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Bennet College breviat versus Josias Horne / Sir George Paul, 1620

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC10/14/1
Scope and Contents

Statement of the college's case against Sir George Paul, Richard Paul his son, Josias and Frances Horne and Matthew Parker. Marginal notes in Law French.

Dates: 1620
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BERCH, J. J., Dec. 1917-Dec. 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9790/5/8/11
Scope and Contents

Brigadier J. J. Berch was attached to the 223 RAC, 3e Groupe in 1917.
A letter and two postcards sent from Berch to Ruth Darwin dated 16 December 1917, 10 April 1918 and December [1918].

Dates: Dec. 1917-Dec. 1918
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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BERGEAND, L., Feb. 1918-Dec. 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9790/5/8/13
Scope and Contents

L. Bergeand served as a Secrétaire au Cours des Grenadiers Fusiliers in 1918.
Twelve letters and postcards sent from Bergeand to Ruth Darwin between February 1918 and December 1921.

Dates: Feb. 1918-Dec. 1921
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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Bernhard Wilhelm von der Goltz: despatches from revolutionary Paris, 1788-91. In French., 1788 - 1791

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4722
Dates: 1788 - 1791
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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Bible historiale, 1400 - 1499

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Reference Code: GBR/0374/BFBS/BSMS 205
Scope and Contents ff.II + 226 + I; 272 x 190mm; text size circa 170 x 125mm; 30 lines in 2 columns, 170 x 55mm; on rather thick parchment; with front and back flyleaves of paper, in a tooled white leather binding with two clasps from back to front.Collation: 1(12) (wants 1), 2-18(12); 19(12) conjoined pairs 1 and 12; 2 and 11, 3 and 6; 4 and 7; 5 and 8; 9 and 10. Ruled by purple ink and pricking with red ink for running head titles and leaf numbers; blue and red for first letter in each verse, with...
Dates: 1400 - 1499
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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Bibliographic notes

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP de Mourgues 5/1
Scope and Contents

Manuscript and typescript.

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Biel/Bienne: Le Grillroom in the Elite Hotel, c.1930s-1960s

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/7/59/4
Scope and Contents

Black and white postcard with the place name printed on the back. No annotations.

Dates: c.1930s-1960s
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BILLIARD, Marcel, Oct.1917-Jul 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9790/5/8/14
Scope and Contents

Marcel Billiard served as an Apprenti Electricien aboard the cruiser battleship 'Ernest Renan' in 1917-1918.
Six letters and postcards sent from Billiard to Ruth Darwin between October 1917 and July 1918.

Dates: Oct.1917-Jul 1918
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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Bills of exchange, 1866

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/141/1
Scope and Contents

Bills of exchange (mostly 'thirds') from Canton, Foochow, Hong Kong, Kiukiang and London (in English and French).

Dates: 1866
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf. Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers. Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Biochemistry research and bibliographic notes, c.1918-1934

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/9/2
Scope and Contents From the Management Group: In 1937, three Chinese scientists from Nanjing arrived at Cambridge University to carry out research in biochemistry. They worked alongside Dr. Joseph Needham, at the time Dunn Reader in Biochemistry, and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College. Dr. Needham already had very wide interests, having written extensively on the relationship between science, religion and socialism, and making pioneering forays in the young field of the history of science. He knew that China had invented paper,...
Dates: c.1918-1934
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Biographical material relating to Ted Hughes, 1998-10 - 2010-11

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/HUO/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers consist of material collected by Olwyn Hughes, mainly during the period she acted as literary agent for her brother Ted Hughes. Papers include copies of early appearances of many of Ted Hughes's and Sylvia Plath's poems and essays in literary magazines and newspapers and many newspaper cuttings relating to the work and lives of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and their children. The collection contains no original manuscript material by Ted Hughes or Sylvia Plath.

Dates: 1998-10 - 2010-11
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Biographical materials and archive sourced writings, 1850 - 1968

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Parkes 17a/4
Scope and Contents

This section consists largely of biographical materials written by Louise Swanton Belloc on various members and branches of her family, together with a few items written by others, including Marie Belloc Lowndes. See also GCPP Parkes 17a/2 for other writings of Louise Swanton Belloc.

Dates: 1850 - 1968
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[BLANCAL], Onisine, 1 Feb. 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9790/5/8/15
Scope and Contents

Onisine [Blancal] was attached to the Station Commission at Sainte Menehould in 1918.
Single letter from [Blancal] to Ruth Darwin, dated 1 February 1919.

Dates: 1 Feb. 1919
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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Blériot lecture, 1948 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FROB 3/5
Scope and Contents

Comprises:
Menu for "Journée Louis Blériot", 12 May 1948, with an unidentified signature.

"Blériot: first Channel flight July 25th 1909". Booklet from the first Blériot lecture incorporating "My Flight" by Louis Blériot, reprinted from "The Daily Mail", 26 July 1909.

"L’Art du mouteur d’avion". Article in French about the first Blériot lecture.




Dates: 1948 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Blue notebook presented to Ida Farrer, 1873 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10403/4
Scope and Contents Blue leather bound notebook embossed with 'Ida Farrer, November 7th 1873'. The notebook was presented to Ida Farrer on her 19th birthday by Emma Schau (1822-1898), a Danish citizen employed in the Farrer household as a governess, with an inscription in French which has been translated as follows:I am presenting you this little album, my beloved Ida, as a souvenir of the five years of pure joy and happiness that you gave me. It is aimed at enclosing the beautiful...
Dates: 1873 - 1880
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BOCQUET, I. René, Dec. 1917-Nov. 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9790/5/8/16
Scope and Contents

Contains letters and postcards sent principally from Bocquet to Ruth Darwin between December 1917 and November 1921. Also includes a typescript letter from a Major Furber to Ruth Darwin dated 30 August 1918 with advice on steps to be taken to allow René Bocquet to travel to England, and a draft letter from Ruth Darwin dated 1 May 1919 seeking a permit for Bocquet to come to England to undertake gardening work whilst improving his English language skills.

Dates: Dec. 1917-Nov. 1921
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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Bogaert, Raymond (1983) “Les modèles des banques ptolémaïques” in Studi Hellenistici 27, pp.13-29, 1983

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/CRFD/2/28/6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series of acdemic off-prints, and hand-outs from acadermic seminars, was accrued by Michael H. Crawford over several decades. Colleagues sent him off-prints of their recently published articles and he was aso gifted much older, important off-prints from others' private collections. The subject matter is predominantly the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean during the ancient Greek, Hellenistic and Roman eras, with a focus upon epigraphy and numismatics.

Dates: Publication: 1983
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Booklet providing information on science in Warsaw and Krakow, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/1/9/2
Scope and Contents

The booklet has been annotated by Joseph Needham.

Dates: 1965
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Booklet providing practical information for delegates of the Eleventh International Congress of the History of Science, Warsaw and Krakow, Poland, 1965, 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/1/9/1
Scope and Contents

The booklet has been annotated by Joseph Needham.

Dates: 1965
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Booklet with details of the order., 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0273/BARKER MS 18/3B
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The collection comprises manuscripts, typescripts, offprints, reviews, insignia, etc. The categories below are, of their nature, not watertight, but cross-references have been supplied wherever possible. References to 'Age and Youth' are to Sir Ernest's memoirs published in 1953. The book includes his earlier, 1948, memoir, 'Father of the man', references to which are given as in the composite volume.

Dates: 1923
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Books sent to JA for review: "Témoignage d'un Journaliste au Service de la Cause Alliée"

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/6/28
Scope and Contents

Annotated typescript of a book by George Béza on the Second World War, particularly relating to Romania.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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BOS, Emile, 19 Oct. 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9790/5/8/17
Scope and Contents

Two postcards dated 9 October 1919 from Emile Bos to Ruth Darwin.

Dates: 19 Oct. 1919
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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Bouglin, R.: Correspondence with the Press, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PRESS 3/1/1/144
Scope and Contents

Letter to the Press sending an issue of La Culture and requesting Press books for review.

Dates: 1882
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Scholarly access to this material may be restricted if it contains information exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, 2000. Please apply in advance to the Cambridge University Press Archivist.
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Boulogne-S-Mer, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3296/Maps/Views.UCS.France.Boulogne.1905:83
Scope and Contents

Photographic

Dates: 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: This item or collection is available for consultation by researchers in the Map Room at Cambridge University Library. Contact details and Map Room opening hours can be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/map-department-contact-details. Anyone wishing to use the collection must first acquire a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket, see https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/using-library/your-library-membership
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BOURREAU, Desiré, 21 Aug. 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9790/5/8/18
Scope and Contents

Desiré Bourreau served in the 3me Mixte, Zouave Tirailleur, 6e Compagnie.
Single letter dated [21 August] 1917 from Bourreau to Ruth Darwin.

Dates: 21 Aug. 1917
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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