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Letter, Scilly Islands, Cornwall
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1354
Scope and Contents
Reply of Sir Robert Peel, written by H. Hobhouse.
Dates:
12 Feb. 1826
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Letter, Scilly Islands, Cornwall
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1357
Scope and Contents
Letter from Rev. G. Woodley to Peter Stell esq. of Lincoln's Inn making suggestion for improvements on the Scilly Islands to help the inhabitants.
Dates:
13 Aug. 1827
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Letter to Richard Pace from J. Boroughbridge
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6620
Scope and Contents
Letter from J. Boroughbridge to Richard Pace, 1 folio. The letter has the address on one side, and is bound as a fly-leaf in a Sarum breviary, F152.b.6.3.
Dates:
1519-1520 (Circa)
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Letter to the Prior of Barnwell, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.123
Scope and Contents
Letter from Joanna Kerterych, Abbess of the Convent of St Mary and St Clare at Denny, to John Whadun, Prior of the Monastery of St Giles at Barnwell, admitting the Prior to fellowship with the Convent. The text is enclosed in an illuminated border by an English artist of the period with an illuminated initial rounded V, the chief colours being blue, green, pink and gilt with fronds in green and bell-shaped leaves. The hand is a large ecclesiastical hand of the period. A brown stain has...
Dates:
3 Feb. 1469
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Letter, Venice, Italy
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4119
Scope and Contents
Letter from Piero da Ponte and Jachomo Bordo in Venice to Piero di Tomaxi in Candia, seeking his help in making provision for the family of Piero's (?) late brother, and explaining current difficulties in remitting money. Signed holograph. Wafer seal. Endorsed with merchant's mark or gild sign.
Dates:
21 Feb. 1416
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Letters and papers about provision of textbooks in Germany
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7985
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Ian Methven Carlisle, September 1945-December 1950 (mostly after his departure from Germany), comprising letters to him principally from his former colleagues H.W. Davis and T.J. Leonard; minutes of committees and working parties on textbook production, comprising British representatives and German, civil servants, academics and publishers; memoranda and reports on the activities of the Textbook Section and the progress of its work; official circulars to textbook...
Dates:
1945-1950
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Letters and papers concerning the lease of World's End Farm, Saxtead, Suffolk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.98
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Thomas Ashford, Samuel Kilderbee, Isaac Aspland George Edwards, Messrs Wenn & Duningham, Edward Dove, Jonathan Davies, Thomas Garneys, William Goodwin, Martin Harsant, and J. Smith. Collection includes terrier of lands in occupation of Ashford, and copy of indenture between Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Thomas Doughty and John Pipe, churchwardens of Framlingham, Suffolk, re lease for 40 years of building in Framlingham castle to the churchwardens for maintenance...
Dates:
1810
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Letters and papers of Sir Frederick Young
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 54
Scope and Contents
The largest part of the collection is comprised of correspondence on a range of topics, notably the empire and imperial federation. The papers also include an autobiography, Sir Frederick's speeches and pamphlets, press cuttings and other material relating to Young's life and career.
Dates:
1842 - 2005
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Letters and postcards from Lee Harwood
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10031
Scope and Contents
The recipients are David Tipton (3 letters, 1967-1975); Peter Baker (1 letter, 1972); Ken Edwards (8 letters and 1 postcard, 1985-1988, with copies of 2 letters from Edwards to Harwood, 1985-1986); Colin Huggett (5 letters and 1 postcard, 1990-1991, with 5 envelopes); and Meic Stephens (1 postcard, 1993). With a poem by Harwood, 'Coat of Arms on Wall in Ancient City', photocopied typescript.
Dates:
5 June 1967-14 Apr. 1993 (the poem is undated)
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Letters and writings of Helen Waddell
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10026
Scope and Contents
18 letters, a short story and a translation of a Latin poem of John Milton. The documents are stored in folders bearing notes by David J. Hall, and details of some recipients and dates are derived from these notes.
Dates:
1934-1953 (and undated)
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Letters from Agnes Loxton in Zimbabwe
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 230
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Agnes Loxton to her cousin Michael Warren in England, 1970-1987, giving an insight into the political situation for whites in Bulawayo. There is also an abstract of the letters prepared by Professor Michael Warren, biographical details about Agnes Loxton and her family and three newspaper cuttings on Zimbabwe of 15-21 November 2001. The papers are accompanied by two letters from Professor Warren to the R.C.S., 31 December 2001 and 12 October 2002.
Dates:
1970 - 2001
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Letters from Andrew Crozier
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10021
Scope and Contents
The letters are to David Tipton (1 letter, 1970); Peter Baker (9 letters, 1972-1977 and no year); John Welch (13 letters, 1974-1982); and Ken Edwards (5 letters, 1987-1988).
Dates:
18 Feb. 1970-1 June 1988
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Letters from Felicitas Corrigan and Margaret Truran to David J. Hall
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10058
Scope and Contents
Margaret Truran, Benedictine nun, archivist of Stanbrook Abbey. Personal and circular letters, with a few related enclosures. Items are addressed from Stanbrook Abbey, Worcester, unless otherwise stated. Some are annotated by Hall with the date of his response.
Dates:
1962-2003 (and undated)
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Letters from India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 72
Scope and Contents
A transcript of letters from Copeland to his mother, 6 June 1917 - 22 April 1918, 236 pages, describing his service in Agra and Chakrata, U.P; Maymo, Burma; and Poona. The volume is marked 'Volume 5', but nothing is known of the earlier and later volumes, or of the fate of the writer. The transcript was presumably made by Copeland's mother, although the date it was written is not known. The volume includes 101 photographs and 12 postcards of India and Burma, including architectural...
Dates:
1917 - 1918
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Letters from Indian Army Troops
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6170
Scope and Contents
English translations by D.C. Phillott of letters from Indian Army troops serving in Palestine.
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letters from J. H. Prynne to Ian Friend
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10088
Scope and Contents
All items are from Prynne to Friend unless otherwise indicated.1. Note; Cambridge, 10 Dec. 1983. 1 folio.2. Postcard; Cambridge, 10 Mar. 1984. 1 folio.3. Letter; Cambridge, 3 Apr. 1999. 1 folio.4. Letter; Cambridge, 3 Apr. 1999. 1 folio.5. Letter; Cambridge, 1 Apr. 2001. 1 folio.6. Letter; Cambridge, 29 Nov. 2001. 1 folio. With an email printout: Caroline Horobin to J. H. Prynne, 19 Nov. 2001; J. H. Prynne to Caroline...
Dates:
1983-2002
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Letters from Jeremy Taylor to John Evelyn
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8540
Scope and Contents
An original letter, 15 November 1656, 1 page, concerning Evelyn's translation of Lucretius, and two facsimiles of a letter of 29 August 1657, 1 page, expressing Taylor's religious beliefs and discussing the question of the immortality of the soul and the origin of God. There are also 3 extracts from Bernard Quaritch's catalogue, describing the second letter.
Dates:
1656-1657
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Letters from John Cowper Powys to John and Lucy Horstmann
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9736
Dates:
c. 1900-1999
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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)
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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
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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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Fonds
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
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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
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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
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