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Lethbridge, Thomas Charles, 1901-1971 (archaeologist and parapsychologist)

 Person

Biography

Thomas C harles Lethbridge (1901-71), archaeologist, paranormal researcher, authority on boats and seafaring

Found in 180 Collections and/or Records:

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Second voyage in 'Passat', 1935

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/12/5
Scope and Contents

Typescript short story set on board 'Passat', 'The spirit'

Dates: 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Shanty, 1933-1939 (Undated. Date range of Lethbridge's other printed books)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/10/2
Scope and Contents

Printed booklet illustrating sea shanty 'A full-rigged ship is a royal queen'

Dates: 1933-1939 (Undated. Date range of Lethbridge's other printed books)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Sheets of pencil notes, 1930-1950 (Undated)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/19/4/3
Scope and Contents From the File:

Miscellanea

Dates: 1930-1950 (Undated)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Short paper, 'Cairn on Burry Holmes', 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/39/17
Scope and Contents

Paper, pen and wash map, photograph 'Midden on Burry Holmes'. From Add.9777/40/2

Dates: 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Short splices. Some notes on ships and boats, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/10/3
Scope and Contents

2 copies (i) as produced, (ii) interleaved and with two watercolours

Dates: 1936
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Short story, Beyond Nordresettur, 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/39/9
Scope and Contents

Typescript, with note from James Whittaker

Dates: 1951
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Sketch of a ?silver bowl found at Wickham Bushes, Kent, 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/39/14
Scope and Contents

'Sept 1923. Site F'

Dates: 1923
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Sketchbook, 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/37/8
Scope and Contents

'Mullion', mostly sketches of sailing boats and other ships, with lists of flowers and birds seen.'

Dates: 1932
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Sketchbooks, 1934-1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/23/7
Scope and Contents

Sketches of boats, coastal features, birds, with notes, at Hartland Point (1934), Woolacombe (1935-38)

Dates: 1934-1938
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Sketches of sailing boats, 1933-1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/10/4
Scope and Contents

Sketchbook, pencil sketches done at Woolacombe, Devon, for his Some west-country coasters, and other pencil and watercolour sketches

Dates: 1933-1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Some west-country coasters, 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/10/1
Scope and Contents

Printed book with engraved illustrations and two watercolours

Dates: 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
 Fonds

T. C. Lethbridge: Correspondence and papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777
Scope and Contents Comprises: notes and drawings relating to Lethbridges publications, including 'Recent excavations in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk' (1931); material relating to the expedition to Jan Mayen Island in the Arctic and later expeditions to Greenland and Iceland; the Gogmagog site notebook and drafts of 'Gogmagog - the Buried Gods'; manuscript and typescript drafts of other published works; notebooks and sketches; material relating to cruises in West Scotland; collected...
Dates: 1920-1970 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Talk about or account of 'explorers I knew and loved', 1950 (Written with ballpoint pen)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/39/10
Scope and Contents

Unfinished draft

Dates: 1950 (Written with ballpoint pen)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
 Fonds

T.C. Lethbridge, 'The ivory tower': word-processed autobiographical account

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9593
Scope and Contents

Typescript autobiographical memoir 'The ivory tower', with a prefatory notice by Mena Lethbridge in which the work is described as 'a picture of Cambridge Academic life between the two World Wars'.

Dates: 1989 (date of prefatory notice by Mina Lethbridge)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Series

'T.C. Lethbridge's first draft manuscript written at Cambridge in 1922', 1922

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/2
Scope and Contents

Draft of a book or essay on pagan Anglo-Saxon England

Dates: 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Burwell, 1925

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/4
Scope and Contents

Account of Lethbridge's excavations at Burwell, Cambridgeshire in 1925, with pen and colour-wash drawings of skeletons and objects found, and photographs of four skeletons. Published in Cambridge Antiquarian Society Communications, 27, pp. 72-75, 1926.

Dates: 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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'The Birlinn of the Western Isles. A study in maritime archaeology', 1930-1960 (Undated)

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/23/6/2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes Lethbridge's sketchbooks of boats at Hartland Point and Woollacombe, 1934-38

Dates: 1930-1960 (Undated)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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The monkey's tail. A study in evolution and parapsychology, 1969

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/31
Scope and Contents

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul

Dates: 1969
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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).
 Series

The painted men, 1938-1970

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/25
Scope and Contents

Story of the Picts of Scotland. Manuscript, correspondence and published book (1954)

Dates: 1938-1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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The painted men

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/25/1
Scope and Contents

Manuscript text, with MS draft, 'Gods and fairies. A search for a lost British tribe', and typescript essay 'The problem of the Picts'

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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The painted men, 1938-1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/25/2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence

Dates: 1938-1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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The painted men, 1954-1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/25/3
Scope and Contents

Published volume (Andrew Melrose,1954) with note by John Gadd 'From Sir Thomas Kendrick's library. Presentation copy from the author'. With newscuttings, review 'Chases Picts through Western Isles', The Bulletin, 12 APR 1954, and 'Before Troy or Babel, Stornaway Gazette and West Coast Advertiser, 15 FEB 1955

Dates: 1954-1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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The power of the pendulum, 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/32
Scope and Contents

Published posthumously by Routledge & Kegan Paul, with a foreword by Colin Wilson

Dates: 1976
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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The Wandlebury figures, 1956-1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/26/7/6-12
Scope and Contents

Lecture to Oxford Architectural and Historical Society. With letters to Lethbridge from Ian Grimble, Catherine Cole, Ellen Ettlinger, Christina Hole, Barbara Lowe

Dates: 1956-1957
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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'The Wandlebury giants', 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9777/26/7/1
Scope and Contents

Offprint from Folk-Lore, LXVII, December 1956

Dates: 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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