John Brande Trend and the Residencia de Estudiantes

This article documents various aspects of the early career of John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge, particularly his association with the Residencia de Estudiantes and its Director, Alberto Jiménez Fraud. It highlights his collaboration with the Comité Hispano-Inglés and his publications in the journal Residencia. It also includes an unpublished letter from Trend to Natalia Jiménez of September 1936 in which he outlines the arrangements for the arrival of the Jiménez family in Cambridge following the outbreak of the Civil War