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Papers of Sir Eric Edward Boketon Holt-Wilson
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9794
Scope and Contents
Letters, diaries, photographs, printed books, miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1899-1950
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Sir Frank Stockdale
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10347
Scope and Contents
Papers and letters of Frank Stockdale, mainly relating to his work in the West Indies, in particular his appointment in 1905 as Mycologist and Lecturer in Agriculture at the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the West Indies, Barbados, and his transfer in 1908 to the post of assistant director to the Department of Science and Agriculture, and Government Botanist, in British Guiana [Guyana]. This includes correspondence with Sir Daniel Morris, Imperial Commissioner of the West Indies...
Dates:
1901 - 1935
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Sir Harry Parkes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Parkes
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a wide range of professional and personal papers. There is an extensive selection of printed and manuscript material collected in Hong Kong, China and Japan throughout Parkes' career. There are also around 750 letters, including correspondence with Sir Rutherford Alcock, Major-General Charles George Gordon, Lord John Russell and Sir Ernest Satow. Most of the personal correspondence addressed to Parkes dates from the last two years of his life, with much of the...
Dates:
circa 1380-1898 (mainly 1850s-1880s); circa 1380-1898 (mainly 1850s-1880s)
Conditions Governing Access:
Any person wishing to consult the collection must obtain written permission from Matheson and Co. Ltd. Applicants may submit their request an application form which is available from the Manuscripts Reading Room and via the University Library web pages at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf. They should state specifically on the form that they desire access to the Parkes Papers.
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.
Dates:
1861 - 1927
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Stanley Morison
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812
Scope and Contents
Almost all Morison's books and papers were destroyed by enemy bombs on 10/11 May 1941. This collection therefore consists chiefly of papers he accumulated after that date, although some earlier papers have come into the collection from other sources.
Dates:
1841-1990
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of T.C. Lethbridge and Mina Lethbridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10469
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the professional and personal lives of Thomas Charles “T.C.” Lethbridge and his wife Mina Elizabeth Lethbridge (nee Leadbitter). Record series include manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works by T.C. Lethbridge relating to archaeology and parapsychology, diaries of Mina Lethbridge, wartime correspondence from T.C. to Mina, photographs of Arctic expeditions, archaeological excavations and maritime subjects, cruise diaries of the ship Zoraida II, papers...
Dates:
1906 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access:
Open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details 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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Bombay Club
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 78
Scope and Contents
Volumes of minutes, complaints and suggestions, with related correspondence and other papers.
Dates:
1867 - 1977
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of The Book Collector
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9984
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence of the two editors John Hayward and Nicolas Barker; 'article files'; various other editorial files; and business papers mainly relating to The Collector Ltd. (a holding company created in 1955).
Dates:
1951-2011
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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Papers of the Buller and Grylls families
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9546
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of manuscripts and legal documents; correspondence of Sir Arthur Buller; and correspondence concerning documents relating to the Buller family.
Dates:
1827-1969
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Bulman and antecedent families
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9878
Dates:
1700-1999
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 10
Dates:
1907 - 1972
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Entebbe clubs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 171
Scope and Contents
Minute books of the Entebbe societies and correspondence of the Entebbe Club.
Dates:
1900 - 1955
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 the Fanfare Press
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9825
Dates:
1923-1978
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 the Hey, Sharp and Alderson families
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10187
Scope and Contents
The documents that may be consulted consist of 'The Redemption' (Seatonian prize poem,1763), by John Hey; and a funeral sermon for Sarah Sharp, 1799. A further accession is closed pending cataloguing.
Dates:
1683-1983
Conditions Governing Access:
The catalogued section of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Access to the uncatalogued papersis currently restricted. 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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Joint Africa Board
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 152
Scope and Contents
Board minutes and newsletters.
Dates:
1923 - 1974
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Paget Family
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10379
Scope and Contents
The deposit contains letters, documents, photographs, newspaper cuttings, publications, sketchbooks, notebooks, travel diaries, human hair, plant material, paintings, and a portable writing desk.
The letters, beginning in 1799, include family correspondence and George Edward Paget’s professional correspondence.
There are a number of packets of letters and legal documents assembled by members of the family for particular historical purposes; the earliest document, an...
Dates:
1648; 1799 to 2020, mostly nineteenth century.
Conditions Governing Access:
Part restricted. Open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room. Some material may be restricted for data protection reasons or because of its fragility.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Petrophysical Institute Committee
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WWWS
Scope and Contents
Minutes, reports and papers
Dates:
1919
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 the Revd Cyril Tomkinson, chiefly consisting of letters from Siegfried Sassoon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9926
Scope and Contents
With notes by Tomkinson concerning this relationship with Sassoon, letters and postcards from a few other correspondents, and printed items.
Dates:
1922-1946 (some dates inferred or conjectured)
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Water Lane Press
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9826
Dates:
1950-1966
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of Violet Ruby Leader
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10352
Scope and Contents
Ruby Leader was technician in charge of the animal room of the Department of Biochemistry, c. 1917-1957.
Comprises: laboratory notebook, mostly relating to rats and diet, 1953-61;
general notebook, with loose inserts, notes, printed material relating to the care of laboratory animals and notes on diet, and occasional letters, c. 1923-43;
notes on care and feeding of stock rats, c. 1951;
file of offprints, newspaper cuttings and letters, including: obituary notice for...
Dates:
1923 - 1961
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of Violet Rutter
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9982
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of essay on 'Marlowe as a Dramatic Artist', typescripts of 13 one-act plays; typescripts of several hundred poems; typescripts of 16 stories and essays; personal material; and photographs relating to Rutter's work as a designer of inn signs for the Whitbread brewery.
Dates:
1900-1983 (approx)
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 W. G. Shepherd
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10063
Scope and Contents
Literary correspondence and papers of William Guy ('Bill') Shepherd.
Dates:
1955-2010 (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
Papers of W H R Rivers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers
Dates:
1899-05 - 1921-03-16
Found in:
Department of Psychology
Fonds
Papers on David Livingstone
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 223
Scope and Contents
Articles and transcripts relating to David Livingstone, including illustrations and maps.
Dates:
1973 - 1975
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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers on imperial communications of Sir Campbell Stuart
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 33
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to the bodies of which Campbell Stuart was a member or with whom he was involved through his work, with two photographs of imperial conferences.
Dates:
1912 - 1946
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