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Material relating to Benjamin Hall Kennedy's *Latin primer* gathered from various sources.
The grouping and sequencing of the material on receipt has been retained.
The material in this collection was assembled by Christopher Stray as part of a research project, and was donated to the Library in 2018.
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1. Two versions of a photograph of Kennedy, accompanied by an invoice to Christopher Stray from Cambridge University Library. 28 January 2004.
2. Photocopied drawing of Kennedy.
3. Three photocopies of a photograph of Kennedy and family.
4. Photograph of four female relatives.
5. Photograph of six young men and a portrait of Kennedy in a library.
6. Photograph of Kennedy in a schoolhouse.
7. Four slides of photographs: 1x photograph 5, 1x a different pose of same, and 2x photograph 6.
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'Dr Kennedy's recollections of his school-days, from his Memoir of his friend Edward Baines. (Insert in volume lettered Kennedy and Shrewsbury, S.VI.70)'. Photocopy of typescript from Shrewsbury School Library.
Shrewsbury School.
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Copied manuscript letter to 'My dear teacher' from 'A.S.B.' (November 1897), accompanied by a manuscript letter to Christopher Stray from James Lawson, Archivist of Shrewsbury School (17 June 1997).
Shrewsbury School.
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1. Nine photographs, eight in duplicate, of St Mary's School, Cambridge.
2. Three glossy prints of images of St Mary's Convent (as it then was), Cambridge.
3. Photocopy of two Ronald Searle 'The Private Life of the Gerund' cartoons and the graffitied title page of *A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools*.
4. Photocopy of a review of Kennedy's *The Works of Virgil* facing the graffitied title page of *The Public School Latin Primer*.
5. Photocopy of a sketch of Kennedy by W. Clarke.
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Photocopied article by M. Elizabeth from *The Pastonian* (St Mary's School, Cambridge) about St Mary's Convent's history as The Elms, where Kennedy once resided.
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Photocopied article from *The Wollopian*, Shrewsbury School's satirical magazine, concerning the worship of Kennedy by schoolboys. The photographs illustrating the article can also be seen at Kennedy/1.
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Manuscript letter to Christopher Stray from Damaris Hayman, accompanying, for his approval, her typescript article, to which manuscript notes and corrections have been added.
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Items pertaining to Cunningham's article (*Guardian*, 5 January 2002).
1. Letter to Christopher Stray from 'Martin'. 18 January 2002.
2. Letter to Christopher Stray from Ted Kenney, enclosing a copy of his 17 January 2002 letter to Nick Milner-Gulland.. 18 January 2002.
3. Letter to Christopher Stray from Kenneth Dover. 18 January 2002.
4. Photocopy of Cunningham's article.
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Three photocopies of Ronald Searle's cartoon: 'Kennedy discovers the gerund and leads it back into captivity'.
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Photocopy of Kennedy's published letter to Bateson, from the Shrewsbury School Library.
Shrewsbury School.
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Photocopies of the entirety of Kennedy's 1852 book, from the Bodleian Library, and of part of a 29 May 1852 letter to Kennedy from an unknown correspondent.
Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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Two prints.
1. Kennedy in a schoolhouse.
2. Kennedy sketched by W. Clarke.
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Notes on Kennedy-related material in the Longmans archive at the University of Reading. Typescript.
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The Classical Association's newsletter, inscribed to Christopher Stray from Jenny, including Damaris Hayman's article 'Tales My Mother Told Me of Dr Kennedy and His Daughters'.
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Photocopied pages.
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Single leaf taken from a book by an unknown author.
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Photocopied manuscript.
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Photocopy of an article from *The Quarterly Journal of Education*.
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1. Photocopy of W.F. Smith's obituary of Kennedy in *The Cambridge Review* (2 May 1889).
2. Photocopy of an image of Kennedy in Peter Meadows and Nigel Ramsay, eds, *A History of Ely Cathedral* (2003).
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Photocopy of a paper 'read to the Annual General Meeting of the Classical Association at Bristol on April 14th, 1950'.
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Photocopy of published testimonials to Kennedy.
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Photocopy of the 'Report of an Address of Congratulation Presented by the Mayor and Inhabitants of Shrewsbury and Its Neighbourhood to the Rev. Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D., Head Master of Shrewsbury School, and a List of the Signatures'.
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Three photocopies.
1. Kennedy's *A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Lichfield* (1842), from Shrewsbury School Library.
2. William Emerton Heitland's 'Dr Kennedy at Shrewsbury' (*The Eagle*, 89, June 1889), from the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
3. Kennedy's *Graecae Grammaticae* (1872), from Shrewsbury School Library.
Shrewsbury School.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Photocopy of a reprint from *The Eagle*.
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1. Five photographs, four featuring people, of the interior of The Elms, part of St Mary's School, Cambridge and formerly Kennedy's residence.
2. Two slides of an 1886 cartoon of Kennedy from *Punch*.
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Discusses Kennedy in terms of his representation in the University of Cambridge Archives, and encloses further information (absent). Typescript.
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Pamphlet by Kennedy.
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Photocopy.
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Photocopy of an article from *Lingua*, 50 (1980).
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Photocopies of reviews of Kennedy's *Subsidia Primaria* parts I and II (29 February 1868) and part III (31 May 1873).
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Photocopy of a review of Kennedy's *The Public School Latin Primer*.
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Notes on Kennedy-related material in the Longmans archive at the University of Reading. Manuscript and typescript.
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1. Photocopy of a note about identification of letters.
2. Photocopy of the front cover.
3. Photocopy of the entire book.
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Two photocopies of the graffitied title page of *A Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools*.
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Photocopy of a page discussing a new Latin primer.
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Photocopy of a page discussing objections to *The New Latin Primer*.
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Photocopy of a page discussing *The New Latin Primer*.
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Photocopied pages including a mention of the *Primer*'s mnemonic verses.
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Photocopied pages referencing the *Primer*'s mnemonic verses.
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Photocopied pages including an anecdote about Kennedy disciplining his children.
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1. Draft article: 'The Authoresses of the *Primer*'. Typescript.
2. Fragment of a talk. Typescript.
3. Photocopy of the finished article in *Ad Familiares* (Autumn 1993).
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1. Letter from David Lea of the Longman Group enclosing the 20 December 1952 agreement between Longmans and Kennedy's beneficiaries Mary Agnes Buchanan-Dunlop and Agnes Vera Hayman. 8 October 1991.
2. Photocopy of the 2 July 1888 agreement between Longmans and Kennedy.
3. Longman Group compliments slip.
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1. University of Reading Library compliments slip signed by Frances.
2. Photocopy of the official version of Julia E. Kennedy's statement of 7 December 1914 regarding authorship of *The Revised Latin Primer*. Typescript.
3. Photocopies of Julia E. Kennedy's original statement and a transcript thereof. Manuscript and typescript.
4. Photocopy of T.E. Page's 10 December 1914 letter to Mr Longman. Manuscript.
University of Reading.
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Photocopy. Discusses the *Primer*'s authorship. Manuscript.
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Photocopy. Discusses the *Primer*'s authorship. Manuscript.
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Transcript of correspondence between Marion G. Kennedy and Longmans. Typescript.
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Photocopy of a review of *The Revised Latin Primer*, from vol. 13 (June 1899) .
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1. Photocopy of W.F. Gosling's 'A Revised Kennedy', from *The Assistant Masters Association* (May 1937).
2.Photocopy of J.W. Roche's 'The Great Latin Primer Question', from the *British Journal of Educational Studies*, 17.3 (October 1969).
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Discusses the subplot involving selling a first-edition Latin grammar in *Jennings and Darbishire* (1952). Typescript.
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Photocopy of the Christmas Eve 1888 letter, accompanied by a 13 February 1996 letter to Christopher Stray from James Lawson, Archivist of Shrewsbury School. Manuscript.
Shrewsbury School.
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Photocopy. Kennedy discusses work on the *Primer*. Manuscript.
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Typescript.
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Photocopies of published conference reports.
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1. Photocopied pages from W.H. Auden's *Prose: Volume VI: 1968-1973* (2015).
2. Photocopied pages from W.H. Auden's *Prose: Volume V: 1963-1968* (2015).
3. Photocpoied pages from Leonard Forster's *Poetry of Significant Nonsense* (1962).
4. Photocopied pages from Richard Huelsenbeck's *Phantastische Gebete* (1960).
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Photocopies of three letters: 21 November 1905, 10 January 1907, and 21 April 1908. Manuscript.
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Photocopied pages.
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A photocopy and a transparency of Ronald Searle's cartoon.
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Photocopied pages pertaining to the resignation from the Professorship of William Hepworth Thompson.
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Photocopied pages.
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Photocopy of a review of books including *The Revised Latin Primer* and *The Shorter Latin Primer*, from *The Classical Review*, 2.
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Photocopy of an article from *The Times*.
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Photocopies of ledger records pertaining to the *Primer*.
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Typescript.
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Photocopy of the 7 December 1868 agreement between Longmans and Kennedy.
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Photocopied pages.
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Photocopy of a page from W.H. Auden's *A Certain World: A Commonplace Book*.
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Photocopied pages.
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1. Letter to Christopher Stray from James Lawson of Shrewsbury School.
2. Two photocopies of a published letter to Longmans from Kennedy (16 December 1886).
3. Photocopy of the December 1886 proof of the *Latin Primer*.
Shrewsbury School.
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Photocopy, from the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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1. Photocopy of '*The Public School Latin Primer* (First Paper)', from *The Contemporary Review*, 6.
2. Photocopy of '*The Public School Latin Primer* (Second Paper)', from *The Contemporary Review*, 8.
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Photocopied pages from Kennedy's book.
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Outline of an article; not, according to the manuscript note, 'exactly the 5-page outline you wanted'. Typescript.
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Photocopied pages compiling letters to *The Times* on the subject of the *Primer*.
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Photocopy.
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Photocopies from the Shrewsbury School Library.
1. Three letters to Henry Whitehead Moss from Kennedy: July 16 1888, 24 December 1888, '[X{ma}s Day ?]' 1888. Manuscript.
2. Letter from the Deanery at Ely. 4 January 1871. Manuscript.
3. Fragment of a letter from Kennedy. Undated. Manuscript.
Shrewsbury School.
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Photocopy from Shrewsbury School Library of the manuscript original, plus a typed transcript.
Shrewsbury School.
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Photocopies, from Shrewsbury School Library, of correspondence between Kennedy and Edward Baines, accompanied by a letter from James Lawson of Shrewsbury School. Manuscript.
Shrewsbury School.