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Letters from Krystyn Lach-Szyrma to Sir John Bowring
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7666
Scope and Contents
Nine letters, written from Edinburgh, Warsaw and Devonport (and possibly elsewhere), some concerning the publication of Polish poetry. One letter is accompanied by a ballad by Lach-Szyrma, in English, titled 'A Child at his Mother's Tomb'.
Dates:
1823-1864 (bulk 1820s)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from Nevill Mott to Robert Street and papers of Nevill Mott
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10390
Scope and Contents
The correspondence started with a discussion of defects in chalcogenide glasses. Mott contacted Street because his work on luminescence provided evidence for a negative correlation energy property that Phil Anderson had proposed. Mott was interested whether this property applied to
defect states in chalcogenides. The letters start when Street moved to the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart in
September 1974. He did not keep any previous letters. Street and Mott developed an explanation for...
Dates:
1974-1991
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Letters from Oscar Browning to Charles Ryle Fay
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7461
Scope and Contents
The letters comment on Fay's career, Browning's health and historical writing, other historians and their works, and Cambridge affairs (including adverse remarks on M.R. James). All but the first were written after Browning's departure from Cambridge in 1909, The place named in the each letter's description is the place of dispatch of the letter.
Dates:
1907-1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from Paris during the Commune (typed copies)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7644-7645
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs.
Dates:
1871
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from Robert Bridges to A.F. Scholfield, 1923-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7608
Scope and Contents
This group of letters is concerned principally with the gathering by Bridges of specimens of distinguished modern handwriting, to be reproduced in a publication of the Society for Pure English (founded by Bridges in 1919). He enlisted the help of A.F. Scholfield to find suitable material in Cambridge. The volume appeared in 1926, and the quality and quantity
of specimens gathered was such that Bridges was able to publish a second selection in the following year.In addition to...
Dates:
1923 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from Rupert Brooke and Sir Geoffrey Fry to A. F. Scholfield
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7468-7469
Dates:
1907-1939
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).
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Letters from service men to Mrs Prinne
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7660
Dates:
1914-1918
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).
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Letters from Sir Michael Palairet to C.B. Hurry
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7619
Scope and Contents
A chronological series of letters and postcards from Sir Michael Palairet to C.B. Hurry arranged in folders by year. The collection includes some of the original envelopes, particularly for the later letters. There are also a few loose newscuttings. The second box includes two envelopes containing obituaries and a photograph of Palairet.
Dates:
1930-1956
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from the Thornhill family in New Zealand
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 304
Scope and Contents
Letters written to Henrietta Thornhill from Cudbert Thornhill in New Zealand (8; 1862-1872) and India (2; 1878); William Thornhill (16; 1867-1878); Edward Thornhill (6; 1868-1875, 1910 and 1915); George and Esther Thornhill (c. 61; 1865-1915); Hazel Smith (2; 1916 and 1919); and H. McDowell Smith (3; 1918). There is also a memorial card of George Thornhill, 1916. Not all of the letters are clearly dated, and some are fragmentary. There is accompanying correspondence regarding the...
Dates:
1862 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from Uganda 1896-1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 167
Scope and Contents
Letters sent between 1896 and 1905 to Frederick Bank's widowed mother and two sisters, and a folder of related correspondence. His letters provide a unique record of the life of a junior in a commercial firm in Africa at this time. He witnessed or comments upon the Kamasia/Nandi expedition of the Kabaka in 1897; the Sudanese Mutiny of 1897-1899; Macdonald’s and Martyn’s expeditions, 1897-1899; and the Nandi Rising, 1900. After working with a coastal merchant, Banks moved into coffee...
Dates:
1896 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Letters of administration, Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.384
Scope and Contents
Whereas William Christmas of Cambridge by will dated 23 February 1837 made his brother Thomas Christmas executor; and whereas Thomas Christmas by Deed Poll dated 13 December 1839 renounced his executorship; the Chancellor of the Diocese of Ely grants Letters of Administration to Mary Ann Christmas of Barton, Cambridge, widow of the deceased. Subscribed by the Deputy Registrar. Attached is a copy of the Will with an erasure as in the original. William Christmas of Cambridge bequeaths to his...
Dates:
3 Jan. 1840 (Date of copy of will: 23 February 1837; date of authentification: 2 January 1840)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters of administration, Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.340
Scope and Contents
Granted by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge to Edward Barton, Fellow of Trinity College, of the property of William Barton, Fellow of the same, who died intestate leaving property within the jurisdiction of the University. Subscribed by James Tabor, Registrary of the University.
Dates:
31 Oct. 1627
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters of administration, Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.45
Scope and Contents
Directed in the name of Wharton Peek, LLD. official in the Archdeaconry of Ely, to Deborah Ashby, wife of George Ashby, daughter of Deborah Sparke, deceased, of Cambridge, who died intestate. Subscribed by William Mott, Deputy Registrar. The body of the document is printed.
Dates:
5 Feb. 1773
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Letters of Administration, Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1646
Scope and Contents
Grant by the Court of Arches of Letters of Administration to Granado Pigott constituting him Administrator of the will of Sarah Pigott of Gamlingay, who named no executor in her will. Subscribed by John Stevens, Henry Stevens, and George Gostling, Deputy Registrars.
Dates:
20 May 1778
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters of Administration, Soham, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1660
Dates:
4 Nov. 1844
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters of Administration, Writtle, Essex
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.187
Scope and Contents
Memorandum of Nuncupative Will of Edward Shettleworth of Writtle made 7 May 1649 in the presence of Elizabeth George and Ellen Ram and affirmed to John Sawen of Little Waltham, Essex. He gives to Marie his wife a third of his house and land with certain property and the care of his youngest children, to Katherine his daughter a cow and a certain sum; to his son Robert the rest of his goods. The memorandum is signed by John Sawen. Letters of Administration to John Sawen follow. Signed by John...
Dates:
18 May 1649
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Cambridge University Library
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Letters of attorney, Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.720
Dates:
1606
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters of botanists, naturalists, scientists
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9501
Scope and Contents
A collection of letters, mostly mounted in a 19th-century loose-leaf album, the leaves gathered with ribbon, made by an unknown person, evidently for autograph value or interest. The first sheet is inscribed 'Autographs of Naturalists Botanists Men of Science'. Â57 letters and documents, 1792-1846. [Correspondents include: DAVID ANSTED (geologist); CHARLES BABINGTON, JAMES BACKHOUSE, JAMES DICKSON, DAVID DON, JAMES DONN, GEORGE GIBSON, ROBERT GRAHAM, ROBERT GREVILLE, JOHN HENSLOW, SIR...
Dates:
1792-1846 (18th century to 19th century)
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).
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Letters of Edward Lyulph Stanley
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 232
Scope and Contents
Eight exercise books containing copies of letters, which were written by Stanley during a tour of Civil War America in 1864, undertaken in the period between his leaving Oxford and being called to the Bar. Most are addressed to his mother and sister, but were intended to be circulated and read together, providing a single picture. Stanley was very interested in examining the causes and course of the conflict from both the Union and Confederate perspectives, and secured introductions to...
Dates:
1864-03-12 - 1864-09-23
Conditions Governing Access:
For conservation reasons, this collection may only be consulted on microfilm reel MC88.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Letters of Edward Nicholas Kendall
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 387
Scope and Contents
The collection includes transcripts of seven letters, which Kendall wrote to his mother describing his experience during Franklin’s second Artic expedition. They are dated between 15 March 1825 and 18 January 1827. There is also a transcript of another letter, dated 12 Dec. 1829, which was written at Cape Town and relates Kendall’s impressions of the city and colony. The collection also includes a brief summary of Franklin’s ‘Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the Polar Sea:...
Dates:
2015
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters of Hannah More mostly to Marianne Thornton
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7951
Scope and Contents
Letters written by the aged Hannah More to Marianne, eldest child of the Evangelical banker and MP Henry Thornton and his wife Marianne (née Sykes), both of whom died in 1815, the year in which the correspondence begins. The collection also includes an incomplete letter of slightly earlier date from Miss More to Mrs. Thornton (presumably the elder Marianne); and a poem by Miss More accompanying a gift of garters to Sir T.D. Acland. The letters were all written at Barley Wood, the house at...
Dates:
1809-1826 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Letters of Hugh Drummond Pearson
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356
Scope and Contents
Following Hugh Pearson’s death, the principal recipients of his letters, his mother Mrs Jean Pearson and his youngest sister Ursula Pearson, prepared them for publication along with extracts from his diaries. Copies were sent to London literary agents in 1928 and again in 1930, but plans to publish the memoirs as a book with the title ‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ were never realised. It appears that this manuscript is a copy of the projected book, which was to be divided into three...
Dates:
1894 - 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Letters of investiture, Salzburg, Austria
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3626
Dates:
1789
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Letters of John Clare
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8525
Scope and Contents
Includes offprints of articles on John Clare by Mark Stoney.
Dates:
1820-1849 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters of Morartorium granted by the King of Poland, Warsaw, Poland
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.65
Scope and Contents
It has been explained to us on behalf of Marcus Pinkas and Moyses Aron, unbelievers, merchants of Cracow, that they are unable to meet their liabilities through no fault of their own, and have asked for Royal Protection and for letters of Moratorium. the letters are given for a space of six months, during which they may move freely in the Kingdom and pay their debts. The attention of magistrates and all concerned is called to the letters. Signed 'Stanislaus Augustus Rex', and 'Ignatius...
Dates:
12 July 1792
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library