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With letter from donor listing the different stamps.

Visiting Fellow 1986

Reports, minutes of New Foundation Committee and correspondence concerning foundation of Wolfson College.

Including: papers re Committee on Future of the College Library; report of Book Grant Committee; papers re heating in the College Library

Including: report on setting up of Library Committee (Council paper 1969); papers on expenditure and missing books, comparitive library expenditure; new library project first client briefing; library booklet 1976; outline requirements for the future

Including correspondence re electrical installations in the Lower Reading Room

Including: report on College records; papers re proposed union of college catalogues; paper on security of Inner Library

In amongst the chest containing correspondence was a note from Lord McNair, in 1953, to his daughter Oona. This reads: 'This box contains, amongst other things, a number of old letters from me to my mother (who kept nearly all), from her and my father to me etc. Most of them are very trivial and of purely temporary importance, and it may seem silly to keep them. Nevertheless, I find myself [like] any person with a sense of history [that] old letters are of much value in showing how our forbears lived. They are what lawyers call the 'best evidence'. So you may think they are worth keeping for any of my grandchildren to look at..'

Including: papers re future of College Library, architect's proposed improvements, reports on proposed sites; report on College Muniments (1980)