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Journey to Cochin [Kochi]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302O
Content Description
A collection of lantern slides and two loose photographic prints, documenting a journey from the United Kingdom, via Gibraltar and the Suez, to Cochin in Kerala, India. The provenance of the collection is unknown. There appears to be a connection to the firm, William Goodacre & Sons, established in Kerala in 1862, an export/import business still operating out of Alappuzha producing coir rugs, door mats, brush mats and related products. Several of the slides are captioned Goodacre and...
Dates:
undated, [early 1900s]
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Journeys in Arabia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 67
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters from John Goepel to his parents written during his time in Aden, April-November 1939, 38 pages. There are 11 photographs illustrating the text. On the inside cover are manuscript maps. The letters discuss Goepel's duties, which were complicated by rivalries between local rulers. They are preceded by an introduction dated 11 February 1984.
Dates:
1984
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.P. Willoughby, Resident, Baroda: letter book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9518
Scope and Contents
Bound volume entitled 'Demi Official Letterbook.
Dates:
1827-1835
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.P.T. Bury: Notes of lectures by W. F. Reddaway and E.J. Passant
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8574-8575
Scope and Contents
Notes on history lectures.
Dates:
1929-1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.R. Fox: ''Bridging the Gulf''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8344
Scope and Contents
The autobiography of J.R. Fox, 120 pages. At the front are three letters from Mr P.D. Wilmot of Himmelried (S.O.), Switzerland, to the Revd John Breay, Cambridge, June-September 1981, to whom he presented the autobiography. There is also a photograph of J.R. Fox, and another of P.D. Wilmot, both 1982.
Dates:
1979
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.R. Monsell: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9437
Dates:
1850-1990 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.S. Henslow: Correspondence and botanical lecture notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8176-8178
Dates:
1821-1860
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.S. Henslow: Letters to him re Palmerston's election as MP for Cambridge University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8339
Scope and Contents
A series of letters addressed to the Rev. Professor Henslow, chairman of the committee for securing the return of the Lord Viscount Palmerston as representative in parliament for the University of Cambridge, 1826. There are contemporary chronological and alphabetical indexes accompanying the letters.
Dates:
1825-1826
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.S. Smithson collection on Samoa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)
Scope and Contents
A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Juan Alfonso Guerra y Sandoval: Poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7814
Scope and Contents
'Ocios, que en los suyos, compuso, Dn. Juan Alfonso de Guerra y Sandoval', a collection of 219 autograph sonnets, decimas, romances, quintillas, redondillas and other verses, including deletions and corrections, preceded by a title page and table of contents.
Dates:
1699-1719
Conditions Governing Access:
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Juan Antonio Mayans: Bibliographical notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7817
Scope and Contents
Bibliographical and biographical notes on Valencian and other Spanish writers, 136 pages. The writing appears to be in the hand of Juan Antonio Mayans, with additional short notes in another hand, possibly that of his elder brother, Gregorio. The manuscript was written for D. Francisco Cerda y Rico after he met the Mayans brothers in Valencia. It contains notes on many writers, notably Ausias March and Mossen Jaime Febrer, and includes descriptions of the rare books and manuscripts in the...
Dates:
1779-1780
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Juan de Jauregui: Orfeo
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8150
Scope and Contents
A manuscript copy of 'Orfeo', with a dedication to the Count-Duke of Olivares, and four pen-and-ink and red chalk drawings as head and tailpieces.
Dates:
1600-1700 (circa.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Juan Perez de la Medinilla: Ejecutoria de Hidalguia
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4130
Scope and Contents
A patent of nobility, written in a court hand, 50 folios. On fo. 4 is the signature of Luis de Mitarre; on fo. 48v that of Ximenez de la Bredo, Atienca, Arjedeño and Sancho de Ortega. The bookplate of Samuel Sandars appears on fo. 1v.
Dates:
1576
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Jute Production in Bengal, circa 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022KK
Scope and Contents
Collection consisting of 6 x 6 cm copy negatives from original prints. The original photographs are in four volumes, entitled; Jute (cultivation and preparation), Jute (assorting and baling), Jute (its manufacture), and Jute (baling for export). Original photographs by Johnston and Hoffman, copy negatives made by John Falconer.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.W. Cruickshank: Catalogue of the principal herds of Booth cattle
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8092
Scope and Contents
'A catalogue of the principal herds of Booth cattle as they are supposed to exist in 1878-1879, with subsequent produces and sales added', 612 pages of pasted in typescript entries and manuscript notes. There is an index at the end of the volume. It is accompanied by a set of pedigree charts for different tribes of cattle.
Dates:
1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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J.W. Salter: Drawing for Babington's ''The British Rubi''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9694
Scope and Contents
Drawings by J. W. Salter, intended for C. C. Babington's work 'The British Rubi', but not ready by the time the volume was published (see Publication Notes). Pencil drawings pasted into the volume the majority partially (about half) coloured, often with Latin name, and date and location. Includes some printed version of some of the drawings. Also includes account of payments due from Babington to Salter for the work.
Dates:
1865-1867 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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J.W.S. Macfie Ethiopian collection 1935-36
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304296A
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints and duplicates, by various photographers, and three associated volumes.At the age of 56 John Macfie volunteered to join the British Ambulance Service in Ethiopia (B.A.S.E.), which was being organised by Dr John Melly, who had paid two visits to Ethiopia before the Italian invasion with the aim of establishing a hospital there. Macfie was appointed second in command to Melly.The B.A.S.E. arrived at Berbera, British Somaliland, at the beginning of...
Dates:
1935 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
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J.W.S. Macfie West African collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043C
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs measuring 136 x 78 mm (unless otherwise stated), and meticulously captioned on the reverse by Macfie. Prints in a portrait format are denoted by '(pt.)' after the caption.The collection consists of photographs taken on tours in Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Gold Coast, material from each tour being bound into separate small leather albums (with the exception of tours VI-VIII, bound in one volume). Also included in the volumes are postcards which...
Dates:
1910 - 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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K. Wright of Denny Abbey (?), Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.733
Dates:
1668
Conditions Governing Access:
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Kabaka Daudi Chwa and Regents
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045G
Scope and Contents
153 x 208 mm. A group portrait with identifying captions on the reverse by H.B. Thomas, front row left to right: Sir Apolo Kagwa (1865-1927), 1st Regent to Daudi Chwa 1897-1914 and Katikoro (Prime Minister) of Buganda 1889-1926; Kabaka Daudi Chwa (1896-1939), Kabaka of Buganda 1897-1939; Stanislas Mugwanya (1849-1938), Buganda Chief and Regent. Back row, Nuhu Mbogo (1835-1921), uncle of Mwanga and Regent of Daudi Chwa; Zacharia Kisingiri (1858-1917) a Protestant Muganda Chief and regent. ...
Dates:
1908
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Kahn: The Papers of Richard Ferdinand Kahn
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/RFK
Scope and Contents
The collection contains Kahn's published and unpublished writing, papers relating to his work at King's College and for government departments and other agencies, correspondence and other personal papers. The collection includes papers written by Joan Robinson.
Dates:
1890 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access:
The majority of the Kahn papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. However, restrictions on access apply to some records, in view of the sensitivity of their contents. Some personal letters are restricted while the author is still living and may be read only with the author's written permission. Some material is reserved. In the College's opinion the contents of these files might be considered confidential or offensive by living people other than the author. There is no access to these files for the time being. Records with restricted access are noted throughout the catalogue.
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Kaldor: The Papers of Nicholas Kaldor
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/NK
Scope and Contents
The collection contains Kaldor's published and unpublished writing, papers relating to his work at the London School of Economics, Cambridge University and for government departments and other agencies, correspondence and other personal papers.
Dates:
1910 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
The majority of the Kaldor papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre, by appointment. However, some material is reserved. In the College's opinion the contents of these files might be considered confidential or offensive by persons other than the author. There is no access to such material for the time being. Such material is identified by a specific 'Conditions Governing access' note at the item level of the catalogue, worded 'This file is reserved' or similar.
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Kandyan Chiefs 1874
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303N
Scope and Contents
Photograph, 200 x 150 cm, on mount 260 x 220 cm. The photograph shows a group of three Kandyan Chiefs in traditional costume, one seated, two standing, with two attendants, and a few spectators in the background.This is a modern copy of one of 1874 once in the possession of Colonel John Younger, R.A. He served in Ceylon from September 1872 to March 1877, chiefly in command of a battery at Trincomalee, but was A.D.C. to General Henry Renny, who commmanded the troops in Ceylon...
Dates:
1974
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Kashmir diaries of Alan Gardner-Waterman
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 79
Scope and Contents
Diaries recording Alan Gardner-Waterman's hunting trips in Kashmir with Mrs Gardner-Waterman. Most of the entries are brief. They are supported by detailed maps and many photographs.
Dates:
1921-03-20 - 1923-07-15
Conditions Governing Access:
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Kathleen Louise Wood-Legh: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8384
Scope and Contents
Research material, correspondence and examples of Wood-Legh's work.
Dates:
1854-1982
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library