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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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File
John Frederick Stanford: Commentary on the Custom of Judicial Combat between Man and Wife in Wurtzburg
File
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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John Gauden: Preparatory Thoughts
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5350
Scope and Contents
52 folios. There is a dedication at p. ix to [Anne], Lady Rich, 10 April 1638. On p. vii is the title page, with a dial in the centre, and the date 'May 10 1640'. On pp. iii, v, vii, ix and 87: 'Emma Fitch' or 'Emma Fitch, York'.
Dates:
1640
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John Gould: Papers concerning Birds of Australia
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9908
Dates:
c. 1830-1840
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John H. Morgan: Meteorological observations, Cambridge observatory
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9637
Scope and Contents
Volume is mostly text, remarking on the weather each day, opposite tables of twice daily barometer/thermometer readings.
Dates:
1846-1847
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File
John Harwood: Autobiography
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6846
Scope and Contents
Autobiographical fragment, covering Harwood's life to October 1689, 95 folios. The writer's identity is not given, but has been established from internal evidence. The writing is on the recto of fos 3-17, with occasional notes or prayers on facing pages and on fo. 92v. The lower half of fo. 16 and the upper half of fo. 16a are torn out. The remainder of the volume is blank.
Dates:
1689 (Circa)
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John Harwood: Journal of visit to Paris
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7968
Scope and Contents
An autograph journal of Harwood's visit to Paris, 26 May - 22 June 1685. The account includes entries on libraries, statues, water supplies, stonework, drink, trades, the waterworks of Versailles, the epitaph of Descartes, a disputation at the Sorbonne, the feast of D'Boun, and the library and cabinet of Charles Mons. Le Brun. Harwood describes the places he visited, which included St Omer's College, the Tuileries, the monastery of Val de Grace (including a description of the chapel), the...
Dates:
1685 (circa)
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File
John Hawkshaw: Navigation Report to the Egyptian Government
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6231
Scope and Contents
Concerns the first cataract on the Nile, with four coloured plans.
Dates:
1865
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John Hay, 2nd Earl of Tweeddale: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9362
Scope and Contents
104 letters to Lord Tweeddale, 1672-92, concerning family, estate, local Scottish matters, and political news from London, especially from the time of the Glorious Revolution (1688-89).
Dates:
1672-1692
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John Hodgkin: English Collective Phrases
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7210
Scope and Contents
Systematic notes and dissertations in manuscript and typescript, with an annotated offprint or extract, by John Hodgkin of the Folk Lore Society on lists of alledges English collective phrases from the Book od St Albans and other sources.
Dates:
1900 (Circa)
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John Holroyd-Doveton: notes and correspondence relating to Maxim Litvinov
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10406
Scope and Contents
Notes and correspondence of John Holroyd-Doveton relating to research for his book 'Maxim Litvinov: a biography' (Newton Abbot: Woodlands, [2013?]), including correspondence with and recollections by Litvinov's daughter Tanya Litvinov.
Dates:
2002-2004 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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John Howard Marsden: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10247
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, correspondence, writings and accounting information. Also includes material relating to the family seat of the Chelmorton Estate and papers of JHM's son, Reginald Godfrey Marsden, and grandson, Reginald Edward Marsden.
Dates:
1818 - 1930
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John Ireland: Songs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8911
Dates:
1911 (Circa)
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John Ivory: Notes to lectures by John Keill on optics and hydrostatics
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9317
Scope and Contents
'Mr Keils Lectures', notes to lectures on catoptrics, dioptrics, hydrostatics, and 'Of barometers Thermometers&Hygrometers', with diagrams.
Dates:
1710 (Circa)
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John James Blunt: Commentary on Tertullian
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8821-8822
Scope and Contents
Commentary on Tertullian, possibly representing the 17 lectures on Tertullian which Blunt delivered in Lent Term, 1849. The second volume includes a bill to Blunt for coal, 10 March 1855.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
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John James Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10019
Scope and Contents
Literary papers and correspondence of the poet John James. Includes texts of poetry and prose by James; files relating to particular subjects; correspondence; and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1960s onwards, although there is some juvenilia dating from the 1940s.
Dates:
1940s-2018
Conditions Governing Access:
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John Johnson: Diary Transcripts on William Cowper
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8465
Scope and Contents
A transcription of entries from the diary of John Johnson, 28 July 1795 - April 1800, relating to William Cowper. Although the paper is watermarked 1816, the document dates from a later period.
Dates:
1825 (Circa)
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File
John Johnson: Pro et Contra
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5993
Scope and Contents
Transcribed by T.R. Glover, 100 folios. A copy, line for line and page for page, of a diary kept by John Johnson of the dreams, voices and notices of William Cowper, 15 November 1797 - 23 April 1799: (fo. i) explanatory note by the transcriber; (fo. ii) C. Sayle, an additional note, 22 June 1917; (fo. 1) text.
Dates:
1917 (Circa)
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