Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 26 - 50 of 133

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
 File

Commonplace Book of Religious Poetry

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6664
Scope and Contents

Commonplace collection containing religious poetry, copies of letters, cuttings, etc., including material relating to Byron and Napoleon, written in several hands, 269 folios. There is an index of contents on pp. iv-xi.

Dates: 1750-1830 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Correspondence of Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, and related items

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10382
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, together with poems, verse dialogues, newspaper cuttings, photographs and related items. The letters date between 1953 and 1967. They are from Sassoon, and addressed from Heytesbury, unless otherwise stated. A few were addressed jointly to Dennis and Diana Silk. There are three letters from Dennis Silk to Sassoon, and letters from a few other correspondents are included as enclosures.

Dates: 1918-2012 (bulk 1953-1967)
 Fonds

D. J. Enright papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10303
Dates: 1920-2002
Conditions Governing Access: Access to some boxes is restricted pending appraisal for sensitive information relating to living individuals. Enquiries should be made to the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts.
 Fonds

David Chaloner, 'Hotel Zingo'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10024
Scope and Contents

Photocopied typescript of the poems in the book, with a title page dated 1979. The poems bear dates between 1972 and 1979. With two sheets of manuscript notes in the hand of John Welch, one apparently not relating to 'Hotel Zingo'.

Dates: 1979
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

David Chaloner, 'Today Backwards' and related papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10023
Scope and Contents David Chaloner, 'Today Backwards', a gathering of typescript poems (some with manuscript anotations and deletions) published in Chaloner's book of that title, with title page and colophon, and with three further poems and 'Today Backward' (sic) printed in 'Vanessa Poetry Magazine', No. 2. The poems are dated in typescript with dates between 1972 and 1975. With a copy of 'Vanessa Poetry Magazine', No. 2; John James, 'Variations on "Today Backwards"', duplicated typescript; a pasted-up typeset...
Dates: 1969-1980
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

David Lewis: Poems

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6226-6227
Scope and Contents

Two volumes of poems, some printed. Includes 'The Knaresborough Election', a poem in two parts, in second volume.

Dates: 1798-1810
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Denise Riley Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10087
Scope and Contents

Literary papers and correspondence of Denise Riley, consisting chiefly of letters and texts sent to Riley and a small selection of her (mainly earlier) poetry and critical/academic writing.

Dates: 1966-2015
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Desmond King-Hele: papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS King-Hele
Scope and Contents The collection comprises professional correspondence with scientists, publishers and colleagues in Britain and abroad, papers relating to King-Hele's career at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), particularly research into satellite orbits and observations of the Sputnik satellites in the late 1950s, committee papers, draft versions of various publications, literary and scientific, and papers relating to lectures, conferences and events. The collection covers all of King-Hele's...
Dates: 1945 - 2003
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

E. Du Faur: Translations of Gui Du Faur's Quatrains de Pibrac

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5715
Scope and Contents Typescript of Gui Du Faur's Quatrains de Pibrac, translated into English by E. Du Faur in 1907 from the original text, 78 folios: (fo. i) title page; (fo. i) 'Introductory and Historical', in English; (fo. viiv) the main text: each quatrain is transcribed in French from the printed text and is followed by its English translation; (fo. 64) 'L'Envoi' by the translator, in English; (fo. 66) notes and glossary. The versos are mostly blank. Inside the front cover is a letter from H. Montagu...
Dates: 1907-1913
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Edmund Blunden: Two poems

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8523
Scope and Contents

'Fresh thought on an old poem' and 'To Diana', holograph poems signed by Edmund Blunden.

Dates: 1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Edward Byles Cowell: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1810-1903
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Edward Byles Cowell: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4193, 4195-4199, 4201-4204
Scope and Contents

Ethical and theological extracts and notes, lecture notes on 'mental philosophy,' welsh poetry and Michaelangelo's sonnets, both translated into English.

Dates: 1855-1856
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Edward Dent: Letters to him

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973
Scope and Contents The collection consists almost exclusively of letters received by Dent between 1914 and 1918, and probably sorted and weeded by him subsequently. Several letters have been endorsed by Dent with identifications and comments, and he has also supplied biographical notes on most of the correspondents, although these are not always reliable. The letters reflect Dent's heavy involvement in the teaching of music in Cambridge during the First World War, and his work on the translation of hitherto...
Dates: 1950 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Edward Henry Blakeney and family: Correspondence and Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8553
Scope and Contents Comprises family correspondence of the Blakeney family, including letters of William Blakeney RN, who worked in the cartographic section of the Admiralty, Robert 'Bertie' Blakeney and Edward Henry Blakeney. The correspondence has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct quotation. The catalogue has retained original historic language that may be offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. In order to reflect the original context of creation, such historic...
Dates: 1858-1975 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Edward Henry Blakeney: Poetry and Letters

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7504-7509
Dates: 1885-1952
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 File

Eighteenth-Century Poems

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6985
Scope and Contents Poems, possibly in the hand of Haydock Morres, 339 folios. There are several corrections and additions in a second hand. There is an index of first lines at fo. i v, and a list of contents at fo. 1. The verso is blank throughout, apart from occasional notes and additions. The names George Stone, H.M. Morres, 'Honest Will. Burke', Hervey Morres, and Henrietta Percival appear in the MS., written in eighteenth-century hands. The name and stamp of Haydock Morres (fo. 309: of 'Derry Park') also...
Dates: 1700-1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Eighteenth-Century Political and Other Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6342
Scope and Contents Political papers, verses, and other miscellaneous material, 160 folios. (Fo. 1) Three drafts of a memorandum or treatise on political and social reform in France, in French, dated 1780-1783, 1788 and September 1789. The concluding section and index are at fos 82-83. (Fo. 84) Copy of Capitulations agreed between England and Turkey, in Italian, 1675. (Fo. 94) Portions of a treatise on conchology, by an English writer, in Italian. (fo. 143) [Jacques] Montet, 'Observations sur les Castors qu'on...
Dates: 1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Frances Cornford and Margaret Irwin: correspondence, verse and related items

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10404
Scope and Contents A copy of Frances Cornford, 'Collected Poems' (London: The Cresset Press, 1954), formerly belongong to Margaret Irwin ('Peg Monsell'), bearing a manuscript dedication by Cornford, 30 August 1954, and annotations in Irwin's hand. With related items, formerly found inserted, comprising three letters and a postcard from Cornford to Irwin, [1956]-[1957] and undated; 'P.S. to "Childhood", p.79 of Frances Cornford's "Collected Poems". Answer to last 2 lines' (verse), by Irwin, October 1956; letter...
Dates: 1954-1960 and undated
 Fonds

Frances Cornford Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10410
Scope and Contents Papers of the Cornford family, principally of the poet Frances Crofts Cornford. The collection includes letters to Francis Darwin from his second wife Ellen Wordsworth Crofts; letters to and from Frances Crofts Cornford and her husband Francis Macdonald Cornford; poems by Frances Crofts Cornford; notes on their children by Frances Crofts Cornford and Francis Macdonald Cornford; drafts of Frances Crofts Cornford's memoir of her husband; and correspondence of later generations of Cornford...
Dates: 1876-1992 and undated
 Fonds

Francisco Xavier Alegre: 'Arte poetica de M. Boileau'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10424
Scope and Contents

A translation into Castilian verse by Francisco Xavier Alegre of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, 'L'Art Poétique', with a dedicatory epistle to a disciple of the translator.

Dates: c. 1780
 Fonds

Gabriel Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: Fluctuations

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8403
Scope and Contents

A photocopy of typescript poems, some of which are dated, 88 pages. There is a explanatory note at the beginning by Muhammad Asfour, Cambridge, 29 August 1982: 'The following poems are the major part of those written by Jabra in English. The text was prepared from the author's typescript, and incorporates all his alterations.'

Dates: 1982
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

George Crabbe: Notebooks, catalogue of his library and literary compositions

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4422-4426
Dates: 1812-1826
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

George Stanhope: Commonplace Book

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6339
Scope and Contents

Comprises various pieces of verse by Stanhope and contemporary writers and brief prose accounts of the lives of certain of the apostles and evangelists. Written during his residence at King's College.

Dates: 1680-1686 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 Fonds

Giacomo Leopardi: Letters

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6210
Scope and Contents

Recipients are: Cancellieri (5), Capurro, Monsignor Zacchia, G. Melchiorri (8), A.F. Stella (5), Monaldo Leopardi (4), Paolina, Count Muzzarelli (2), Professor Giovanni Rosini (6), Count Valdrighi and Feliciano Niccolini. On fo. 36 is a sheet of notes in Leopardi's hand, headed Crestomatia I. On fos 51-52 are two autograph letters of Paolina Leopardi.

Dates: 1816-1834
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
 File

Giorgio Baffo: Poesia fisico-naturale

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6873
Scope and Contents

Written in the hand of P. C. Montchaussé, 212 folios.

Dates: 1792
Conditions Governing Access: 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).
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6

Filtered By

  • ARCHON code (for CUL materials): Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) X
  • Subject: Poetry X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Poetry 132
Literature 6
Fiction 5
Poems 5
Drama 4
∨ more  
Language
English 132
Chinese 1
French 1
German 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967 (poet and author) 6
Cowell, Edward Byles, 1826-1903 (orientalist) 5
University of Cambridge 5
Keynes, Sir Geoffrey Langdon, 1887-1982 (Knight, surgeon and bibliophile) 4
Blake, William, 1757-1827 (engraver, artist, and poet) 3
∨ more
Donne, John, 1572-1631 (poet and Church of England clergyman) 3
Housman, Alfred Edward, 1859-1936 (poet) 3
Blakeney, Edward Henry, 1869-1955 (classical scholar and poet) 2
Byron, George Gordon, 1788-1824 (6th Baron Byron, poet) 2
Chaloner, David, 1944-2010 (poet and designer) 2
Clare, John, 1793-1864 (poet, farm labourer and naturalist) 2
Cornford, Francis Crofts, 1886-1960 (poet) 2
Many Press 2
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (poet) 2
Silk, Dennis Raoul Whitehall, 1931-2019 (schoolmaster and cricketer) 2
Stevenson, Anne, 1933-2020 (poet) 2
Welch, John Hope, 1942- (poet, publisher and teacher) 2
Alberoni, Giulio, 1664-1752 (Cardinal) 1
Alegre, Francisco Xavier, 1729-1788 (translator and historian) 1
Armitage, David Richard, 1965- (historian) 1
Association of Cambridge Poetry Societies 1
Bacon, Mary Anne, fl 1842 (musician) 1
Baffo, Giorgio, 1694-1768 (poet) 1
Barker, Thomas, 1693-1774 (rector) 1
Barnett, Anthony Peter John, 1941- (poet and publisher) 1
Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849 (poet) 1
Bayley, Peter, 1778-1823 (poet) 1
Beattie, James, 1735-1803 (poet) 1
Benson, George Frederick Percy, 1911-1983 (actor) 1
Benson, Robert Hugh, 1871-1914 (Roman Catholic priest and writer) 1
Benson, Stella, 1892-1933 (writer) 1
Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823 (poet) 1
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (poet) 1
Blythe, Ronald George, 1922-2023 (Poet and Writer) 1
Bowring, Sir John, 1792-1872 (Knight, diplomat and politician) 1
Brankovic, Bola D., b. 1959 (author, poet and playwright) 1
Bunting, William Maclardie, 1805-1866 (Wesleyan minister) 1
Cambridge Poetry Society 1
Camões, José António, 1777-1827 (poet) 1
Carpenter, Peter Stephen D'Arcy, b. 1957 (writer and publisher) 1
Cavaliero, Glen Tilburn, 1927-2019 (poet, critic and university teacher) 1
Chernaik, Judith Sheffield, b. 1934 (Writer and Academic) 1
Clark, John Willis, 1833-1910 (Cambridge University registrary) 1
Colvil, Samuel, fl.1687-1707 (poet) 1
Cookson, William, 1939-2003 (editor and poet) 1
Copland, Robert, fl 1508-1547 1
Cornford, Francis Macdonald, 1874-1943 (classical scholar and poet) 1
Cotton, John Daniel, fl 1748 1
Cowper, William, 1731-1800 (poet) 1
Crabbe, George, 1754-1832 (poet and Church of England clergyman) 1
Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 (physician, botanist and poet) 1
Dent, Edward Joseph, 1876-1957 (Professor of Music) 1
Dopping, Anthony, 1643-1697 (Church of Ireland bishop of Meath) 1
Driver, Henry Austin, 1790-1862 (stationer and poet) 1
Enright, Dennis Joseph, 1920-2002 (poet and author) 1
Fane, Mildmay, 1602-1666 (2nd Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer) 1
Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797 (literary scholar and college head) 1
Farrar, John, 1802-1884 (Wesleyan Methodist minister and biblical scholar) 1
Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719 (astronomer) 1
Friend, Ian, b. 1951 (artist) 1
Galt, John, 1779-1839 (novelist) 1
Goodland, John Harold, 1919-1978 (poet and environmental campaigner) 1
Goodridge, John, b. 1953 (academic and editor) 1
Green, Paul, b 1947 (poet, publisher and bookseller) 1
Gunn, Thomson William, 1929-2004 (poet and critic) 1
Hannah, John, 1792-1867 (Wesleyan Methodist minister) 1
Hartwell, Abraham, ? 1541-1585 (Latin poet and translator) 1
Harwood, Travers Rafe Lee, 1939-2015 (poet) 1
Hassall, Christopher Vernon, 1912-1963 (writer and librettist) 1
Hewitt, William Graily, 1864-1952 (calligrapher and illuminator) 1
Hey family 1
Hey, John, 1734-1815 (divine) 1
Hey, Richard, 1745-1835 (author and lawyer) 1
Hilton, Arthur Jeremy, b 1945 (writer and social worker) 1
Hughes, Peter, b 1956 (poet) 1
Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (social reformer and children's writer) 1
Irwin, Margaret Emma Faith, 1889-1967 (writer) 1
Jabra, Gabriel Jabra Ibrahim, 1940- 1
James, Martha, fl 1800 1
John Clare Society 1
Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944 (calligrapher and designer) 1
Keynes, Geoffrey Langdon, Sir, 1887 - 1982 (Knight, surgeon and bibliophile) 1
King, Henry, 1592-1669 (poet and Bishop of Chichester) 1
King-Hele, Desmond George, 1927-2019 (physicist and author) 1
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 (Canon of Westminster and author) 1
Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, 1865-1936 (author) 1
Knight, Samuel, 1677-1746 (Church of England clergyman and antiquary) 1
Lach-Szyrma, Krystyn, 1790-1866 (philosopher) 1
Larkin, Peter, b. 1946 (poet and publisher) 1
Leighton, Angela, b. 1954 (poet and academic) 1
Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837 (poet) 1
Ludford, John, fl 1739 1
Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes, 1821-1911 (barrister) 1
Mackay, George, fl 1814 1
Maxwell, James, fl 1902 (poet) 1
Milch, Werner J., 1903-1950 (Germanist and literary historian) 1
Moore, George Edward, 1873-1958 (philosopher) 1
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 (poet) 1
Morrell, Lady Ottoline Violet Anne, 1873-1938 (née Cavendish-Bentinck, hostess and literary patron) 1
Morris, William, 1834-1896 (poet, artist and socialist) 1
+ ∧ less