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Horatio Walpole: Papers on Irish wool smuggling
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8572
Dates:
1753-1755
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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Cambridge University Library
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Hortus Siccus
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8090
Scope and Contents
An annotated album of dried plants. There are three accompanying letters: from Erasmus Darwin, writing in the third person, to Mr Goodwin and Mr Ince, No. 40, Norfolk Street, Strand [15 June 1785?], announcing his arrival at Mr Wedgewood's, Great George Street; a letter from William Turner Thiselton Dyer, 8 April 1881, regarding 'the curious little herbarium'; and a letter to Nora [Barlow] from 'Edward', Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 5 December 1955, regarding James Jenkinson, writer on...
Dates:
1700-1799 (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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Cambridge University Library
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Fonds
House of Commons: Journal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7967
Scope and Contents
'Journal of the Commons, anno primo Caroli Regis', a manuscript transcript of two sessions, 6 February-25 March 1625 and 21 June-12 August 1625, 137 leaves. The volume has been misbound so that the second session comes first. The journal is written in at least three hands, and has corrections of scribal errors in a contemporary hand, as well as manuscript alterations and marginal instructions intended for a printer. A catalogue entry has been pasted in at the front of the volume.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Household accounts, apparently compiled for the court of Saxony
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2740.1
Scope and Contents
Mentions the names Radzivil and Torgan.
Dates:
1616-1628
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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Cambridge University Library
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Howe family of Woodbridge, Suffolk: Miscellaneous papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8278
Scope and Contents
The primary interest of this small collection lies in the connection of the Howe family with Edward Fitzgerald. During the decade before his death in June 1883, Fitzgerald lived at Little Grange outside Woodbridge, employing as housekeepers John Howe, a retired sailor (whom he had known since 1862), and his wife Mary Ann(e). The following documents concern this couple, their sons George Adams Howe and John Amos Howe, and Grace Howe, daughter of John Amos.The Howe family of...
Dates:
16 Aug. 1840-25 Apr. 1959 (19th century to 20th century)
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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Cambridge University Library
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Howell Wright South African Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305T
Scope and Contents
A set of photographs (glossy prints, 190 x 245 mm) of the Howell Wright Collection of Rhodesiana and South Africana as exhibited at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library prior to its presentation to the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University. The collection features pictures, maps, documents, etc., relating to Cecil Rhodes, Paul Kruger, Dr L.S. Jameson, Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, Barney Barnato, the Americans F.R. Burnham and J.H. Hammond, and others. The photographs show the display...
Dates:
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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Cambridge University Library
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Howorth family: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8676
Scope and Contents
Legal papers, pedigrees and other items relating to Thomas Howorth's title to the White-House estate, with original opinions of Francis Hargrave, Andrew Wright and Edmund Wigley.
Dates:
1787-1789 (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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Cambridge University Library
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H.R. Tickell, midshipman: Naval logbook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9494
Scope and Contents
H.R. Tickell was midshipman on battleships HMS Resolution (ex-Renown, renamed 1890) and HMS Empress of India (built 1892), both with the English Channel squadron, between January and August 1896. He then joined, as midshipman, HMS Talbot, commissioned in 1896. Tickell served with the Talbot on the West Indies Station, with the ship also visiting Halifax, New York and Montreal for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubileee celebrations in June 1897. The log ends with the Talbot's West Indies cruise of...
Dates:
1896-1898
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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Cambridge University Library
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H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HHHH
Scope and Contents
A book by John David Rees, with 'A Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore' by G.P. Sanderson. An account of the Indian Tour of 1889 by Prince Albert Victor (1864-1892) Duke of Clarence and Avondale, elder son of Edward Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. The book is illustrated with collotype portraits produced by the Autotype Company and photogravures by Dawsons Ph. Sc., eight of them arranged two to a page. The book is stored at RCS.A.22.
Dates:
1891
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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H.S.B. 'To the Kaieteur and back,' (printed for private circulation by Hatchards, London 1872)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3079C
Scope and Contents
A printed volume containing an account of a trip to the Kaieteur Falls in British Guiana, illustrated with twenty-one albumen prints measuring approximately 200 x 140 mm., with manuscript captions. As well as an account of the journey by H.S.B. the volume reprints the report of Charles B. Brown to the Geographical Society (dated July 1871) of the latter's trip to the falls. The prints show scenes on the river taken during the journey. The expedition of H.S.B. to the Kaieteur...
Dates:
1872
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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Hubert Houseman: Diary of tour to Tasmania Pacific
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9509
Scope and Contents
1 volume, bound in red leather: daily diary of his voyage and tour
Dates:
February 1913-October 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Hubert Michael Close: diaries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/Ms Add.7991
Scope and Contents
Diary entries include details of Close's friendships; his opinions of fellow pupils and undergraduates, and of schoolmasters and dons; accounts of cricket and rugger matches in which he took part; his activities with the OTC; the development of his Anglo-Catholicism; the books that he read; the concerts that he attended; the plays and films that he watched; and his holiday travels. Also includes brief entries of his first year in India.
Dates:
1931 - 1938
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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Hubert Middleton: songs for voice and piano
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9707
Dates:
1917-1930
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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Hugh Eric Rank: German Autographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9384
Scope and Contents
Collection of German autograph letters: [1] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) to C.F. Fromann (publisher), 1821 (cf. Goethe's Works, Weimarer Ausgabe, 34, n.161); [2] Ottilie von Goethe (née von Pogwisch), 1796-1872, Goethe's daughter-in-law; [3] Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-66), dedicatory quotation from Horace, 1745; [4] Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), fragment of a letter; [5] Charlotte Kestner (née Buff) (1753-1828), note about household matters; [6] Karl Kraus (1868-1952)...
Dates:
1700-1899 (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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Hugh Eveyln-White: Horae ad usum Sarum
File
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Hugh Fraser Stewart and family: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7671
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters and papers relating to the life and career of Hugh Fraser Stewart and to the lives of the members of his family. The papers include correspondence of Stewart's wife Jessie, and of her father, mother and sisters. There is also correspondence of Stewart's brother-in-law Francis Jenkinson, as well as papers acquired by Stewart for his Memoir of the late librarian, published in 1926. The Stewart and Crum families's shared interest in music is represented in the...
Dates:
1850-1950 (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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Hugh Godfray: Letters from mathematicians and others
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9550
Scope and Contents
81 letters to Hugh Godfray, from mathematicians and others, 1843-50. [1-52] THOMAS DAVIES (1844-50); [53-57] THOMAS GASKIN (1849); [58-59] ROBERT JONES (1849); [60] SIR JOHN LUBBOCK (1843); [61] ROBERT MAIN (1843); [62] GEORGE AIRY (1843); [63] THOMAS WEDDLE (1846) [64] M. COWIE (1847); [65] FRANCIS JEUNE (1847); [66-75] ROBERT POTTS (1847-49); [76] JAMES WELLAND (1849); [77-78] WILLIAM RUTHERFORD (1845-47); [79-81] ALFRED HOBSON (1849); [82] CLEMENT LE HARDY (1848); [83] H.J.W. NEVILLE...
Dates:
1843-1850
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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Hugh Le Fleming Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 371
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters, postcards, photographs, art work, maps and books.
Dates:
1929 - 2009
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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Hugh Parlour: 'Principles of Martiall Discipline'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2678
Scope and Contents
Dedication to William Brooke, 7th Lord Cobham (d. 1597). Pen and ink drawings throughout.
Dates:
1590 (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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Hugh Plommer: letters to Michael Mennim, with Mennim's biographical papers on Plommer.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9592
Dates:
1952-1991
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
Fonds
Hugh Strickland: Oxford lectures in volcanic geology
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9903
Dates:
1850-1853
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
Fonds
Hugh Watson: letters to A.E. Ellison on malacological matters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9907
Dates:
1940-1957
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
Fonds
Hughes: the papers of Edward James 'Ted' Hughes
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/HUG
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of original manuscript material by Ted Hughes, printed editions of his poetry, photographs of Hughes, objects related to him and research into his work and legacy. This collection brings together a number of very small accessions held by Pembroke College Archive.
Dates:
1947 - 2024
Conditions Governing Access:
Photographs may not be taken of the Ted Hughes copyright material without the permission of the Estate. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for permissions. The remainder of the collection may be photographed for private research, subject to UK copyright provisions. Those wishing to publish from the collection should seek advice from the Archivist prior to publication.
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Hughes: the papers of Olwyn Marguerite Hughes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/HUO
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of material collected by Olwyn Hughes, mainly during the period she acted as literary agent for her brother Ted Hughes. Papers include copies of early appearances of many of Ted Hughes's and Sylvia Plath's poems and essays in literary magazines and newspapers and many newspaper cuttings relating to the work and lives of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and their children. The collection contains no original manuscript material by Ted Hughes or Sylvia Plath.
Dates:
1958 - 2020
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive