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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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Section R (previously restricted) was opened to readers in 2021.
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John Donald Photograph Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031O
Scope and Contents
326 photographs of varying formats, many uncaptioned. The earliest photographs document James Donald’s life in Malaya during the 1920s, and include images of the Perak River Estate where he first worked, the Torkington Estate, the Batu Anan Club, and friends, colleagues, travel and recreational activities, including the Lower Perak Football Team of 1923. The bulk of the collection records the family’s years on the Arcadia Estate, and especially the period from John Donald’s birth in...
Dates:
1920 - 1951
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John Donne and others: Sermons, etc.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8469
Scope and Contents
The volume contains 26 items, in different hands and on different sizes of paper, many anonymous. There are eight sermons by John Donne, and others by Thomas Moore and Josias Shute. There is also a Latin letter from Thomas Egerton to his father John, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, and some geographical material. The volume has the Bridgewater crest and the bookplate of the Bridgewater Library.
Dates:
1600-1640 (Circa)
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John Donne and William Strode: Poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8470
Scope and Contents
A manuscript collection of poems mainly by John Donne and William Strode. On the flyleaf are the signatures of Edward Hyde (1607-1659) and Robert Walker. The volume has the bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Many of the pages are unused.
Dates:
1635 (Circa)
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John Donne: Poems and leaves
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8466-8468
Scope and Contents
Two leaves in Latin and two volumes in English
Dates:
c 1620-1633
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John Donne: Poems, elegies and meditations
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.29
Scope and Contents
In 5 hands (not autograph).
Dates:
1640 (Circa)
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John Dovaston: 'Poems by W. Shenstone Esqr and Others'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8289
Scope and Contents
A collection of poems and prose by William Shenstone, Henry Jones and others, written in the hand of John Dovaston and with illustrations by him. Most of the texts are apparently from printed sources, from which there are many deviations. Contents: Front pastedown: Nursery Library bookplate of John Freeman Milward Dovaston, printed in brown ink [i-ii] blank [iii r] ownership inscription, date (1765), note of price paid, 'M:S Poems by William Shenstone Esqr and Others', epigraph "So we thro'...
Dates:
1765-1779 (a later terminal date is possible)
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John Dowie: ''Studies in New Zealand Investment 1871-1900''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8358
Scope and Contents
'Studies in New Zealand investment, 1871-1900', a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Australian National University, 346 pages: Part A. A quantative study of capital formation in New Zealand, 1871-1900. Part B. A study of the relations of the Australian and New Zealand economies, 1871-1900. Part C. An institutional study of railway investment in New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. At the front of the volume is a covering letter from N.G. Butlin, 21 February 1983, Professor of Economic...
Dates:
1965
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John Durie: Papers concerning proposals for the union of churches,
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2658
Scope and Contents
Various hands, including that of Durie.
Dates:
1669-1673
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John Edward Bickersteth Mayor: Historical papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6670-6671
Scope and Contents
Historical notes, mostly connected to Cambridge and Oxford Universities
Dates:
1875 (Circa)
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John Edwards: Fragment of a discourse against the Church of England
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.58
Scope and Contents
Apparently being prepared for the press at the author's death. Autograph.
Dates:
1715 (Circa)
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John Ehrman: Letters to Anthony Smith about Pitt the Younger
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9975
Scope and Contents
Letters concerning an article co-authored by Enrman and Smith for the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography. Includes letters from Colin Matthew, the editor of the dictionary, and other correspondence concerning the article. Alos includes various drafts.
Dates:
1983-2007
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John Ellys: Accounts, some concerning Sturbridge Fair [Stourbridge Fair]
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3073
Scope and Contents
The accounts in the main sequence mostly concern rents for various properties and disbursements, entered on the leaves of what had been intended as a collection of 'Sententiae & variis autoribus de promptae'. Some of the 'sententiae' appear in a second hand at, for example, pp. 17 and 18. An alphabetical index to F. Burgersdicius, Institutiones Logicae runs from the other end of the book, in the second hand. In this section, at pp. 2-11 and 45, which had been left partly blank, Ellys...
Dates:
1697-1715
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John Ellys: Day book, containing notes, a diary, and accounts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3070
Scope and Contents
The book had previously been in the possession of a physician who had used it sparingly as a notebook to record various diseases, and had inserted headings on some of the pages. Many blank leaves remain. The physician had lettered the concluding pages for an alphabetical index, and had made a few insertions in them. The lettering was subsequently used by Ellys for his own index. Accounts, which appear to related to the rectory of Burgh Castle, occur in another but contemporary hand on pp....
Dates:
1714-1717
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John Evelyn: 'Rules and observations in the propagation and planting of trees'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8529
Scope and Contents
An undated holograph manuscript, apparently in the hand of John Evelyn.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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John F. Cooke: Research Materials for the River Great Ouse
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8833
Dates:
1970-1984 (Circa)
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John Fergusson: Journals of Indian Expeditions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9536
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with 'Lieutenant Ferguson's journal through the Western Junguls', the daily journal of a military reconnaissance against the 'Jungul Zermindars' in the vicinity of Midnapore, West Bengal, 2 February - 31 May [1769]. The account describes the villages and terrain through which Fergusson passed, with tables of distances covered and detailed descriptions of the forts which he visited en route. At the back of the volume is an anonymous 'Journal of a circuit round the Western...
Dates:
1769 (Circa)
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John Fitzgerald: Journals, 1869-70
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9472
Scope and Contents
2 vols,The first journal covers part of his time at Christ's; the second relates a walking tour in Ireland in late summer, 1870. [1] Letts's Rough Diary, [2] a larger notebook.
Dates:
1869-1870
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John Fortescue of 'Spirelston' [Spiddlestone], Devon: exemplification of arms, and pedigree, extracted from the visitation of Devon, May 1638.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3301
Scope and Contents
Attested by Thomas Thompson, Lancaster Herald, and by Edward Walker, Chester Herald. According to the contemporary endorsement it was drawn up 'to determine a controversie in the Court of Honour'. Damaged by damp.
Dates:
May 1638
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John Frederick Stanford: Commentary on the Custom of Judicial Combat between Man and Wife in Wurtzburg
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6573.1
Scope and Contents
'Curious Custom of Judicial Combat between Man and Wife according to Statutes of the ancient City of Wurtzburg', a commentary to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 6 December 1841, by J.F. Stanford, 10 folios. On folios 6 and 7 are nine drawings. Folios 8-10 are blank, as is the verso. On fo. 1v is '49' (circled). The manuscript is in a box with MS.Add.6573/2.
Dates:
1841
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John Galsworthy: Had a Horse
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7310
Scope and Contents
Manuscript draft of the short story.
Dates:
1923
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