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John Acton, 1st Baron Acton: Personal and Family Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8119-8123
Scope and Contents
A large part of the collection consists of correspondence with British, Continental and North American correspondents, notably Ignaz von Döllinger, Richard Simpson and Thomas Frederick Wetherell. Other correspondents include W. E. Gladstone and his family, J. H. Newman and many of the bishops associated with the minority at the First Vatican Council. There are also large groups of letters sent between Acton's immediate ancestors, and between Acton and his own family. In addition to...
Dates:
1600-1970 (circa)
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John Alexander Ellis: Poems and notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6145-6146
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches, verses and laws of various Cambridge societies, including the Theatrical Club. There are also autographs of members of Shrewsbury School.
Dates:
1836-1843
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John Alexander McMullen: African Journal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9255
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Delagoa Bay, Beira, Zanzibar, the Rift Valley, and Masai and Kikuyu, big game hunting; with commentary and a 'complete list of all the game which I killed'.
Dates:
1905-1906
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John Barrett: Historical Collections relative to Trinity College, Dublin
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.707
Scope and Contents
Copied in the hand of 'Dobbs' from the manuscripts of the Revd Doctor John Barrett, vice-provost of Trinity College. Includes marginal additions by Doctor [J. H.] Todd. fos. 174-240: blank.
Dates:
1850 (Circa. Date of transcript. Original manuscripts written circa 1810.)
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John Bastwick: Diploma
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4139
Scope and Contents
Diploma of doctorate of medicine awarded by the University of Padua to John Bastwick, endorsed by Roderigo Fonseca, Tommaso Pioveno and Pietro Merio, 6 folios. On the verso of a paper flyleaf there is pasted a copper-plate engraving of W. Hollar's portrait of John Bastwick, probably taken from a copy of Bastwick's Declaration (1643). On the recto is a cutting from the catalogue of the J. Fuller Russell sale, June 1885, in which the manuscript was lot 89, and a note on John Bastwick by Samuel...
Dates:
1622
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John Bois: Diary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3856-3857
Scope and Contents
Original diary and transcribed extracts.
Dates:
1627-1850 (diary dated 1627 to 1640, transcription dating from 1850)
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John Borlase Warren: Journal of a Tour in France
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9321
Scope and Contents
The journal describes a tour in France, 9 October-20 November 1728, through Dieppe, Rouen, St. Germain-en-Laye, Versailles, Paris, Blois, and Angers, with descriptions of churches, palaces, gardens, statues, and fountains. The end of the tour may be missing from the description. The volume has the bookplates of a Lord Vernon and William Cavalier, Piedmont. 20pp.
Dates:
9 Oct. 1728-20 Nov. 1728
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John Bowtell: Collection of epitaphs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3865
Scope and Contents
Also includes lists of the epitaphs in the hand of T. Proctor Burroughs. fo. 364: draft of letter from Burroughs to the duke of Norfolk, undated. fo. 367: alphabetical index to epitaphs.
Dates:
1840 (dated from watermark)
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John Bowtell: History of the University of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3331
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of chancellors, vice-chancellors, proctors, taxors, certain professorships, preachers, and bedells. fo. 14: blank. See Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. Proceedings, 11 (1906), pp. 356-7.
Dates:
1811
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John Bowtell: Notes and extracts, chiefly regarding Cambridge University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3332
Scope and Contents
Notes extend to the front cover. The hand, though Bowtell's throughout, varies greatly.
Dates:
1796 (Circa)
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John Brande Trend: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7673
Scope and Contents
Drafts of essays, translations of poetry, lectures and letters to Trend. Most of the material dates from the last decade of Trend's life.
Dates:
1930-1955 (Circa)
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John Branthwaite: Commonplace book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9327
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book of a man with High Anglican leanings, with additions in other hands. The volume contains historical extracts, religious and moral treatises, accounts of cities and countries of Europe and Asia Minor, and anecdotes. At the back it reads 'Sum unus ex libris Joannis Branthwaite'. [p.1] W. Sallustius, 'The first day of the week', verse. [p.7] Table to determine truth tellers, 'Pythagoras his wheele of fortune', and other tables. [p.11] 'The reasons against subscribing the...
Dates:
1680 (Circa)
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John Budgett: drawings of early stages of Polypterus
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9906
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Caley: indices to documents in Augmentation Office relating to the County of Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7334
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Caley: Pages from Commonplace Books
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9220
Scope and Contents
Disbound pages from several commonplace books, containing legal notes, transcripts, opinions, especially on tithe cases, titles to land, and liability for poor rates. The pages are accompanied by indexes, but all but two do not relate to these papers: General pages: Copy opinion, Old Stratford tolls, by John Bayley, 1832; further report on Old Stratford tolls, by W. Illingworth, 1832; investigation by Caley into whether Lincoln's Inn was liable to pay Poor Rates; examination by Caley of the...
Dates:
1800-1832 (Circa)
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John Camp: Agricultural journals
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8110-8117
Scope and Contents
Agricultural journals for Wisbridge Farm, Reed, near Royston, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
1835-1868
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John Campbell, Duke of Argyll: Letter-book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6570
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters from the Duke.
Dates:
1711-1712
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John Clerke and Richard Blakewall: Readings in Clement's Inn
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8871
Scope and Contents
Readings of statute law at Clement's Inn, 1543 (Clerke)-1544 (Blakewall), in Law French, with headings in Latin.
Dates:
1543-1544
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John Couch Adams: Catalogue of his Library
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4185-4186
Dates:
1894
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John Cox: Sermon on Psalm cxix. 71
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.52
Scope and Contents
With dedication (fo. 2) to Penelope, Lady Dynham, 16. Feb. 1655.
Dates:
1655
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John Daniel Cotton: Poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5711
Scope and Contents
Poems transcribed in two 18th century hands, 16 folios. The works are 'Poverty', 'A pastoral essay', 'Locus apud inferos Virginibus vetulis secretos', 'Templum Hymenaei' and 'Fancy bright and winged Maid'. Outside the front cover: 'Dr Grainger', in an 18th century hand, possibly referring to James Grainger.
Dates:
1748-1750 (Circa)
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John Day: Library Catalogue
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4508
Scope and Contents
Transcript made by J.J. Green of a catalogue of books bequeathed in 1627 to John Day, son of Lionel Day, by John Day the divine, 29 folios. The books were probably for the most part from the library of John Day the printer. On fos 1-3 are notes on a manuscript commonplace book of Lionel Day (Phillipps MS 2404), which was in the possession of J.J. Green in 1906. On fos 23 and 24 are further notes on Lionel Day and his family, and on fos 25-28 notes on the printer John Day and his family.
Dates:
1906
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John de Mauston to J. Cockerel, Bapton, Wiltshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.754
Dates:
1373
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John Denton: Commonplace Books
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9205-9206
Dates:
1849-1903 (Circa, undated)
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John Desmond Bernal: Scientific and Personal Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8287
Scope and Contents
John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971) was born on 10 May 1901. He attended Cambridge University, 1919-1923, before working in the Davy Faraday Laboratory, London, 1923-1927. He was appointed Lecturer in Structural Crystallography at Cambridge in 1927, and Assistant Director of Research in Crystallography, Cambridge, 1934. He was made Professor of Physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, in January 1938. During the War Bernal worked in the Ministry of Security, as a member of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1911-1977; 1795; 1883
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