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Messrs May, Wyborn, White and Mercer, Bankers: Letter Books and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7924
Scope and Contents
Three letter books (1-3), a bundle of miscellaneous letters and documents (4), and a list of debts (5), together with a file of research notes.
Dates:
1771-1829
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
Metals Society
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/METL
Scope and Contents
British Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee and Combined Intelligence Objectives
Sub-committee reports on German and Japanese war industry.
Dates:
1939 - 1952
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Meteorological journal of a voyage from England to Egypt via Cape of Good Hope
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10066
Scope and Contents
Journal has bookplate of Admiral Sir Home Popham (1762-1820), who commanded HMS Romney on the voyage detailed in the journal: probably a presentation copy to him
Dates:
1800-1801
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
Meyer Fortes: Ashanti Social Survey
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9359
Scope and Contents
Papers relating mainly to Fortes's research and social survey in Ashanti [now a region of southern Ghana], 1945-46. This includes field data, blank questionnaires, completed questionnaires, background research in preparation for the survey and papers relating to the reports and articles produced as a result. Additional material includes a collection of offprints loosely on the subject of West African history and anthropology, mostly Nigeria and Ghana, and papers relating to the establishment...
Dates:
1873-1978 (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
Meyer Fortes: Notebooks, correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8405
Scope and Contents
Comprises: correspondence with British anthroplogists and ethnologists, including former pupils and junior colleagues of Meyer Fortes, arranged in chronological order by year; a series of subject files, many relating to research in the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana] and Ashanti and on the Tallensi (or Talensi) people, notes, offprints, typescripts of articles, lecture notes ; desk notebooks, journals and diaries; two volume typescript of 'Kinship and social order'. The series of subject files which...
Dates:
1923-1983
Conditions Governing Access:
Catalogued material (except for noted restricted correspondence) is available for consultation, but readers are advised that copyright remaining in the writings of Meyer Fortes is the property of his daughter, whose permission is necessary for publication.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Michael Blackett: Mercantile letter-book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.91
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters, mostly initialled.
Dates:
1675-1677
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
Michael Finnissy: Arrangements of Gershwin's 'Embraceable you'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8926
Scope and Contents
Piano arrangements of George Gershwin's 'Embraceable you'. Published in Michael Finnissy, 'Gershwin arrangements for piano solo', 1990. With letter, Benjamin Morison to May & May, 4 October 1989, enclosing a programme note by Finnissy for 'Gershwin arrangements' at Dartington Summer School, 1988, and explaining provenance.
Dates:
1987-1988 (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
Michael Grant Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10000
Scope and Contents
Literary correspondence and papers of Michael Grant, chiefly consisting of letters addressed to Grant by Tim Longville, John Riley and others.
Dates:
1964-2001
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to 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
Michael Haslam Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10173
Scope and Contents
Letters to Michael Haslam from authors, publishers and others. Correspondents (with dates of letters) are:1: Peter Armstrong 1987–962: Timothy Atkins 1987–93: Michael Ayres 1988–914: Tony Baker 1978–925: Peter Baldwin 19876: Sebastian Barker 19867: Anthony Barnett 1977–20138: Dennis Barone 1986–909: Asa Benveniste 1988–9010: Fred Beake 199811: Charles Bernstein late 70s–9312: Pete Bland undated (1970s)13: Andrew Brewerton 1986–8814: Ian...
Dates:
1969-2016
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
Michael Horovitz correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10032
Scope and Contents
Letters from Michael Horovitz to Ken Edwards, Wes Magee, David Tipton and others. With related items.
Dates:
1966-1994 (and undated)
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
Michael Servetus and Theodor Ludwig Lau: theological works
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6903
Scope and Contents
M. Servetus, 'Libri Duo Dialogorum de septem Erroribus in Trinitate', printed at Hagenau, 1532. fo. 35: blank. fo. 39: Lau, 'Meditiationes de Deo, Mundo et Homine', printed at Frankfurt, 1717. fo. 66: blank. fo. 69: Lau, 'Meditationes seu Theses dubiae philosophico-theologicae eruditorum Disquisitioni Religionis cuiusvis et Nationis', printed at Freystad, 1719. fo. 84: blank. Servetus' work is presumably copied either from the original printing, or from the Regensburg, ?1721 reprint,...
Dates:
1730 (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
Michael William Leonard Tutton: Natural History Diary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8769
Scope and Contents
Natural history diary kept while Tutton was a King's Scholar at Eton, which was awarded the Natural History Prize, 1930-1931. The diary contains notes on occurrences of insects, especially butterflies and moths, and occasionally birds and mammals. From September 1931 the natural history entries mostly cease, and the diary becomes an ordinary record of events. January-July 1932 is a journal of a visit to Italy.
Dates:
1930-1932
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
Microfilm copies of "ULTRA" signals
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ULTR
Scope and Contents
Consisting of intelligence from intercepted enemy communications, forwarded from the Admiralty to Allied Commands, "Cairo Series", June 1942-September 1943.
Generally being decrypts from the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, using the Enigma machine. The Enigma signals were given a special security classification, "MSS" (Most Secret Source) or "ULTRA".
Dates:
1942-06 - 1943-09
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is not currently available.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Middleton: Notebooks of John Henry Middleton (1846-1896), archaeologist and museum director
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JHMN
Scope and Contents
7 notebooks created by J. H. Middleton to document his travels in Greece, Italy and Egypt and his studies of classical architecture in antiquity. These notebooks were going to form the basis of a companion book to his publication on Rome, focussed on the topography of ancient Athens. They mainly consist of architectural and topographical drawings made in situ during his travels in the early 1890s.
Professor Ernest Gardner was appointed by the Society of the Promotion of Hellenic...
Dates:
1856-1899
Fonds
Midshipman's Logs of D Calybut Downing
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DNNG
Scope and Contents
Naval logs and photographs
Dates:
1906-01 - 1908-08
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Migration scrapbooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 31
Scope and Contents
Press cuttings, letters, photographs, handbills, reports and other items taken from three albums relating to Sedgwick's trips of 1910 and 1912, and to his activities in trying to persuade private and public bodies and individuals to support juvenile emigration in the Empire. In the first box is a summary list and description of the preservation work carried out on the collection. RCS Library Notes no. 71, Nov. 1962, pp. 1-3, outlines the scope of the collection.
Dates:
1910 - 1914
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
Mildmay Fane: My Happy Life, To a Friend (trans. William Wake)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4189
Scope and Contents
Translation into Latin by William Wake of Mildmay Fane's poem 'My Happy Life, to a Friend', 7 folios: (fo. iv) F.J.H. Jenkinson, biographical note on W. Wake; (fo. ii) list of the contents, written in the 19th century, of a volume ('Vol 3') once in the possession of F.J.H. Jenkinson, from which the present manuscript was taken; (fo. 1v) title-page; (fo. 2) text. Inside front cover is the bookplate of the Earl of Westmorland, 1856.
Dates:
1700 (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
Miles and Henry Stapylton: Commonplace Books and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8861
Dates:
1677-1746
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
Miles Crawford Burkitt: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7959
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises postcards, notebooks, archaeological notes, correspondence, articles and cuttings.
Dates:
1900-1970 (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
Military revolution in Nigeria
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 136
Scope and Contents
A study of the political history of Nigeria, 1960-1970, comprising thirty chapters, each with a bibliography. The book was written during the course of the Nigerian civil war. It was based on Azikiwe's personal experiences, official war bulletins, interviews, radio broadcasts, books, newspapers and periodicals, supplemented with data collected when he was residing in Nigeria, Paris and London. The main text is comprised of photocopies of the original annotated typescript pages. This is...
Dates:
1971
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
Military sketches and plans
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4217
Scope and Contents
A series of sketches and plans, mostly of hill forts in India, with a map of settlements in New South Wales (fo. 75), a sketch of Tristan da Cunha (fo. 78), views near Cork (fos 78 and 83), and maps of parts of Arabia and the Persian Gulf (fo. 87), 109 folios. The original artist is named in the following cases: Capt H. Mitchel (fos 9 and 14), Capt. J.J. O'Donoghue (fos 12, 27, 34, 41, 42, 47, 49, 53, 81, 95 and 106), Lieut. Nutt, Bombay Engineers (fo. 16), Semboo Sing (fos 54, 55 and 58),...
Dates:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Milner-White: The Papers of Eric Milner-White
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMW
Scope and Contents
The collection includes published works of Eric Milner-White as well as a large number of manuscript prayers, sermons and other talks given by him as Dean of King's College, Cambridge and later as Dean of York. It also includes his notes on [an undergraduate society styled the] Trappists and church glass, and a number of publications that he collected on religious themes.
Dates:
1899 - 2004
File
Minnie Pate: Scrapbook
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7637
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook of photographs; cuttings from the Cambridge Evening News, Cambridge Review, and other publications; and letters, relating to the Cambridge University Typewriting Office, Cambridge luminaries, and Cambridge life in general.A typescript index of subjects is at f.10a.Writers of correspondence include: Frederick Vaughan, A. Hadrian Allcroft, Alex Hill, Robert Ball, A. C. Benson, J. R. M. Butler, A. F. Butler, R. A. Butler, E. A. Benians, F. M. Cornford, Brian W....
Dates:
1892-1963
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
Minnie Pate: Testimonials and letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10508
Scope and Contents
A scrapbook of testimonials and letters assembled by Minnie Pate of the Cambridge University Typewriting Office. The writers of letters include A. E. Housman, Laurence Housman, E. M. Forster, George Mallory, John Murray, E. E. C. Jones (Constance Jones), Emma Gollancz, Ethel Sargant, Stephen Gaselee, Lytton Strachey, Richard Kahn, A. C. Pigou, W. J. H. Sprott, A. T. Bartholomew, H. F. Jones, Stanley Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, and Prince Chula of Siam.
Dates:
1890s-1950s
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Minns: the papers of Ellis Hovell Minns
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/MIN
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of publications and notes by Minns as well as a recording of him and correspondence. Posthumous material has also been collected.
Dates:
1888 - 1987
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive