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MS. 35.1
(old shelfmark **A.35.1)
Author:Sir Leslie Stephen (1832 – 1904)
Language:English
Origin:England
Date:19th c., 1884 - 1885
Material:Paper (factory made)
Physical Description:i paper flyleaf + 286 folios + i paper flyleaf, 324 x 200 (285 x 200) mm (lined paper)
Rubric:Chap. I. Early Life
Incipit:Henry Fawcett was born at Salisbury on the 26th August 1833.
2o folio:Party was
Explicit:many dissenters of all varieties were
Contents:Fols. 1 – 286, Life of Henry Fawcett (Chapters 1 -6)
Script:Documentary cursive
Scribe:Leslie Stephen
Decoration:None
Provenance:Autograph MS in possession of the author; Adrian Stephen, (1883 – 1948) son of Leslie; his gift, 4 January 1940 (letter preserved with MS)
Binding:20th c., half brown leather and brown cloth over paste boards, red and yellow endbands
Notes:Working MS of book published London, 1885. Main text written on column 1 of rectos only; MS bound back to front, (i.e. fol. 1 at end of present MS) presumably because leaves torn from notebooks leave text very close to edge which would have been obscured in gutter if bound correctly. Numerous corrections, annotations and notes, occasionally in coloured ink, written in column 2 and on back of leaves. Fawcett was a Fellow of Trinity Hall 1856 – 1884; Stephen was a clerical Fellow 1854 – 1868, and was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1891.
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© Trinity Hall, Cambridge
MS. 35.2
(old shelfmark **A.35.2)
Author:Sir Leslie Stephen (1832 – 1904)
Language:English
Origin:England
Date:19th c., 1884 - 1885
Material:Paper (factory made)
Physical Description:i paper flyleaf + 276 folios + i paper flyleaf, 324 x 195 – 200 (285 x 195 – 200) mm (lined paper)
Rubric:None
Incipit:admitted as students at Cambridge
2o folio:Introduced a life
Explicit:(6) Nov. 73. The Income Tax and Small Incomes. 1
Contents:Fols. 287 - 573, Life of Henry Fawcett (Chapters 6 – 10, Appendix)
Script:Documentary cursive
Scribe:Leslie Stephen
Decoration:None
Provenance:Autograph MS in possession of the author; Adrian Stephen, (1883 – 1948) son of Leslie; his gift, 4 January 1940 (letter preserved with MS. 35.1)
Binding:20th c., half brown leather and brown cloth over paste boards, red and yellow endbands
Notes:Working MS of book published London, 1885. Main text written on column 1 of rectos only; MS bound back to front, (i.e. fol. 287 at end of present MS)  presumably because leaves torn from notebooks leaving text very close to edge which would have been obscured in gutter if bound correctly. Numerous corrections, annotations and notes, occasionally in coloured ink, written in column 2 and on back of leaves. Leaves of Fawcett’s correspondence with Prof. John Elliot Cairnes (1823 – 175) (written by secretary and marked up by Stephen) pasted in to fols. 293 – 298.
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© Trinity Hall, Cambridge