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1st Baron Acton: papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9616
Dates:
c.1850-1890
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1st Duke of Buckingham: household accounts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9599
Scope and Contents
Volume with much older documents pasted in. Includes wax seal.
Dates:
1616
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1st Lord Acton: Historical notes and transcripts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8260
Scope and Contents
Includes:Bundles of bibliographic reference cardsBundles of notes, including one marked 'heresies'Volume 'Letters and Essays in prose and verse' by Richard Sharp (1759-1835) [Q.23.9 in Rare Books], missing coverPamphlet 'Lord Acton on Nationality and Socialism, two lectures given in August 1949 at the Oxford University tutorial classes committee summer school at Lady Margaret Hall with an appendix on Burke based on the Acton Manuscripts' by G. E. Fasnacht, 1949...
Dates:
1800 (19th century)
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1st Lord Acton: Notes and lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9706
Scope and Contents
1 folder contains flashcards, the rest contain pages removed from notebooks. The latter are paginated, and some have headings in Roman numerals, assumedly dividing different lectures. Accompanying titles include 'The Tennis Court Oath', 'Napoleon' and 'Madame Roland'.
Dates:
1890-1899 (1890s)
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1st Lord Acton: Notes for intended chapter I of ''Cambridge Modern History''
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8261
Scope and Contents
Includes bibliographic references
Dates:
1800 (19th century)
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3rd Baron Gorell : Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9439
Scope and Contents
Letters to him: [1] about literature (Society of Authors and other business); [2] on politics. [1] [1-2] LADY CYNTHIA ASQUITH (1927); [3-7] JOHN BEITH (1936-37); [8-9] EDMUND BENTLEY (1931); [10] EDMUND BLUNDEN (1932); [11-17] SIR ARTHUR BRYANT (1935); [18-22] 1ST BARON TWEEDSMUIR (JOHN BUCHAN) (1921-33); [23] G.K. CHESTERTON (1933); [24-32] WALTER DE LA MARE (1933-55); [33] T.S. ELIOT (1952); [34] ANTHONY HOPE HAW- KINS (1930); [35] SIR OSBERT LANCASTER (1952); [36] MARIE BELLOC LOWNDES...
Dates:
1913-1957 (circa)
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7:84 (England) Theatre Company: Records and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS SEVEN84
Scope and Contents
The papers include unpublished playscripts by John McGrath, Ewan MacColl, Steve Gooch, Adrian Mitchell and others. There are numerous production files, records relating to McGrath's early career, correspondence with other theatre and television companies, scrapbooks and miscellaneous correspondence, together with articles and interviews regarding the Company, and J.P. Simond, 'Ethique et Esthetique dans le Theatre de John McGrath', a 1994 Metz PhD thesis (2 volumes). The collection also...
Dates:
1966-1985
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File
A Book of Christian Prayers
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4132
Scope and Contents
Private prayers for several occasions alternated with extracts from the Psalms, and with an extract from the Litany. Inside the front cover is the crest of Samuel Sandars.
Dates:
1590 (Circa.)
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File
A Breviate of the Spanish Government in Flanders from the Beginning to this present
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4179
Dates:
1576-1598
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A catalogue of the earlier papers in the 1st vol. of Dr. W. Webb's Cambridge Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2583
Scope and Contents
fo. 1v: [in hand of Charles Sayle] 'By a resolution of the Library Syndicate, 7 June 1893, "Leave was given to Mr J[ohn] W[illis] Clark to borrow one volume at a time of the Webb Collection of University Papers, and the Librarian was requested to see that the separate pieces were stamped and numbered before they were taken out of the Library." Mr A. Rogers states that this was done, 7 Nov. 1919.'
Dates:
1880 (Circa)
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A collection of verses and translations transcribed by Mary Anne Bacon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6251
Scope and Contents
Authors include Sir Henry Purcell, George Handel, Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
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A course of Botanical lectures explaining the principles of vegitation
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9674
Scope and Contents
By Richard Bradley F.R.S., Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. Volume covers 12 lecutres:Lecture 1: Of Earth and its use in Vegetation and of particular soylesLecture 2: Of the use of Water (as it relates to the improvement of land in the education and nourishment of vegetables with an account of the most rational and practicable methods of Raining or forcing it to such parts where it is wanted)Lecture 3: Of such lands as are overflowed on Lye continually...
Dates:
1724-1732 (Circa)
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File
A Description of Scotland and other papers
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5124
Scope and Contents
'The description of Scotland and the King's entertainment there', 8 folios. It begins: 'First for the country I must confesse...', and ends: '...a tower as Edenborough in Lowsir Scotland'. The papers include: (fo. 2) [Thomas Scott], 'Vox Populi', 1620; (fo. 8v) verses, 'Ther's proclamation sent, Great Brittaine round about'.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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A. G. Church: Political papers and correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9560
Dates:
1930-1949 (1930's to 1940's)
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A Kallender of the Pelles of Recept and Exitus and Bundells of Privie Seales uppon the same from the firste yeare of Edward the firste untill this present
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3304
Scope and Contents
The calendar continues to 43 Eliz. It is arranged in columns showing rolls and bundles existing for each regnal year. After 19 Edw. IV no further issue olls are recorded until 39 Eliz. No privy seal bundle is recorded after 22 Henry VIII. Attached to fo. 13 is a torn sheet with rough notes in 17th cent. hand of 'Pells of Issues wanting' for the reigns of the first two Stuarts.
Dates:
1601 (Circa)
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'A letter to the members of the Senate on the Management of Cambridge Press during the Three Periods 1822 to 1829, 1830 to 1842, 1843 to 1850'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3855
Scope and Contents
Includes notes and graphs representing numbers of Bibles printed.
Dates:
1854
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A Logbook of H.M.S. 'Elk'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9725
Scope and Contents
The logbook was kept by an unidentified junior officer of H.M.S. 'Elk'. It opens on 12 May 1858 and continues until 20 November 1859. The entries describe how the ship cruised off Amoy (Xiamen) and the Pescadores; made an expedition to Australian and New Zealand ports; and took part in an operation to search for H.M.S. 'Sappho', which had disappeared between the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney. The logbook entries follow a standard, partially tabulated format, with data relating to wind...
Dates:
1857-1859
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A Morall Apologeticall Discourse of Obedience and Government by T.W. gent.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3854
Scope and Contents
Written in two hands. Includes a synopsis of logic Discourse (1st hand, English) beg.: 'Time & season sweeten fruits & ripen ...'; ends: '... can testifye it is the candid truth.' Unprinted. Synopsis (2nd hand, Latin) begins at fo. 21. It is imperfect at both ends, and partly misbound.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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A. S. F. Gow: Letters from Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7225
Scope and Contents
Typed copies of 70 letters from Gow, dated but missing addressees; it would appear these were sent to a large number of people, as a serial of Ludlow's opinions and experiences, appearing to be very much one-sided. Some letters appear multiple times.
Dates:
1944 (Circa)
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A Satyr against Injustice: or, Sc[ro]gs upon Sc[ro]gs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2657
Scope and Contents
Facsimile tracing.
Dates:
1680 (Circa. Date unknown, original printed in 1680.)
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'A Short Character of Charles the Second'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9322
Scope and Contents
'A short Character of Charles the Second King of England setting forth his untimely death &c', an anonymous short account of the character of Charles II (1630-1685; King, 1660-85), by someone who knew or served him. It is unbound, and includes reference to the opinion of Dr. Thomas Short, physician, that Charles II was poisoned. 10pp.
Dates:
1675-1699 (Circa)
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A 'short terrier' (draft) of lands to be auctioned, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4139
Dates:
1806
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'A Tale of Ludlow Castle'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9786
Scope and Contents
A poem in four cantos, with title page, preface, prologue, notes and appendix. The poem, a story of Fulke Fitzwarine, appears to be loosely based on a thirteenth-century romance 'Fouke le Fitzwarin', as printed in excerpt and described as 'an old Englisch boke yn ryme of the Gestes of Guarine and his sunnes' in Leland's 'Collectanea'. The Fitzwarine family story had been treated in verse earlier in the nineteenth century in 'Fitz-Gwarine, A Ballad of the Welsh Border' (1812) by John F. M....
Dates:
1865 (conjectured; the preface in the printed edition is dated December 1865)
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A.B. Farn: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6466
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Granville Clutterbuck, Francis Jenkinson, G. Bertram Kershaw and others. Also includes some correspondence of Francis Jenkinson.
Dates:
1873-1923
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A.B. Farn: Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6465
Scope and Contents
Letters written by A.B. Farn, with a few photographs.
Dates:
1871-1922
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