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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
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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
Fonds
Koehler: Notebooks and sketchbooks of George Frederick Koehler (1758-1800), soldier, engineer and artist
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/KHLR
Dates:
1799 - 1800
Fonds
Kuala Krai [Kuala Kerai] tunnel construction photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30325A
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs assembled by Albert George Clark (b. 1880), a railway tunnel foreman working on the Malay Peninsula [Malaysia] on the construction of tunnels in Kelantan state, forming part of the railway line from Kuala Lipis north to Tumpat. The precise location of the tunnels has not been established, but Clark seems to have been based in or around the town of Kuala Krai. The photographs depict some social scenes, aspects of the tunnel construction and railway construction...
Dates:
mid-1920s
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
Kurt Thiele: Report on William Robertson Smith
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8661
Scope and Contents
'William Robertson Smith: Ein Bericht seines Wirkens von seinem Neffen Kurt Thiele', a photocopy of a report on Smith's works.
Dates:
1969
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
La Cautiva Espanola
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7945
Scope and Contents
A verse play in five acts set in Algiers in the garden of Don Fernando, a Spanish renegade living under the name of Ali.
Dates:
1800 (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
Fonds
L.A. Haldane: Cambridge University personal accounts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9545
Scope and Contents
Laurence Aylmer Haldane, Clare College, 1934-37, BA 1937, MA 1941, kept three volumes of personal accounts while an undergraduate. 3 vols., personal accounts, 1934, 1935-36, 1936-37. With letter to Somerset Record Office, 7 JAN 1999, giving background to journals.
Dates:
1934-1937
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
'La partenza della gran duchessa per cembalo e violino'.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9447
Scope and Contents
A capriccio for violin and piano, MS score, Italian, in a copyist's hand. Piano part only.
Dates:
1790
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
Labour bond, Ashover, Derbyshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4060
Scope and Contents
In return for an acquittance of certain sizeable debts, R de Lisuris and S de Bella Aqua agree to lend R de Wileyby [Wilyby, Wiletheby] all their men and tenants for a specified period at Martinmas for nine years on end. Witnessed by Geoffrey Columbelus, Serlo ?prior of Esson', Jordan de Esseby, Radulf de Stikewald, William Columbenus, Thomas de Wiletheby, Robert Lunet, and many others. Slits for four seals. Top half of document missing.
Dates:
(Undated, circa 13th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Lace pattern book and album of tracings
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6089-6090
Dates:
1820-1825 (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
Fonds
Lady Edith Blake: Journal of journey in China, Korea and Japan
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8423
Scope and Contents
Typescript.
Dates:
1900
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
Lady Isabel Marian Schonland: papers, photographs and printed material relating to South African affairs
Fonds
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)
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
Lady Jackson's Kenya album
Fonds
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
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
Lady Swettenham collection (Malaya and Jamaica)
Fonds
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
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
Lagos, westkuste von Africa den Juni 1859
Fonds
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
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
Lahore town planning photographs
Fonds
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
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
Land tax, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.674
Dates:
c. 1700-1900
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
Lang-Hyde: The Papers of John Reginald Lang-Hyde
Fonds
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
Fonds
Langham Family: Genealogical Notes
Fonds
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)
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
Langridge photographs of Kenya
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046F
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose photographs by various photographers.
Dates:
1908 - 1909
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
Lantern slides of Samoa
Fonds
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:
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