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Agreement to purchase, Sutton, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1771
Scope and Contents
Philip Cawthorne of Chatteris, farmer, agrees to purchase 6 acres of fenland and premises in Sutton Long North Fen for #300 from William Custance of Sutton, farmer. Both sides undertake to see that the conveyance proceeds smoothly, Cawthorne has already paid Custance #50 and agrees to pay the balance on 29 Sep 1811. 2 sides, signed by both parties and witnessed by [?Richard] Pigott, duty stamps.
Dates:
17 Aug. 1811
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Agreement to recover (copy), Lidgate, Suffolk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1581
Dates:
6 June 1615 (Date of copy: c. 1660)
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Agreement, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.447
Scope and Contents
Thomas Ascham of Framlingham, Suffolk, agrees that he and John Ascham and Roger Ascham his sons shall convey to Gregorye Milner of Sawston, Cambridgeshire, and Robert Symons the younger of Whittlesford their interest n the rectory of Whittlesford except a lease to Robert Symons of four years yet to come; and he assigns to him all Letters Patent and other writings. Gregorye Milner and Robert Symons agree to pay to Thomas Ascham a certain capital sum, or interest in respite towards the...
Dates:
22 Oct. 1608
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Agriculture in Queensland
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085P
Scope and Contents
Three loose prints depicting agriculture in Queensland. Photographer unknown, presumably the staff photographer of the 'Silverwood Gazette' as two prints are thus stamped on reverse, as well as being marked up in pencil for publication.
Dates:
1910
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A.H. Swinton: The Sun and the Harvest
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5370
Scope and Contents
Newspaper cuttings, statistics and diagrams illustrating sunspots and their relation to the harvest, 1906-1912. On fo. 59 is a copy of a letter from Sir Norman Lockyer to Swinton, 8 May 1901.
Dates:
1901-1912
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Alan Day: postgraduate notebooks, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, c.1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9870
Dates:
1955
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Alan England Brooke: Lectures and Writings
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9391
Scope and Contents
Various lectures, drafts of writings, and typescripts, on Origen, St. Luke's Gospel and St. John's Gospel and other Biblical subjects. [1] Origen: Typescript introduction to Origen, drafts of parts, lectures, and a review in German by Paul Koetschau in Theologische Literaturzeiting, 9, 1897, p.243. [2] Material on St. John: lectures on other commentators, including Von Sochen, Jean Rentre[?], Harnack, Loisy, Wernle[?], and Schmiedel, a sermon, and other lectures. [3] Lectures on St. John,...
Dates:
1896-1925 (circa)
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Alan Gray: Scores of vocal and instrumental works
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7793
Dates:
1891-1900 (1891 - 20th century)
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Alan Noel Latimer Munby: Biographical Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8199-8229
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise a mixture of Munby's own correspondence and papers (MS.Add.8203/D, E; 8229; 8307; 8308) and manuscripts which he collected (MS.Add.8199-8202; 8203/A, B, C; 8204-8213; 8219-8228). The former contain a wide range of subject matter, while the latter are mainly of bibliographic interest, comprising letters of printers, booksellers, book collectors and librarians, and catalogues and ledgers.
Dates:
1533-1974
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Alan Noel Latimer Munby: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8307-8308
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Geoffrey Keynes and James Basil, Librarian, Shrewsbury School.
Dates:
1946-1959
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Alan Noel Latimer Munby: letters to Walter Armytage
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10448
Scope and Contents
126 letters and 30 cards from A. N. L. Munby to Walter Armytage. Autograph and signed typescript. With greetings cards and other papers, including an autograph note from Shane Leslie, 1955.
Dates:
1945-1976
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Alan Rudwick collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J
Scope and Contents
Loose photographs taken by Alan Rudwick unless otherwise indicated. All photographs are 215 x 165 mm unless otherwise stated. They fall into two groups; photographs of trade castles (1-28) and other views, chiefly of Achimota. Along the West Africa coast are the remains of more than 40 castles and fortified posts set up by European nations engaged in commerce, including the Transatlantic slave trade, with West Africa, the greatest concentration being in what became the Gold Coast, now...
Dates:
1950 - 1969
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Alan Steele: Letters on Publishing, c.1928-34
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8698
Scope and Contents
Letters to Steele, mostly 1928-34, on publication and promotion of new books, especially fiction. A few series of personal letters continue after 1934. Arranged by name of correspondent.
Dates:
c.1928-1962 (bulk 1928-1934)
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Albemarle family scrapbook
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 34
Scope and Contents
A scrapbook of c. 123 pages, with cuttings and other material pasted in. The album includes a 'Vanity Fair' cartoon of 6th Earl of Albemarle (1883); a 'Vanity Fair' cartoon of Viscount Bury (1837); a promissory note signed by William Lyon Mackenzie (1837); an invitation to the inaugural Colonial Society meeting on 15 March 1869; an invitation to and the order of service for the funeral of Prince Albert on 23 December 1861; electoral posters of Viscount Bury; and various cuttings, including...
Dates:
1837 - 1883
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Albert Brighton: Undergraduate lecture notebooks
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8065-8067
Scope and Contents
Notebooks on lectures attended by Albert Brighton while taking the natural sciences tripos at Cambridge University.
Dates:
1919-1922
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Albert Charles Chibnall: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8897
Scope and Contents
The Chibnall collection is comprised of significant biographical material, research notes, materials related to lectures and publications, records of Chibnall's involvement in socities and organisations, material related to Chinball's work during visits and conferences, and a large quantity of Chibnall's correspondence.
Dates:
1912-1990
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Albert George Dew-Smith: Library Catalogue
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6461
Scope and Contents
Catalogue by A.G. Dew-Smith of his library, 298 folios. Many leaves are blank, apparently to allow for the insertion of fresh entries. Fos ir - xlix contain an alphabetical index of the books catalogued. The actual descriptive catalogue begins on fo. 1. The arrangement of entries is neither chronological nor alphabetical.
Dates:
1900 (Circa)
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Albert Ingham: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8377
Scope and Contents
The principal part of the collection comprises two copies of The distribution of prime numbers: a manuscript version of 274 pages, and a printed version produced by Cambridge University Press, containing inserted notes. The rest of the collection is comprised of correspondence and a photograph of G.H. Hardy.
Dates:
circa 1925-1932
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Albert Thomas Trevor Allen: Autobiographical and other writings
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8420
Scope and Contents
The collection includes background and related material for Allen's books, an unpublished autobiography in five parts, several other unpublished writings, and a mass of largely unsorted typescripts of smaller items.
Box 1: Looking Back (autobiography): 1. Brompton Boy: Prelude to Adventure; 2. A Freelance Life: I collect people and their stories; 3. Freelance at Large: I collect more people with stories; 4. Authors, My Friends: a life's literary contacts; 5. Portrait in Greasepaint...
Dates:
1920s-1950s
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Album of coastal profiles
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 6
Scope and Contents
Fifty-eighty pages of sepia drawings (12" x 6"), with captions and dates. The drawings give latitude and longitude, and appear to be competent renderings of coast profiles. The places featured include the Cape Verde Islands, Trinidad, Table Bay (including plan), Ceylon, Malaya and the East Indies, Macao, Sunda Straits, St Helena, Ascension and Britain. Some of the profiles, including those for Cape Town, Macao and Jamestown, St Helena, give details of buildings. None are signed, but...
Dates:
1783-12-30 - 1785-06-06
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Album of family photographs taken in Kenya 1934-1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046G
Scope and Contents
A small brown album containing photographs measuring 135 x 85 mm, plus four index prints. There are handwritten annotations in the album or on the reverse of the photographs. Subjects include scenes of Treetops (safari lodge) and big game, the Gerra River Nyeri, the wedding of St. John Shaw and Mary Roe, the family's bungalow and garden, Silver Jubilee celebrations at the Nyeri Club in 1935, children thatching with banana leaves, a holiday in Mombasa, views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Free Town,...
Dates:
1934 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Album of Letters, signatures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9636
Scope and Contents
Autograph album, mostly signatures cut from documents, but including some letters:THOMAS MUSGRAVE, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK to H. McLAUGHLIN24 JUN 1850 Thanks for copy of Presbyter Anglicanus, which contains ‘many valuable and highly inportant suggestions’.ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT to ___ HAMILTON 19 JUL 1876Hamilton wants to take Henry Lateward as curate at Linsted: please send letters testimonial and if satisfactory ACT will license him for 3 months.F....
Dates:
1800-1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Album of sermons and verses
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5953
Scope and Contents
Album consisting mainly of a series of sermons and verses, 1 January 1809 - 10 November 1822, fos 34-121, the copy dating from c. 1850. There are also entries by (fo. 6) William M. Bunting, 16 June 183[ ]; (fo. 8) J. F[arrar], 24 April 1832; (fo. 9) Harriet Bunting; (fo. 10) John Hannah, 14 July 1832; (fo. 15) Frederick J. Bentley, 1858; and (fo. 31) Sophia M. Farrar, 24 April 1832. The writing is in various hands, and there are 133 folios in total. On fo. 4 is an elaborate title-page. Fos...
Dates:
1832-1858
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Album souvenir d'Alexandrie: Ruines, 1882
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A
Scope and Contents
An album of albumen prints. This collection contains a series of views of destruction caused by the bombardment of the city on 11 July 1882 when the English fleet attempted to destroy Arabi Pasha's nationalist forces. The photographs are captioned in French on the photographs themselves.
Dates:
1882
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Fonds
Albumen prints of China
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302F
Scope and Contents
Framed albumen prints, measuring approximately 280 x 210 mm (500 x 400 including card frames).
Y302F/1-4: Chinese interiors.
Y302F/5-6: Canton flower boat and interior view.
Y302F/7: Western suburbs looking North (Canton) by Afong Lai, 1874 (after the devastating typhoon of 1874).
Y302F/8: Chinese grave on White Cloud Mountain, c. 1870s.
Dates:
1850 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access:
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