Box MS Add.8812/1-239: Box 1
Contains 291 Results:
Gil Vincente, 'Dicen que me case yo' (From 'The mystery of the Sibyl Cassandra', 1513)
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Garcilaso de la Vega (1503-30), 'En tanto que de rosa...'
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Garcilaso de la Vega, 'O dulces predas'
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Calderón, 'The great musician of the world', translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Garcilaso de la Vega, 'A Dafne', translated by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Garcilaso de la Vega, 'Hermosas ninfas', translated by William Drummond of Hawthornden
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Garcilaso de la Vega, From the first elegy, written in 1535
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Calderón, 'Life's a dream', translated by Archbishop Trench
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Góngora (1561-1627), 'Con differencia tal...', translated by Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-66)
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Góngora, 'Ayer naciste', translated by Sir Richard Fanshawe
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
Quovedo, 'Rejoicing in solitude and study, the author wrote this sonnet'
Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department
From William S. Darling, Private Secretary, Chief of Police, Dublin Castle, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 25 Mar. 1921
He cannot supply a complete set of 'Weekly Summary', issued to Police Force in Ireland: files were not kept; sends available copies; he is trying to collect some Sinn Fein literature; would like to know of books on Royal Irish Constabulary
List, 'Pamphlets etc, received from the Chief of Police, Dublin. 7/4/21.' [3 copies]
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
From Basil Lake, Raglan Barracks, Devonport, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 16 Feb. 1922
Relieved to have returned from Ireland; he collected books which 'will given you an extraordinarily good insight into the methods of the IRA'
From J. Hanna, Assistant Librarian, Trinity College Dublin, to A.F. Scholfield, 21 Apr. 1931
Sends a consignment of Irish newspapers from 'the troublesome times', set aside and overlooked until now
From Private Gordon, Portobello Barracks, Dublin, to his brother-in-law [printed copy], 16 June 1916
Report on Irish Rebellion; fighting in Dublin streets
Letter from William Wilberforce to Richard C. Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, Aug. 1810
Sorry he is unwell; wants to talk about the subject of his last letter
Letter from Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin to [John Mason Neale (1818-66) / John Fuller Russell?], 16 Nov. 1841 (Circa)
Too busy to come to Cambridge - his builder is coming to do estimates; Lord Midleton to see designs; '...I can show you glorious things'; a few inaccuracies in Camden Society publications; disuse of sedilia and sacrarium; 'No one can detest modern 'Italianism' more than I do but the 'Christian antiquities' of Rome merit our veneration...' [illuminated initial 'R', with sketch of Clare College]
Letter from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jacob Vernes (1728-91), 6 Jan. 1759
Letter from William Paley to John Law (1745-1810), Bath, 9 Nov. 1780
Law can depend on Paley in Chapter (Carlisle Cathedral); Bath waters doing him good; Mrs Thomas received an account of Shepherd's restoration to his fellowship at Cambridge
Letter from Richard Hurd [Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1775, Worcester 1781] to William Warburton (1698-1779) [Bishop of Gloucester 1760], 22 Jan. 1757
Correspondence in envelope addressed to Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, Zoological Museum, Cambridge, 1822-1863 (Envelope postmarked 21 June 1933)
Inscribed '2 private letters. Gift of the British Museum'
From William Clift, College of Surgeons, to [?], 2 Apr. 1822
A sketch he made of bridge, boats and figures on Paddington Canal was taken to Paris and lithographed; Clift was sent four impressions, which Dr Evenius, a Prussian, left at Dover until Clift paid duty; he requests them to be sent to King's Warehouse, London, for him to pay duty
From Sir Richard Owen, British Museum, to Lord Shaftesbury (1801-85), 4 Apr. 1863
He tries to answer questions 'to the best of my judgment and belief in its truth'; hares do not chew cud; nature of their stomach; criticism of Dr Gill's annotations on 'rumination' in Scripture (Leviticus 11, 6); notes on Gill
Letter from Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston to Sir Frederick Trench (c.1777-1859), 13 Mar. 1826
University of Cambridge objects to provisions of Bill to erect a new town prison; it will petition the House, but needs time; committee should be postponed; the University thinks the town is 'trying to steal a march upon them', and should have consulted before bringing the Bill to Parliament; the University would be liable to tax 'which they have never hitherto borne', and the town could take university or college land, 'even Clare Hall piece'