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Lace pattern book and album of tracings
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6089-6090
Dates:
1820-1825 (Circa)
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Lady Edith Blake: Journal of journey in China, Korea and Japan
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8423
Scope and Contents
Typescript.
Dates:
1900
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Lady Isabel Marian Schonland: papers, photographs and printed material relating to South African affairs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8703
Scope and Contents
Papers, correspondence and research materials concerning Schonland's authorship of parts of the narrative of the 'Union War Histories', a history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War, and her work in promoting harmonious race-relations in South Africa, including work with the Institute of Race Relations. The collection includes papers relating to a survey commissioned by the South African Institute of Race Relations on 'the needs of Urban African Women'. A small amount of...
Dates:
1939-1964 (Circa)
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Lady Jackson's Kenya album
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046A
Scope and Contents
An album of prints whose subjects include scenes on the Simba River, in the Aderdare Mountains, Laikipia, and elsewhere; views in Nairobi, including a race meeting, Government House, and the Jackson's house (48); a settler's house in Naivasha (71); and Masai men and women. Four photographs taken from the same point show the gradual break-up of a sailing ship wrecked off Mombasa (84-87); and there are photographs of individuals such as A.H. Neumann (25), 'Lord John' Wilson of Smith Mackenzie...
Dates:
1904 - 1911
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Lady Swettenham collection (Malaya and Jamaica)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031C
Scope and Contents
Photographs by various photographers and three other items. They relate to the career of James Alexander Swettenham, who, after serving in Ceylon and Cyprus, became Colonial Secretary in Singapore in 1895. He was Governor of British Guyana 1901-1904 and of Jamaica 1904-1907. His period in Singapore coincided with the service in Malaya of his more famous brother, Sir Frank Swettenham. Their father was James Oldham Swettenham, Solicitor of Belper.
Dates:
1880 - 1953
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Lagos, westkuste von Africa den Juni 1859
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 398
Scope and Contents
n.d. Nat. gez. V. FJ Kellow, R.N.
Lith.Inst. V. Chi. Fuchs. Hamburg.
Cop. K. Gollin. Lagos. 1932
Pencil copy of a lithograph (175 x 680 mm) made for Sir Alan Burns, who was Deputy Chief Secretary to Government of Nigeria from 1929 to 1934.
Dates:
1932
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Lahore town planning photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022QQ
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints mounted on art paper with letterpress captions and measuring approximately 150 x 110 mm. The report to which these are connected (Sullivan 1928) highlights the expansion of the city and its future potential, emphasizing the need for coordinated planning policy to preserve its original character and concluding that 'walking about the city day after day it becomes evident that its outstanding qualities are virility, wealth and growth ... As provision has already been...
Dates:
1928
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Land tax, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.674
Dates:
c. 1700-1900
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Lang-Hyde: The Papers of John Reginald Lang-Hyde
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/JRLH
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise typescripts of unpublished novels, plays and poems by J. R. Lang-Hyde.
Dates:
1918 - 1939
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Langham Family: Genealogical Notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8845
Scope and Contents
Notebook of family events from the birth of Langham's father to 1771. The notes were started by Sir Stephen Langham, and continued by his widow, Lady (Mary) Langham, John Cater and other descendants. They include occasional references to royal and national events.
Dates:
1601-1800 (Circa)
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Langridge photographs of Kenya
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046F
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose photographs by various photographers.
Dates:
1908 - 1909
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Lantern slides of Samoa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993A(LS)
Scope and Contents
A collection of 60 lantern slides, which Wilfred Powell had made from photographs in Y309993A with the addition of 11 slides for which there are no photographic prints: Y30993A(LS)/1, 11, 21, 30, 32, 34, 37-38, 44, 46 and 55. The lantern slides have a separate numbering sequence, although each catalogue entry records the number of the corresponding photographic print. The photographers:Y30993A and Powell’s other photograph collection reflecting his time in Samoa, Y309B,...
Dates:
1889 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Large initial P, cut from an office for Ascension Day P[rimum] Acts i.9
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.736.2
Scope and Contents
Painted in blue, green and red upon a gold ground. Standing figure to left addresses three seated figures. In background are distant hills to left, high rocks to right.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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Latimer Neville: Scrapbook on Cambridge University Elections
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9237
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook on the elections of University M.P.s, the Chancellor and the High Steward. "Previous proceedings and correspondence are in another book", not preserved with this scrapbook. The volume contains letters, flysheets, pamphlets and additional papers relating to the selection of the Conservative candidate H. Cecil Raikes for the University, 1882 (pp.1-47,186-187); the formation of the Cambridge Conservative Association, 1891 (with letters from G.H. Darwin, G.F. Browne and J.H. Gray)...
Dates:
1880-1900 (Circa)
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Latin Fragments
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4404-4408
Scope and Contents
Artificial groupings of miscellaneous Latin fragments, largely from the 12th and 16th centuries, sorted by size and material. Some appear to have been removed from the bindings of books in the Library.
Dates:
1100-1550 (Circa)
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Latin-Saxon Glossary and Notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8984
Scope and Contents
Latin-Saxon glossary compiled from the British Library Cottonian MSS Cleopatra A.3, with notes and cross-references from other manuscripts.
Dates:
1910
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Latin translation of Demosthenes: Contra Leptinem by John Christopherson
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3306
Scope and Contents
Dedication (fo. 2) to William Parr, earl of Essex, and later marquess of Northampton. Various autographs of owners through the volume.
Dates:
1545 (Circa)
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Laurence and Clemence Housman: letters to Noel Teulon-Porter
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8831
Scope and Contents
8 letters, some on psychological, sexual and religious matters. With 3 poems by Laurence Housman. The correspondence has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct quotation.
Dates:
1917-1963
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Laurence Housman: Letters to Ida Northcote
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9506
Scope and Contents
Contains the following: [1-254] Letters, LH to ISN, 1929-58 (but [51(ii)] = MICHAEL LEGGE to LH,1937). [255-270] Letters, LH to ISN, undated. [271-272] Letters, LH to 'Shadwell', n.d., 1924. [273-274] Letters, LH to Clemence?, 1933, n.d. NORTHCOTE, 1929-58 [275-277] Letters, AEH to ISN, 1928-35. [278-316] Letters, CLEMENCE HOUSMAN to ISN, 1930-43 and undated. [317-318] Letters, KATHARINE E. SYMONS (sister of LH) to ISN, 1936-37. [319] Letter, M.F. to ISN, 1947 [320-323] Photographs of LH and...
Dates:
1929-1958
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Law Reading on Statutes relating to Forests
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9400
Scope and Contents
MS, paper, in a neat secretary hand, 76pp. The MS is bound in two vellum leaves from a 13th century MS of Genesis (Genesis 24 vv.36-48, 25 v.34 - 26 v.10), glossed with commentary from Walafrid Strabo, Glossa Ordinaria. [1] Incomplete charge to jurors or justices of the peace. [2] Incomplete copy of Lord Stafford's translation of George Treherne's reading on statutes relating to forests, made in c.1600, incomplete. There is also an accompanying letter from R. Flower, British Museum...
Dates:
1600-1931 (Circa)
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Law reports in cipher, all central London courts, Easter 9 George II - Easter 11 George II
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.110
Scope and Contents
Ffos 1v-5v: index to cases in a second hand. fos 6, 7, 212v-16: blank. fo. 1: enciphered notes in main hand. inside front cover: 'M.3.29', in indexer's hand.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
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File
Lawrence Braddon: Reflexions on the Vindication of the Countess Dowager of Essex
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4375
Scope and Contents
'Reflexions on the vindication of the Countess Dowager of Essex & Bishop of Salisbury in gazetts of the 31st of July 4th and 7th of this present August and the Bishops reasons for the self murther consider'd and answer'd as also an abstract of what hath been most materially prov'd and made publick in detection of the barbarous murder of that unfortunate Lord Arthur (late) Earl of Essex in a letter to Mr. T. F. written by Lawrence Braddon Gent.', 30 folios. It is dated on p.57 12 August...
Dates:
1690
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Laws and Legal Precedents of the Kingdom of Hungary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9215
Scope and Contents
Laws and legal precedents of the Kingdom of Hungary. On the front board is the name 'Comitis Brunzvik' (Count Brunzvik), and on front flyleaf the ownership inscription 'R___ Abaffy'. 334pp., with indexes.
Dates:
1775 (Circa)
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Fonds
Lay office book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3048
Dates:
1550 (Circa)
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Lay subsidy roll, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3989
Scope and Contents
Cambridgeshire receiver's account for a lay subsidy, the totals arranged by parish and hundred. Account roll in fifteenth-century hand, 2 membranes, repaired in recent times, defective at top.
Dates:
1470 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library