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Joseph Lemuel Chester: Papers
Transcripts or extracts from Cambridgeshire church registers, copies of monumental inscriptions in Huntingdonshire churches and genealogical correspondence and notes relating chiefly to Cambridgeshire.
Joseph Mitchell papers
The collection includes biographical material, material relating to Mitchell's work in Cambridge, notebooks and research notes, lists of publications, lectures and broadcasts, information on societies and organisations, visits and conferences and correspondence.
Joseph Needham papers
Joseph Pearce: Daybooks and ledger
Three daybooks and a ledger relating to Hauxton Mills. There are a few loose receipts in each volume.
Joseph Pearce: Dernford Mills ledger
Annual accounts for a wide range of mill business, 626 pages, with an index at the front of the volume.
Joseph Priestley: sermon 'The pleasure and advantages of a good conscience'
Includes endorsements 'Leeds Nov. 17th 1771', 'Calne 1775', NMB [New Meeting Birmingham] ...1783.' Also includes letter, Swann Hurrell to Henry Bradshaw, 19 Nov. 1883, presenting sermon and two letters of Priestley, and a note of inscription on a silver inkstand presented to Priestley on his emigration to America in 1794 by 'some members of the University of Cambridge'.
Joseph Romilly: Diaries
Joseph Romilly: Diary extracts
Joseph Woods: Journal of a Tour of Ireland
Consists of 100 folios: (fo. 1) text; (fo. 91) notes on the text; (fo. 100) an index of place names. There are observations on local antiquities, natural history, social conditions and topography. The text is heavily corrected and appears to be a draft. On fo. 1r: 'Ireland. No. 1'. Accompanying the manuscript is a lithograph circular letter from J.B. Wells, 10 January 1829.
Joseph Woods: Observations on the chalk hills of Kent and Surrey
Joshua Platt: The Belemnite
Journal kept by a Florentine Official
Possibly written by a doctor, contents include public affairs, fires and floods, death of inhabitants by drwning or cold, baptism of Jews and movements of the reigning Duke.
Journal of a Southampton printer
Journal of a Tour in France
Travel journal, 1802. 'Journal of a Tour in France begun July 23rd 1802'. From internal evidence the writer was an English army officer. Fos 48-50 and 85-94 are blank. 94 fos 8 x 5.75 in.
Journal of a Tour in Germany
The anonymous journal contains a description of a tour along the Rhine from Coblenz to Phillipsburg, c. 1743. There are notes on towns, government, trade, churches, spas, food and other matters. In addition to the journal, the volume contains farm accounts, details of payments to labourers and memoranda, 1782-1791; the place names indicate the location to be County Cork, Ireland.
Journal of a Tour to Russia
Journal of a visit to Jerusalem, with account of the 'present situation in Tunis'
fo. 4: journal addressed 'To the He. L.', begins: 'Having settled my Affairs in Arca so ...', and ends: '... the very worst Country I ever saw.' fo. 19: 'Some Particulars relating to the present Situation of Affairs at Tunis.' Apparently unprinted. On cover is the name 'William Mart ...', in an 18th-cent. hand. The surname has been partly erased.
Journal of a Voyage to America
Journal of a voyage to India
A journal of a voyage on the 'Frances Anne' from Liverpool to Calcutta, 42 pages. Mackinnon probably kept the account to send to his mother: the last page closes with greetings to her.
Journal of a Voyage to the Coast of Guinea
Journal of a voyage in the ship Bruce Grove of London. Wells, the ship's clerk, left the ship at Grenada on the return voyage. His journal is preceded (fo. 1v) by a list of officers and crew, and includes a series of engravings, maps, and sketches, some in colour, and a cutting from Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.
Journal of J. Lambert (bound with the Art of Shooting-Flying)
The art of shooting flying : familiarly explain'd by way of dialogue : containing directions for the choice of guns ... T. Page (Thomas), 1713- Norwich : Printed by J. Crouse, and sold by the author, T. Page, 1766.
Journal of Russian artillery regiment
A manuscript journal believed to relate to a Russian artillery regiment. There are loose pages at the front of the volume. On the final page is an official seal and a note in English: 'brought from the Crimea and presented to Wm Brown from his friend J.A.W. 1856.'
Journal of tour through Holland, the Netherlands & France
'Journal, or Diary, kept during a tour through part of Holland, the Netherlands and France in the summer of 1818. To which are added notes illustrative of the matters & customs of the inhabitants'. Illustrated with steel engravings, hand-made paper.
Journal of William Napier
A manuscript journal, a copy, and the script of a broadcast based upon it, with associated correspondence.
Journals of tours in the Wye Valley and in Kent
Apparently written by a Quaker lady, possibly the sister or sister-in-law of Joseph Woods, architect and botanist. Writer refers on p. 1 to 'my brother Joseph' and to his chambers in 'Furnival's' - Woods had chambers in Furnival's Inn from 1819. She mentions other members of the Woods family, and of returning to Newington, the Woods' family home.