University of Cambridge
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Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:
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Hugh Fraser Stewart and family: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7671
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters and papers relating to the life and career of Hugh Fraser Stewart and to the lives of the members of his family. The papers include correspondence of Stewart's wife Jessie, and of her father, mother and sisters. There is also correspondence of Stewart's brother-in-law Francis Jenkinson, as well as papers acquired by Stewart for his Memoir of the late librarian, published in 1926. The Stewart and Crum families's shared interest in music is represented in the...
Dates:
1850-1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Incomplete copy of 'A Collection of Documents Relating to the University and Town of Cambridge' (CUL MS Ff.3.33).
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6192-6193
Dates:
1786 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Index nominum for members of the Universities who took the Protestation ordered by Parliament, Feb. 1642
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3143
Scope and Contents
Names written on strips of paper, pasted into volume. fos i-vi, 84-90 and verso throughout: blank.
Dates:
1850 (Circa, inferred from 19th-century hand.)
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Isaac Archer: Diary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8499
Scope and Contents
The diary is concerned primarily with Issac Archer's student life and his next twenty years as a clergyman. There is a wide range of subject matter, but the focus is on family relationships, ministerial duties, and Archer's spiritual concerns, particularly his decision to conform to the Anglican Church against the wishes of his father. There are 228 numbered pages, of which 95 pages cover Archer's parochial ministry, but only 16 describe the last 12 years of his life. The volume was not...
Dates:
1659-1700
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Alexander Ellis: Poems and notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6145-6146
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches, verses and laws of various Cambridge societies, including the Theatrical Club. There are also autographs of members of Shrewsbury School.
Dates:
1836-1843
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Bowtell: History of the University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3331
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of chancellors, vice-chancellors, proctors, taxors, certain professorships, preachers, and bedells. fo. 14: blank. See Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. Proceedings, 11 (1906), pp. 356-7.
Dates:
1811
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John Bowtell: Notes and extracts, chiefly regarding Cambridge University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3332
Scope and Contents
Notes extend to the front cover. The hand, though Bowtell's throughout, varies greatly.
Dates:
1796 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Edward Bickersteth Mayor: Historical papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6670-6671
Scope and Contents
Historical notes, mostly connected to Cambridge and Oxford Universities
Dates:
1875 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
John Harwood: Autobiography
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6846
Scope and Contents
Autobiographical fragment, covering Harwood's life to October 1689, 95 folios. The writer's identity is not given, but has been established from internal evidence. The writing is on the recto of fos 3-17, with occasional notes or prayers on facing pages and on fo. 92v. The lower half of fo. 16 and the upper half of fo. 16a are torn out. The remainder of the volume is blank.
Dates:
1689 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Neville Keynes: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7562
Scope and Contents
254 items, including a few drafts of Keynes's replies. Most of the letters are from 1891-1906, and there are none for 1913-1915. The great majority are from Cambridge correspondents, and relate to University affairs, but there are also a few family letters.
Dates:
1872-1918
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Parnther: Notes and transcripts of lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.589
Scope and Contents
Notes by John Parnther of Peterhouse College on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University. Lectures by N. Saunderson and Robert Smith on hydrostatics, sounds, optics, mechanics, astronomy, the tides, technical chronology, dioptrica and catoptrica.
Dates:
1727-1729
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Pollock: Papers on the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8545
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newscuttings and notes regarding the history of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, and term cards of the society.
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Willis Clark: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5063, 5065-70, 5072-3, 5076-7
Scope and Contents
Notes, extracts, transcripts and other material concerning architecture, history and other subjects, much of it compiled in preparation for published works, including Robert Willis, Architectural history of the University of Cambridge,mostly concerning Cambridge and its university. Many of the documents have supporting correspondence.
Dates:
1854-1881 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Willis Clark: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5083-97, 5103-18, 5122, 5123, 6373
Scope and Contents
Notes, extracts, transcripts and other material concerning architecture, history, book-care and other subjects, much of it compiled in preparation for published works, and concerning Cambridge and its university. Many of the documents have supporting correspondence.
Dates:
1850-1909
Conditions Governing Access:
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Joseph Romilly: Diaries
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6804-6842
Dates:
1818-1864
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.S. Henslow: Letters to him re Palmerston's election as MP for Cambridge University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8339
Scope and Contents
A series of letters addressed to the Rev. Professor Henslow, chairman of the committee for securing the return of the Lord Viscount Palmerston as representative in parliament for the University of Cambridge, 1826. There are contemporary chronological and alphabetical indexes accompanying the letters.
Dates:
1825-1826
Conditions Governing Access:
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Latimer Neville: Scrapbook on Cambridge University Elections
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9237
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook on the elections of University M.P.s, the Chancellor and the High Steward. "Previous proceedings and correspondence are in another book", not preserved with this scrapbook. The volume contains letters, flysheets, pamphlets and additional papers relating to the selection of the Conservative candidate H. Cecil Raikes for the University, 1882 (pp.1-47,186-187); the formation of the Cambridge Conservative Association, 1891 (with letters from G.H. Darwin, G.F. Browne and J.H. Gray)...
Dates:
1880-1900 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Letter to the Cambridge Registrary, 1959-02-13
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/345
Scope and Contents
A letter from Sir Richard Woolley to the Registrary, Cambridge, supporting the application of Donald Lynden-Bell for the Isaac Newton Studentship, accompanied by a notice on the aim of the Isaac Newton Studentship.
Dates:
1959-02-13
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Letters of condolence on the death of T. J. N. Hilken, RN, written to his wife Edith Hilken, bulk: 1969, 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012./MS Add.10304/29
Scope and Contents
Includes two photographs of T. J. N. Hilken and the Duchess of Kent, Eglington, Northern Ireland, c.1947.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1969; 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Letters written home while a student at Downing College, 1868 - 1871
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/OW/1
Scope and Contents
These letters give much details about everyday university and college life. Includes depositor correspondence. Contents include (from summary in The Griffin, Michaelmas 1961): discontent with College food and student protests about the cost and quality of food at Sidney Sussex, 1868, whereas 'at College the charge was 1/6d for bad meat and potatoes only'; Dr Perkins' invitation to all Freshmen to wine (1868), 'a very pleasant, easy affair, for Perkins is the most unceremonious man I ever...
Dates:
1868 - 1871
Conditions Governing Access:
Depositor correspondence to remove.
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List of Exercises of Bachelors and Doctors of Music
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6378
Scope and Contents
A reference-list of the exercises for the Degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Music between the years 1875 and 1910, arranged in columns as follows: 1) name of recipient of degree; 2) degree; 3) date; 4) reference number of exercise. The names are in alphabetical order. The reference numbers are those of the University Library, where the exercises are kept. There are 22 folios.
Dates:
1875-1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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Lists of members of the Universities who did or did not take the Protestation ordered by Parliament, Feb. 1642, arranged by colleges.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3142
Scope and Contents
Copy in hand of John Eglington Bailey.
Dates:
1850 (Circa. Copy of original dated 1630.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Marten Family: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7744
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence, some early sporting photographs from the 1880s and ephemera of public school and university life from the late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1808-1964 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Medical Schools Building Committee: Minutes of fundraising committee
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3597
Scope and Contents
With the following letters addressed, unless otherwise indicated, to Sir Norman Moore Bt, one of the hon. secretaries: (fo. 13v) T. Holmes, 26 Mar. [1898]; (fo. 14) W. H. Dickinson, 24 Mar. [1898]; (fo. 14v) Frederic Bagshawe to Dickinson, 23 Mar. 1898; (fo. 15) J. K. Fowler, 25 Mar. 1898; (fo. 15v) Donald W. Hood, 30 Mar. [1898?]; ((fo. 16) W. A. Brailey, 4 Mar. 1898; (fo. 16v) W. S. A. Griffith, 31 Mar. [1898?]; (fo. 17) Edward Liveing, 27 Mar. 1898; (fos 21v-25v, 29, 30, 31) Sir T....
Dates:
1898-1899
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Item
Memoranda on directions for computers, dates of Oxford and Cambridge terms, and a list of current computers, 1809
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/324: 32r-33r
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A diary of work performed on the 'Nautical Almanac' and arrangements for its compilation and publication.
Dates:
1809
Conditions Governing Access:
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