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Photographs: the Siege in Peking [i.e. Beijing] 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377B
Scope and Contents
Album of prints of various sizes. These photographs were taken during the Boxer Rising of 1900 by the Rev. C.A. Killie. They form an important historical record of scenes mainly inside the British Legation, including the arrival of the Relief Force. The album is lettered on the cover and although there is no title page or separate text, there are substantial printed captions under the photographs. They are numbered up to 67, but from placing on the pages it is clear that this album never...
Dates:
1900
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Piano études in G minor and E flat minor
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8902-8903
Scope and Contents
Two working manuscripts of 'études' for piano, [Add.8902] in G minor, [Add.8903] in E flat minor.
Dates:
Jan. 1841
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Piano-forte Grammar
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8888
Scope and Contents
Abridgement by W.H. Callcott of first part of A musical grammar, manuscript prepared for publication, 1836. [`Dr. Callcott's piano-forte grammar. Being an abridgement of the first part of his celebrated "Musical Grammar" arranged in question and answer for the use of beginners and for teachers in schools'.]
Dates:
1836
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'Pictorial Record of Unveiling the Canadian War Memorial at St. Julien near Ypres 8th July 1923' [cover title]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062P
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs showing various stages of the ceremony (with blank pages following). All, save 2 and 7, have handwritten captions. Only three of the photographs (1, 6 and 10) have an identified photographer - 'Antony d'Ypres'.
Dates:
1923-07-08
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Pictures in the National Gallery, Melbourne
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087K
Scope and Contents
A portfolio containing five mounted prints of various sizes with descriptive letterpress by Marcus Clarke on separate sheets. The portfolio has been discarded due to flood damage. An advertisement on the portfolio cover reads: 'With a view to furnishing the public with photographic copies of the best pictures in the Melbourne National Gallery, the Trustees decided on entrusting the task of reproducing them, under the supervision of M. Eugene Von Guerard, to a competent photographic...
Dates:
1873
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Picturesque Jamaica
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073G
Scope and Contents
Volume of 'mezzotypes', apparently a collotype process, from photographs by V.P. Parkhurst of Kingston, Jamaica. The pictures are 178 x 228 mm, on leaves 265 x 355 mm, and have printed captions. The spine is lettered 'Picturesque Jamaica'. Frank Cundall notes that five parts only were published, though ten were projected (Cundall 1895, p.33); elsewhere, he notes 'The scenes, which are typical of the eastern half of the island ... are accompanied by descriptive letterpress, appreciative of...
Dates:
1887
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Cambridge University Library
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Pierre Allix: collection of treatises prepared for the press, sermons, and other related papers.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2608
Scope and Contents
Includes (item 1): letters from Charles Allix and J. Stevenson to W. S. Gilly, 9 Dec. 1837 and 29 July 1844, relating to Add. MSS 2608 and 2609 with further notes in another hand on Thomas Harding, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and the author of Add. 2609.
Dates:
1680-1760 (Circa)
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Pierre Maleré de Jauche of Louvain: Commonplace books
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6207-6209
Dates:
1808-1818
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Pigou: Papers Relating to Arthur Cecil Pigou
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/ACP
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters written by ACP, memoirs and publications about ACP.
Dates:
1957 - 1992
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Pitt: the papers of William Pitt the Younger
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/PIT
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of correspondence from William Pitt to friends and colleagues. Although there is some further contemporary material in the form of published writings by Pitt, the other significant part of the collection is posthumous and concerns commemorations of Pitt at Pembroke College.
Dates:
1773 - 2014
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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P.J. Halsey: Diary of a tour of U.S.S.R.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8799
Scope and Contents
Typescript diary, with photographs, of a tour through Leningrad, Moscow, Kharkov and Kiev, with comments on the political, economic and social system. There are also two letters, 1933, to M. Searson, a member of the party, and Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, on reading the diary.
Dates:
1933
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Plan of Palmerston Estate, Dublin
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3984
Dates:
1808
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Cambridge University Library
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Plant Sciences Library: Miscellaneous Volumes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10205
Scope and Contents
Various catalogues, plant lists and an account book.
Dates:
1800-1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Plautus: Pseudolus
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6591
Scope and Contents
A prose translation into English of Plautus's play Pseudolus by J.S. Reid, 265 folios: (fo. 3) title-page; (fo. 4) translation; (fo. 82) notes. The text is written on the recto only, with notes written on the recto of alternate leaves.
Dates:
1895
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Cambridge University Library
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Plumbago in Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], c.1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303F
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose albumen prints mounted on card, measuring approximately 185 x 130 mm, uncaptioned.The prints are accompanied by an off-print from The Ceylon Observer of 16 January 1866 describing W.A. Fernando's exhibits at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of that year. These are probably the prints that were on view during the exhibition. W.A. Fernando (d. 1901), a Singhalese pioneer of the plumbago industry, set up as a merchant in this commodity in 1854; as well as trading...
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7818
Scope and Contents
A collection of autograph poems with many deletions and corrections. The pieces include two poems on the death of Dr. Juan Perez de Montalban (d. 1638); a sonnet in praise of D. Diego Sanchez Portocarrero's Antiguedad del noble i muy leal Senorio de Molina (Madrid, 1641); a poem on the death of Ferdinand, the Cardinal-Infant (d. 1641); two poems on the death of Queen Isabel (d. 1644); two poems on the death of Prince Baltasar Carlos (d. 1646); a sonnet on the execution of Charles I of...
Dates:
1638-1652 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Poems and correspondence of Peter Robinson relating to his publications with the Many Press
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10034
Scope and Contents
Includes: ‘Going Out to Vote’: marked-up photocopied typescript of the poem, pasted-up typeset copy of the inner pages, layout sheet in John Welch’s hand, and copy number 5 of the printed broadsheet, signed by Robinson; ‘Overdrawn Account’: marked-up photocopied typescript of the poems, paste-up of a rejected cover design, undated letter to Welch from ‘Judy’ (typesetter), printed flyer, a copy of the book, and ‘Overdrawn Account, by Peter Robinson: A Balance-Sheet’ (manuscript review of the...
Dates:
1977-1985
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Cambridge University Library
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Poems and notes on the Corral Family
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8156
Scope and Contents
A manuscript collection of poems and romances, with notes on the Corral family in the seventeenth century containing entries for births, baptisms, etc.
Dates:
1625
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Cambridge University Library
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Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10193
Scope and Contents
Notebook comprising fair copies, with some revisions, of poems by Siegfried Sassoon, together with illustrations and decorations. Some of the poems bear the date of their composition. Sassoon presented the notebook to Lady Ottoline Morrell in January 1917 and made additions to it in subsequent years. Contents:Preliminary matter:• [1r]. ‘To victory’ (newspaper cutting from The Times, 15 Jan. 1916)
• [1v]. Feather
• [2r]. Title page
• [2v]. ‘Edition’ statement and...
Dates:
1916-[1930s]
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Cambridge University Library
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Poems by Thom Gunn
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10105
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typescript poems by Gunn, some bearing corrections, annotations or notes, and some with notes on adhesive slips. They are mostly undated. The poems are: “My darling, you are twenty two …” (MS, 1 folio, bearing a marginal query)‘Tamer and Hawk’ (MS, 1 folio)‘Captain in Time of Peace’ (MS, 1 folio)‘Captain in Time of Peace’, another version (MS, 1 folio)‘Without a Counterpart’ (MS, 1 folio)‘Contemplative and Active’ (TS...
Dates:
1954-1988 and undated (1950s-1990s?)
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Cambridge University Library
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Poems, chiefly on Philip O'Reilly
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3082
Scope and Contents
Some notes are in the hand of W. B. Kane of Edmund House, Cambridge.
Dates:
1400-1736 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Poems of John Donne
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5778
Scope and Contents
A collection of poems of John Donne. Also includes other poems by Francis Bacon, Thomas Carew, Francis Beaumont and Sir Henry Wotton transcribed at a similar date. The manuscript is sometimes referred to as the 'Cambridge Balam' manuscript.
Dates:
1630 (circa)
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Poems on sacred subjects
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7942
Scope and Contents
'Versos cuerdos escritos por diferentes authores a asumptos sagrados', a collection of fifty-one poems by Fray Ortensio Paravicino (3), Fray Francisco de Aillon (3), Juan de Matos Fragoso (7) and Antonio de Mendoza (2), including his Vida da nuestra senora, with one each by Fray Juan de Avellaneda, Joseph Pellicer de Tovar y Abarca, Fray Juan de Vitoria, P. Juan Davila, 'S.J.', Fray Luis de Leon, Francisco Bravo de Guzman, Gabriel de Moncada, Gabriel de Rozas and Luis de Ulloa Pereira. There...
Dates:
1650 (circa)
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Poems on Several Occasions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6374
Scope and Contents
106 folios. The volume is probably the verse commonplace book of a Cambridge student. The authorship of the poems is not stated. Pages 2-6 and 118-206 are blank. There is a list of contents at pp. 207-209.
Dates:
1727
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Poems on the parables
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4485
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library