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Papers concerning property in Guilden Morden and Over, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3864
Scope and Contents
Includes leases, deeds, assignments, copies of court rolls, letters of attorney and releases concerning land in Guilden Morden and Over owned by the corporation of Beverley, Yorkshire. A full list is available on request.
Dates:
1605-1705
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
Papers concerning the "Amethyst Incident" [or "Yangtze Incident"] and papers of Rear Admiral Sir David Scott
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DKNS
Scope and Contents
This collection mainly consists of naval signal logs from H.M.S. Amethyst while under attack by Communist forces on the Yangtze River. This was also known as the "Yangtze Incident" and took place 20 April - 31 July 1949. There are also other papers relating to the incident such as reminiscences of those involved, articles and correspondence. The Rear Admiral Sir David Scott material includes reminiscences of events from his boyhood; through to his retirement and also includes material...
Dates:
1949 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Papers concerning the Paget Gorman Sign Language
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7920
Scope and Contents
Papers dealing with the development and use of a `New Sign Language' (later `Systematic Sign Language') for the deaf, aimed in particular at the teaching of children with hearing and speech problems. It was begun in 1934 by Sir Richard Paget (1869-1955) and developed by his widow, Grace Paget, in collaboration with Dr Pierre Gorman after Sir Richard's death. Comprises: Sir Richard Paget's correspondence, lectures, articles and publicity material; Lady Paget's correspondence and papers;...
Dates:
1928-1988
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
Papers concerning Trinity College
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2704
Scope and Contents
Includes: I) copy of petition by Samuel Lee, Regius Professor of Hebrew, and by James Scholefield, Regius Professor of Greek, to William IV, Feb. 1833; II) Trinity College: copy of charter of endowment, 24 Dec. 1546, transcribed 18 Apr. 1833 from CUL MS Mm.1.38; III) Trinity College: copy of statutes of 1552, apparently transcribed from CUL MS Mm.1.42
Dates:
1833 (Transcriptions are from: (I) charter dated 1546 and statues (II) dated 1552.)
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
Papers dealing with cases before Vice-Chancellor's Court, University of Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1603
Dates:
1609-1614
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
Papers of A J Watson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3377/AJWatson
Dates:
1960 - 1985
Found in:
Department of Psychology
Fonds
Papers of A.B. Brewster
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 355
Scope and Contents
A diary, a scrapbook and a printed book.
Dates:
1870 - 1903
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
Papers of Abraham Baley and John Baley concerning the North Level of the Fens
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7777-7787
Scope and Contents
Abraham seems to have become clerk or secretary to the commissioners of the North Level of the Great Level of the Fens (‘the Bedford Level’) in about 1754, when he was in his early twenties, and was still in post nine years later. The papers catalogued below include his letter book for 1756 and 1757, which shows him writing to officers of the Bedford Level Corporation, to Mr Butcher (a representative of the Duke of Bedford), and to clergymen and farmers, concerning the building of a sluice...
Dates:
1749-1797
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
Papers of Admiral Sir Algernon U. Willis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLLS
Scope and Contents
Includes material relating to Willis' naval career, including material relating to World War Two
Dates:
1905 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Papers of Admiral Sir Frederick Parham
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PARM
Scope and Contents
Album from HMS Malaya and a recording of Parham's reminiscences.
Dates:
1917 - 1990-08
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Papers of Admiral Sir Ralph Alan Bevan Edwards
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/REDW
Scope and Contents
Diaries and other papers
Dates:
1938 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as: Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Admiral Sir Ralph Edwards, REDW.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Papers of Air Marshal Sir William Dickson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DCKN
Scope and Contents
Papers and photographs mainly relating to his service as Chief of Air Staff (1953-56), Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff (1956-59), and Chief of the Defence Staff (1958-59).
Dates:
1918 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Papers of A.J. Siggins
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 19
Scope and Contents
Typescripts and pamphlets on British Empire organisations and the Commonwealth, short stories, a memoir and correspondence.
Dates:
1929 - 1931
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
Papers of Alison Izzett
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 407
Scope and Contents
Comprises 11 journals compiled by Alison Izzett while employed by the Colonial Office as a social worker in Nigeria, 1945-60. These are arranged by tour of service, and include notes relating to visits, both professional and personal, to the Gold Coast [Ghana], Uganda, Kenya, the Sudan, South Africa as well as journeys to and from England. Three journals relate to subsequent visits to Nigeria post-independence in Nov. 1964 and in 1972-3. Together with a copy of Izzett's B.Litt thesis...
Dates:
1945 - 1976
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of Allen Hutt
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9814
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of papers related to Hutt's activities as a consultant to newspapers and writer on typography and design.
Dates:
1905-1983
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
Papers of Alwyn Faber Scholfield
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10411
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous papers, including notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, correspondence, poems, printed papers and photographs.
Dates:
1890s-1970s
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of Arnold Paice
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 178
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters from Arnold Paice to his mother, father and sister Muriel Paice, and the description of a journey from Durban to Nairobi. It also preserves his correspondence with the Royal Commonwealth Society regarding their donation.Paice’s time in Kenya coincided with almost the entire era of white settlement, and his papers form one of the richest documents of an ordinary settler's experience. His letters to his mother, written over an extended period of time,...
Dates:
1901 - 1963
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
Papers of A.T. Matson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 161
Scope and Contents
Published and unpublished writing by A.T. Matson, correspondence with D.H. Simpson, and extracts and cuttings from journals and newspapers.
Dates:
1929 - 1994
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
Papers of Beatrice Warde
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9817
Scope and Contents
Beatrice Warde's papers were not kept together at her death, and this collection is miscellaneous. It contains chiefly her letters to her family (although not those published in Bombed but unbeaten (1941)); material relating to Stanley Morison; and various compositions by her.
Dates:
1909-1976
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
Papers of Brian Pippard
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10206
Scope and Contents
Includes autobiographical writing, lecture notes, correspondence, photographs, research notes, reviews and notebooks
Dates:
c. 1920-2008
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
Papers of Brooke Crutchley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9824
Scope and Contents
The collection contains miscellaneous papers related to typography.
Dates:
1921-2000
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
Papers of Captain Thomas Edward Maurice McKitterick relating to his service in the Intelligence Corps in the Eastern Mediterranean 1942-45
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add. 8683
Dates:
1942-1945
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
Series
Papers of Charles Lesingham Smith (1806-1878)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/1849/FP/44-52
Dates:
1850 - 1878
Conditions Governing Access:
As far as we know, there are no legal or other restrictions on access to any of the Lesingham Smith materials.
Found in:
Christ's College Archives
Fonds
Papers of C.H.W. Johns
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Johns
Scope and Contents
Notebooks and files containing Johns' notes in English and cuneiform which form the basis of his research and published works on Assyrian legal documents and names. Detailed listing taken from a typed list by R.A. Henshaw
Dates:
1901-1919 (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
Fonds
Papers of Clive Wilmer
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9958
Scope and Contents
The texts by Wilmer include papers relating to 'Passio', 'I lived on this earth', and 'Urban Pastorals'. The correspondence includes large groups of letters and texts from Edgar Bowers, Donald Davie, Dick Davis, August Kleinzahler, John Peck, Michael Vince and Robert Wells, together with small groups and single letters from numerous other correspondents.
Dates:
c.1960-2020
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library.
The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access. Users of the collection are required to complete a Researcher Undertaking Concerning Access under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Archives Which Would Otherwise Be Closed.
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