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A correct globe with the new discoveries: A correct globe with ye new constelations [sic] of Dr Halley &c, 1775
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.1.01
Scope and Contents
The pocket terrestrial globe is just 7 cm in diameter and is made of papier mâché with a plaster coating, over which the paper gores, printed from a copper plate and hand coloured, have been affixed. Its protective case is covered with sharkskin and lined with celestial gores. The whole item is an updated and adapted version of a pocket globe published by Herman Moll in 1719.Pocket globes were first produced in England by Joseph Moxon (1627–1691) and they remained in vogue well into...
Dates:
1775
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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[Another view across Pago Pago harbour], 1903
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/2
Scope and Contents
Smithson has pencilled '2 21/12' at the top of the accompanying typescript.
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Barbados and Australia, 1910
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC West Indies/217-226
Scope and Contents
Monochrome and coloured postcards. Subjects include: Beachmount Hotel, Bathsheba, Barbados, Barbados coast, types of residence in Barbados, and Parramatta River. This collection is housed with the Darnell Davis manuscript collection at RCMS 259.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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Commonwealth Tour: Autumn 1955, 1955-08-30 - 1955-11-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/2/2
Scope and Contents
Detailed diary written whilst Smedley visited the United States (including Hawaii), Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Bombay, Bangladesh and Pakistan with Lord Home, Commonwealth Secretary, 1955-57 (143 sheets).This file also includes a pamphlet entitled, ‘The Frontier: a miscellany prepared for the RH Earl of Home on the occasion of their visit to Peshawar on 1st November, 1955’, with complimentary note inside; invitation cards to Smedley from Government...
Dates:
1955-08-30 - 1955-11-04
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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Commonwealth Universities, 1980 - 1990
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 401/1
Scope and Contents
This is an unedited draft of a book in which Alexander set out to give 'a personal account of my contacts with universities in the developing countries of the Commonwealth.'It begins with the background of Alexander’s own university education at Auckland, Cambridge and London; describes Raffles College and the University of Malaya; and his work at the University of Ibadan and the contribution of its Physics Department during the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. Considerable...
Dates:
1980 - 1990
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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Series
[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1991
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011KKK/1-434
Scope and Contents
Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations. Many, though not all, of the slides were taken by Ian Maxwell.
Dates:
1946 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access:
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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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Correspondence, 1957 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/10/4
Scope and Contents
This file largely contains letters to Smedley. Not all contents have been listed, but items include a letter from Ronald Belcher (diplomat, Capetown) on events in South Africa, 30 June 1958; Major-Gen. Alec Bishop (Deputy High Commissioner, Calcutta, 1957-62), 4 April 1959, 23 January 1961, 13 April 1962; from Office of Deputy High Commissioner, Bombay, 8 February 1962; from W.A. Camps (Senior Tutor, Pembroke College), 18 August 1958; from J. Chaplin (UK Information Service, Ottawa), 23 July...
Dates:
1957 - 1963
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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Diary, 1928-06-01 - 1928-11-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/1
Scope and Contents
The primary function of the Empire Tour was to impress the party with the prosperity and economic potential of the Dominions. Kelsey reported on many visits to farms, agricultural colleges, research stations, industrial sites and commercial centres. As an engineer, he was particularly interested in mines, factories and power stations. The party also toured many sites of natural beauty as well as museums and galleries. Kelsey recorded his impressions of the people he encountered and their...
Dates:
1928-06-01 - 1928-11-26
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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Diary letters, 1907 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10/1
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Fisher to Halford Mackinder describing his travels (circa 2,000 pages).
Dates:
1907 - 1910
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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General newscuttings, 1883 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 336/6
Scope and Contents
Pages 1-59 and 68-81: Newscuttings taken predominantly from 'The Argus', 1893-1894, concerning the South Pacific, including Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hebrides and Samoa.Pages 60-67 and 82-87: Newscuttings concerning Stettin and the consulship, 1897-1898, including many articles on trade and industry and Germany.Pages 87-89: Newscuttings concerning Pennsylvania and the United States in general, 1913, including a few loose cuttings.Pages 93-106: A series of...
Dates:
1883 - 1927
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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Geographical, 1942 - 1980
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/MC/E
Scope and Contents
Arranged by area, then by country (including a few which are not members of the Commonwealth):The Mediterranean 30Cyprus 11Gibraltar 3Malta 16Middle East 3Jordan 1Palestine 2Indian Sub-Continent 81General 1Bangladesh 4Bhutan 2India 51Nepal 1Pakistan 16Sri Lanka 6South East Asia 58Brunei 5Indonesia 1Malaysia 43Singapore 9East Asia 33China 3Hong Kong 29Korea ...
Dates:
1942 - 1980
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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Sub-Series
Gifts of Timber, 1934 - 1959
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/4/27
Scope and Contents
When the RES Headquarters was rebuilt in 1934-36, gifts of timber for panelling and furnishing were obtained from Empire Governments, companies and individuals. Many were destroyed during the bombing of 1941 and replacement gifts were received. This file coordinates pre and post-war correspondence.
Dates:
1934 - 1959
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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In the fern forest near the Volcano House, Kilauea, Hawaii, 1904, 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/35
Scope and Contents
265 x 207 mm. A view showing a man standing amongst dense ferns and shrubs. The typewritten caption on the back of the mount reads (in full): 'In the fern forest near the Volcano House, Kilauea, Hawaii, 1904. Tempest Anderson 1909.The Volcano House at a height of about 4000 feet has a temperate climate, while at the sea level the heat is tropical. The low-lands are mostly cleared for sugar plantations; above this comes the forest zone reaching on the windward side to about the...
Dates:
1904
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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[Mail steamer at anchor in Pago Pago harbour, surrounded by small boats and canoes], 1903
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/3
Scope and Contents
Smithson has pencilled '20/10' next to the following notes: '3. As soon as our steamer is anchored it is surrounded with boats and canoes of all shapes and sizes containing natives anxious to sell all manner of curios etc. The scene is one which is almost as bewildering to the eye as to the ear, for dark skinned natives in the most varied costumes of varying colour chatter with one another endeavouring to drive bargains with the passengers English money or rather English prices being the...
Dates:
1903
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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[Mail steamer at anchor in Pago Pago harbour, surrounded by small boats and canoes], 1903
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/4
Scope and Contents
Smithson has pencilled '20/11' next to '4. Handkerchief -'.
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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[Mail steamer at anchor in Pago Pago harbour, surrounded by small boats and canoes], 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/5
Scope and Contents
Smithson has pencilled '30/7' next to '5. Umbrellas - universal -'.
Dates:
1903
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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[Mail steamer at anchor in Pago Pago harbour, surrounded by small boats and canoes], 1903
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/6
Scope and Contents
Smithson has pencilled '20/12' next to '6. Canoes'.
Dates:
1903
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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Series
Miscellaneous, 1910 - 1930
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011DDD(LS)117-129
Scope and Contents
Unidentified slides of Australia or Canada.
Dates:
1910 - 1930
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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North and Central America, Oceania and Europe, 1947 - 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Belgium and England. The same people appear in many of the photographs, and include Lady (Millie) Tymms and Colonel Johnny Verhagen.
Dates:
1947 - 1953
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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Notes for reminiscences, 1922 - 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/8
Scope and Contents
This file contains source material that Bell collected for the composition of his memoirs, drawn from his official career or travels during his retirement. It includes notes on memorable people, places and experiences, or subjects of particular interest. The file also preserves two poems by Bell, the text of a speech that he gave at a West Indian Club dinner in 1909, correspondence regarding his tour of the Far East during 1925-26, the text of a lecture ‘Some aspects of colonial...
Dates:
1922 - 1946
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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Sub-Series
Photograph album, 1928-06 - 1928-11
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2
Scope and Contents
Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.
Dates:
1928-06 - 1928-11
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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Sub-Series
Photographs, 1970
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 40/7
Scope and Contents
Print reproductions of Frome's South Australian watercolours and sketches, with a few works from Canada and Mauritius, and a portrait print of Frome himself. This section also includes copies of works relating to South Australia by other artists that Frome had acquired. A catalogue, 'The Australian collection of General E.C. Frome in the Royal Commonwealth Society' written by RCS Librarian Donald Simpson, is stored with the collection, along with a listing by R.G. Appleyard 'Captain E.C....
Dates:
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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Series
Postcards of New Zealand and Canada, 1900 - 1929
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089EE/2
Dates:
1900 - 1929
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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Power Screen, 1937 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS.1.02
Scope and Contents
Decorative screen made for Arnold Danvers Power (1875-1959), bookseller and philanthropist, and bequeathed by him to the Royal Commonwealth Society, of which he had been a fellow. Power had travelled around the world three times, and during 1937-39, he commissioned the artist Heather Child to record his voyages on a screen, illustrated with incidents described in his diaries. It is made of three hinged panels of sycamore wood, each measuring 2 feet by 6 feet.
Dates:
1937 - 1939
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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RCI Post-War Settlement Mission, 1915 - 1916
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ARCS/13/9/22
Scope and Contents
Archives relating to a mission to South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada undertaken by Sir Henry Rider Haggard on behalf of the RCI to investigate possibilities of post WWI settlement of ex-servicemen. Haggard's report was published as 'The After-War Settlement & Employment of Ex-Service Men in the Overseas Dominions' in 1916.
Dates:
1915 - 1916
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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Cambridge University Library