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Fonds
'Katie Seyfang' (Margery Hunt): 'Whenever there is music'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10314
Scope and Contents
Typescript of a novelby Margery Hunt, written under the pseudonym 'Katie Seyfang', in two volumes.
Dates:
1970s
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Kava making
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309E
Scope and Contents
158 x 108 mm. A note on the reverse states that the photograph is to accompany an article entitled 'The Kingship Farce,' by F. Dunbar. Photograph probably by A.T. Tattersall (perhaps A.J. Tattersall?).
Dates:
1886 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Kelvin : papers and photocopies relating to William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, OM GCVO PC PRS FRSE (1824-1907) physicist and engineer.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/KELVIN
Dates:
1863 - 1907
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Kennet Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Kennet
Scope and Contents
A collection comprising the papers of the Rt.Hon. Edward Hilton Young (1879-1960), 1st Lord Kennet of the Dene, the politician and writer, and those of his wife Kathleen (1878-1947), a noted sculptor and the widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer.Lord Kennet's papers contain school letters and diaries, a series of correspondence with G.M Trevelyan and E.M. Forster, letters and diaries from his war years, political papers and letters including correspondence with Neville...
Dates:
1775 - 1980
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Kenneth Bailey: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8723
Scope and Contents
The material presented here as a single chronological sequence is almost exclusively correspondence concerning the last few years of Bailey's life and regrettably does not reflect his scientific achievement. There is personal correspondence 1955 (letters to Bailey only) and scientific correspondence between Bailey and Perry 1960-61. The greater part of the correspondence, however, relates to the difficulties of Bailey's final year, 1962-63, arrangements after his death, appreciations,...
Dates:
1955-1965
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Kenneth Mobbs: Natural Sciences Lecture Notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8890
Scope and Contents
Lecture and practical work notes for Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1943-45 (physics and chemistry; mathematics and electronics).
Dates:
1943-1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Kenneth Robinson collection on Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304G
Scope and Contents
A collection of 14 loose prints (with 1 duplicate) created during visits to Africa by Dr K.E. Robinson between 1952 and 1962. Y304G1/-11 are photographs by the Uganda Public Relations Photographic Department, 220 x 115 mm. They were taken during a visit to Buganda in October 1952 by the Governor of Uganda Sir Andrew Cohen (1909-1968). Other people identified in the photographs include Lady Helen Cohen (nee Donington), John Pryor Birch, Resident of Buganda, and Private Secretary to the...
Dates:
1952 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Kenya days'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 175
Scope and Contents
A copy of a typescript account of Cashmore's time in service in Kenya with handwritten corrections, c. 150 pages. The memoir covers the years 1953 to 1963, and was written up during 1992-1995. There are two accompanying letters from Cashmore to Peter Fox, Cambridge University Librarian, regarding the presentation of the work to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1992 - 1995
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Keynes: Papers Relating to Geoffrey Langdon Keynes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GLK
Dates:
1980 - 1982
Fonds
Keynes: The Papers of John Maynard Keynes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK
Scope and Contents
This collection contains both the economic and personal papers of J.M. Keynes, spanning his childhood and student days, his work for the India Office and Treasury, drafts and other materials associated with the great economic treatises that bear his name, and assorted papers pertaining to his involvement in various academic and financial enterprises. The series within this collection have been arranged under the following categories: General subjects (IA-HP), Visits (RV-AV), Articles,...
Dates:
1868 - 1951
Fonds
Keynes: The Papers of Lydia Lopokova Keynes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/LLK
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises materials related to the performances of Lydia Lopokova Keynes, pieces of her writing, correspondence, and other items that chronicle her life, including photographs, diaries, scrapbooks and reminiscences by others. Although the collection covers a variety of topics, Lydia's professional interests have led to a concentration of items concerning the subjects of ballet and drama.
Dates:
1903 - 1986
Fonds
Khartoum 1898
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C
Scope and Contents
An album bound in padded red leather with 'Khartum 1898' in gold on the front. The photographs have printed captions. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.
The album documents Horatio Kitchener's campaign from the massing of forces in Egypt to the taking of Khartoum and includes the battles of Atbara and Omdurman.
Dates:
1898
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Killen: The Papers of John Tyrell Killen (1937-), Mycenologist
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JTKN
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1965 - 2025
Fonds
Kimberley Diamond Diggings
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059L
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints mounted on card, uncaptioned apart from the inscription ‘Diamond fields lent by Mr. Blaine,’ pencilled on the reverse of the mounts. Diamond Mining at Kimberley:The first diamond to be found in South Africa appears to have been one picked up by a child on the bank of the Orange River in 1866. Other diamonds were found in the Hope Town shortly afterwards, but it was the discovery of the diamond later to be known as the star of South Africa (at...
Dates:
1872
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7930-7933
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volumes relating to school business, written in English unless otherwise indicated.
Dates:
1673-1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
King George VI and President Roosevelt 1939
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062N
Scope and Contents
250 x 122 mm. Framed and glazed photograph. In May-June 1939 H.M. King George VI and H.M. Queen Elizabeth visited Canada, and included a four-day visit to the U.S.A. This photograph, taken after Divine Service at St. James Church, Hyde Park shows Rev. A.R. Smith, Rev. G. Kidd, Queen Elizabeth, King George VI, President Roosevelt (unusually, standing) with his eldest son, his mother, and his wife, and Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, who accompanied the King during his visit to...
Dates:
1939-05 - 1939-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
King Thakombau's war clubs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 313
Scope and Contents
The album, 10½'' x 12'' (c. 1930), contains four pages of text describing how, on his arrival in England, Brewster tried to discover what had become of the war club of King Thakombau (Cakobau), located among the historical treasures at Windsor Castle. He paraphrases the 'long typewritten disquisition' of 'a native gentleman of Mbau' on 'The legend of King Thakombau's clubs'. The text is preceded by four inserted photographs, taken 1871-1883, of King Thakombau (2), his war club and the...
Dates:
1871 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
King: the papers of Bryan Earle King
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/KIN
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of King's notebooks, notes, publications and family correspondence. There is also a small collection of photographs featuring King and material concerning his death.
Dates:
1927 - 2002
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
File
King's College, Cambridge: Library Inventory
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5057
Scope and Contents
Inventory of 1452, transcribed by Henry Bradshaw, 26 folios, including: (fo. 17) H. Bradshaw, 'The University Library in 1582'; (fo. 20) Bradshaw, 'Notes on the organ screen of King's College'. On the flyleaf is a list of contents in hand of John Willis Clark. The versos are blank throughout.
Dates:
1880 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Kings Offices and Fees
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4499
Scope and Contents
'A true collection as well of all the King's Majesty's offices and fees in anie of the courts of Westminster as of all the offices and fees of His Majesty's honourable household together with all fees apertayning to captaines and souldiers, having chardge of castells bulwarks and fortresses within the realme of England and likewise the offices and fees of his highnes honorable houses forests and chaches within said realme', 17 folios. The offices and fees are preceded by a list of the...
Dates:
1609
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Kingston: The Papers of Gertrude Angela Kingston
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GAK
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise chiefly letters received by Miss Kingston from George Bernard Shaw, 1904-34 and, in smaller quantity, from actors, producers and authors including Harley Granville-Barker, Ellen Terry, John Galsworthy, Laurence Housman, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Lytton Strachey, H. G. Wells and W. B. Yeats.A list of the books in Gertrude Kingston's library given to the College with these papers is available in the Archive Centre reading room. Please consult the Librarian for...
Dates:
1893 - 1934
File
Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire: copy of protest made by James Cooper, master of the schooner 'The Exertion', Thomas Sands, mate, and by Henry Ombler, mariner, before Henry Francis Skeet, notary public,
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2768.1
Dates:
27 Feb. 1840
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Kinnock Associated Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK AS
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to a television programme and a biography on Neil Kinnock.
Dates:
1993 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
'Kiruara - a massacre?'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 375
Scope and Contents
This is a personal account by Lindsay, who served with the Kenyan police, of what occurred at Kiruara Market on 23 Nov. 1952, when the police opened fire upon Mau Mau demonstrators (8 pages).
Dates:
2008
Conditions Governing Access:
Permission to quote from the memoir must be obtained from the author, via the Smuts Librarian.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Knowles : items found loose in the copy of Knowles' 'The Monastic Order in England' (Cambridge University Press, 1940) (Pet.569.14) presented by him to his father, Harry Herbert Knowles, inscribed 'To my dear Father from his son, 5 July, 1940'.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/KNOWLES
Scope and Contents
On his father's death in 1944 Knowles clearly reclaimed the book and in due course bequeathed it to Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (1927-2015) and it was subsequently sold by G. David.
The book, which has been many times reprinted, has sparse annotations, mostly to the index, and, inside the back cover notes of corrections (which found their way into the second edtion of 1963) to seven pages.
Dates:
1940-07-05 - 1964-04-02
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library