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1st Lord Acton: collections concerning the Council of Trent, 1867-77. Twelve hands, most of them identical with some of Add. 4887, but not in the same order. In French, Spanish, Italian, Latin and English., 1867 - 1877
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4888
Dates:
Other: 1867 - 1877
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
'18th Century Larra', 1955 - 1965
File
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Grant 3/2c
Scope and Contents
File found entitled as above in a boxfile labelled ‘18thC / 19thC Cadalso, Larra’. Contains typescript draft essays / papers / lecture notes? by Helen Grant with handwritten corrections and additions, as follows:1) ‘Spain in the 18th Century. Cadalso. II’;2) Spain in the early 19thC;3) ‘Cadalso and the Reign of Charles III’ [Jose de Cadalso y Vazquez, 1741-82, Colonel of the Royal Spanish Army, author, poet, playwright and essayist, producer of Spanish Enlightenment...
Dates:
1955 - 1965
Found in:
Girton College Archive
File
'A system of social matrices' in 'Review of Income and Wealth' series 19, no. 2, pp. 143-66, 1971-03 - 1973
File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JRNS/1/76
Scope and Contents
The file contains a roneoed typescript and an off-print of an article in Spanish.
Dates:
1971-03 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the Stone papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre by appointment. However, some material is reserved. In the College's opinion the contents of these files might be considered confidential by persons other than the author. There is no access to such material for the time being.
Series
Accounting and related papers, 1798-1969 (with some photocopies made in 1983)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A
Scope and Contents
This series contains accounts of Jardine Matheson, & Co. Ltd, its subsidiaries and associated firms, and other business records, including reports and minutes. The series is divided into three main sections:1. A1-6 contain the principal accounting records of Jardine Matheson, including the records of Magniac and Co. and its predecessors.2. A7-8 contain miscellaneous material not relating directly to the main series.3. A9 contains later accounts, reports and...
Dates:
1798-1969 (with some photocopies made in 1983)
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.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Astronomical methods and instruments, 1878 - 1887
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/177
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Airy and W.H.M. Christie concerning new astronomical techniques; requests for instruments and information; the testing of various instruments, such as a siderostat, telescopes and a driving clock; and the finding of the longitude. The correspondents include W. De La Rue, W. Huggins, S.P. Langley, Sir R.S. Ball, R.L.J. Ellery, E.K. Abbe, H.H. Turner and various lesser known scientists. There is a photograph of a negative of a plan of Flamsteed's equatorial sector, a...
Dates:
1878 - 1887
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
'AUT etc: essayists and background': File 1, 1934 - 1960
File
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Grant 3/2b/1
Scope and Contents
‘Unamuno and the Generation of ’98’ [Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936, Spanish Basque essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics and later Rector of the University of Salamanca. ‘The Generation of 1898’ was a name given to a group of young men of the Spanish intelligentsia more or less at the beginning of their careers at the end of the 19thC]. These papers appear to have been used as [part of?] a series of lectures on the period 1868-1938. They include a...
Dates:
1934 - 1960
Found in:
Girton College Archive
File
'AUT etc: essayists and background': File 2, 1944 - 1965
File
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Grant 3/2b/2
Scope and Contents
‘Ortega’: notes and papers etc by Helen Grant on the life and work of José Ortega y Gasset [Spanish philosopher and essayist, 1883-1955], probably all compiled for a series of lectures. Typescript with handwritten annotations and amendments, and handwritten, including a handwritten paper entitled ‘La Deshumanizacion del Arte’ [a humanist concept developed by Ortega in his work of the same name 1925]. Some in Spanish. The file also contains an offprint of Gabriel Trillas, ‘Ortega y Gasset en...
Dates:
1944 - 1965
Found in:
Girton College Archive
sub-subseries
Bills of lading: Philippines, 1826-1879 (mostly 1868-1870)
sub-subseries
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/A8/135/2
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous bills of lading from Manila and Iloilo (in English and Spanish), with mate's receipts, bills of exchange and an insurance policy. The documents include reference to B.A. Barretto; José B. Boxas; Russell & Sturgis; 'Mars'; 'Suwo Nada'; 'Venus'; cordage; hemp; and tobacco.
Dates:
1826-1879 (mostly 1868-1870)
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.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, 1908-1914
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10418/5
Scope and Contents
Official and personal documents relating to des Graz’s appointment and service as Consul-General to Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. 6 items.
Dates:
1908-1914
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Books and articles on the work of Ted Hughes, 1958-11 - 2011-03
Series
Reference Code: GBR/1058/HUO/2
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:
1958-11 - 2011-03
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
File
Cardinal Jules R. Mazarin: copies of letters, 1648-50. Two hands, the same as those of Add. 4671. In Italian, Spanish and French., 1648 - 1650
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4672
Dates:
1648 - 1650
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Cardinal Reginald Pole: 'Negotiati delle Legationi', 19th cent. copies. In Italian and Spanish., c. 1800s
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4832
Dates:
c. 1800s
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle (CAMC), La Palma: publications, 1984 - 2005
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 189
Scope and Contents
This series comprises publications of meteorological data and of catalogues of observations of the stars and planets obtained with the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle (CAMC). The publications were produced by the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada en San Fernando, Copenhagen University Observatory and Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, and latterly, solely by ROA.
Dates:
1984 - 2005
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Catalogue of the library of the Marquess of Halifax, 1693
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.51
Scope and Contents
'A catalogue of books in the library of Rufford belonging to my Lord Marquiss of Halifax in the year 1693'. Arranged according the place of books on the shelves.
Dates:
1693
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Charter party of the 'Norseman', 1859
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/F7/29
Scope and Contents
The charter party of the ship 'Norseman' for a voyage from the Chincha Islands to Port Louis, Mauritius, dated Lima, 4 June 1859. The text is given in both Spanish and English.
Dates:
1859
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.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Chinese documents, 1766-1935
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/H
Scope and Contents
This series consists of a wide range of business, legal and official Chinese documents dating mainly from the nineteenth century, particularly from the first half of the century. Many of the papers concern or are connected to Jardine, Matheson & Co. and its members. There are also a few items in English, French, Japanese, Parsi, Portuguese and Spanish (in the catalogue the documents are in Chinese unless otherwise stated).
Dates:
1766-1935
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.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Collection of Poems by López-Colomé, undated
File
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COO/5/13/2
Scope and Contents
Typescripts of the following poems: 'Among volcanoes', with a Cooke pencil sketch; 'Cradle-song', with a Cooke pencil sketch; 'Soothsayer'; 'Sacrifice'; 'Epimone', with a Cooke pencil sketch; 'King'; 'The Snow-White Falls of Niagara', with a Cooke pencil sketch; 'Article of faith'; 'Taking pains', with a Cooke pencil sketch; 'Description'; 'Revelation'; 'Passing through'; 'Heartache', with a Cooke pencil sketch; 'Dramatis personae', with a Cooke pencil sketch; 'Cotton'; 'Brief Episode'; 'Who...
Dates:
undated
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Archive reading room is open by appointment, Wednesdays-Fridays, but all visits must be booked in advance. Photographs may not be taken of the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes material without the permission of the Estates. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for permissions. The remainder of the collection may be photographed for private research, subject to UK copyright provisions. Those wishing to publish from the collection should seek advice from the Archivist prior to publication.
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
File
Concert reviews, CD reviews and features mixed, 1994 - 1999
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10096/4/12
Dates:
1994 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The archive is not yet fully catalogued. Some materials are subject to access restrictions. To discuss consultation please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk or music@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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Copy of an article by Agustin Villagra Caleti entitled 'The Bonampak Frescoes', published in the Mexican magazine 'Esta Semana' ['This Week'], 1947-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/122/6/8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Dates:
1947-09
Found in:
Needham Research Institute
File
Copy of an article by Juan Palacios entitled 'The Genius of Mexico; Xochicalco, the 'House of Flowers' and The 'Vatican A' Codex', published in the Mexican magazine 'Esta Semana' ['This Week'], 1947-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/122/6/9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.
Dates:
1947-08
Found in:
Needham Research Institute
File
Corfinium (Vetter 213 Pristafalacirix)
File
Reference Code: GBR/3437/CRFD/1/25/3
Scope and Contents
1 leaf of notes and drawing of inscription [ST Pg 9/Corfinium 6];
Jiménez Zamudio, Rafael (1986), “En torno a la forma lexe (Ve. N. 213; CO. N.216) y el infinitivo latino legere” in Epos 2, 335-339;
4 leaves of proof text annotated by MHC, [ST Pg 9/Corfinium 6]
File
Correspondence and other documents relating to the possible introduction of herds of Auchenidae (llamas, vicunas, alpaccas and guanacos) into the moutainous regions of West China and Tibet, 1957-04-24 - 1966-05-17
File
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/260/8
Scope and Contents
The correspondence comprises a letter from Ben F. Blankenship of San Francisco, California, U.S.A., to 'The Broadsheet' [edited by Liao Hung-Ying, Mrs Derek Bryan], about the potential of the introduction of Auchenidae to China and the already sucessful introduction of Quinoa; letter from Blankenship to Bryan, accompanying data to support his belief that Auchenidae could be sucessfully introduced to China; copy of a letter from Joseph Needham to Dr. Kuo Mo-Jo [郭沫若 / Guo Moruo] of Academia...
Dates:
1957-04-24 - 1966-05-17
Found in:
Needham Research Institute
File
Correspondence and papers, 1937-03 - 1937-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LSPC 1/2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Records comprising minutes, correspondence and papers
Dates:
1937-03 - 1937-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Correspondence and papers on company history, 1821-1942 (mostly 1929-1942)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/L11/1
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typescript correspondence regarding research into the history of Jardine, Matheson & Co., 1929-1942. The correspondents include Evelyn Banbury, B.D.F. Beith, D.G.M. Bernard, Charles Beswick, J.H. Burder, J.H. Keswick, L.N. Leefe, D. Rod Mackenzie, J.J. Paterson, H.K. Peters, F.A. Pollock, G.W. Sheppard, W.T. Southorn and J. Stewart. There are also related typescript documents, including 'Notes Traditional, Gossipy & Otherwise on Some Mathesons'; an account of the early...
Dates:
1821-1942 (mostly 1929-1942)
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.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-Series
Correspondence and related papers concerning foreign editions and translations, 1919-10 - 1922-10
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/EC/5
Scope and Contents
In addition to correspondence, this file includes an autograph manuscript introduction and preface to the Roumanian edition, November 1920.
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Dates:
1919-10 - 1922-10