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Henry Herman Leopold Adolph Brose
Papers 1909-1969

MSS 0089

Series 3 - Oxford. (1913-1961) 12 cm.

Correspondence, news clippings, loose notes, diaries, photographs and photocopies.

Folder 1: Personal (c.1913 - c1925)

Includes: handwritten letter in German, 22 December 1924 and typed English translation; diary, Michaelmas term, 1913; 4 black and white photographs; news clipping 'Encore' The Critic, 17 November 1915; letter to Henry Brose from [?] Boyer, 19 June 1923; astrological forecast for Henry Brose, 6 January 1923; letter to Henry Brose from Secretary to the Agent General for South Australia, Australia House, London, 5 February 1924; typed copies of letters, 1925; Barclays Bank Ltd balance, 10 October 1923; receipt from Hamburg-London Line for import of goods; typed notes.

Folder 2: Science (c.1913 - c.1925)

Includes: typed letter to Henry Brose from M. Schlick, 2 August 1921; 8 cards for meetings of the Oxford Mathematical and Physical Society; 4 lists of lectures, 1913, 1914 and 1922; Oxford University Gazette, 27 April 1922; news clipping from the Oxford University Gazette, 13 May 1925.

Folder 3: Music (c. 1913 - 1920)

Includes: letter, 9 February 1914 and typed transcript; letter to Brose from Bryceson Treharne, 2 August 1920 and typed transcript; letter about Oxford University Musical Club and Musical Union; programme, Balliol College Musical Society, 8 March 1914; news clipping 'Tobias Augustus Matthay' The Musical Times, 1 October 1913; 2 advertisements for performances.

Folder 4: Athletics

Includes: news clipping 'The Toggers', n.d.; news clipping 'Athletics: Triple Contest at Woolwich', n.d.; news clipping 'Athletics: Amateur Championships', n.d.; 4 pages from Varsity Sport, 25 April 1914; news clipping 'Englischer Sportbrief' Illustrierter Sport, n.d.

Folder 5: Rhodes Scholarship (1914-1924)

Includes: menu from the annual dinner of the Oxford University Colonial Club, 2 May 1914; 5 menus, Rhodes Scholarship Trust, 17 June 1922, 16 June 1923, 6 June 1924, & March 1914, 20 June 1928; form from Rhodes House Oxford, not filled in; Rhodes Scholarships Statement for the Year 1919; 4 seating plans.

Folder 6: Christ Church (1913-1961)

Includes: booklet 'Christ Church 1961'; form, in Latin, signed by the Vice-Chancellor, 1913; Programme from Christ Church's Quarter Century Celebrations, 1925; 3 news clippings regarding royal visit to Oxford, 1925.

Folder 7: Brown Book 'Newspaper Cuttings' (c.1913-c.1925)

Large brown book inscribed 'Newspaper Cuttings', containing news clippings and other items regarding Oxford University.

Folder 8: Oxford - John Jenkin's research material

John Jenkin's handwritten notes and photocopies regarding Henry Brose in Oxford.

Folder 9: Rhodes House - John Jenkin's research material

John Jenkin's correspondence and photocopies regarding Henry Brose and Rhodes House, Oxford.

Folder 10: Lindemann and Townsend - John Jenkin's research material

John Jenkin's photocopies of information regarding F. A. Lindemann and John Townsend.

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