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

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Contains 291 Results:

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From Sir George Darwin to Rado Kövesligethy, 12 June 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/87
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Glad he thinks Darwin's book 'The tides' worthy of translation into Hungarian; publication to members of the Society should be in two years; Murray will supply illustrations virtually at cost and send a copy of new edition; German translation has some additions by Darwin as an appendix

Dates: 12 June 1902
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 Sir George Darwin to Rado Kövesligethy, 5 May 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/88
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Sends proposed additions for his book: drawings to follow; glad that translation is finished; seeks research references

Dates: 5 May 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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From Sir George Darwin to Rado Kövesligethy, 15 Sep. 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/89
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Wishes to correct a wrong date [of Galileo's blindness] in his book; glad to meet Kövesligethy at Strasbourg

Dates: 15 Sep. 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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From Sir George Darwin to Rado Kövesligethy, 18 Mar. 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/90
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Received the book: thanks for Kövesligethy's hard work; it is better than English edition; Italian edition proposed; it would be good to have the manuscript of his changes and additions

Dates: 18 Mar. 1904
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 Denise Roos to Sir George Howard (Professor of Astronomy), 27 Dec. 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/91
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Presenting letters

Dates: 27 Dec. 1976
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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Wilfred Scawen Blunt: Correspondence, 1909-1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/92-96
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1909-1914
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 Wilfred Scawen Blunt to Mrs Cust, 7 Nov. 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/92
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He wants to refer to Lithgow's book of travels which he lent her

Dates: 7 Nov. 1909
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 from Wilfred Scawen Blunt to Patrick R. Butler (1880-1967), Royal Irish Regiment, 1911-1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/93-96
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1911-1916
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 Wilfred Scawen Blunt to Patrick R. Butler, 11 Dec. 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/93
Scope and Contents Butler's problem in reconciling 'the common duties of your profession with the higher instincts of your nature.'; Blunt will not blame him for taking paid employment in the Army; Blunt has never been 'a peace at any price believer'; but the British Empire presently recognises only self-interest, due to 'mongrelising of the race through the admission of all sorts of foreign elements into our body politic.'; Blunt belongs to a 'remote generation' and has 'no business to be living at all in the...
Dates: 11 Dec. 1911
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 Wilfred Scawen Blunt to Patrick R. Butler, 19 Sep. 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/94
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He well send 'Saladin' [a horse] when Butler gives the word; sends a copy of his Irish book

Dates: 19 Sep. 1912
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 Wilfred Scawen Blunt to Patrick R. Butler, 28 Nov. 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/95
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So overwhelmed by disasters in Turkey that he has been unable to write; Butler thinks of returning 'Saladin'; Blunt did not breed him, so he has no knowledge; his Irish book is appreciated in Ireland, not in England; the 'Gaelic American', New York, prints weekly extracts; he feels he has wasted thirty years in a lost cause, freedom in the East

Dates: 28 Nov. 1912
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 Wilfred Scawen Blunt to Patrick R. Butler, 11 May 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/96
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Invitation to Butler to visit

Dates: 11 May 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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Correspondence from organists and pianists, 1870-1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/97-108
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1870-1939
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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From Ernst Pauer to Miss Evelyn, 21 Mar. 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/97
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Arrangements for meeting

Dates: 21 Mar. 1870
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 William Hayman Cummings to John C. Wilkins, 31 July 1877

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/98
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Anxious for a copy of introduction and catalogue with latest corrections; his article to appear in 'Musical Times'; he has begun one for 'Athenaeum'

Dates: 31 July 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).
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From Charles Steggall to Nicholson, 22 Apr. 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/99
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Congratulations on Nicholson's appointment to Tewkesbury Abbey; knows no pupil who could succeed Nicholson at Dover; appointments gained by Academy students

Dates: 22 Apr. 1880
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 William Thomas Best to C.C. Cream, 16 Dec. 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/100
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He has written to Rodewald

Dates: 16 Dec. 1886
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 George M. Garrett to James Kendrick Pyne (1852-1938), 11 Aug. 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/101
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He is editing a new edition of [S.S.] Wesley's organ works; did Pyne ever hear Wesley play 'Choral Song' and Fugue in C, and if so, what registration did he use?; How did he treat ending of Andante in F?; he is writing to other Wesley pupils, hoping for information and consensus of opinion

Dates: 11 Aug. 1892
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 Wilhelm Meyer Lutz to [?], 1895 (Circa, undated)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/102
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Travel arrangements; difficult to visit York

Dates: 1895 (Circa, undated)
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 Edward Dannreuther to Mrs Marshall, 1900 (Circa, undated)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/103
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Invitation to join choir

Dates: 1900 (Circa, undated)
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 William A. Houston Collisson to [?], 2 Dec. 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/104
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Enclosing a photograph of himself

Dates: 2 Dec. 1906
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 Williamson John Reynolds to Sherlock, 11 Sep. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/105
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He has words for the music; has added to some lines

Dates: 11 Sep. 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 Arthur H. Mann to [?], 28 Feb. 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/106
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He wishes to add notes and libretto of 'Palestine', sent by [?], to his collection of 'Crotchiana'; Mann knew of Crotch's grandson William Duppa Crotch; a story of Crotch having kissed a girl student

Dates: 28 Feb. 1925
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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George Thalben-Ball: Autograph and portrait photograph, 24 Sep. 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/107
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 24 Sep. 1933
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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Sir Edward C. Bairstow: Autograph and three-bar excerpt from 'The prodigal son', 14 Apr. 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/108
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 14 Apr. 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).