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Oakley Williams: Correspondence on an edition of de László
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8391
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typescript correspondence of Oakley Williams regarding the preparation of an edition of de László's portraits, with related material.
Dates:
1913-1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Obligation, Deddington, Oxfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3922
Scope and Contents
By virtue of a recognisance 'ordeyned and made by statute for the recovery of dettes' dated the day previous, John Billyngs of Dadyngton [Deddington], Oxfordshire, gent, stands bound to Thomas Pope esq, treasurer of the court of augmentations, in the sum of #500. By this indenture, Pope agrees to forego the sum provided that Billyngs performs all his obligations under a pair of indentures dated 9 October last. Indenture, signed and sealed by 'John Byllyng'. Traces of pendant tagged red round...
Dates:
25 Oct. 1537 (29 Henry VIII)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Obligation, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4050
Scope and Contents
Witnessing that, since John de Lile, 'seignour de Rouge Mount', has given to John Malwayn, citizen of London, his heirs and assigns, 20s annual rent from what is now the manor of John Avenel of Wynpol [Wimpole, Cambridgeshire], or from the advowson of the church of Wimpole, as is shown by a writing belonging to the said Malwayn, Avenel undertakes to pay the said charge in specified instalments. At Wimpole, indenture, witnessed by Henry de Colvill, Thomas de Chelers, Waryn de Bassingbourn,...
Dates:
21 July 1355 (Tuesday after the feast of St Margaret 29 Edward III [21 July 1355])
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Occasional Verses and Related Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4247
Scope and Contents
Occasional verses and related papers written in various hands, loose in a paper file, 33 folios. The papers include the following: (fo. 2) 'Verses made on Miss Harvey when a Day old in Imitation of Mr. Phillips on Miss Cartreet'. These are printed on a broadside kept at the British Library, 839 m 23, no. 108, where they are attributed to [Edward] Young, although they are not printed among Young's Works. They are also referred to by Jonathan Swift in a letter to Alexander Pope of 26 November...
Dates:
1730-1874 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Occupation of Mashonaland
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052A
Scope and Contents
Album of carbon prints, originally belonging to Sir Leander Starr Jameson and has his signature. The album contains the results of William Ellerton Fry's work documenting the British South Africa Company's occupation of Mashonaland. It is not known how many copies of this album were produced; fewer than twenty are known to survive. The photographs were reproduced in smaller format but with some introductory matter, by Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo in 1982. It may be noted that this gives...
Dates:
1890
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ocean Island litigation records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 315
Scope and Contents
A comprehensive set of papers relating to Ocean Island Nos 1 and 2. The first box contains a file of correspondence, 1980-1981, regarding the gift of the collection to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1970 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ode by Henry Francis Cary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7194.III
Scope and Contents
The ode forms part of an invitation from Mr and Mrs Roberts to Dr and Mrs Peckard, addressed simply to 'Revd Dr [Peter] Peckard [Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge]'. It is entitled H F Cary ('not 16'): 'Ode'. It begins: 'Mark, where yon lucid stream / Beneath the moons pale beam ...'; ends: 'The fate of hopeless love / Nor fears like me, to terminate its woes.'
Dates:
6 Apr. 1789 (Circa, 'Monday 6 April')
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Of the Sacrament of Matrimonye
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8299
Scope and Contents
'A breyffe instruction...of the sacrament of matrimonye, with certayne other poyntes of doctrine comprysed in the same.' At the front of the volume: 'Stanley Morison ex dono Francisci Meynell.'
Dates:
1600 (Early 17th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Officers
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC02
Scope and Contents
Master, bursar, dean, praelector, steward, tutor, 'visitors' and others.
Dates:
1376 - 1941
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
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Officers 44th Assam Light Infantry Kohima: Naga Hills, 1883
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022WW
Scope and Contents
Modern copy of print (property and copyright of Army Museums Ogilby Trust, Aldershot). The size of the actual photograph as copied is 170 x 115 mm and the above title is written below it. There are some identifications below, but these have partly been cut off by the edge of the photograph. The original came from Captain Downie's album. The unit later became the 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles.
Dates:
1883
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Collection
Official Archive of Churchill College
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/0014/[College Archive]
Scope and Contents
The college archive contains material (hard-copy and digital) from and about every aspect of life at Churchill College, including administrative, student life, photographic and some artefacts.
Dates:
1889 - 2024
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Management Group
Old Catalogue
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/OLD
Scope and Contents
This catalogue was created by E. A. Barnard in 1930 with further additions of material in 1934 which followed the move of the College office to Hobson's and the death of the Master (F. M. Rushmore). The original hard copy catalogue is available at MUN/1/3. No further additions are made to this catalogue.
Dates:
1106 - 1972
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Fonds
Olive Cook Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/2911/COO
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal and business papers of Olive Cook (1912-2002), writer and artist, and her husband Edwin Smith (1912-1971), photographer and artist. Although they range from the 1930s till her death in 2002, most cover the last third of the 20th century.Olive Cook's archive consists of personal letters and postcards; greetings cards both from her husband and their many friends in the artistic community (all handmade); many research notebooks and drafts of...
Dates:
1930s - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is available to researchers at Newnham College Archive
Found in:
Newnham College Archives
Fonds
Oliver Claude Pell: Collections on Weights and Measures
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6462
Scope and Contents
Papers of Pell connected with historical weights and measures, and in particular with his contribution to P.E. Dove, ed., Domesday studies, I (London, 1888), pp. 227-385, on 'The Geldable Unit of Assessment of Domesday' (223 folios). I. Letters to Pell, 1888-1889, from the following: A.N. Palmer (nos 1-3); W.L. de Gruchy (4-7); C. Elton (8); C.F. Keary (9 and 11); F.W. Maitland (10, 12 and 14); [Sir] John Evans (13, 16 and 18); and C. Roach Smith (15 and 17), 30 September and 3 October 1889....
Dates:
1884-1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Oliver L. Zangwill Personal Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9762
Scope and Contents
The following letters were written to the young Oliver Zangwill while an undergraduate and a postgraduate researcher at King’s College, Cambridge, and a psychologist in the brain injuries unit of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Almost all are from Olive (or Olave) Fraser and Annie Patricia Rawdon-Smith , both of whom met Zangwill and fell in love with him as students at Girton College . After his wartime service in Edinburgh, Zangwill worked at the Institute of Experimental Psychology in Oxford,...
Dates:
1934 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9735
Scope and Contents
This catalogue lists the papers of Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin ('ORB'), elder son of Stanley and Lucy Baldwin, and brother of Windham Baldwin; and also includes groups of letters from him to his parents and (of particular interest) to his companion of thirty-five years, John Parke Boyle. They illuminate all the main aspects of his career: as a soldier in both World Wars, as Labour politician, author, journalist, film critic, and as Governor of the Leeward Islands. The papers have been used...
Dates:
1899-2003 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
[Oluwaseun Ogunseitan]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043SS
Scope and Contents
A glossy black-and-white print, measuring 203 x 153 mm, of Nigerian 'Journalist of the Year', Oluwaseun Ogunseitan, welcomed in London by Thomson Foundation director Norman Cattanach.
Dates:
1987
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Opinions of Counsel and Precedents of Wills, Conveyancing and Pleas
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6628
Scope and Contents
Opinions of counsel and precedents of wills, conveyancing and pleas. The names of counsel are given. There are genealogical notes and monumental inscriptions on pages 155-62, 191-213, and 252-231 (reversing the volume), which, according to Ralph Griffin (fol. i r), are in the hand of Edward Hasted, the historian of Kent. However, his claim is not readily reconcilable with the dates of the legal material.
Dates:
1680-1795 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Oppositions against the Word of God with the Doctrine of the Romane Church
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.31
Scope and Contents
Extract from cap. 2; arms of the Wenman family; Dedication to Penelope, Lady Dynham; Pierre Du Moulin, Oppositions de la Parole de Dieu avec la Doctrine de l'Eglise romaine (trans. Bezaleel Sargeant - English trans. published 1610. French edition appeared 1637); 'Medicina Anime' and other additional matter, comprising: 'The manner of comforting the sick', two prayers, and extract from St Cyprian and St Chrysostom, respectively, translated from the Italian edition of Imagines Mortis, Lyons,...
Dates:
800-1500
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Orakei Korako, Rotarua, New Zealand
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089Y
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 75 x 55 mm, captioned on the reverse. These scenic views of the Rotorua area are a commercial souvenir set and are contained in a printed envelope. Printed and published by Isle's Photo Finishing Service, Rotorua.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Orbis Latinus
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7049
Scope and Contents
Latin geographical names and their modern equivalents
Dates:
1750 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-Fonds
Orchid watercolours by Nellie Roberts
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10550
Dates:
c. 1920
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ord: The Papers of Bernhard ('Boris') Ord
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/BO
Scope and Contents
Consists mainly of letters written to him, as well as some musical scores.
Dates:
1920 - 2010
Fonds
Order for payment, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3986
Scope and Contents
Order taken for payment of 200 pounds to Lawrence Brockett BD, professor of modern history at Cambridge University, as part of his annual stipend of 400 pounds granted by royal warrant of 6 July 1763. Payment requested of Lord Hardwicke 25 Oct 1765 and receipted 29 October.
Dates:
16 Oct. 1765
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Order for removal, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1965
Dates:
1812
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library