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Peeps in sunny Queensland

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085R
Scope and Contents

A commercially produced portfolio containing three black and white photographs of bush scenes, with captions on the front of the prints.

Dates: 1913
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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Pembroke College Archive

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL
Scope and Contents Pembroke College Archive holds records of the College and its estates going back to its foundation in the 14th century and earlier. The College is fortunate to retain many of the early charters relating to its foundation by Marie de St. Pol, Countess of Pembroke. Significant estate collections include those for Framlingham and Saxtead in Suffolk, and Hardwick, Linton, Soham and Waresley in Cambridgeshire. Other records include governance records, bursarial records, tutorial records, property...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1200 - 2025
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Penang documents

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 105
Scope and Contents

The collection includes:

1. Official appointment by the East India Company of John Alexander Bannerman as Governor of Prince of Wales Island (Penang), 1817.

2. Letter of notification and official appointment of William Edward Phillips to succeed Bannerman, 1820.

3. Miscellaneous items associated with Phillips, 1819-26, chiefly relating to his appointment as governor and his retirement in 1824.





Dates: 1817 - 1826
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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Penelope 'Pepe' Roberts: papers on Ghana

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 383
Content Description

Field notebooks, notes, draft and published articles, and audio-visual material relating for the most part to Roberts's research on education in Ghana. Together with a series of photographs and slides documenting aspects of life in Sefwi Wiawso and Roberts's time in Ghana and Nigeria.

Dates: 1961 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access: Researchers wishing to consult this collection will be required to complete a data release form. Part of one file (RCMS 383/2/5) is closed to researchers under data protection legislation. For further information, please contact rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk.
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Percival Walsh: letters

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9869
Scope and Contents

Letters to his mother and others, from France and England

Dates: 1914-1916
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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Percy Brooke Bramley: Papers on India and Palestine

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 64
Scope and Contents

Material relating to Bramley's role at the Delhi Durbar of 1911 including correspondence, papers on practical arrangements, maps and programmes. There is also material relating to Bramley's role as the Director of Public Security in Palestine.

Dates: 1903 - 1925
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 rcs@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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Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Jane: The Invitation

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4444
Scope and Contents

Written in Shelley's own hand, the 'Trelawny MS'.

Dates: 1822
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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Percy Edward Newberry: Correspondence

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Newberry
Dates: 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).
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'Père Joseph Henry Marie de Prémare'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2768.9
Dates: 1850 (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).
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Perpetual calendar, England

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1370
Scope and Contents

Printed across the strip in bands; on the recto, pictures of saints and their emblems. On the verso, the twelve months, pictures of appropriate activities for each month. In rather bad condition.

Dates: 1548 (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).
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Personal and family papers of Lillian Newton

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 108
Scope and Contents

Papers concerning Lillian Newton and her parents and siblings and additional items accumulated by Miss Newton.

Dates: 1888 - 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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PERSONAL PAPERS

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Reference Code: GBR/1936/THPP
Dates: 1723 - 2013
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Personal papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC14
Dates: 1341 - 2015
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Personal Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/1935/EDPP
Scope and Contents

This section lists papers of and relating to individual members of the College and others closely connected with the College.

Dates: 1884 - 2002
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Personal Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP
Dates: 1869 - 2012
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Personal Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 15
Scope and Contents

This section contains papers of individual members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and other scientists which have been found amongst the official archives of the Society or deposited with the Society. They comprise chiefly a miscellany of papers and photographs relating to Sir Joseph Larmor, President of CPS 1898-1900. They also include nine letters, 1800-1801, sent by Thomas Young (1773-1829) to W H Wollaston relating to research and experiments on dispersion of crystalline.

Dates: 1799 - 2004
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Personal Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP
Dates: 1654 - 2019
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PERSONAL PAPERS AND COLLECTIONS

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Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEPP
Scope and Contents

Includes papers of members and fellows of Selwyn

Dates: 1831 - 2017
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PERSONAL PAPERS AND MEMORABILIA

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Reference Code: GBR/1919/AHPP
Scope and Contents

This section includes papers amassed by individuals in a personal capacity while working for Addenbrooke's Hospital and papers of people connected with Addenbrooke's which have been deposited or donated from external sources. See also AHAS 2/2 for papers and nursing memorabilia of Audrey Greenwood-Smith.

Dates: 1767 - 2013
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Personal Papers of Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Galloway

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLWY
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of correspondence with colleagues from the Eighth Army, historians and key figures from World War II.

Dates: 1958 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP
Scope and Contents

Including papers of Masters, Professors and Fellows of Downing College, and gifts from past members. Includes academic administrative records but not estates correspondence.

Dates: 1708 - 2018
Conditions Governing Access: Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods: 30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files; 50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees; 100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years. Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Found in: Downing College
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Peter Bayley: The Cambriad

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3435
Scope and Contents

A poem in 12 books. In English, with Welsh quotations heading each book. Occasional marginal notes in red ink. Apparently unprinted.

Dates: 1820 (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).
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Peter Canham albums of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana]

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448O-R
Scope and Contents A collection of albums relating to Canham's career in the Gold Coast. Like his papers, it is a partial collection.Y30448O is an album of snapshots of his early days in the Colony.Y30448P includes some photographs relating to his career and also some cuttings and other historical items.Y30448Q is chiefly of official photographs of the period of Sir Alan Burns' Governorship, 1941-47.Y30448R is of the last stages to Independence and of Governors Creasy (1948-49) and...
Dates: 1938 - 1970
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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Peter Carpenter Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10468
Scope and Contents

Literary papers of Peter Carpenter.

Dates: 1978-2006 and undated
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Peter Guerin: Irish Estate Maps

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4358
Scope and Contents A series of maps of the estates in Ireland bestowed by King William III in 1700 on Henri de Massue de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway, compiled by Peter Guerin, Deputy Surveyor General, 18 folios: (fo. 2) elaborate title page with the arms of the grantee; (fo. 3v) map and survey of the parish of Lea, Queen's County; (fo. 5v) survey and map of the parish of Ballykean, King's County; (fo. 7v) survey and map of the parish of Clonyhurk, King's County; (fo. 9v) survey and map of the parish of Harristown...
Dates: 1700-1905
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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