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Jagat Kautuka Kalpavallī
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10295
Scope and Contents
A collection of mathematical and logical problems given in their original Sanskrit with an (Indian) English translation and striking, well executed black and white and grey wash illustrations.
Dates:
1 Aug 1821
Conditions Governing Access:
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'Jaggers'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 347
Scope and Contents
'"Jaggers" or the Railway Transport Officer', a story centred on the character John Jaggers, a man of great wealth derived from Rhodesian gold and East Indian rubber who invests successfully in South America's railways. The bulk of the book deals with his work as a Railway Transport Officer in World War I, and includes reflections on world affairs and the Empire. The introduction to the story is dated February 1933, and refers to Foucar's novel 'The wandering clerk or a romance of the...
Dates:
1933
Conditions Governing Access:
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Jamaica 1959-1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints intended for the exhibition 'Commonwealth in Focus' but received too late for inclusion. The subjects into which the collection is divided were chosen by the National Library of Jamaica, and are based on the headings used for the sections of the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition. All measure either 250 x 200 mm or 370 x 300 mm. Various photographers.
Dates:
1959 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access:
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'Jamaican ants'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 354
Scope and Contents
A book recording facts and observations about Jamaican ant species. It also includes two imaginative stories, perhaps intended for children, to explain their behaviour. It is illustrated by pen and ink sketches and water colours (50 pages).
Dates:
1890 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Baldwin Brown: MS Poetry
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9651
Dates:
1810-1811
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Bate: Letter 'Heaven Impossible to be Open to all Men'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9363
Scope and Contents
'Heaven impossible to be open to all Men. To Geo: Bryant Esq.', Deptford, 12 December 1748. The volume represents Bate's answer to George Bryant to a pamphlet lent by him, entitled Heaven open to all men, which Bate found to be full of "false Philosophy, dishonest Sophistry, and real or affected ignorance of the true sense of Scripture". The writing is probably in Bate's hand. 24pp.
Dates:
1748
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Bell Newfoundland Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3061E
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs, with some loose insertions, including an annotated map of 'St. John's N.F, 1905', relating to Newfoundland 1902-1912. Most are 100 x 80 mm., but in many cases only part is visible owing to the size and shape of the frame through which they are seen.The collection was studied by Professor Maurice and Mrs Shirley Scarlett in 1985; their information is embodied in the captions to nos. 3, 5-17, 30-51, 53, 55-56, 67, 69, 71, 74-75, 80, 82, 86, 90, 92-93, 95-101,...
Dates:
1902 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Bentham: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2944-2962
Scope and Contents
Notes and extracts on the history of Ely Cathedral, letter book and collection of transcripts.
Dates:
1756-1789 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Bethune-Baker: Letters on 'Nestorius and his Teaching'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8986
Scope and Contents
30 letters to Bethune-Baker, 1907-09, on Nestorius and points arising from Bethune-Baker's book. The correspondents include William E. Barnes, Paul Bedjan, Frank E. Brightman, John Chapman, Richard H. Connelly, Alice Gardner, Sir Stephen Gaselee, Heinrich Goussen, John H.A. Hart, William R. Inge, Frederick J.F.Jackson, Claude Jenkins, David Jenks, Arthur J. Mason, Oswald P. Hutton, Berkeley W. Randolph, Hunter Smith, James White, and John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury.
Dates:
1907-1909
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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James Cannan McConnel: Experimental Notebooks on Ice
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8323
Dates:
1887-1974
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Carmichael Smith Sierra Leone Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446A-E
Scope and Contents
A collection comprising:Y30446A 92 postcards of Sierra Leone, Belgian Congo and Canary IslesY30446B Album containing 45 printsY30446C Album containing 38 printsY30446D Album containing 25 printsY30446E 6 mounted prints (3 also framed).The collection is a valuable record of Sierra Leone in the early years of the twentieth century. The majority of the photographs in Y30446B-E are the work of the Lisk-Carew Brothers (Alphonso and Arthur) who established...
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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James Carter: medical diplomas
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10524
Dates:
1833 - 1833
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
James Christie: Copies of letters from Zanzibar
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8163
Scope and Contents
Contemporary copies of letters from James Christie in Zanzibar, 1865-1873, including descriptions of slavery. There are inserted items, including newscuttings, engravings and photographs, and a loose copy of a letter from Christie to his brother, 10 June 1871. The newscuttings include an obituary of Christie, near the end of the volume, taken from The Lancet, 16 January 1892, from which Christie's biographical history is compiled.
Dates:
1865-1873
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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James Clerk Maxwell: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7655
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, drafts of articles and books, notes and miscellaneous papers. The main body of papers dates from Maxwell's undergraduate years at Edinburgh University beginning in 1847, until his death in 1879. Earlier and later items relate to family papers that have accrued to the collection, though these are not extensive.)
Dates:
1781-1951
Conditions Governing Access:
RESTRICTED - Use Microfilms CMO5028-CMO5042. List in catalogue
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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James Clerk Maxwell: Letters to George Chrystal and other papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8375
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of papers relating to James Clerk Maxwell, George Chrystal, Prof. William Garnett (Maxwell's Demonstrator at the Cavendish Laboratory), and John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh. A typed note states '5.10.67: Presented by Professor Mott, these were found among the possessions of his late Father, who worked in the Cavendish Laboratory for two years in the early days'. The miscellaneous items, nos. 22-26, are in Maxwell's hand.
Dates:
1874-1885
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Clerk Maxwell: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8385
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the executorship papers of Mrs Maxwell, letters and a speech by William Garnett.
Dates:
1879-1931
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Cropper: Extracts from letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7880
Scope and Contents
Lithographed 'extracts from letters of the late James Cropper, transcribed for his grandchildren by their very affectionate mother and aunt Anne Cropper', with a running commentary. There is an engraving of James Cropper at the front of the volume.
Dates:
1800-1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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James D C Noble Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 370
Scope and Contents
After the outbreak of the Second World War, James D.C. Noble volunteered for military service in Sept. 1939. He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders with the rank of second lieutenant on 14 Oct. 1940 and sailed to Malaya, where he fought with its second battalion against the Japanese. Noble was captured following the fall of Singapore on 15 Feb. 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in Japanese prisoner of war camps, which included work upon the Thailand Railway. Noble recorded...
Dates:
2012
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Dixon: correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6604 and 6608-6609
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning printing errors discovered by James Dixon in the published works of the various correspondents; letters from James Dixon to his father John sent whilst he was travelling in Europe.
Dates:
1836-1884
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Duport: Rules to fellow commoners
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6986
Scope and Contents
A volume of guidance to undergraduates on matters of study and worship, decorum and deportment.
Dates:
1660 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Essex: Personal professional accounts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9463
Scope and Contents
Account book. Includes references to work at, and visits to, the cathedrals of Ely, Lincoln and Winchester., and all three occur in this account book. The volume contains references also to Essexs money-lending activities. Also includes credit and debit accounts, 1769-76, mixed personal and professional transactions. Miscellaneous later notes in two different hands. From the back: Account of all the land wch I occupy, some apparently at Boxworth, Cambs.
Dates:
1769-1776
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Family: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7480
Scope and Contents
William Rhodes James (d. c.1847) married Caroline Pope (fl.1814-1855). The children of the marriage included Herbert (1822-1909), William Rhodes, Montagu (1830-1854), and Thomas (d.1850). Herbert James married Mary Emily Horton, daughter of Admiral Joshua Sydney Horton, and became rector of Livermere, near Bury St. Edmonds. They had four children, Sydney Rhodes (1855-1934), who married Linda Hoare, Herbert Ellison Rhodes (1857-1939), Grace Caroline Rhodes (c.1860-1936), who became Mrs....
Dates:
1835-1918
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Flamank: Poetry Commonplace Book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8996
Scope and Contents
The volume contains poems, possibly by another member of the family, 1786-1806, including 'The following Ode is performed annually on the Evening of the 4th of June at Vauxhall Gardens', 'An Ode on Reason. 1787', 'Stanzas on the Botany Bay scheme. 1786', 'The Volunteer Infantry Drill', and 'Song, sung at a meeting of the Wallingford Corps June 4th'. The book also contains poems by Flamank, 1819-39, including 'The progress of sculpture a classic ode written for the Chancellor's Gold Medal',...
Dates:
1786-1839
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Hannott: Sermons
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4356
Scope and Contents
'The straite gate and narrow way...to which is added The Lord's voice to the citty: being the substance of 14 sermons preached by Mr. James Hannott. Transcribed 1713', 137 folios: eight sermons on Matt. vii.14, dated 11 April 1697, followed by six on Mic. vi.9, dated 2 November 1701. Pasted inside the front cover is a note of the early nineteenth century: 'Third Pastor of the Old Meeting, the Rev. James Hannat, born in this Town. Chosen in Jany. 1, 1687, died June 7, 1704'. On fo. 1:...
Dates:
1713
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Hutchison Cockburn slide collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304BB
Scope and Contents
Collection of twenty glass negatives, twenty-one small photographs and six colour slides, numbered with Roman Numerals, mostly of people in Africa. A handwritten note by James Cockburn accompanying the collection identifies images I, II, III, and IV as taken by himself, and V, VI, VII and VIII as given to him. The note continues: 'I have just discovered these plates. I have marked the eight which I can identify (some with a question mark). Most of the plates were presented to me when in...
Dates:
1916 - 1917
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library