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Log of trading ship Merope, 1823-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9875
Scope and Contents
The barque Merope was built in Bengal in 1818, and was a trading vessel in the China Seas, heavily involved in the opium trade, in ownership of James Matheson, who settled in Macau and Canton in 1820 and was made Danish Consul at Canton in 1821. This allowed him to fly the Danish flag on his vessels and put him beyond the jurisdiction of the East India Company. Matheson served as agent for merchants in Singapore and India, distributing the EIC's monopoly product, opium, along the Chinese...
Dates:
1823-1825
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Logan Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043QQ
Scope and Contents
A collection of slides, taken by John Logan and captioned by him.
Dates:
1957 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Logbook of HMS Hannibal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6659
Scope and Contents
Logbook of HMS Hannibal covering its service off the Crimea, 83 folios. The volume is written in three hands, with occasional notes added by one of the officers.
Dates:
1855-1856
Conditions Governing Access:
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Logbook of St John Little Ouse National School/Little Ouse [Mixed] School
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10441
Scope and Contents
Contains brief notes on the activities of the school from its opening on 4 April 1870 to the late 1890s. Daily entries may include information on admissions and discharges, weather, attendance, examinations, discipline, subjects taught and the observations/recommendations of inspectors. Names of teachers and visitors appear throughout the volume with the names of individual children appearing roughly from the early 1880s. The final pages of the volume jump between dates in the mid-1890s...
Dates:
1870-1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Logbook of the Black Horse Drove Mixed School
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10442
Scope and Contents
Contains brief notes on the activities of the school from its opening on19 May 1876 to 3 January 1895. Daily entries may include information on admissions and discharges, weather, attendance, examinations, discipline, subjects taught and the observations/recommendations of inspectors. Names of teachers and visitors appear throughout the volume with the names of individual children appearing inconsistently. The final pages of the volume include object lessons and recitations for the school...
Dates:
1876-1894
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Logbook of the West Indiaman 'Alarm', Captain Charles Cotton
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3033
Dates:
11 Feb. 1782-3 May 1783
Conditions Governing Access:
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London parishes: statistics of baptisms, burials, and of plague infection, with statements as to causes of death of those interred
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.23
Scope and Contents
From the binding of I*.6.31, F. Le Preux, Paris.
Dates:
1600
Conditions Governing Access:
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Long: the papers of Roger Long
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/LON
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Roger Long's Commonplace Books and notebooks as well as posthumous material collected by the College.
Dates:
1698-1951 and undated
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Lope de Vega: La dragontea
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7824
Scope and Contents
'La Dragontea, Victoria de Espanoles, y miserable muerte de Francisco Draque en la jornada que hizo a la ciudad del nombre de dios siendo su governador y capitan general don Diego Suarez de Amaya', the earliest known manuscript of de Vega's poem on the death of Drake and the defeat of his final expedition, dedicated to Philip II. The document was written by two scribes, and has two stanzas on each page.
Dates:
1597
Conditions Governing Access:
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Lord Acton (1834-1902): letters to Reginald Lane Poole (1857-1939)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7472
Scope and Contents
John Emerich Edward Charles Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902), was born in Naples on 10 January 1834, the son of Sir Ferdinand Richard Acton, 7th Baronet. He studied at the University of Munich under the church historian Ignaz von Döllinger. In 1859 he became Liberal MP for the Irish constituency of Carlow, and in 1869 accepted a peerage. During this time Acton acquired The Rambler and developed it as a liberal Catholic journal dedicated to discussing social, political and...
Dates:
1888-1898
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Lord and Lady Mountbatten in India
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022JJ
Scope and Contents
Modern copies of photographs relating to Robin Wade Design Associates' work in India when Lord Mountbatten was Viceroy (March-August 1947) and Governor-General (August 1947-June 1948).
Dates:
1947-03 - 1948-06
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Lord Cardigan's sketch of the charge of the Light Brigade
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7194.II
Scope and Contents
Rough sketch of the battlefield of Balaclava made by James Thomas Brudenell, seventh earl of Cardigan, and signed: 'Cardigan fecit'. Accompanying note signed 'J. W. R.' states that it was made while the earl was 'dining with Mr and Mrs [Edward] Horsman at the Chief Secretary's Lodge in the Phoenix Park in Dublin - some day in the winter of 1855-6. He described the charge to my sister and made this sketch, and signed it at her request.'
Dates:
1856 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Lord Ellenborough's ideas on Indian policy': MA thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 74
Scope and Contents
A copy of a 1936 M.A. thesis for the University of London, 330 pages.
Dates:
1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Lord Randolph Churchill: 12 letters to Charles Milthorp
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9460
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Charles Henry Milthorp of Bradford, on local political matters, 'heresy' of bimetallism and other political subjects, condolences, etc.
Dates:
1893-1894
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Lord Randolph Churchill: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9248
Scope and Contents
Political and personal correspondence, including letters from most leading political figures of the time, Joseph Chamberlain, the Lord Justice Gerald Fitzgibbon, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. The correspondence with Gerald Fitzgibbon sheds much light on Churchill's own career. Comprises letters written to Churchill by political and personal associates, and copies of letters written by him, covering the period 1870 - 1895,...
Dates:
1870-1894
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Lords Justices and Privy Council of Ireland: Letter to Sir William Penn
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4231
Scope and Contents
The letter is signed by Sir Man. Eustace, the Earl of Orrery, the Earl of Mountrath, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Earl of Kildare, the Bishop of Raphoe, Francis Aungier (Earl of Longford), Lord Coote of Coloony, Lord Barry of Santry, Tho. Pigott, Jo. Bysse, Sir J. Temple, Sir Fra. Hamilton, Sir Rob. Meredith and Sir Theo. Jones.
Dates:
17th May 1661
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Louis Cobbett: Antiquarian Notes and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9273
Scope and Contents
Notes and papers, mostly relating to Cambridgeshire:
Dates:
1915-1939 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Louis Lucien Bonaparte: Letters to Alexander John Ellis
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6186
Dates:
1870-1888
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Low Temperature Research Station and related papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10242
Scope and Contents
Contains minutes, papers, correspondence, annual reports, offprints and photographs of the Low Temperature Research Station (LTRS), Cambridge (1921-1964). Significant series include papers of the Committee of Management, papers of Edgar Bate-Smith (director of the LTRS) and administrative papers concerning the station's relationship with Cambridge University, transfer to the Agricultural Research Council and termination of the lease of the Downing Street site. Also comprises reports and...
Dates:
1917-1989
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Lower Ouse Drainage Board Enquiry: Transcripts of evidence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8305
Dates:
1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Lubumbashi Falls collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304P
Scope and Contents
Contains sepia prints, mostly on some white background; the measurements are taken to the edge of the paper, not the photograph. These photographs were the property of the Reverend John William Peppercorn, probably acquired between 1921 and 1923. As two (numbers 1 and 2) have the name A.G. Cooke on them, it is possible that these, and perhaps others, were taken by Mr Cooke and purchased by Mr Peppercorn. They do not relate to the work of the Mission, but are handsome views of the...
Dates:
1921 - 1923
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Luca Marenzio: Madrigals
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6372
Scope and Contents
Madrigals for four voices by Luca Marenzio, copied from the edition published at Venice 1592 in the hand of T. Greatorex, F.R.S., F.L.S. Organist of Westminster Abbey (+1831). On fo. i appears the following note: 'This fine Score of Luca Marenzio's Madrigals, published in parts, 1592, at Venice, is in the handwriting of T. Greatorex, F.R.S., F.L.S., Conductor of the Concerts of Antient Music, Organist of Westminster Abbey, etc., etc. His collection of music, etc., was sold by Watson, at...
Dates:
1790 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Lucas Family: business and family papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8369
Scope and Contents
The collection is uncatalogued. There is an interim box list - please contact the repository for further details. Comprises business and family papers of the Lucas family, chiefly correspondence and legal documents of Philip Monoux Lucas (1778-1830), a merchant of Marylebone, London, and partner in the firm Chauncy, Lang and Lucas. Material relating to the Caribbean, enslavement and elements of the Transatlantic slave trade is largely to be found in box 1.Philip Lucas was...
Dates:
c. 1733 - late 19th century
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Lucattinis, Domenico de. Liber de elementis
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10178
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript on paper in Latin and Italian, small quarto, ff. [4 index], 14-237 (foliation skips from 89 to 100 without loss of text), including a few blanks; written in brown ink in a single hand, illustrated with 24 ink drawings, 8 inserted on slips. Illustrated compilation of notes on natural philosophy, cosmology, geography, and magnetism, composed by an Italian student (possibly Tuscany) apparently from lectures attended in 1670. The first part begins with the four elements,...
Dates:
1670
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Ludovick Stewart: Notes on mammals and birds of India
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7881
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes on mammals and birds of India and related topics. The first item is a 'Catalogue of the mammals and birds of the N.W. Himalayas'.
Dates:
1865
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library