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

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Contains 291 Results:

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Gil Vincente, 'Dicen que me case yo' (From 'The mystery of the Sibyl Cassandra', 1513)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/ii
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Garcilaso de la Vega (1503-30), 'En tanto que de rosa...'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/iii
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Garcilaso de la Vega, 'O dulces predas'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/iv
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Calderón, 'The great musician of the world', translated by Edward Fitzgerald

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/ix
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Garcilaso de la Vega, 'A Dafne', translated by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/v
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Garcilaso de la Vega, 'Hermosas ninfas', translated by William Drummond of Hawthornden

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/vi
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Garcilaso de la Vega, From the first elegy, written in 1535

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/vii
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Calderón, 'Life's a dream', translated by Archbishop Trench

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/viii
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Góngora (1561-1627), 'Con differencia tal...', translated by Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-66)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/x
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Góngora, 'Ayer naciste', translated by Sir Richard Fanshawe

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/xi
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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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Quovedo, 'Rejoicing in solitude and study, the author wrote this sonnet'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/183/xii
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Translated mainly by members of the Spanish Department

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 S. Darling, Private Secretary, Chief of Police, Dublin Castle, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 25 Mar. 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/24
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 25 Mar. 1921
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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List, 'Pamphlets etc, received from the Chief of Police, Dublin. 7/4/21.' [3 copies]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/25
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 Basil Lake, Raglan Barracks, Devonport, to Francis J.H. Jenkinson, 16 Feb. 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/26
Scope and Contents

Relieved to have returned from Ireland; he collected books which 'will given you an extraordinarily good insight into the methods of the IRA'

Dates: 16 Feb. 1922
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 J. Hanna, Assistant Librarian, Trinity College Dublin, to A.F. Scholfield, 21 Apr. 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/27
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Sends a consignment of Irish newspapers from 'the troublesome times', set aside and overlooked until now

Dates: 21 Apr. 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 Private Gordon, Portobello Barracks, Dublin, to his brother-in-law [printed copy], 16 June 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/28
Scope and Contents

Report on Irish Rebellion; fighting in Dublin streets

Dates: 16 June 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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Letter from William Wilberforce to Richard C. Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, Aug. 1810

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/29
Scope and Contents

Sorry he is unwell; wants to talk about the subject of his last letter

Dates: Aug. 1810
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 Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin to [John Mason Neale (1818-66) / John Fuller Russell?], 16 Nov. 1841 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/30
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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]

Dates: 16 Nov. 1841 (Circa)
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Letter from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jacob Vernes (1728-91), 6 Jan. 1759

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/31
Scope and Contents Comments on matrimony (Vernes, Pastor at Geneva, about to marry) and good wishes; he hopes to see a copy of the Genevan edition of his article, 'Economie politique' from the 'Encyclopédie', promoted by Vernes; Voltaire has not written (to acknowledge Rousseau's 'Lettre à d'Alembert'); Tronchin's letter contained judicious criticisms of Rousseau's work; he has not forgotten Vernes' request, but has little time for writing - his illness - has to reply to thousands of letters, entertain...
Dates: 6 Jan. 1759
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Letter from William Paley to John Law (1745-1810), Bath, 9 Nov. 1780

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/32
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 9 Nov. 1780
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 Richard Hurd [Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1775, Worcester 1781] to William Warburton (1698-1779) [Bishop of Gloucester 1760], 22 Jan. 1757

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/33
Scope and Contents The only purpose of his little quotation was 'to gratify my own spleen'; the shield shall pass as his property; Warbuton's short dialogue transcribed from Shirley is incomparable - it will make a fine conclusion to his note; a 'hypercrital emendation' is 'taking an extravagant liberty with the text'; pleased with Warburton's objection to his main principle, and answer; he is proud to be allowed to copy Warburton's papers; he quarrels with Warburton 'for saying one word of your upbraiders';...
Dates: 22 Jan. 1757
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 in envelope addressed to Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, Zoological Museum, Cambridge, 1822-1863 (Envelope postmarked 21 June 1933)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/34-35
Scope and Contents

Inscribed '2 private letters. Gift of the British Museum'

Dates: 1822-1863 (Envelope postmarked 21 June 1933)
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From William Clift, College of Surgeons, to [?], 2 Apr. 1822

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/34
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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

Dates: 2 Apr. 1822
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From Sir Richard Owen, British Museum, to Lord Shaftesbury (1801-85), 4 Apr. 1863

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/35
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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

Dates: 4 Apr. 1863
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 Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston to Sir Frederick Trench (c.1777-1859), 13 Mar. 1826

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/36
Scope and Contents

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'

Dates: 13 Mar. 1826
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).