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

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Contains 291 Results:

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From Herbert Howells to Herbert Badgett, 11 Mar. 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/131
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Wide praise for Huddersfield Choral Society's performance of 'Missa Sabrinensis'; 'I realize how greatly a composer always stands in debt to a man like yourself and such a choir.'; sorry that the Exeter Festival prevented his hearing it

Dates: 11 Mar. 1956
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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Robert Thurston Dart: Correspondence, 1962-1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/132-135
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1962-1964
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 Robert Thurston Dart to 'Argonauts', 22 Nov. 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/132
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Illness has knocked him back; promotion came just in time: he is forbidden to tutor and supervise

Dates: 22 Nov. 1962
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 Robert Thurston Dart to 'Dadie', 13 Nov. 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/133
Scope and Contents He cannot look for a setting of Orpheus during Term; knows of no contemporary setting; 'I can't produce settings at the drop of a hat when they don't exist.'; much work at Cambridge - Arts Theatre - City help to music - rebuilding Music School - Cambridge University Music Society; could one of the songs which he proposed long ago be used?; neither needs a male voice; 'I want to indulge you, Dadie, but I can't do so at the expense of abandonig the guiding principles used throughout the scheme...
Dates: 13 Nov. 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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From Robert Thurston Dart to Harley, 26 July 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/134
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Moving to Chair of Music, University of London, creating a new Faculty of Music; he would like to play continuo in proposed recordings; declines editing; Charles Cudworth could choose a young scholar; 'Cambridge did not, perhaps, realize that a Professor of Music here has great responsibilities, but is virtually powerless to act on them.'; his successor 'must be given the chance to do things... including helping researchers.'

Dates: 26 July 1964
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 Robert Thurston Dart to Harley, 11 Sep. 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/135
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Postpone meeting until October; until his successor is appointed, he has Cambridge lecture courses to do, and researchers to look after; he must prepare syllabuses, etc., for London

Dates: 11 Sep. 1964
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 Bruce Sissons to F. Henry Johnson, 3 Jan. 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/136
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Impressed with Johnson's interview with Ruth Worth in 'Globe and Mail'; Sissons' 'Memoirs' may be interesting about teacher training in Ontario; 'Intelligence and a sense of humour' are essential for a teacher

Dates: 3 Jan. 1965
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 Bruce Sissons to F. Henry Johnson, 12 Jan. 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/137
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Shortcomings of teacher-training system in Ontario; appreciative comments on teaching ability of A.E. Miller of Revelstoke

Dates: 12 Jan. 1965
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 Ludwig F. Ertig to R.C. Paulin, 14 July 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/138
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 14 July 1966
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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Harry P. Clark: Correspondence to John and Elizabeth Buck, 1980-1986 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/139-150
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Dates: 1980-1986 (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 Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, 30 May 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/139
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Description of his cottage; he left it after suffering a heart attack; living closer to Cambridge, but looking to move from Cambridgeshire

Dates: 30 May 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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From Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, Mar. 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/142
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Offers one of six copies of his book, which he typed; has started volume II; with portrait photograph and Christmas card

Dates: Mar. 1982
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 Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, 18 Aug. 1985

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/145
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Great effort to finish second book; doubts whether Oxford or Cambridge would be interested in it; he likes idea of Harvard; how should he go about offering it?; with newscutting, 'Tamworth Herald', 16 August 1985, Harry Clark presenting a model dinosaur to a child

Dates: 18 Aug. 1985
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 Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, 7 July 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/146
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Effort involved in writing books; some extracts were read at Tamworth Literary Society; he is visiting parts of Britain, painting, and writing a book about how he came to Tamworth; writes letters to newspapers, Prince of Wales, Prime Minister, police, 'when I think they need ticking off or congratulating.'

Dates: 7 July 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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From Harry P. Clark to John and Elizabeth Buck, 21 Aug. 1986

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/147
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Thanks for their efforts on behalf of his book; sending copies to Cambridge

Dates: 21 Aug. 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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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).