Box MS Add.9563: Box 1
Contains 62 Results:
Letters to Arthur Bernard Cook, 1931
Letters to Miss K.H. Strange, 1977
Knew Edward Johnston; designed a printing type for Eric Gill; heard her talk on Radio Brighton
Valerie Suzy, Lady Meux
Presenting a book to the Library; found in the book (unspecified)
Letter from John Hey, March 1796
11 Mar 1796 to an unnamed correspondent Dr. Jowett persuaded the Syndicate to print first volume of lectures at their expense. Asks correspondent to proof-read sheets. Index to come when all volumes complete, predicts five in all.
Samuel Beckett, letter to Edward Dahlberg, May 1974
1 card, 6 May 1974, describing his relationship with Edward Titus, American director of Franco-American quarterly magazine 'The Quarter'
Laurence Housman, letters to Leslie Harries, 1943-1945
10 letters, 1943-45, on publication of Welsh translations of Brother Wolf and The new hangman, fees, royalties, illustrations, amateur performances.
R.G. Moulton: Letters to Miss Marriott, 1887-1905
[60-67] Letters, RGM to Miss Marriott, 1887-1905 [68] C. MARY RIDDING to 'BESSIE' (cousin), n.d. [69] C.J.A. to 'SOPHIA', 1892 [70] newscutting, n.d., on RGM and University Extension in America.
Nevil Maskelyne : Letter to John Nourse, January 1767
1 letter 20 January 1767, asking for 'a nautical almanac stitched in blue
Photograph of a painting of Lord Acton's Wedding, 1865 (circa)
In Schloss Chapel, St. Martin, Upper Austria. The wedding took place 1 August 1865.
A.W. Trewethy: Letter to H.F. Saltmarsh., 1925
News of Sir William Barrett's death; question of a Society for Psychical Research 'volume of literary research'. A.W. Trewethy and Herbert F. Saltmarsh (1881-1943), writers on spiritualism.
D.B. Welbourn - 'Resistance to Hitler: Some individual cases', 1991-2002
Typescript paper: Resistance to Hitler: some individual cases, 1991, revised 2002
Max Teichman-Derville: Letter to Lewis Lloyd, June 1939
1 letter, 19 JUN 1939, sending a copy of his book: recommending other books for London Library
F.C. Burkitt: MS memoir of Johannes Weiss, 1900 - 1935
A collection of miscellaneous pieces collected by or given to the library.
Francis and Margaret Jenkinson: Memorabilia, 1933 (circa)
[89] Obituary of MCJ, in The Cambridge Chronicle, 17 MAY 1933. [90] Photograph of 'the late Mrs. Francis Jenkinson', unnamed paper, n.d. [91] Photograph of Mrs. Jenkinson, by J. Palmer Clarke, Cambridge, n.d. [92] Photograph of Francis Jenkinson, by Whyte, Inverness, n.d. [93] Photograph of Richard Rowe, Trinity College.
John Willis Clark: Letters to Harry C. Marillier, 1889-1898
5 letters, 1889-98, encouraging HCM to write a book mixing literature with scandal; disappointed 'more by the treachery of friends than by the actual loss of the post' of University Librarian; his collection of Cambridge periodicals; declining to address Odd Volumes; keen to visit Nadrack; teetotalism; references to Ernest Clarke.
James L. Brougham: Letters to his sister from Emmanuel College, November 1841
30 NOV 1841, on writing paper with vignette of Great Court, Trinity College. James Lindsay Brougham, inherited Woodland Hall, Lancashire, in 1883.
Mary di Michele: Letter to Robin Skelton, June 1981
1 letter, 22 JUN 1981, enclosing a copy of Bread and chocolate / Marrying into the family, by Mary di Michele and Bronwen Wallace; she is soon to publish Mimosa and other poems.
Ermengard Maitland and Theodore Plucknett: Correspondence, 1951-1958
Question of reprinting Maitland's works; M's collaboration with Pollock on the History of English law; proposal for another volume of collected papers; question of placing her remaining Maitland MSS. [118] TFTP to SAMUEL THORNE, 14 OCT 1954; [119] TFTP to SIR DAVID HUGHES PARRY, 14 OCT 1954; [120] ERWIN GRISWOLD, 22 OCT 1954.
Ermengard Maitland and others to Helen Cam, 1954-1967
Letters to and from Sir John Plumb, 1937 (circa)
[154] JHP to ROY [?], 16 NOV 1937. 'Peil is a fool. Don't take any notice of his inanities'; 'Snow was frightfully angry about the job'; reminiscences of holiday on 'Cote Basque';
[155] JHP to ROY [?], part of a letter, n.d. Teaching dull women at Girton; how he spends his days in Cambridge, wishes he had time to write;
[156] [ROY?] to JHP, n.d. Reaction to JHP's election to a fellowship at Christ's.
Captain R.F. Scott: Memorabilia, 1901-1913
Algernon Herbert: Letter to H, 1849 (circa)
Adverse criticism of Herbert's Cyclops Christianus; or, An argument to disprove the supposed antiquity of the Stonehenge and other megalithic erections in England and Britanny (London, 1849)
Correspondence between Scientists, 1809-1818
Sir Isaac Pennington: Letter to George Ashby, July 1781
27 July 1781, did not find in CUL several scientific books which Ashby requested he borrow for him; congratulations on Ashby's papers on 'the Ancient Fire'; read Sonnerat's Voyages with great pleasure; looks forward to completion of Captain Cook's Last Voyage, by King; Master of St. John's going to Isle of Wight for recuperation.
John Grierson: Lines from Paradise Lost, 1800 (circa)
John Grierson (his signature in same hand), lines from John Milton, Paradise lost, with notes 'of frets or guilochis', 1 sheet