Albert, 1819 - 1861 (Prince Consort of Queen Victoria)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence with tradesmen, 1870
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/748
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with tradesmen, including letters from booksellers; printers; bookbinders; instrument makers; coal merchants; and shipping agencies. The volume includes a circular advertising the printing of a book on the work done by Prince Albert on social reform, with a diagram proposed as a frontispiece. There is also a diagram of the generator of the Photogenic Gas Company.
Dates:
1870
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).
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Papers on Government superintendence, 1861 - 1869
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating to the missing volume of minutes of the Board of Visitors for the years 1784 to 1830. There is also correspondence on the extraction of minutes relating to the Royal Observatory from the Council Minutes of the Royal Society. The letters date from 1861.Letter and notes on the burial place of John Flamsteed, 1863.Note by J. Carpenter concerning the 'Old Equatorial', 1864.Memorandum concerning the supposed location of James Bradley and Nevil...
Dates:
1861 - 1869
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).