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Papers of William Blair Anderson

  • Anderson
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1960 (Circa)

Notes, translations, and lecture notes on classical literature and authors, letters.

Anderson, William Blair (1877-1959) classical scholar

Papers of Sir Percy Cradock

  • Cradock
  • Fonds
  • 1940–2012

The collection includes photographs, audio-visual media, memorabilia, certificates, press-cuttings, correspondence and reviews relating to Cradock's books, a small quantity of papers relating to Cradock's professional activities, and some personal correspondence.

Cradock, Sir Percy (1923-2010) Knight and diplomat

Papers of Glyn Daniel

  • Daniel
  • Fonds
  • 1884–2002 (The majority of the material is related to Daniel, dated 1928-1986. The few items dated prior to 1928 concern his parents and family, whilst those dated after 1986, are mainly related to Ruth Daniel)

Letters, including correspondence with Sir Mortimer Wheeler and correspondence relating to the Piltdown Hoax; diaries and notebooks; photographs; papers relating to novels; articles by and about Daniel; notes relating to the study and teaching of archaeology. Also included is correspondence of Daniel's wife, Ruth.

Daniel, Glyn Edmund (1914-1986) archaeologist, writer and broadcaster

Papers of Sir Jack Goody

  • Goody
  • Fonds
  • 1950–2000 (Circa)

The collections consists primarily of academic material pertaining to Goody’s professional life, including:

● Correspondence with colleagues
● Correspondence with publishers
● Administrative material
● Field notes and field recordings
● Archival reproductions
● Diaries and notebooks
● Loose-leaf notes, lectures, articles
● Reviews by Goody
● Reviews of Goody
● Offprints of papers by Goody and others

Personal correspondence and documentation also appear, as do a book-length and perhaps fictionalised war narrative, Goody’s war diary, and a typescript of his autobiography. Five boxes contain writings by or pertaining to Goody’s colleague J.A. Braimah; three boxes of papers towards a history of social anthropology contain correspondence with, and writings by, other colleagues, particularly Meyer Fortes.

Approximately half of the material relates to Goody’s research into Ghana, with particular attention paid to the Gonja, the LoDagaa and the Bagre myth. There are notes, archival indices, photographs, concordances, interviews, slides, survey data and sound recordings, as well as microfilms of material consulted in archives circa 1964.

There is also material on West Africa and on the continent more broadly, on the Mediterranean, on China, and on Gujarat, India.

In addition to these geographical groupings, there are files of notes, lectures, essays and suchlike on various subtopics (pertaining to Ghana and elsewhere). Some run to multiple boxes, and some fill only slim folders; in total these subtopics take up no more than 20% of the physical space of the collection, but in other respects they cover much ground. Among the many labels Goody chose are: beverages; class; domestication; drugs; economics (including the economics of slavery); family; flowers; folk tales; food; gender; hats; iconography; kalabule and African socialism; kinship; knowledge; limits; literacy; love and law; marriage; the mind; modernity; modes of production; monastic households; nature and culture; nudity; oral culture; politics/law/war; property; puritanism; religion; riots and rebellions; science; semiotics; senses and sensations; social evolution; sorcery; terror; thought; trade; travel; the week; widows; and the written word.

Creation dates range from the 1930s to the 2010s.

Goody, Sir John Rankine 'Jack' (1919-2015) Knight and anthropologist

Papers of Charles Hugh Richardson Harper

  • Harper
  • Fonds
  • 1935–1948 (Circa)

Correspondence, material relating to the Harper-Wood Studentship, poems, Harper's autobiography, typescripts.

Harper, Charles Hugh Richardson (1869-1947) Anglican clergyman

Papers of Sir John Herschel

  • Herschel
  • Fonds
  • 1812–1979 (Mostly from 1812-71. Also includes papers relating to modern research into Herschel's work.)

Letters and picture (dated 1812-1955), documents relating to Herschel's 1839 paper, 'The Art of Photography', given to the Royal Society, (dated 1833-1979), Herschel's notebooks.

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

The personal effects of Alan Menzies Hiller

  • Hiller
  • Fonds
  • 1900–1999

Papers relating to Hiller's army career, letters to family, postcards, photographs and First World War ephemera.

Hiller, Alan Menzies (1895-1915)

Papers of G.C. Moore Smith

  • SmithGCM
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1895

Correspondence relating to the compilation of 'Lists of past occupants of rooms in St John's College' published in 1895. All autograph unless otherwise stated.

Smith, George Charles Moore (1858-1940) literary scholar

'St John's College Cambridge: Excellence and Diversity'

  • SJCBook
  • Collection
  • 1940-2006

A collection of letters from members of St John's College Cambridge addressed to David Morphet (BA 1961) in his capacity as editor of the book 'St John’s College Cambridge: Excellence and Diversity' (Published London: Third Millennium, 2007). Many contain reminiscences and anecdotes of St John's and Cambridge and some enclose photographs and items of ephemera.

St John's College, Cambridge

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