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Albums by Francis Frith
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A-C
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of printed published volumes illustrated with albumen prints tipped on to the leaves with detailed text accompanying each photograph.The landscape and monumental remains of Egypt and the Middle East had exercised a profound fascination upon the European imagination for centuries, but it was only in the 19th century - and particularly after the impetus of Napolean's Egyptian campaign of 1798 - that visitors arrived in any great numbers. Scholars, adventurers...
Dates:
1857 - 1860
Conditions Governing Access:
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Albums of Lt. Col. R.E. Thorne
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468DD-EE
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two albums relating to the career of Richard Everard Thorne (see Y30468DD/13), who was born in 1901, educated at Haileybury, and joined the Tanganyika Police in 1925. After returning home to get married in 1930, he served in Iringa (twice) and Dar-es-Salaam during the period 1930-1939. During the Second World War he was seconded from Tanganyika Police to the Somalia Gendarmerie. He returned to Tanganyika 1949-1952, then after attending the Senior Officers'...
Dates:
1941 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
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Aleixandre Vicente: Poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7572
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Aleksei Remizov: 'Ziuzi Morozy'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8842
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of the fairy tale 'Ziuzi morozy' ('Biting frost'), probably written by Remizov as a calligraphic exercise.
Dates:
1932
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Campbell Yorke: Fowlmere Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6586-6587
Scope and Contents
Histroical notes on the parish of Fowlmere.
Dates:
1900-1921
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Chancellor photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031J
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Alexander Richard Chancellor, C.B.E. (1869-1959). He served in the Highland Light Infantry 1893-1895, joined the Colonial Police and was posted to Barbados. In 1902 he accepted an offer to transfer to the Straits Settlements Police, being Chief Police Officer of Malacca from 1903-1905. He became Chief Police Officer of Singapore in 1907, Inspector-General in 1914 and retired in 1922.
Dates:
1903 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Davidson: Student notebooks, Aberdeen University
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8790-8792
Scope and Contents
Lectures delivered by James Nicol (1810-79), geologist, Professor of Natural History, Aberdeen University, 1853-78; James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79), Professor of Natural Philosophy, Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1857-60; Professor of Natural Philosopy, King's College London, 1860-5; Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge, 1871-79.
Dates:
1857-1860
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Alexander Edelényi: History of Hungary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9218
Scope and Contents
'Conspectus historiae Regni Hungarici. K.M. 1828'. Apparently a history of Hungary devised by Professor Alexander Edelényi and transcribed by Charles Mészáros, 1828. At the end it reads 'Opusculum hocce... [list of authorities]... elaboratum per... Alexandrum Edelényi Professorem, descriptum est per me Carolum Mészáros... [4 July 1828]'.
Dates:
1828
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Alexander Gordon Wynch Murray: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6218-6220, 6222
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, fragments and drawings and bibliographical notes.
Dates:
1905-1915
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Alexander Macalister: A text-book of human anatomy
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9595
Scope and Contents
Author's copy, heavily annotated.
Dates:
1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Macalister: Notes on the ulna
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9619
Scope and Contents
Notebook. Paginated to 113, but some numbers ommitted. Content starts both at beginning of book and at end, running back towards the start (against the pagination)
Dates:
c. 1883
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Macalister: Osteometry of specimens in the Museum
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9618
Scope and Contents
Notebook, with notes on the humerus and hip bones running from the start, and much briefer notes on the radius, ulna and carpals running from the back of the book towards the front.
Dates:
c. 1883
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Monro: Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7963-7965
Scope and Contents
Notes on lectures by Monro.
Dates:
1750 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Russell Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] photographs 1900-7
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052D
Scope and Contents
Collection of 5 " x 4 " copy negatives from an album containing twelve prints measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm, with letterpress captions printed beneath the photographs (in some cases different photographs have been inserted and the captions amended). The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. The album, created by Telegraphist and Postmaster Alexander Russell, offers an interesting visual record of Salisbury and the surrounding areas in...
Dates:
1900 - 1907
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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Alexander Russell Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] photographs, 1900-1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052C
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of modern 5" x 4" copy negatives from an album containing twenty prints measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm, with handwritten captions on the mounts in Russell's hand. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. An inscription on the inside cover reads: 'To Jack with best wishes for a prosperous future from Alec 1.1.02.' ...
Dates:
1900 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Stuart Watt: Notebooks and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8851
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of Watt's botany notebooks, notes and drafts (mainly related to Breckland), Watt's work in nature conservancy (mainly in Breckland), a very small selection of correspondence with an index of correspondents, a section of Watt's photographs (again, primarily of Breckland), and a number of Watt's Breckland maps.
Dates:
1915-1980 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander Sydney Kanya-Forstner: ''The French in in West Africa''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8357
Scope and Contents
'The French in West Africa: a study in military imperialism', a Fellowship dissertation for Gonville and Caius College, 425 pages.
Dates:
1965 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander William Kinglake: Letters and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7633
Scope and Contents
The collection sheds light on the Kinglakes's family life, including the lavish amounts spent by William Kinglake on his children's education, and the support he gave his eldest son through his earliest and unsuccessful years as a barrister. They also show A.W. Kinglake developing a taste for the best society and its attendant expense (letters 1/38, 81 and 96) Kinglake's love of travel is seen in letters written on journeys in Wales, 1833 (1/76-9); France, 1834 (1/81-2); North Africa and...
Dates:
1819-1891
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexius Pedemontanus: Secrets
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3543
Scope and Contents
Recipes taken from the 'Secretes' in the English translation of William Warde (London, 1558). At fo. 66v is a Latin recipe in the main hand, and at fo. 67 recipes in another hand, continued at the foot of 66v. At fo. 67v is yet another recipe in a crude 17th cent. hand, also to be found in scribblings inside the back cover. fo. 68: wanting.
Dates:
1590 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alf Rosfelt: 'Imagery in Siegfried Sassoon's poetry', with related correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10385
Scope and Contents
A copy of a thesis written by Rosfelt at Stockholms universitet, duplicated typescript, 107 numbered pages + title page and four pages of contents, the title page inscribed by Rosfelt with a dedication to Sir Geoffrey Keynes. With: a card from Rosfelt to Keynes, Vällingby (Sweden), 10 April 1971, enclosing the thesis; a letter from Rosfelt to Keynes, Vällingby, 12 August 1971, concerning his interest in Sassoon; and a letter from Keynes to Dennis Silk, Brinkley, 23 April 1974, enclosing the...
Dates:
1971-1974
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Alfred 1st Lord Tennyson: The Princess
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6345-6346
Dates:
1847 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alfred Edward Housman: Academic Notes and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6874-6902
Scope and Contents
Notes on classical literature.
Dates:
1900-1936 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alfred Edward Housman: Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8534
Scope and Contents
Letters from A.E. Housman, including some to Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1928-1930, mainly concerning editions of Housman's poetry, with other letters and Housman-related material dating from 1906 to 1978. Items 1-11 (excluding 10A) are bound into a volume marked 'Letters from A.E.H.' on the spine and inscribed inside as belonging to Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Items 10A and 12-19 have been loosely inserted into the volume.
Dates:
1899-1978 (circa)
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Alfred Edward Housman: Letters to Sir Sydney Castle Roberts (1887-1966) publisher, literary scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1948-1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7735
Scope and Contents
23 letters from Housman to S.C. Roberts, 22 Jan. 1926 - 17 Aug. 1933. There are also letters from Housman to R.S. Parry, no. 1, 17 Jan. 1926; from Mrs. Mildred B. Platt to S.C. Roberts, no.11, 17 June 1927; from A.F. Scholfield to Housman, no.13, 6 Aug. 1929; from Housman to G.R. Barnes, no. 23, 30 Aug. 1931, and a note by Housman, no. 20, 15 Dec. 1930. The letters of 1926-1927 concern the publication of J.A. Platt's Nine Plays, to which Housman wrote a preface. The other letters relate to...
Dates:
1926-1933
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alfred Fairbank: examples of 16C Cambridge italic hands
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9452
Scope and Contents
Photostats of italic hands from the following institutions and MSS: British Library Lansdowne 2-3, 7-8, 10-12, 15-21, 23-25, 27-28, 30, 34, 36, 39, 42, 45, 50, 54, 61-63, 69, 82, 87, 98, 104; Harleian 417, 6350, 6986; Cotton Faust. C III, VII, Vesp. F III, Calig. C III, Royal Appendix 87, Royal 16 C IX, Royal 18 A LXI, Add. MSS 19400, 35840; Public Record Office, SP 1/37, 42, 10/4, 6, 11/9, 12, 12/2, 6, 7, 10, 17, 19, 20, 22, 32, 35, 38, 40, 42-44, 46, 48-49, 67, 69/6, 71, 73-74, 77, 80, 83,...
Dates:
1500-1600 (Mid-20C photostats of 16C documents)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library