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- A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge (PDF). Cambridge: University of Cambridge (printed by W. Metcalfe). 1859. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
- Cambridge University Janus Records
- A list of its recipients since 1922 may be found in Graham Chainey, A Literary History of Cambridge (1986), pp. 295ff.
