Janus: The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

King's/PP/RCB contains:
<-- See earlier
Xd	Poems, articles, etc. in memory of Rupert Brooke
Xe	Correspondence concerning Rupert Brooke's grave and memorials
Xf	Other correspondence of Mary Ruth Brooke
Xg	Correspondence of other individuals
Xh	Sir Geoffrey Keynes' correspondence
Xi	Sir Geoffrey Keynes' typescripts
Pr	Printed Material
Ph	Photographs
Pc	Postcards
Ad	Additional Items
FPr	Further printed material

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The Papers of Rupert Chawner Brooke

Title	Additional Items
Reference	RCB/Ad
Covering Dates	1908–1969 (Many items undated.)
Extent and Medium	1 envelope; paper

Content and context

Items connected with photographs of Rupert Brooke. This series includes files of photograph negatives and reproductions of photograph and painted portraits, as well as letters concerning the dates, places and persons in some photographs.

King's/PP/RCB/Ad contains:

Photographic negatives of picnic. Envelope of five original photographic negatives of Rupert Brooke with friends at a picnic.
6 items in envelope; negative and paper.

1908–1911

Photographic negatives of Fiji. Envelope of ten original photographic negatives of Rupert Brooke's trip to Fiji. [Ph/240, 242-9, plus one not reproduced]. This file also includes one negative (of poor quality) of a naked figure in water with rod [not reproduced] and two negatives of the woman thought to be Taatamata. One was printed as Ph/256, and the other was printed c. 1995 and stored in this file: full-length figure in profile, without hat.
11 items in envelope; negative and paper.

1913

Pressed flower. Pressed flower from Skyros, on card enclosed by cellaphane, marked 'Trebuki 1917'.
1 item in envelope; paper.

1917

Visitors to Rupert Brooke's grave. Three identical newspaper cuttings (possibly from the Daily Sketch), showing figures visiting Rupert Brooke's grave at Skyros.
3 items in envelope; paper.

6 Sep. 1928

Portrait of Rupert Brooke. Printed reproduction of portrait photograph of Rupert Brooke by V.H.Mottram.
Creator: Emery Walker, Ltd.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Portrait of Rupert Brooke. Printed reproduction of portrait photograph of Rupert Brooke by Sherril Schell.
Creator: Emery Walker, Ltd.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Drawing of Rupert Brooke. Four copies of a printed reproduction of a drawing of Rupert Brooke by Joan Hassall.
4 items in envelope; paper.

Postcards showing a drawing of Rupert Brooke. Five postcards, published by the National Portrait Gallery, of a drawing of Rupert Brooke by J. Havard Thomas, used by him for the Rugby Memorial Plaque. In an envelope addressed to Edward Marsh.
5 items in envelope; paper.

14 May 1931

Photograph envelope. A photograph envelope, marked 'Hills & Saunders, Photographers Royal, Cambridge', originally enclosing a photograph of Rupert Brooke as Major Kildare.
1 envelope in envelope; paper.

1908

Envelope enclosing photographs. An envelope marked by Rupert Brooke, 'R.B. + Duncan Campbell Scott in DSC's garden at Ottawa 1913', originally enclosing photographs, not now identifiable.
1 envelope in envelope; paper.

Envelope for photographs. Envelope marked 'photos' (probably by Rupert Brooke), originally enclosing photographs of Fiji sent by Rupert Brooke to his mother (possibly with a letter of 'about 15 December 1913').
1 envelope in envelope; paper.

15 Dec. 1913

Envelope for photographs. An envelope marked by Mary Ruth Brooke, 'snapshots of Rupert by Denis Browne.'.
1 envelope in envelope; paper.

Envelope for photograph. Envelope originally containing photograph of painting of Tahiti by William Hodges, marked 'Tahiti photograph (not by Rupert Brooke) a painting'.
1 envelope in envelope; paper.

Postcard and photographic wallet. A postcard sent to Edward Marsh by Charles Stuart enclosing photograph(s) of the olive grove where Rupert Brooke is buried. This file also includes a photograph wallet addressed to Edward Marsh, marked 'Col.C.K.C.Stuart'.
2 items in envelope; paper.

1915

Letter discussing wrestling photograph. A letter from Denis Robertson to Geoffrey Keynes discussing the identity of figures in the wrestling photograph. Note that Robertson misdates the event to 1907. A letter by him reproduced by Michael Hastings in The Handsomest Man in England (1967) shows the date to be 23 May 1909.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

3 July 1952

Note enclosing photographs. A letter from Diana Hopkinson to Geoffrey Keynes enclosing photographs belonging to her mother Eva Hubback (née Spielman).
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

26 Apr. 1961

Letter from Philip Snow to Geoffrey Keynes. Letter from Philip Snow, Bursar of Rugby School, to Geoffrey Keynes returning photographs of Fiji after attempt to identify exact locality.
1 sheet in envelope; paper.

19 Feb. 1969

Envelope and photographic negatives. Envelope of eight original photographic negatives of the Malta and Lemnos photographs.
9 items in envelope; negative and paper.

Mar. 1915