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Box GBR/0012/MS Add. 9383/1-6: Box 1

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Contains 6 Results:

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Family History Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9383/1
Scope and Contents

[1-44] GBA: notes and correspondence on family history, including [42-43] copy of Richarda Airy's coffin plate; funeral report, East Anglian Daily Times; [44] Obituary of GBA (Institution of Civil engineers).

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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Poetry: MS and printed, 1867-1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9383/2
Scope and Contents

[1-36] GBA: list of his poetry, dated and undated poems; [37-40, 74-75] WILLIAM H. THOMPSON and WILLIAM SELWYN, letters (1867-72) with poems; [41-73] Poems by GBA and others.

Dates: 1867-1872
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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Religious Writings

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9383/3
Scope and Contents

[1] Translation of Old Testament, Genesis 1, 2, 6, 12, 17, Psalm 2, list of O.T. chapters to be translated; [2] Prayer; [3-6] Notes on Bible; [7] MS illustrations of Old Testament.

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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Playford Papers, 1843-1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9383/4
Scope and Contents

Including: [1-96] Bills, letters relating to Playford Cottage (1843-65); [97-98] Statement to MASON (Police Superintendent, Ipswich) about attempted assault on Osmund Airy (1865); [100-102] Bills for repairs, Playford Church (1846-63); [103-109] Letters, plans for church restoration, Playford (John Henry Hakewill and —Phipson, architects) (1872-74); [112] ANNOT AIRY, note on correspondence re Playford Church restoration (1929).

Dates: 1843-1929
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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Miscellaneous Papers, 1824-1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9383/5
Scope and Contents Including [1-8] GBA, personal accounts etc. (1820-91); [10] Specimen of submarine telegraph printing (1851); [18] Design for seal or medal for GBA as Astronomer Royal (1856); [19-20] Royal Warrant for pension to Richarda (1835); [29] Printed letter, WILLIAM WHEWELL (Master of Trinity) to students on bad behaviour (1827); [32] Printed Perambulation of the bounds of Greenwich Parish (1861); [33-35] Details of accidents that befell GBA (1824-69); [39] Memorandum about GBA's childhood friend,...
Dates: 1824-1869
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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Correspondence, 1825-1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9383/6
Scope and Contents Including [1, 18] with THOMAS CLARKSON (1825-39); [2] Note from WILLIAM WHEWELL (1826); [4] SIR ALEXANDER SPEARMAN (1835); [5] SAMUEL PHILLIPPS (1835); [6, 21] JOHN COURTNEY (1836-39); [7, 31] JOHN HAVILAND (1836-46); [9-17] THOMAS SPRING RICE (1837-8); [22-23] Invitation from SIR ROBERT PEEL (1842); [27-28] J.S. COPLEY, LORD LYNDHURST (1844); [30] SIR WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN (1846); [37-39] to LADY HERSCHEL (1852); [40-41] Letters of introduction by ROBERT STEPHENSON (1853); [42-44] HUGH PERCY,...
Dates: 1825-1885
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).