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HISTORICAL REFERENCE
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FORBES, Mansfield Duvall |
| Reference |
CCHR/2/FOR
(former reference: Acc 1986/3) |
| Covering Dates |
1903–1985 |
| Extent and Medium |
5 boxes; paper |
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| Content and context |
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Hugh Carey lived in Cambridge as a child and knew Mansfield Forbes (1889-1936, Clare 1909) as "Uncle Manny". His father, Gordon V Carey (Caius 1908), was a close friend of Forbes. As part of his research for the biography of Forbes, Hugh Carey collected material from friends and colleagues of Forbes during the late 1970s and early 1980s but died in 1984 after passing proofs of his book for press.
Papers collected by Hugh Carey while researching the life of Mansfield Forbes for his publication "Mansfield Forbes and his Cambridge" (CUP 1984). Includes letters with recollections of Forbes, articles, newscuttings and several texts with annotations by Forbes and other papers
1986/3 - Some of the material had already been at Clare College; but the majority was collected by Hugh Carey. After his death in 1984 the collection was transferred to Clare by his brother, Canon Adrian Carey and subsequently transferred to the Archives by the Forbes Mellon Librarian (Dr Richard Gooder) in February and June 1986
Some of the original arrangement of material has been reordered with assistance from a regular researcher, Peter Morgan.
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| Further information |
See also Richard Gooder's copy of volume 2 of Clare 1326-1926 transferred by Michael Lapidge in October 2004 (2004-05/02); See Lady Clare Oct 1912 (Vol XII No. 1, pp. 5-6) for a biographical notes on Forbes as a Fellow; also CAA 1975-76 pp. 10-18 for reminiscence of Forbes by Sr Knox Cunningham (Clare 1928) |
| Index Terms |
| Forbes, Mansfield Duval (1889-1936) Historian of Clare College Cambridge |
| Clare/CCHR/2/FOR contains: |
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Correspondence and papers collected by Hugh Carey for his research on Mansfield Forbes. Includes letters from friends and colleagues with memories of Forbes including Lord Adrian, David Attenborough, John Betjeman, Alistair Cooke, Mrs T. S. Eliot, Margaret Diggle etc.
2 bundles; paper. |
1977–1983 |
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Articles and reviews relating to Mansfield Forbes, his history of Clare 1326-1926 and his house "Finella" on Queens' Road, Cambridge.
5 files; paper. |
1909–1982 |
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Photographs of Mansfield Forbes and other images used by Hugh Carey for his book on Forbes.
2 files; paper. |
1930–1982 |
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Books and reviews annotated by Mansfield Forbes.
1 box and 4 volumes; paper. |
1903–1922 |
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Correspondence of Mansfield Forbes.
1 file; paper. |
1914–1938 |
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Miscellaneous papers of Mansfield Forbes. Clare College dinner menu (1910), membership papers of the Cambridge Alpine Club (1911-1914); Catalogue of art exhibition (1913); printed menus for dinner given to Henry Festing Jones on the completion of his memoir of Samuel Butler 1835-1916, (1916); Reprint "Early printed books to the Year 1500: in the library of Clare College, Cambridge" (Cambridge 1919); Typescript copy of a lecture by Forbes on "Scottish Architecture from examples in Aberdeenshire" given in 1921 (with a photocopy of printed article from The Architectural Association Journal); programmes and dinner menu of the Dilettante Society (1927); issues of Lady Clare. Some signed or annotated by Forbes but not certain about their provenance.
1 file; paper. |
1910–1927 |
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Correspondence of Dr Richard Gooder about the biography of Mansfield Forbes.
1 file; paper. |
1981–1985 |
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