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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
Fonds
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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Fonds
James Family: Correspondence
Fonds
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:
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
Fonds
James Flamank: Poetry Commonplace Book
Fonds
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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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
James Hutchison Cockburn slide collection
Fonds
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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File
[James Kenney]: The Irish Ambassador
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4536
Scope and Contents
A play in two acts, 61 folios. The present copy, which lacks the author's name, contains a list of the cast, including [Tyrone] Power and Miss E[llen] Tree in the leading parts of Sir Patrick O'Plenigo and Lady Emily Delawney. According to the Dictionary of national biography, Power appeared in this part at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in 1840. The paper is watermarked 1838. On fo. 34: 'Elsher Shaw'.
Dates:
1840 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
James Plumptre: Bowdlerised version of Chester mystery plays
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9571
Dates:
1825
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
James Plumptre: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5784-5861, 5864-5867
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts of plays, journals of travels in the United Kingdom, diaries, notes on Great Gransden, correspondence and notes.
Dates:
1770-1900
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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Fonds
James Porter: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8576
Scope and Contents
Most of the letters are replies to appeals by Porter for contributions to a memorial to Henry Fawcett and the cost of portraits of the seventh Duke of Devonshire, J.B. Lightfoot and B.F. Westcott; or replies to his invitations to a dinner in honour of recipients of honorary degrees (1883), and the celebration of the six hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Peterhouse (1884); or concern an address of support from members of Senate to the Liberal Unionist leadership (1887).
Dates:
1867-1897
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
Fonds
James Porter: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8355
Scope and Contents
Letters are to James Porter unless otherwise stated.
Dates:
1872-1900
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
Fonds
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:
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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:
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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:
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Cambridge University Library
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James Smith: Literary essays and notes
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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:
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Cambridge University Library
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James: The Papers of Montague Rhodes James
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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).
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Cambridge University Library
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James Yonge: Sidrophel the quack astrologer exposed
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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
Fonds
Jan Christian Smuts: Correspondence
Fonds
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
Fonds
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
Fonds
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
Fonds
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
Fonds
Jane West: Extracts from tour journals chronicling travels in Wales and Ireland
Fonds
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