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Family papers of George Biddell Airy
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10450
Content Description
A set of Airy Family papers passed down through the family by Hilda Routh (née Airy), daughter of Astronomer Royal, George Biddell Airy.It includes a set of letters sent to Hida Routh on her honeymoon (from George, her mother Richarda, and sister Christabel Airy), newspaper cuttings primarily relating to George B. Airy, and miscellanea. It also includes three framed items: a photograph of George B. Airy on his 90th birthday and two lithographic prints showing Airy and the Airy...
Dates:
1860 - 1875
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Family Papers of George Biddell Airy
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10452
Content Description
A set of papers relating to George B. Airy and his family, particularly Wilfred Airy. Includes correspondence, obituaries of George Airy, items relating to the erection of an obelisk at Playford, miscellaneous historical papers, and a substantial set of family photographs.
Dates:
c.1812-1925; 1671
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Famous monuments of Central India
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022GGGG
Scope and Contents
Printed book by Sir Lepel Griffin illustrated with autotypes. The autotypes were of originals by Lala Deen Diyal and are mostly approximately 280 x 205 mm, the few which are smaller are so indicated.In his preface to this book, Griffin wrote: 'The present volume has been issued with the sole desire of placing, by the autotype process, on permanent record in public and private libraries, accurate representations of the more important architectural monuments of Central India, before...
Dates:
1886
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Farming opportunities in Mackay, Queensland
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085T
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs (mainly duplicates) measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm, and probably by P T Griffin. Consisting of thirteen different photographs and a mimeographed booklet concerning a cooperative dairy-farming scheme a few miles west of Mackay. The author of the booklet, having bought a tract of land, is attempting to attract investors from England who will go out to Australia and build up the area's productive capacity. A large part of the booklet is devoted to...
Dates:
1923
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Fausta de Jesus Maria: Poetical works
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8159
Dates:
1600-1700 (circa. 18th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Fausto Gibelli: Patent of nobility
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8139
Scope and Contents
The patent of nobility of Fausto Gibelli, including a coat of arms. On the front of the volume is written 'John Woodward Verona 1870'.
Dates:
1667
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Faviell Collection of Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka] Railway views, 1867
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A
Scope and Contents
Collection of albumen prints mounted on cards, mostly by Slinn and Co. (viz W.L.H. Skeen and Co.). Two of these photographs (of the Darporee viaduct) relate to Faviell's years in India and the remainder to the construction and opening of the Colombo-Kandy line.
Dates:
1851 - 1867
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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F.C. Wace: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7598-7599
Scope and Contents
Papers concerning Sir J.E. Gorst's parliamentary candidature for Cambridge University and also the Spinning House controversy.
Dates:
1891-1946
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Fear no more
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9858
Scope and Contents
Typescript anthology of poems published by Cambridge University Press Fear no more. A book of poems for the present time by living English poets (Cambridge, 1940) Contributions by Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender, C.S. Lewis, Walter de la Mare. Printer's T/S, with MS corrections, as incorporated into 1st edition text. With offprint of printed titlepage and introduction. From the Walter de la Mare collection bequeathed by Phyllis T.M. Davies, 1998.
Dates:
1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Fedor Emin: The way to salvation
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7563
Scope and Contents
A manuscript transcription of The way to salvation made from the printed edition, 519 pages, with four introductory pages, including an index.
Dates:
1784
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Felkin: The Papers of Arthur Elliott Felkin
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/AEF
Scope and Contents
The collection includes detailed journals recording his business and personal life, including sexual relationships, while working as a diplomat in Switzerland, China, India, and America; personal and business papers; correspondence with Kingsmen and literary figures including E.M. Forster, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, John Maynard Keynes, Raisley Moorsom, Margaret Jourdain and Ka Cox [Arnold-Forster]; photographs; Rugby School and Cambridge University examination papers; material relating to...
Dates:
1899 - 1956
Management Group
Fellows
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/F
Dates:
1528
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Fonds
Fellows' Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Accumulation: Majority of material found within 1550 - 2020
Found in:
Christ's College Archives
Management Group
Fellowship
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC03
Scope and Contents
For admissions to fellowships recorded alongside those of admissions of students see 04/O/4 following. Elections and admissions to fellowships are also recorded in the chapter books (CCCC01/C).
Dates:
1447 - 1910
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Fonds
'Femina Vie Heureuse Prize', English Committee: Minutes and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8900
Scope and Contents
Minutes, accounts, lists of books recommended and considered, letters from English and French committee members and prizewinners, and newscuttings. Letters from prizewinners: Percy Lubbock, Mary Webb (6), Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, H.M. Tomlinson, Charles Morgan (7), Stella Gibbons/Webb (4), Elizabeth Jenkins (2), L.H. Myers (2), Margaret Lane, Richard Church (2), and Robert Graves. Letters from French prizewinners: Joseph Kessel, François Mauriac, Marion Gilbert (2), étienne Burnet...
Dates:
1919-1940 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire: Indenture of bargain and sale
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3402
Scope and Contents
Sale by Henry Car[e]y esq, of Buckingham, to John Battysford, gent, of Chesterton, for £100, of the manor of Fen Drayton, with all his messuages, lands, fishings etc. there. Signed by 'Henry Carey'. Tag, seal wanting.
Dates:
1548
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Fenland Research Committee: Minute book, and papers of Sir Grahame Clark, Hon. Secretary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9426
Scope and Contents
The Fenland Research Committee was formed on the7th of June 1932 by 'archaeological workers, who sadly felt the lack of essential geological, botanical and zoological knowledge'. Delegates were sent by Cambridge Antiquarian Society (M.C. Burkitt, G. Fowler, T.C. Lethbridge) and the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia (Reid Moir and J.G.D. Clark), and they and several others formed the first committee. Sir Albert.C. Seward was President, J. Grahame D. Clark, secretary. The material is either...
Dates:
1932-1948
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Fenner Brockway Associated
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR AS
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Fenner Brockway, from other sources.
Dates:
1985 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Feoffment by deed poll, West Markham, Nottinghamshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4112
Scope and Contents
Richard Bradshaw/Anthony Tacy
Dates:
1662
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Feoffment, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3714
Scope and Contents
In consideration of an undisclosed sum, Robert Cason (or Cawsen) of Waldringfield, Suffolk, butcher, and his wife Isabel, daughter of the late Edmund Lambert of Cambridge, tailor, convey to John Harvie of Cambridge, draper their tenement in the parish of All Saints, Cambridge, formerly occupied by John Holstocke and now occupied by John Harrison, tailor. The property in question lies between the land of Robert Lane, alderman of Cambridge, to the south, and that of Richard Lambert (currently...
Dates:
16 Mar. 1569 (11 Elizabeth I)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Feoffment, Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3688
Scope and Contents
In consideration of an undisclosed sum, Thomas Kinge of Great Eversden, husbandman, conveys to his son Robert Kinge, of the same place, husbandman, an acre of arable land, with its appurtenances, currently occupied by Thomas, lying in the common fields of Great Eversden. One selion of this land extends for two furlongs and contains three rods. It lies in Whyte Hill furlong, between the lord of the manor's land and land of Warren Adam to the north, and the lord of the manor's land to the...
Dates:
29 Mar. 1578 (20 Elizabeth I)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Feoffment, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.950
Scope and Contents
Thomas Battey, labourer, of Haslingfield, and Jane his wife, for 5/- and other causes, have bargained, on feoffe and exchanged to Chris. Hall, wheelwright, and Ellen his wife 3 sellions of arable lying in Rowley Field, next to lands of Queens' Coll. S., the E. end abutting on Rongbrooke and the W. head upon land of Altham Smith, esq., which were purchased by Edward Battey, father of Thomas, from William Fuller 3rd Apr. 1657...To have and to hold...Signed by Thomas Batty and Jean Batty [sic],...
Dates:
26 May 1704
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Feoffment, [Oakington?], Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3717
Scope and Contents
In consideration of an undisclosed sum, Edmund Bendishe of Girton, gent, conveys to Francis Tindall of Cambridge, gent, his six and a half acres of arable and pasture in Okington, Cambridgeshire with 40 ft of meadow in Little Meadow, same place. The property is described in detail. Deed poll, signed by Bendishe, livery of seisin witnessed by Robert Bendish, William Bendishe, Thomas Prior, and William Leache. Seal wanting. Contemporary endorsement: 'Bendish to Tyndall / which he bought of /...
Dates:
17 Sep. 1602 (44 Elizabeth I)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Feoffment of Higham Hill, Cudham, Kent
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.766
Scope and Contents
William Whyffyn, husbandman, of Sundrysh, Kent, sells to his brother, Humfry Whuffyn, husbandman, of Cudham, for £40, Hyghams Hill, in the parish of Cudham, and all the ground pertaining thereto, commonly called Stonyhill [feild], [Petemaws?], Dudles, Westdeane, the three crofts called Water crofts, barne [feild] and Brockhill, with Brockhole hill ... Highams hill farme. Signed Willyam Whyffyn. On the back, signed etc. in the presence of Nicholas Pearsonne, clerk. Witnesses: Thomas Whyffyn...
Dates:
10 Apr. 1616
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Feoffment, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1084
Scope and Contents
Indenture between Thomas Bowyer, gent., of Swaffham Bulbeck, and Benjamin Barker, esq., of the same place. Witnesseth that for £15 pd. by Barker to Bowyer, the second Bowyer hath granted, enfeoffed to Barker 2 pieces of arable land, containing about 1 1/2 roods, in Swaffham Bulbeck, which Bowyer purchased of John Bradford and Elizabeth his wife the previous Aug. [1786]...To have and to hold unto the said B. Barker...Signed by Thomas Bowyer, with [his?] seal attached. Witnessed by Thomas Guy...
Dates:
1 Sep. 1786
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library