jessie Ann Hopkins re hopes for 1940 and Polish refugees they have taken into their home.
1 sheet; paper.

31 Dec. 1939

30A

Circular letter from Isobel Cripps (13 Regent St. , S. W. 1) thanking [?Frederick Gowland Hopkins] for supporting the United Aid to China Fund.
Creator: Isobel Cripps.
1 sheet; paper.

1875–1947

30B

Letter from Herbert George Wells (47 Chiltern Court, NW1) to Frederick Gowland Hopkins re arranging to meet and naming his guests as Dr & Mrs Julian Huxley, Dr & Mrs Brierly and Lady Aberconway.
Creator: Herbert George Wells.
1 sheet; paper.

4 Oct. 1934

Order of service sheets for the funeral of Frederick Gowland Hopkins; together with a typescript eulogy and a printed response to letters of condolence to Lady Gowland. The printed response has been used by Jessie Gowland Hopkins to write to [?Denis] Fox.
4 items; paper.

31 May 1947–30 June 1947