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Hugh Eveyln-White: Horae ad usum Sarum

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6972-6973
Scope and Contents

Translation of the printed edition of Horae ad usum Sarum (F. Regnault, Paris, 1526). The translation was intended for publication. Most of the text is copied, the text and translation appearing on alternate leaves. A letter from K.V. Evelyn-White is attached to the flyleaf. The verso is blank throughout. Each volume has 518 folios.

Dates: 1920 (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).
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Humphrey Jennings Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10097
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the academic and literary papers of Humphrey Jennings, for the most part dating to his time as a postgraduate researcher at Cambridge in the early 1930s. The papers consist of draft writings and notes on Thomas Gray, the main focus of Jennings's research, and on other areas of research interest including plagiarism and literary borrowings, Christopher Marlowe's 'Tamburlaine' and Renaissance literature. The papers include material gathered by Jennings for his...
Dates: 1929-late 20th century; bulk 1929-1939
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).
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Johannes Fredericus Gronovius: Phraseologia Liviana

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6414
Scope and Contents

A collection of phrases found in the works of Livy arranged in alphabetical order and followed by references, 112 folios. The original entries were written for the most part on the recto and verso of alternate leaves. A second hand has added in the intervening spaces a number of additional entries. On fo. 1 are the words 'Biblioteca Iliantariana MSS p. 48'.

Dates: 1678-1679 (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).
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Lehmann: The Papers of Rosamond Nina Lehmann

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/RNL
Scope and Contents This collection contains manuscripts and typescripts of Rosamond Lehmann's writings, ranging from her childhood stories to drafts of her later prose. Poetry and memoirs appear in the collection. It includes reviews of many of her novels by other individuals, and published articles about her life. The correspondence is extensive and diverse. It contains many of Rosamond Lehmann's own letters to friends and family, notably to her mother and children. Letters sent to her from distinguished...
Dates: 1860 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access: Some of the papers are reserved and may not be consulted by readers.
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Letters from Krystyn Lach-Szyrma to Sir John Bowring

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7666
Scope and Contents

Nine letters, written from Edinburgh, Warsaw and Devonport (and possibly elsewhere), some concerning the publication of Polish poetry. One letter is accompanied by a ballad by Lach-Szyrma, in English, titled 'A Child at his Mother's Tomb'.

Dates: 1823-1864 (bulk 1820s)
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).
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Mary Soames Associated Material

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL AS
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to Mary Soames, from other sources.

Dates: 1965 - 2012
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Montague Rhodes James: Sermons, Lectures and Addresses

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7484-7485
Dates: 1887-1935 (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).
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Oscar Browning: Life of George Eliot

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6442
Scope and Contents

Chapters I-IV of Oscar Browning's Life of George Eliot, 199 folios.

Dates: 1889
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).
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Our Own Magazine

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6232
Scope and Contents

Vol. 2, 1867.

Dates: 1867
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).
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Papers of Siegfried Sassoon

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852
Scope and Contents The Papers of Siegfried Sassoon comprise a magnificent collection documenting his life, wartime experiences and extensive literary career. The collection was purchased by the Library in 2009 from the executors of his son, George. Arranged in twelve series, it includes Sassoon’s personal diaries, poetry notebooks, drafts of literary works and autobiographies, correspondence, press cuttings and photographs. Sassoon was a dedicated diarist and the first series comprises 46 journals...
Dates: 1897-2000 (bulk:1897-1967)
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).
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Partridge: The Papers of Frances Catherine Partridge

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCP
Scope and Contents This collection contains typescript and manuscript diaries, lectures, philosophy notes, correspondence, photographs, printed copies of book reviews, articles and obituaries. Many of the diaries exist only in typescript form, but in later years the only copies are in manuscript. Letters to her husband, Ralph Partridge, are included in this collection. In addition to her own photograph albums, there are two albums which belonged to Dora Carrington and two which belonged to Lytton Strachey,...
Dates: 1905 - 2004
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Peaceful Villa

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5992
Scope and Contents

Mrs J[ ]s R[ ]n, 'Peaceful Villa', an unprinted romance in the form of letters, 128 folios.

Dates: 1784
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).
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Peter Carpenter Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10468
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Peter Carpenter.

Dates: 1978-2006 and undated
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Peter Larkin: Literary correspondence

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10432
Scope and Contents

The principal topics of the letters are responses to Larkin's poetry, or to material by the correspondents or others published by Prest Roots Press.

Dates: 1985-2018
Conditions Governing Access: The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (2018) apply to access. With this prociso, 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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Richard Shilleto: Classical Notebook

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6598
Scope and Contents

Notes on Plato and Aristophanes by R. Shilleto, 83 folios: (fo. 2) Plato's Protagoras; (fo. 12) Phraedrus; (fo. 32) Lysis; (fo. 40) Meno. Beginning at the end of book and written inversely are notes on Aristophanes' Wasps. The original paper cover with the inscription 'R. Shilleto, Trin: Coll: Cambridge' has been pasted inside the front cover.

Dates: 1840-1850 (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).
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Scott Collection

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Scott (James)
Scope and Contents

The collection includes palm leaf manuscripts in Burmese and Lao Tham scripts, Burmese, Shan and Lao folding books, Shan manuscripts on silk paper, Chinese documents, letters and maps and ephemera collected by Scott during his time in the Far East. Also included are reports and correspondence relating to Scott's administrative duties in Burma.

Dates: 1750-1910 (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).
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Spectacular Diseases Archive

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10238
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, texts and related matreials, principally concerning publications under the Spectacular Diseases imprint. The collection includes letters from authors, translators and printers, and poetry and prose submitted and typeset for publication.

Dates: 1986-2015
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).
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Standish Hayes O'Grady: Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6472-6568
Scope and Contents

Poems, songs, verse, stories, historical notes, mainly concerning Ireland and of Irish origin.

Dates: 1701-1900 (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).
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Stella Benson: Diaries and Poems

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6762-6803
Scope and Contents

Diaries, poems and juvenilia

Dates: 1900-1933 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Originals unavailable. Microfilm copy to be used.
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The Papers of Air Vice-Marshal Stanley Vincent

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/VNCT
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of drafts for Vincent's autobiography, Flying Fever, with correspondence on its publication.

Dates: 1970-08 - 1972-08
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Angus Maude (Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon)

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MAUD
Scope and Contents

Personal, family, political and literary papers.

Dates: 1944 - 1994
Conditions Governing Access: Closed until catalogued
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The Papers of Cecil Roberts

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RBTS
Scope and Contents

Mainly comprising letters from writers and politicians including Winston Churchill, J. M. Barrie, Sir John Betjeman, Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham, Lord Halifax and Gerald Campbell. The majority of the correspondence is on literary topics. The collection also contains diaries of Cecil Roberts and his commonplace book from 1959-61 which are a source of information on contemporary society. In addition, there are numerous press cuttings and book reviews spanning Cecil Roberts' career.

Dates: 1911-76
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Claude Houghton

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7994-7997
Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence with and papers relating to Miss Marie Overton, manuscript and typescript novels and a bibliography of Houghton's works.

Dates: 1927 - 1960
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).
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The Papers of Correlli Barnett

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRNT
Scope and Contents This small collection mainly consists of Barnett's correspondence with Major-General Eric Dorman O'Gowan (formerly Dorman-Smith) for his research for The Desert Generals. The date range covered by the collection is 1958-1963. The collection largely comprises O'Gowan's side of the correspondence (although there are occasional copies of letters from Barnett). The correspondence is lively and detailed and covers O'Gowan's experiences during the desert war and arguments and events supporting his...
Dates: 1958 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Denis Kelly

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DEKE
Scope and Contents

The papers mainly consist of Kelly's recollections of his work for Churchill, in the form of memoirs and other papers, taped interviews, and in correspondence, particularly with Churchill's official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert. There is also a small amount of correspondence dating back to Kelly's time as Churchill's literary assistant and two volumes of Winston Churchill's, "The Second World War" heavily annotated by Kelly, presumably for his own abridged version of these volumes.

Dates: 1937 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. .
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Buckingham, Robert Joseph, 1904 - 1975 (policeman and friend of E M Forster) 1
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Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 (classical archaeologist) 1
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Deakin, Frederick William Dampier, Sir, 1913 - 2005 (Knight and literary assistant to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill) 1
Dent, Edward Joseph, 1876-1957 (Professor of Music) 1
Driver, Henry Austin, 1790-1862 (stationer and poet) 1
Edmonds, John Maxwell, 1875-1958 (classicist, poet and dramatist) 1
Eton College 1
Evans, Marian, 1819-1880 (novelist, pseudonym George Eliot) 1
Forster, Alice Clara, 1855 - 1945 1
Forster, Edward Morgan Llewellyn, 1847 - 1880 1
Forster, Edward Morgan, 1879 - 1970 (novelist) 1
Forster, Laura Mary, 1839 - 1924 1
Gilbert, Martin John, Sir, 1936 - 2015 (Knight, historian) 1
Giles, Peter, 1860-1935 (philologist) 1
Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar, 1886-1978 (Classical Scholar) 1
Green, Paul, b 1947 (poet, publisher and bookseller) 1
Gronovius, Johannes Fredericus, 1611-1671 (scholar) 1
Hemsterhuis, Tiberius, 1685-1766 (philologist and critic) 1
Hemsterhuys, Tiberius, 1685-1766 (philologist and critic) 1
James, Robert Vidal Rhodes, Sir (1933-1999, Knight, historian) 1
Jennings, Frank Humphrey Sinkler, 1907-1950 (film-maker, painter and writer) 1
Kant, Hermann, 1926-2016 (writer) 1
Kelly, Richard Denis Lucien, 1916 - 1990 (lawyer, assistant to Sir Winston Churchill) 1
Lach-Szyrma, Krystyn, 1790-1866 (philosopher) 1
Larkin, Peter, b. 1946 (poet and publisher) 1
Lascelles, Alan Frederick, Sir, 1887 - 1981 (Knight and Private Secretary to King George VI) 1
Lehmann, Rosamond Nina, 1901 - 1990 (wife of 2nd Baron Milford, novelist) 1
Leopardi, Giacomo, 1798-1837 (poet) 1
Lewin, George Ronald, 1914 - 1984 (military historian) 1
Moschus, Demetrius, fl c 1550 1
O'Conor, Minna, fl1865 - 1933 (Lady O'Conor) 1
O'Conor, Nicholas Roderick, Sir, 1843 - 1908 (Knight, diplomat) 1
O'Curry, Eugene, 1796-1862 (Irish scholar) 1
O'Gowan, Eric Edward, 1895 - 1969 (Major- General) 1
O'Grady, Standish Hayes, 1832-1915 (antiquarian) 1
Oldfield, Claude Houghton, 1889-1961 (author) 1
Overton, Marie Elizabeth, 1916-1967 (administrator and author) 1
Partridge, Frances Catherine, 1900 - 2004 (writer and literary journalist) 1
Partridge, Reginald Sherring, 1894 - 1960 (writer, known as Ralph) 1
Payne, Edward, fl 1867 (editor) 1
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 (poet) 1
Powell, John Enoch, 1912 - 1998 (politician and author) 1
Powys, John Cowper, 1872 - 1963 (writer) 1
Roberts, Cecil Edric Mornington, 1892 - 1976 (journalist) 1
Roskill, Stephen Wentworth, 1903 - 1982 (naval historian) 1
Royal Navy 1
Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967 (poet and author) 1
Schnitzler, Arthur, 1862-1931 (author) 1
Scholfield, Alwyn Faber, 1884-1969 (Cambridge University Librarian) 1
Scott, Sir James George, 1851-1935 (journalist and administrator in Burma) 1
Shilleto, Richard, 1809-1876 (classical scholar) 1
Smart, Elizabeth, 1913-1986 (writer) 1
Soames, Mary, Dame, 1922 - 2014 (née Churchill, writer, wife of Baron Soames) 1
Spectacular Diseases (publisher) 1
Sprott, Walter John Herbert, 1897 - 1971 (psychologist) 1
Steiner, Francis George, 1929 - 2020 (Professor of Comparative Literature, philosopher, critic) 1
Steiner, Frederick George, 1890 - 1968 (lawyer, international banking executive and investment advisor) 1
Steiner, Zara Alice Shakow, 1928 - 2020 (author and historian) 1
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, satirist) 1
Swinnerton, Frank Arthur, 1884-1982 (writer) 1
Thornton family 1
Thornton, Marianne, 1797 - 1887 1
Todd, James Henthorn, 1805-1869 (biblical scholar) 1
Vincent, Stanley Flamank, 1897 - 1976 (Air Vice-Marshal) 1
Waley, Arthur David, 1889 - 1966 (orientalist) 1
Whichelo family 1
White, Hugh Gerard Evelyn-, 1884-1924 (scholar) 1
Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, 1880-1964 (Knight, critic and scholar) 1
Williams, William, fl c 1800 (poet) 1
Worman, Ernest James, d 1909 (curator and cataloguer) 1
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