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Fonds
Memorandum on Thomas Dod, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.462
Scope and Contents
Note with regard to the title of Thomas Dod (or Dodd) of Whittlesford to both moieties of the rectory, partly reciting a deed declaring the levying of a fine and recovery dated March 1665. On the back is a note identifying Thomas Dod and giving further information as to the title, etc.
Dates:
1702 (Circa; date of note on back: 7 May 1705)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Memorandum release from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 'Doctors Common', London
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4037
Scope and Contents
Statement of case in a dispute between Robert Mason and others the doctors of doctors' commons, plaintiffs, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, outlining the terms of leases dated 1555 and 1567 by which the College holds a messuage from the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral. Paper ends: 'The doctors of doctors' commons have taken leases of the colledge at fines and rents theis 100 yeares, and never till of late que[st]ioned the same, and most of the doctors...
Dates:
1656 (Circa 1656/1661, undated)
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Memorandum, Writtle, Essex
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.202
Scope and Contents
Memorandum of three conveyances dealing with certain lands mortgaged by Robert Shettleworth in Writtle. Endorsed: 'Memorandum teken by Mr Richard Comins Councillor at Law - Anno 1719 - bought of James Smith Polterer, from Mid[summer] 1719. for Edward [sic] Williamson Esq. of Writtle Essex.
Dates:
1719
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Memorial Wing, Victoria Institute
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3075B
Scope and Contents
235 x 197 mm. A mounted photograph showing the newly opened two storey stone building and apart from the caption includes the dedication 'The Royal Colonial Institute. With the compliments of the President, Trinidad: Feby. 1902.' The Victorian Institute was built at the top of Frederick Street, Port of Spain, to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. An additional wing was built in 1897 on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee, and the Memorial Wing seen here erected after the...
Dates:
1902
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Menaion. Feasts of SS George and Eirene
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3122
Dates:
1642
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Menke: The Medical Writings of William Theodore Menke
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/WTM
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises off-prints and drafts of articles by W.T. Menke on modern and Medieval medicine.
Dates:
1974 - 1993
Fonds
Meredith: Papers Relating to Hugh Owen Meredith
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/HM
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters to and from Hugh Owen Meredith, and memoirs of others written by him.
Dates:
1897 - 1989
File
Merry Passages and Jeasts
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5365
Scope and Contents
'Merry passages and jeasts', a collection of over 600 anecdotes concerning domestic, historical and biographical topics compiled by Sir Nicholas L'Estrange, transcribed from British Library, Harley MS 6395, 194 folios. On fos 183v-192v is an alphabetical index in another hand. Most of the versos are blank.
Dates:
1907
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Mers-el-Kébir, 3 juillet 1940: Exposé chronologique du combat de Mers-el-Kébir, d'après les documents photographiques
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10389
Scope and Contents
Portfolio produced by A. Devauchelle issued in slipcase including dedicated compartments for 75 photographs (15 photographs of the site before the attack, 54 photographs of the attack, 6 photographs of the military funeral), a copy of 'Expose chronologique du combat de Mers-el-Kébir' (cover title: 'Mers-el-Kébir, 3 juillet 1940'), and a facsimile ("réimpression pour complément de collection") excerpt of issue 5085 of the journal "L'illustration", 24 August 1940, pages [453]-462, including...
Dates:
1980s?
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Michael William Leonard Tutton: Natural History Diary
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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:
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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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library