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James Reynolds Withers papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10313
Scope and Contents
Literary papers and correspondence of Withers, including poems; an autobiographical memoir; correspondence; miscellaneous manuscript and printed items; papers of his friend and posthumous editor Janet E. Aspland photographic prints; and paintings.
Dates:
1840s-1910s
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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James Robinson Planché: The Vampire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6371
Scope and Contents
Libretto of 'The Vampire: A Grand Romantic Opera freely translated from the German of Wilhelm Aug. Wohlbrück and adapted to the music of Heinrich Marschner....by J. R. Planché', 68 folios. The volume appears to be the original working copy for the production which opened on 25 August 1829 at the English Opera House, London. There are many corrections to the translation. Sketches of positions of cast and additional stage directions have been inserted in pencil. The names of the cast are on p....
Dates:
1829
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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James Simmons: Letters from Mauritius
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9549
Scope and Contents
102 letters to his mother, 1847-55, (1 to 'Jack', 1 letter of appointment, 1 letter jointly written by Simmons and his girl friend, who writes in French); describing aspects of life in Mauritius.
Dates:
1847-1855
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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James Smith: Literary essays and notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7972
Scope and Contents
1. Papers on Shakespeare The largest part of the collection is comprised of versions of chapters prepared for Smith's Shakespearian and other essays, supplemented by a few essays on related topics. Shakespearian and other essays The printers' copy of chapters from Smith's book, 1973, including preliminaries and Edward Wilson's memoir of the author (1 envelope). All's well that end's well The collated version of the chapter on the play prepared for Shakespearian and other essays, c. 1972 (1...
Dates:
1930-1974 (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
James Speare: Remarks on Newton
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5951
Scope and Contents
138 folios. Fos 2, 3, 13-22, 26-33, 46-54, 63-67, 74 and 92-138 are blank. On fo. 1v: 'F. W. Lodington Ex dono J. Speare 1816'.
Dates:
1797
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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James: The Papers of Montague Rhodes James
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/MRJ
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the autograph manuscript work of MRJ, printed versions of his published and unpublished printed short stories, correspondence, College material, photographs and miscellany.
Dates:
1862 - 2007
File
James Ware: Catalogue of manuscripts
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4354
Scope and Contents
'Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Jacobi Waroei Equitis Aurati Catalogus', a catalogue of the manuscripts of James Ware, 14 folios. This is a transcript of the edition printed at Dublin in 1648, made by Alfred Rogers to the order of Henry Bradshaw.
Dates:
1880-1885 (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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James Yonge: Sidrophel the quack astrologer exposed
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7913
Scope and Contents
'Sidrophel the quack astrologer exposed, King Charles ye Martyr, vindicated, and judicial astrologie proved false, groundless, destructive of religion, and ye common peace, in a letter to Mr. W. Salmon.' There are eleven preliminary pages comprised of a dedication to Dr Sherlock, Dean of St Paul's, dated Plymouth, 23 October 1692, and a message 'To the reader'. These are followed by fifty numbered pages of text, in which Yonge attacks the medical empiric William Salmon (1644-1713). The...
Dates:
1692
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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Jan Christian Smuts: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7917
Scope and Contents
Typed extracts of letters to the Clark and Gillett families (files 1-19) 1. Letters to Alice Clark, 1906-1933. 2-17. Letters to Margaret Clark Gillett and Arthur B. Gillett: 1906-1919, 1920-1925, 1926-1930, 1931-1932, 1933-1934, 1935-1936, 1937-1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944-1945, 1946, 1947-1948, and 1949-1950. 18. Miscellaneous file of Smuts letters to (1) Dr Hilda Clark, (2) Roger Clark, (3) William S. Clark, (4) the children of A.B. and M.C. Gillett, and (5) Dr Henry Gillett....
Dates:
1901-1950 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Jane Dunn-Gardner: posthumous inventories of possessions
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10408
Scope and Contents
'Inventory and valuation of the household goods, furniture, plate, linen, china, glass, books, pictures, and other effects of the late Mrs Jane Dunn Gardner at Chatteris [House] ... [and] Fordham Abbey...'
Dates:
1839
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Collection
Jane Harrison Collection
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/2911/HAR
Scope and Contents
The Harrison Collection comprises the papers of and about Jane Harrison collected after her death principally by Hope Mirrlees and Jessie Stewart, former students of Harrison, for the writing of a biography. Most important is the collection of letters to Gilbert Murray and Lady Mary Murray that form the basis of Jessie Stewart's "Jane Ellen Harrison: A Portrait from Letters" (1959). There are also Mirrlees's and Stewart's own letters from Harrison, their manuscripts and drafts for potential...
Dates:
1870-2000
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is available to researchers at Newnham College Archive
Found in:
Newnham College Archives
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Jane Margaret Bacon: Diaries
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6253
Scope and Contents
A series of diaries dated 1837-43, 1846-51, 1854-6, 1861, 1869-70. The entries are made in printed annual diaries.
Dates:
1837-1870
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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Jane Stockdale: Spiritual journal and commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9939
Dates:
1834-1841
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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Jane West: Extracts from tour journals chronicling travels in Wales and Ireland
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.738
Scope and Contents
Includes three poems. Early nineteenth-century hand (paper watermarked 1813), apparently not autograph. The poems are 'To Glen Luce', 'To Mrs Isted on her return from Ireland in 1807', and 'A Farewell to Leamington, 1833'. Bookplate of Samuel Sandars inside front cover.
Dates:
1813 (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
Jardine Matheson Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM
Scope and Contents
The collection contains papers covering the activities of Jardine, Matheson and Co. Ltd, its predecessors, its subsidiaries and associated firms.
• The company's business history is covered in large series of accounts (A) and correspondence (B-E, J-K).
• The rest of the collection is comprised of legal documents (F), printed commercial circulars and periodicals (G), documents in Chinese (H), papers of other companies (I), and miscellaneous papers (L).
• The collection is predominantly in...
Dates:
1766-1969
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Jardine Skinner Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JS
Scope and Contents
The largest part of the archive is comprised of original correspondence of Jardine, Skinner & Co. (JS/1-9). The letters are supplemented by a set of modern extracts and indexes compiled by the researcher E.A. Paterson (JS/10-11). The remaining material consists of papers relating to companies associated with the firm of McLeod Russel, which formed part of the original accession of papers (JS/12).
Dates:
1843-1973
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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Java Proclamation
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7387
Dates:
1811
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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J.C. Smith West African photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043HH
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose snapshots, measuring approximately 100 x 75 mm. These were presumably taken on a voyage to or from England. Brief captions appear on the backs. Photographer possibly J.C. Smith.
Dates:
1890 - 1911
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
J.E. Emmett: Boer War diaries, 1899-1900, 1902
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9947
Scope and Contents
Attributed to Bandsman J.E. Emmett, Queen's Regiment.
Dates:
1899-1902
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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Jean-Baptiste Lully: MS copy of his opera 'Alceste, tragédie mise en musique', opera in 5 acts, with prologue; words by Philippe Quinault; composed c.1674
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8973
Scope and Contents
Printed title page, Foucault, [1710], engraved portrait of Lully by Bonnart. Publisher's list of ballets and opera by Lully and others, many available handwritten. MS copy of 'Alceste', heavily annotated by Geneviève Thibault, Comtesse de Chambure, some notes attached as flaps.
Dates:
1710 (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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Jean-Baptiste Lully: MS copy of 'Le carnavale mascarade', composed 1668; words by Isaac de Benserade
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8974
Scope and Contents
MS copt, short score, 69ff. Contemporary calf binding.
Dates:
1700 (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
Jean Barbier D'Aucour: Manifeste
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6179
Scope and Contents
An annoymous copy of 'Manifeste ou la preconisacion envers burlesque d'un nouveau livre intitule Reflexions sur les veritez Evangeliques' (Riorti, 1681).
Dates:
1680 (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
Jean Kilgour Hart: diaries
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10262
Scope and Contents
Two diaries of a student of Queen Mary College, University of London, evacuated to King's College, Cambridge, during the Second World War.
Dates:
1942-1943
Conditions Governing Access:
The diaries are 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
Jeanne-Marie Dolmetsch Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10371
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1580 - 2008
Conditions Governing Access:
The archive is not yet fully catalogued. In order to discuss access please contact the music or manuscripts department.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
J.E.B. Mayor: Bibliographical papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8427-8429
Scope and Contents
A bibliography, historical notes for 1251-1495 and notes on published books.
Dates:
c 1875-1881
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