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Gabriel Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: Fluctuations
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.'
Gaetano Luigi Marini: Historical Memoirs of the Archives of the Holy See
Translated by Robert Charles Jenkins, 41 folios: (fo. i) title page; (fo. ii) translator's preface; (fo. 1) text; (fo. 36) note by Hartwell D. Grissell; (fo. 1) 'Hartwell D. Grissell Esqre with the translator's kind Regards'.
Gaillard de Boëncourt: Voyage des Françoises en Pologne
'Voyage des Françoises en Pologne', 68 folios: (fo. 2) title; (fo. 3) dedication to L.F. de P. le Fèvre d'Ormesson de Noyseau (Avocat General du Parlement); (fo. 6) preface; (fo. 11) text with occasional footnotes; (fo. 64) list of contents. The binding has the arms of Le Fèvre d'Ormesson.
Gaillard Lapsley: Cambridge Lectures on America
Lectures on America, 1916-18, including 'Impressions of America' and 'America and the war'; printed 'Timetable of the summer meeting to be held at Cambridge, August 1-13, 1918', Lapsley's introductory lecture, and a MS of the introduction to The America of today.
Gallery of Canadian history
Prints of paintings from Confederation Life's Gallery and Archives, spanning 450 years of Canada's history and including significant events in each province and territory, and in the country as a whole. Below each image is a short description in both English and French.
Gallipoli watercolours
Gallus: Der Spiegel Jungfraw Marien von der erlösung menschliches geschleches
From the Augustinian House at Speyer.
Game of Zodiac: Directions
Directions on how to play an astronomical game for children called Zodiac, for the most part in verse, 19 folios. A letter is pasted to fo. 19 to an undesignated addressee from J. Wallis [publisher], Strand, 16 April 1808. On fo. 1 is the title 'The Zodiac', beneath which in another hand is written the date 1804. The correct date is not earlier than 1809, as is shown by the watermark. Inside the front cover appear the bookplate and signature of D.W. Smith.
Gaol keeper's agreement, Oxford
Agreement between William Pope esq, sheriff of Oxfordshire, and John Bagwell, 'yoman Gaioler and keeper of her majestys common Gaiole of the sayd Countye of Oxford', detailing Bagwell's duties and responsibilities. Includes several clauses regulating the movement of prisoners and the restraint of recusants. Indenture, 2 pages, signed and sealed by Bagwell, witnessed by George Blynco, John Bankes, William Kirkby, W Cole, and Geffraye Cooke (?). Numerous alterations.
Garden party at Old Government House, Cape Coast, March 10th 1916
Gardening diary kept by members of the Darwin family at the Mount, Shrewsbury
Garnett: The Papers of Angelica Garnett (nee Bell)
This small collection comprises both correspondence donated by Angelica Garnett and selected papers. The most substantial part of the collection is the correspondence, comprising several letters exchanged with Angelica's mother, Vanessa Bell, as well as the correspondence between Angelica Garnett and her husband David. The selected papers consist of a few items, primarily memoirs, by Angelica Garnett and members of her family circle.
Garth Fowden: Slides of religious sites
Ancient and medieval monuments, rural landscapes and urban fabrics in Mediterranean and west Asia. Including Syria, Yemen, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, western and central Iran, Jordan, and Morocco.
Gary W. Clendennen, 'A Livingstone Potpourri: 1842, 1850, 1851, 1858-59, 1861'
Self-published volume. One of eight printed copies, this is number three, and is inscribed by the author 'For the Cambridge University Library, with respect for Donald Simpson [former RCS librarian]'. The contents of the volume are a collection of articles derived from Clendennen's research into David Livingstone as part of the David Livingstone Documentation Project, 1974-9, and in the course of his career as outlined in the introduction to the volume.
Gavin Burns Henderson: Research notes and transcripts
Notes and transcripts of documents conerning European diplomacy in the 1850snineteenth century.
Gavin Burns Henderson: Transcripts and research material
Transcripts and related research material concerning European diplomacy in the 1850s.
Gazetteer of England and Wales
MS gazetteer of places in England and Wales, in an early 19th century hand, with later loose and bound additions. It includes historical and architectural notes on churches and castles, and detailed accounts of battles. The writer of the main gazetteer seems to have re-used an envelope addressed to 'Miss Maxwell...Harley Street' (1830), and there are notes in another hand on a letter to the Countess of Buchan (1857). c.360pp.
G.B. Kettle collection on East Africa 1921-1935
G.D. Pepys Whiteley: Collected letters of Stanley Baldwin and related material
Gee : some strictures of the life of Dr Joseph Beaumont.
Genealogical table of the House of Hanover
Covers seven generations from the Electress Sophia to the Princess Charlotte. With copy of letter from Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, to the University of Cambridge, upon his election to the chancellorship of the University, 3 Apr. 1811.
Genealogies and histories of Fiji tribes
'Genealogies and histories of the Matanitu or tribal governments of Central Vitu Levu (Great Fiji)', 141 pages. The volume contains notes on the genealogies of Fiji's peoples, translated by Brewster from written and oral sources, and a strip of photographs of four generations of the Royal Line of Mbau.
Genealogies of English Kings and Nobility
Arms of British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman English and British Kings, nobility and gentry.
Genealogy heraldry, English noble families, 11th century to 16th century
General C.R. de Wet at Norvalspont concentration camp
Loose prints measuring approximately 160 x 115 mm with captions which have been recorded as found. These are modern prints from two glass negatives. The prints record a visit made by General Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (1854-1922) to the British concentration camp at Norvalspont, presumably shortly after the Second South African War.