| Description | Manuscript. Telegram dated 1879 bearing a list of surnames. Letters about Pearson coming to work at King's College, Cambridge, independently with a view to getting a post, on internal staff politics at King's, enclosing a cutting from the Cambridge University Reporter, 17 Mar 1885, with a report of Nixon's paper on the Trivium and Quadrivium as a scheme of education, about vacancy for a new Dean of the College, about forthcoming vacancy for the Gresham Professorship in Geometry, on the old corporate system of paying salaries over the counter and his experiences of visiting Gresham College for lectures and dinners. |