St John‘s College Personal Collections

Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/42/1
File
17 Mar. 2013

Memorabilia from the 'Eighth Erewhon Dinner' reconstruction, organised by the Samuel Butler Room Society and held at St John's College on Sunday 17th March 2013. Includes seating plan, menu, transcripts of speeches and copies (printed and on disc) of photographs taken during the event.

'Samuel Butler, The Authoress of the Odyssey and Sicily', by Luigi Giannitrapani

Butler/Section 3 (III)/10/2/30
Item
23 Feb. 2013 (Date of lecture.)

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Printout of the text of a lecture, with presentation slides, given at the Associazione Italo-Britannica, Genoa.

Material relating to 'Treasure Island: British Art from Holbein to Hockney'

Butler/Section 3 (III)/11/4
Item
5 Oct. 2012–20 Jan. 2013

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Correspondence, exhibition guide and documents detailing press coverage, relating to the exhibition 'Treasure Island: British Art from Holbein to Hockney', held at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid in 2012-13. Includes two small reproductions, on presentation board, of Butler photographs displayed in the exhibition. [N.B. A copy of the full exhibition catalogue, which was enclosed with this correspondence, has been accessioned into the Working Library collection (First Floor Oversize, classmark N 6764.T7)].

'Adventures in Italy'

Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/42/4
File
12 Jan. 2013

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Exhibition case plan, captions, publicity material, digital photographs and audio recordings from the second Butler Day, held at St John's College Library on 12 January 2013.

'Bella Italia: an Englishman's adventures abroad'

Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/42/7/5
Item
11 Jan. 2013 (Date of publication.)

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Feature published on the University of Cambridge 'Research Features' webpages (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bella-italia-an-englishman%E2%80%99s-adventures-abroad).

'Snap Shots of Europe from the 1890s'

Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/42/7/4
Item
4 Jan. 2013 (Date of publication.)

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Feature published on the Historypin blog (http://blog.historypin.com/2013/01/04/snap-shots-of-europe-from-the-1890s/).

'Mysterious Disappearances: God, Money and the Musical Banks', by Horatio Morpurgo

Butler/Section 3 (III)/10/2/27
Item
Oct. 2012-Nov. 2012

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Xerox copy of pages from The London Magazine, Oct-Nov 2012 (pp.120-28), featuring 'an adapted extract from a novel in progress'.

'Evolution: The Race to Understanding'

Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/42/3
File
17 Mar. 2012

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Exhibition case plan, captions and publicity material from the first Butler Day, held at St John's College Library during the Cambridge Science Festival, March 2012.

'Snapshotting the "Other": images of the "otherness" in Samuel Butler's life and work (1835-1902)', by Irene Gaddo

Butler/Section 3 (III)/10/2/29
Item
2011

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Printed from 'Encountering Otherness. Diversities and Transcultural Experiences in Early Modern European Culture: [20]', ed. Guido Abbattista (EUT Edizione Universita di Triesta, 2011).

'Obsessed with Handel: Samuel Butler's special collection'

Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/42/7/3
Item
9 Dec. 2011 (Date of publication.)

Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Article authored by Rebecca Watts, Butler Project Associate, and published on MusiCB3 blog (http://musicb3.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/obsessed-with-handel-samuel-butlers-special-collection/).

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