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Box MS Add.8812/1-239: Box 1

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Contains 291 Results:

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Lord Kelvin: correspondence; to Mrs H.F. Stewart; photographs of Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 1818-1901 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/1-10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1818-1901 (Circa)
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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From Carl Haag to Sir William Thomas (Lord Kelvin), 18 Feb. 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/1
Scope and Contents

He will look carefully at specimen drawings by Thomson's niece; Dobson will propose her, Haag will second it

Dates: 18 Feb. 1890
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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From G. Higgins to W. Frend (copy, mostly in shorthand), 25 Sep. 1818

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/2
Scope and Contents

Journey through France

Dates: 25 Sep. 1818
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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From Eleanor M. Sidgwick to Jessie Stewart, 9 Nov. 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/3
Scope and Contents

Pyes promise to return the text in time for the lecture

Dates: 9 Nov. 1901
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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From Hermann Von Helmholtz to Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 2 Sep. 1883

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/4
Scope and Contents

He is invited to join a commission to consider building 'a kind of scientific physical observatory' at Berlin, proposed by him and Dr Werner Siemens; he is urged to become director; would be able to concentrate on purely scientific work

Dates: 2 Sep. 1883
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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From Eliza M. Von Hügel to Jessie Stewart, 1820-1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/5
Scope and Contents

She hoped all was settled, with support of Vice-Chancellor and Mayor; but a meeting of Cambridge townspeople arranged by Pryor will consider its own scheme; Anatole's visit to several families caught up in fighting

Dates: 1820-1900
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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Photographs

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/6-8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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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Francis J.H. Jenkinson as a boy, with father [copy photograph]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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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Francis J.H. Jenkinson in procession to Senate House

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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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Henry Montagu Butler (1833-1918), Master of Trinity

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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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Newscutting: Report of entertainment at Temperance Hall, by members of a reading party from Cambridge, 1818 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/9
Scope and Contents

`Mr. Dixon of Inveran.. related a number of humorous Highland stories connected with the parish of Gairloch, in which Poolewe is situated.'

Dates: 1818 - 1900
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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Pamphlet: Carmen Pooleviense (reprinted from the leaflet), 1885 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/10
Scope and Contents

Hugh Fraser Stewart's copy

Dates: 1885 (Circa)
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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Letter from Sir George Biddell Airy to Stephen Jackson, 25 Aug. 1828

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/11
Scope and Contents

Dr Davy allows Jackson to come into residence at Cambridge; Airy's experiments not going well (Polcoath Experiment - density of the earth)

Dates: 25 Aug. 1828
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 to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, University Librarian, about the collection of Irish newspapers and pamphlets, 1914-1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/12-28
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1914-1931
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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From Walter A. Magill (1879-1950), Metropolitan Police Office, Dublin Castle, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 4 Dec. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/12
Scope and Contents

Obtaining copies of Irish newspapers is 'outside the province of the Police'; the publishers of 'Irish Freedom' must supply them

Dates: 4 Dec. 1914
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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From Hampden C. Gordon (d.1960), War Office, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 5 Dec. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/13
Scope and Contents

They do not know what Jenkinson means by an 'original' German White Paper; it is probably a Foreign Office document

Dates: 5 Dec. 1914
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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From D. & G. Watson, Creamery, Tralee, C. Kerry, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 8 Dec. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/14
Scope and Contents

If Jenkinson had enquired earlier, they could have supplied many 'seditious newspapers...in varying degrees of rotten journalism' but Government action means that they will not sell back numbers

Dates: 8 Dec. 1914
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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From Harold J. Tennant (1865-1935), War Office, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 9 Dec. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/15
Scope and Contents

Sir R. Brade must have written to Jenkinson about interesting items; the Foreign Office might be able to help

Dates: 9 Dec. 1914
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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Envelope, 'Irish Newspapers. Correspondence about getting copies of them.' [enclosed /12-/15]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/16
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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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From Harold J. Tennant, War Office, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 18 Dec. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/17
Scope and Contents

Sends a letter from the Chief Secretary, with enclosures

Dates: 18 Dec. 1914
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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From Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) to Harold J. Tennant [enclosed in /17], 17 Dec. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/18
Scope and Contents

He sends a set of Irish newspapers, some suppressed, for Jenkinson; he has no flysheets: they were probably destroyed

Dates: 17 Dec. 1914
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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From Andrew P. Magill (d.1941), Irish Office, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 22 Feb. 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/19
Scope and Contents

He sent Tennant copies of seditious newspapers; Birrell has obtained from Dublin Castle a set of seditious pamphlets, which he sends to Jenkinson

Dates: 22 Feb. 1915
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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From James MacCaffrey (1875-1935), Maynooth, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 25 Mar. 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/20
Scope and Contents

Difficult to obtain literature requested by Jenkinson: such pamphlets are seized in transit - but he received some in an official envelope, which he sends

Dates: 25 Mar. 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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From Archibald J. Chapman (1862-1950), G.H.Q., Home Forces, Horse Guards, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 18 Dec. 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/21
Scope and Contents

He sends a Sinn Fein pamphlet 'published the day after the Leinster went down' in Dublin

Dates: 18 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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From Archibald J. Chapman to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 1 Feb. 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/22
Scope and Contents

He sends a few Irish 'odds & ends'

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).