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Autograph letters, 1890 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/11
Scope and Contents
A collection of autograph letters with a list compiled by Bell. Those of particular interest include eight letters from Neville Chamberlain, whom Bell met in the Bahamas in 1895, and nine letters from Robert Dolbey, the army medical officer and Professor of Surgery at the University of Cairo, whom Bell appointed as his literary executor (circa 150 sheets).
Dates:
1890 - 1937
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
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[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1991
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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:
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
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[Commonwealth Universities], 1946 - 1986
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/2
Scope and Contents
Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.
Dates:
1946 - 1986
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
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General, 1946 - 1986
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/1
Scope and Contents
Includes material on the IUC as a whole together with a few items on British Universities.
Dates:
1946 - 1986
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
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Magazine articles, 1885 - 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/9
Scope and Contents
This file contains the texts of articles written by Bell, many derived from his diaries. They are listed below:‘The adventures of Futki the white elephant’ (three copies)‘The doom of Saint Pierre’‘Housekeeping in West Africa’‘The improvement of physique in Negroes’‘In a Japanese railway carriage’‘A motor cottage’‘My fishy friends in Nassau’ (three copies)‘My friends the cannibals’ (three copies)‘My friends the cannibals...
Dates:
1885 - 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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Cambridge University Library
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Miscellaneous photographs from Uganda, Northern Nigeria, the Caribbean and Mauritius 1899-1930s, 1899 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011G
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...
Dates:
1899 - 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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Cambridge University Library
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Notebook A, 1927 - 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/3/5
Scope and Contents
Part of an incomplete notebook containing material for Bell’s memoirs, including suggestions for titles and notes of projected subjects or anecdotes. It begins with page 150 (30 sheets).
Dates:
1927 - 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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Cambridge University Library
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Notes for magazine articles, 1885 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/10
Scope and Contents
This file contains source material that Bell collected for writing articles. The notes include material on superstition and folklore, tropical sanitation, the encouragement of native arts and crafts, fish, insects and animal behaviour. Among the notes are the published minutes of a joint meeting of the Royal Empire Society and the Royal African Society, held to discuss an address by Elspeth Huxley on the future of East Africa, a brief article on divination from ‘Notes Africaines’, July...
Dates:
1885 - 1948
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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Cambridge University Library
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Publications, 1893 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/6
Scope and Contents
Copies of books published by Bell or given to him, with one pamphlet he used as a source for 'Obeah':Agricultural and Commercial Society, Antigua, ‘Sir. H. Hesketh Bell’A bound address illustrated with photographs and signed by members of the society, presented to Bell on his departure from the colony on 30 Dec. 1915Bell, Hesketh, ‘Glimpses of a governor’s life’ (London, 1946)Bell, Hesketh, ‘Love in black’ (London, 1911)Bell, Hesketh, ‘Obeah: witchcraft in...
Dates:
1893 - 1948
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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Richard Offor Library Adviser Inter-University Council 1947-1960, 1947 - 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011WW 3/1 Offor
Scope and Contents
Album with panel on cover with title, originally containing 20 photographs of ten libraries but with 7 missing. The following list of libraries represented gives the number of photographs now in the album, with the original number in brackets:Hong Kong 1 (2)Khartoum 1 (2)Malaya (Singapore) 2 (2)Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) 2 (2)Ghana 0 (2)Ibadan 1 (2)Makerere 0 (2)Rhodesia and Nyasaland 2 (2)West Indies 2...
Dates:
1947 - 1960
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
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Uganda and Northern Nigeria 1908-12, 1908-11 - 1912-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D
Scope and Contents
A scrapbook album containing prints by various photographers, including Alfred Lobo. The prints are of various sizes and the majority are captioned in Bell's hand. Captions composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. Among the scenes and events depicted in the album are the Kampala Exhibition of 1908, views of Government House, Entebbe, the visit of Winston Churchill to Uganda in 1907, sleeping sickness sufferers in Uganda and durbars in Northern Nigeria.
Dates:
1908-11 - 1912-03
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