Mallory (George), E.M. Forster, A.E. Housman etc.- Pate (Minnie, of the Cambridge University Typewriting Office, 33 Trinity Street, Cambridge) Album of correspondence to Minnie Pate concerning typing for various people at Cambridge University, including: George Mallory (Autograph Letter signed & 1 Autograph Postcard signed); E.M. Forster (2 Autograph Postcards signed & 1 Typed Letter signed); A.E. Housman (1½ Autograph Letters signed & 1 Autograph Postcard signed); Laurence Housman, John Murray (2); Harold Laski (Autograph note signed); JBS Haldane (Autograph Note signed); AC Benson (2); Constance Jones, head of Girton College, Autograph Postcard signed); Lytton Strachey and numerous others, together c. 360 letters and postcards, folds, most laid down on album ff., a few loose, 3 album ff. loose, original cloth, gilt, letters and postcards, v.s., album folio, 1895-1950.

⁂ Mallory (George, mountaineer, died while climbing Mount Everest, 1886-1924) Autograph Letter signed to Minnie Pate, 1p., 8vo, Alpes Maritime [France], 10th February 1910, "Dear Miss Pate, Will you please execute your art upon the manuscripts I am sending? They're in rather a mess I'm afraid - but I daresay one of your young ladies will be able to unravel them. There are three little stories in all. I have made a mark like // to mark the end of a paragraph. And could they be sent when finished, if possible at no very distant date, with the manuscripts to C.D. Lumby at Magdalene?"

Minnie Pate joined the Cambridge University Typewriting Office in the 1890s. The Office had been established in 1892 by Marian Marshall (c.1848-1901), a trade unionist and women's suffrage worker. In 1900 she sold the business to Minnie Pate. In October 1950 Minnie Pate became the first woman to become an honorary MA of Cambridge University.