Janus: Administrative records

King's/KC/KCAR/1/2 contains:
1	Hacomblen, Robert
2	Snape, Andrew
3	Okes, Richard
4	Glanville, Stephen
5	Bateson, Patrick
6	Collins, Samuel
7	Roderick, Charles
8	Leigh, Augustus Austen
9	Correspondence about Provosts
10	'General correspondence' of Provosts Sheppard and Glanville
11	Closure of College to visitors
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Administrative records

Title	Okes, Richard
Reference	KCAR/1/2/3
Covering Dates	1767–1959

Content and context

Richard Okes was Provost from 1850 to1889.

King's/KC/KCAR/1/2/3 contains:

Provost Okes' damp press letter book and travelling copy-press. The damp press letter book contains copies of letters written on College business by Okes while he was on circuit round the College estates. The copy-press is175 mm x 300 mm x 80 mm.
Creator: Okes, Richard.
1 notebook and 1 damp-press; paper, wood and metal.

1861–1872

Letter from Provost Richard Okes to G. E. Corrie. G. E. Corrie was the Master of Jesus College. 1 typed copy of a letter, probably made 1949.
Creator: Okes, Richard.
4 pages; paper.

25 Aug. 1852

Provost Okes' letter book.
Creator: Okes, Richard.
1 volume; paper.

1858–1869

Correspondence and printed papers concerning changes to the constitution of Eton.
1 box; paper.

1870–1879

Assorted correspondence and papers of Provost Okes.
Creator: Okes, Richard.
2 envelopes; paper.

1767–1894

Letter from J. Lefure on the Cambridge Bill.
1 item in envelope; paper.

29 July 1856

Letter from E. Atkinson, Vice Chancellor, on Latin Odes.
Creator: Atkinson, E.
1 item in envelope; paper.

6 May 1863

Correspondence on the history of almshouses and status of almswomen.
1 bundle in envelope; paper.

1871–1879

Letter from Joseph Romilly, Registrar, to the Provost. 1 autograph letter signed stating that Romilly has been unable to discover the origin of the practice of the Vice-Chancellor's attendance at the King's Lady-Day Sermon.
Creator: Romilly, Joseph.
1 sheet; paper.

27 Feb 1856

Letter from Sir Henry Ellis to Provost Okes. 1 autograph letter on Lord Stratfordde Redcliffe's gift to the Fitzwilliam Museum of a set of casts from the Halicarnassian Marbles.
Creator: Ellis, Sir Henry.
1 double sheet; paper.

29 Apr 1853

Letter from Provost Richard Okes to John Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln. 1 autograph letter signed on Jackson's translation to the See of London and relinquishing of the Visitorship of the College.
Creator: Okes, Richard.
1 double sheet; paper.

27 Feb 1869

Provost Richard Okes. 2 autograph poems by Richard Okes: 'In memory of Tom Ficklin, RN' and 'A charade'; and a printed obituary of Richard Okes cut from a newspaper. Given by Miss Winifred Myers, 1961.
3 items; paper.

1800–1900

Letter from Provost Richard Okes to Sir Edward [?]. 1 autograph letter signed.
Creator: Okes, Richard.
1 item; paper.

27 Aug 1872

Correspondence on chapel matters.
paper.

Letter from Charles Booth to Henry Jackson. 1 autograph letter signed from Booth including a satirical poem on Provost Okes. Also includes 1 autograph letter signed from Hnery Jackson to 'Sir Charles'.
2 sheets; paper.

15 Jan 1911–7 Nov 1959

Letter from Augustus Austen Leigh to Provost Okes. 1 autograph letter signed concerning a petition of the parents of scholars.
Creator: Leigh, Augustus Austen.
1 item; paper.

21 Jun 1862

Letters to the Provost from Edward Knowles Corrie. Correspondence concerning Corrie's tenure in relation to the Statutes.
6 items; paper.

1882

Correspondence of and concerning Oscar Browning's submission to new statutes. 3 autograph letters signed from Browning to Provost Okes and copies of two letters from Browning to the Provost, 1 autograph letter signed from F Whitting to Provost Okes.
1 file; paper.

1883

Correspondence of Richard and Jill Okes. Contains correspondence, accounts, receipts, bank books. Much of the material concerns Samuel Peed.
3 files; paper.

c. 1860-c. 1890