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George Hull Bowers, Dean of Manchester: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8862
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers to Bowers as Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden, especially from the patron, the Duke of Bedford; letters and papers about the foundation of Marlborough College; letters and papers to Bowers as Dean of Manchester, especially about the Manchester Parish Division Act, 1850; and papers on education, including a scheme for increasing the revenues of Rossall School, 1860. [1] Personal papers, including documents on Bowers' appointment to the Covent Garden Church; commonplace...
Dates:
1800-1932 (Circa)
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File
George Jeffreys, Baron Jeffreys: Address to delegates of the University of Cambridge in the matter of Alban Francis
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2717.3
Dates:
12 May 1687
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George Kingsley Roth and Adolf Brewster Brewster: Papers on Fiji
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8780
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises G.K. Roth's subject files on Fijian affairs, culture, history, sociology and administration. Some of the material is in Fijian. The subject files have been recorded as found [i.e. transcribed directly from the covers of the files]. The terms 'native', 'natives' and 'native administration', as used by Roth in his capacity as a colonial administrator to refer to Fijian people and the structure of colonial government, have been retained in their original context....
Dates:
1870-1957 (Circa)
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George Lennox Sharman Shackle: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7669
Scope and Contents
The collection is divided into two main sections - writings and correspondence. The writings are comprised of preliminary jottings and drafts, longhand fair copy of final texts; correspondence with publishers; final printed texts; and reviews and articles mentioning Shackle's works. The papers have been arranged by category (books, articles, reviews, etc.) and chronologically within each section. The correspondence consists mainly of letters to Shackle from other academic economists, from...
Dates:
1933-1992
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George Lennox Sharman Shackle to Henry M. Boettinger: Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8817
Scope and Contents
Letters from George Shackle to Henry M. Boettinger, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York, retired to Cornwall, on their respective work, writings and lectures. The letters cover economics, business and the philosophy of science.
Dates:
1967-1989
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George Maclaren, Naval surgeon: Journals
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9528
Scope and Contents
George Maclaren (fl.1810-37) served as a naval surgeon with the Royal Navy during the 1830s. He wrote two journals which provide detailed descriptions of the places that he visited, with some comments on his medical work as an assistant surgeon and a regular record of temperatures. The first journal covers the period Dec. 1831 - Jun. 1835, during which time he served on board 'HMS Magicienne' in the East Indies [Malay Archipelago]. Upon his return to Portsmouth in Mar. 1835 he qualified as a...
Dates:
1831-1837
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George Noble: Elements of Navigation
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8914
Scope and Contents
Elements of navigation, containing solutions to the main navigational problems, many illustrated with geometric diagrams. It was apparently compiled by George Noble (wrongly called Sir George Noble), and has annotations showing its descent in the Heath family to 1900. There is an annotation 'Mr Geo Heath Stella Brewery' (Stella, Blaydon, Co. Durham), and a page of verse and a health in honour of 'Milbank' (Sir Ralph Milbanke, M.P. for County Durham 1790-1812).
Dates:
1694
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George Nuttall: Notes on ticks and parasites
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9933
Dates:
c.1919-1936
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George Owen: Transcripts of deeds concerning Kemeys, Pembrokeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3032
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts of: (fo. 6) agreement between Nicholas Fitz Martin, lord of Kemeis, and the free men of Kemeis, both English and Welsh, 1278; (fos 8-9v) exemplification by Richard II, 1378, of award by the council in suit brought by Nicholas de Audeley, reciting various docs; (fos 10-12v) exemplification by Elizabeth I, 14 June 1580, at request of William Gwynne, of inquisitions and other docs re Kemeys, 18 Edward II - 10 Henry IV; (fos 14-15) exemplification by Elizabeth I, 1 Dec....
Dates:
1610-1613
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George Parker Bidder: bills, receipts and miscellaneous letters 1880-1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7900
Dates:
1880-1934
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George Parker Bidder (three generations): papers and photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10163
Scope and Contents
Photographs of George Parker Bidder I, II, and III, George Parker Bidder III's children and their families, and the Bidder family homes. Draft versions of books on both the family history (believed unpublished), and a book on George Parker Bidder I (published, held in the UL). Also, a small number of papers, mainly relating to the grandchildren of George Parker Bidder III.
Dates:
1800 - 2000
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George Parker Bidder: Undergraduate notes on morphology and comparative anatomy
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9917
Dates:
1882-1886
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George Pigott: Collection of instrumental music
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9471
Scope and Contents
A volume of arrangements of music for instruments, apparently by George Pigott, about whom little is known. Pigott published a few instrumental arrangements, mostly in London, between c.1830 and 1849. Â1 volume, in the same hand throughout, music written from both front and back of the volume. Inside front board, trade label of 'I.C. Flack, Music Binder, No. 40 Maiden Lane, Cov[en]t Gard[e]n', who presumably supplied the volume, with printed staves. [fo. 1] C.J. Hirscher[?], Military...
Dates:
1810-1850 (Circa)
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George Ramsay, 12th Earl of Dalhousie: Naval Notebooks, South America Station
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9278
Scope and Contents
Notebooks describing actions during the war between Brazil and Paraguay, relations with South American peoples, Portugal, Brazil, France, and Spain; Ramsay's visit to Falkland Islands; and his views on politics, the Navy, and world events. The first volume covers 8 June 1866-3 May 1868; the second 4 May 1868-31 May 1869.
Dates:
8 June 1866-31 May 1869
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George Robert Crotch: Letters to Emily Coulden
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5713
Scope and Contents
Letters from G.R. Crotch to Emily Coulden, 1 November 1872 - 8 June 1874, transcribed by the recipient, c. 1874. There are also copies in Coulden's hand of two letters from Mrs Lesley to Coulden, 8 and 23 June 1874, fos 28 and 29. At fos i-v are Coulden's notice of Crotch, and, at the end, a letter from Edward W. Janson to John Willis Clark, 12 February 1875. There are 20 items in total, comprising 35 folios.
Dates:
1872-1875
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George Robert Graham Conway: Transcripts from National Archives of Mexico
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7226-7306
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of volumes of Inquisition Records from the National Archives of Mexico. The majority of the transcripts concern legal suits and trials. There is also material describing the family and descendants of particular individuals, including Juan Suarez Davila and Diego Suarez Pacheco, 1529-1588; Martin Lopez and Geronimo Lopez; Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano and his son, Don Carlos, 1559-1611; Don Tristan de Arellano, 1575-1634; Rodrigo de Vivero, 1597-1673; and Don Rodrigo de Vivero,...
Dates:
1923-1943
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George Salt, calligraphy: Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9561
Scope and Contents
Calligraphic MS on paper, extracts from Bede, Ecclesiastical history, Book IV, chapter 23, on the life and death of Abbess Hilda. Fo. 2v, illumination, gilt and colour, Hilda with some monks; fo. 3r., illuminated title heading; some other illuminated initials, with gilding, some unfinished; dialogue in blue, red and green inks. Bound by CUL, 1999. Some leaves of sketches, notes, and designs, bound separately.
Dates:
1943
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File
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax: Character of a Trimmer
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6010
Scope and Contents
124 folios: (fo. 2) title-page with scribblings and a 19th century note attributing the authorship to Sir Wm Coventry; (fo. 3) preface; (fo. 9) text. There is no indication whether this is an autograph copy of Savile's work or otherwise.
Dates:
1684
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George Stanhope: Commonplace Book
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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)
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George Stuart Graham-Smith: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10151
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes on medicine and history of medicine, reports on diphtheria outbreaks and medical related photographs and drawings.
Dates:
1889-1947
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George Wallich: Stereoscopic vision penetration with the microscope
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9946
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of article published in Nature.
Dates:
1884
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George William Lemon: Translation of The Death of Abel
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9232
Scope and Contents
The death of Abel; in five books. Attempted in blank-verse, by G.W. Lemon, junr. Der Tod Abels (1758), Lemon's volume comprises his translation of Salomon Gessner's The death of Abel (pp.1-53), with a Preface (pp.53-55). Running from the back of the volume there are also theological treatise by Timothy Bennet, 1720, 'Of divinity', 'Of the scriptures', 'Of God', 'Of predestination', etc. (pp.1-73); and The death of Abel, Addenda (pp.1-3).
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
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George Wilson Meadley: Annotated 'Memoirs of William Paley'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8951
Scope and Contents
Copy of the first edition of Memoirs of William Paley, interleaved and annotated in pen and pencil with supplementary information from several sources, including 'F' [William Frend], 'Quarterly Review' and 'Lambert'. Loose letters and papers: copy letters, Meadley to Earl Grey, and reply, 1818, on toleration for Roman Catholics and Dissenters; Francis Huish to Trevilian, c.1808; S. Hodgson to Meadley, 1809; J.K. Lewis to Miss Meadley, undated, used by Meadley for drafts of his memoir; and...
Dates:
1808-1831 (Circa)
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German architectural sketchbook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8929
Scope and Contents
Sketchbook of an unidentified German architect, containing around 130 sketches of neo-classical buildings in Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow) and Germany (including Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, and Husum and Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein). There are sketches of houses, churches, monuments, and details, with some designs by the architect himself. The sketches are in pencil, with some heightened in ink. Nos. 1-114 are listed and described in German in an index at the back of the volume.
Dates:
1822-1824 (Circa)
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German Business Accounts used as Book Bindings
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9254
Scope and Contents
26 sheets of miscellaneous pages from German business accounts and other documents, c.1600-60, cut to uniform size and used in book bindings. There are also 5 parchment scraps from a possibly 15th century service book, some with traces of an illuminated initial, removed from book bindings by Jack Lunzer, 1982.
Dates:
1401-1660 (Circa)
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