| Title |
General correspondence |
| Reference |
A |
| Covering Dates |
1901–1955 |
| Extent and Medium |
8 boxes; paper |
|
| St John's Library/Benians/A contains: |
|
A1
|
Letters to EAB from Herbert D. Wakely (matric. 1901), 1903-8. With a carte-de-visite photograph of HDW bearing his signature and the date 1901.
1 folder. |
1901–1908 |
|
A2
|
Letters and postcards to EAB from H.F. Russell-Smith. With some letters from EAB and regarding RS, and a cutting from The Times for 7 July 1916 regarding the battle at which RS was fatally wounded. Also eight photos of RS, in his college rooms and in military uniform.
1 folder. |
1909–1916 |
|
A3
|
Correspondence regarding the teaching of history in schools and papers relating to the Cambridge Conference of History Teachers. Including letters from Sir Charles Harding Firth.
1 folder; paper. |
1918–1920 |
|
A4
|
Letters congratulating EAB on his election as Master, 1933-4, and on his election as Vice-Chancellor, 1939.
1 folder; paper. |
1933–1939 |
|
A5
|
Correspondence with Theodore Robinson, Herbert George Wood and others regarding T.R. Glover. With some verses in EAB's and Glover's hands.
1 folder; paper. |
1943–1951 |
|
A6
|
General correspondence. Much of it relating to College business, and some of it from EAB's time as Vice-Chancellor, 1903-30, 1932-40, 1942-8, 1950-51.
5 boxes; paper. |
1903–1951 |
|
A7
|
Family letters. EAB's letters to his mother sent from abroad 1911-12; letters to EAB from his mother 1903-28 + undated; letters to EAB from his father, 1904-48 + undated; letters from EAB to his daughter Colette, 1945; Sylvia Benians correspondence 1951-55; family letters mostly to EAB, including letters from Edith, Elsie and Grace, 1903-51.
1 box; paper. |
1903–1955 |
|
A8
|
Letters and papers relating to EAB's academic career. Some from R.F. Scott.
6 items; paper. |
1906–1919 |
|
A9
|
Correspondence with E.M. Forster regarding the Rede Lecture for 1941.
1 folder; paper. |
1941 |
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