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Amy Wilson collection on South Africa 1901-1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305Q
Scope and Contents
A diary of a visit to South Africa, 100 x 120 mm, with original photographs and 4 cut from publications. The photographs include professional prints, but for the most part are amateur work, presumably by Amy Wilson herself, save for the few in which she appears. Most of the photographs can be linked to episodes described in the diary and many are captioned either below or on the reverse.With the aid of the lists published in 'South Africa' on the day of sailing from Southampton, 26...
Dates:
1901 - 1902
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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An account of Florence Court from earliest days
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9699
Scope and Contents
By John Henry Michael Cole (1876–1963), 5th Earl of Enniskillen. Typescript, with some amendments made by hand.
Dates:
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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An appreciation of the life of William French (1897-1960) soldier, naturalist and adventurer extraordinaire
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 381
Scope and Contents
The collection was compiled by Allan Allison, Carlisle City Museum Assistant (1956-66) and Senior Nature Reserve Warden with Nature Conservancy Scotland (1968-78), who became acquainted with French during the final years of his life. At its heart are ten original letters (approximately 60 pages with photocopied duplicates) written by French to his lifelong friend Ernest Blezard, Curator of Natural History, Carlisle City Museum (1926-1966):1-2 Australia 19253 Solomon Islands...
Dates:
1925 - 2012
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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'An Engineer and his Ancestors' - Autobiography and memoirs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9711
Scope and Contents
Volume refers to voice files of interviews with the author, 'to be found on my computer, or on a DVD', which do not appear to have been deposited with the volume. The CD contains pictures accompanying the memoires, along with text files describing them, which include details not present in the volumes.The author has divided the memoires into 6 'volumes'; those he describes as Volumes 0, I and II are held within the first printed volume, while those he describes as Volumes III to V...
Dates:
2005
Conditions Governing Access:
Volume 2 not available until 2025
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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An impartial account of Soham Meer, 1753
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9874
Scope and Contents
His account describes the major events on Soham Mere during his lifetime, both natural and technical, from breaches of the fen walls to fen drainage. It was dedicated to, and probably prepared for presentation to, George Townshend (1724-1807), 1st Marquess Townshend.
Dates:
1753
Conditions Governing Access:
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Andrew Crozier, 'Were There'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10020
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the publication of Andrew Crozier, 'Were There' (London: The Many Press, 1978), including: Crozier's text of 'Were There', photocopied typescript in binder; paste-up/camera ready copy of 'Were There', with notes on page layout by Crozier; pages from Andrew Crozier, 'Seven Contemporary Sun Dials' (Brighton: 1975), with a cover sheet marked by Crozier; nine letters from Crozier to John Welch of The Many Press, one with a sheet of autobiographical notes; a copy of 'Were...
Dates:
1975-1979 (and undated)
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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Andrew Frazer: Historical Description of the Town and Port of Dunkirk from the year 646 to 1768
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.737
Scope and Contents
Dedicated to Sir Charles Frederick KB, surveyor-general of the ordnance, 'from his most obedient and devoted humble servant Andrew Durnford, Engineer'. With several sketches, some coloured. Four printed maps of Dunkirk by William Faden, 1794, added later.
Dates:
1768-1794
Conditions Governing Access:
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Andrew John Jukes: Theological Works
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8891-8894
Dates:
1837-1887
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Andrew Philip More Boyle: correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9429
Dates:
1950-1990 (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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Andrew Smith: letters from Persia
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10474
Scope and Contents
Letters, photographs and other items relating to Andrew Smith’s time in Persia.In the summer of 1937 Andrew Smith travelled from England to take up a post at the American Legation in Tehran, as private tutor to the son of the US Consul, Cornelius Van H. Engert. Until April 1938, when he returned to England, Smith wrote regular letters to his mother, largely responding to her family news, together with his accounts of his time in Tehran. As well as attending numerous dinners at...
Dates:
1937-1938
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8264
Dates:
1907-1971
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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Andrewes: the Lancelot Andrewes collection
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/ANL
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of posthumous material concerning commemorations of Andrewes and research into his life and work.
Dates:
c. 1675-2017
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Andrews: the papers of Charles Freer Andrews
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/AND
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of some original correspondence and much secondary material such as articles about Andrews.
Dates:
1899 - 2009
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Andros Tomato Farm, Bahamas 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3071E
Scope and Contents
Photographs contained in a report on a visit to the Colonial Development Corporation Tomato Project, Andros Is. Bahamas May 1952 by F. Hardy and R.E.D. Baker. Thirty copies of the 17 page typescript report were produced.1-6 Photographs taken Tuesday 13th May, 1952 between 9 and 10am after a night of heavy rain (2½ inches in about 8 hours). Each measuring 55 x 55 mm.7-12 Photographs of Andros Tomato Farm taken by Carl F. Warner (Acting Manager of the farm). Each measuring 100...
Dates:
1952
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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Anduze family papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 395
Content Description
Business and family papers of the Anduzes, a Euro-Trinidadian or 'local-white' family of San Fernando, Trinidad, from the early to mid 20th century. Includes company papers of Jules T. Anduze Plantations, company papers of Leonard Anduze, family wills and legal papers, and research notes gathered by Leonard Anduze on the early history of Trinidad. There are very few personal papers and just one photograph.
Dates:
1895 - 2000
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Anecdotes of the times (notebook) and printed resignation speech
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9438
Dates:
1769-1784
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
File
Anglesey manor, Cambridgeshire: Indenture of bargain and sale
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3401
Scope and Contents
Sale by John Eldred, John Verdon, both of London, and Zachariah Blackstock of Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, to Thomas Wale, merchant of London, and to Thomas Hall, merchant tailor of London. The purchase price is £250. Other lands are excepted. Signed by vendors. Tags, seal wanting. Endorsed with note of enrollment on close roll. Marked in ink, 'no. 33', and in pencil, '222'.
Dates:
Dec. 1615
Conditions Governing Access:
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Annan: The Papers of Noel Gilroy Annan
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/NGA
Scope and Contents
The collection includes notes and drafts of published writings, texts of speeches given to the House of Lords and to other institutions, reference notes, subject files, engagement diaries, and personal papers.
Dates:
1889 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access:
Some files are closed because they contain personal information. Most files which are marked as restricted access can be read with the written permission of the author. All other files may be consulted in the Archive Centre following the standard registration procedures.
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Anne Stevenson and Angela Leighton: correspondence and related papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10354
Scope and Contents
Letters, cards, e-mail print-outs, poems, prose articles, miscellaneous printed and photocopied texts, and photographs, recording the friendship between the poets Anne Stevenson and Angela Leighton.
Dates:
1995-2020
Conditions Governing Access:
Users of the collection are required to complete a Researcher Undertaking Concerning Access under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Archives Which Would Otherwise Be Closed.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Anne Stevenson: 'Bitter Fame' proof with annotations by Olwyn Hughes and Frieda Hughes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10251
Dates:
1989
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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Anne Stevenson: letters and cards to Lee Harwood
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10133
Scope and Contents
Three postcards, five greetings cards and a letter from Stevenson to Harwood. With word-processed and typed copies of three poems ('Who's joking with the photographer?', 'The inn' and 'The miracle of Camp 60') and a broadcast talk ('Overhearing T. S. Eliot') by Stevenson. Four of the greetings cards contain printed poems by Stevenson ('Carol of the birds', 'The unaccommodated', 'It looks so simple from a distance...' and 'Christmas comfort and the green man').
Dates:
1993-2007
Conditions Governing Access:
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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Annotated lists of fossil-shells
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.694
Scope and Contents
Arranged under genera.
Dates:
1825 (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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Cambridge University Library
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Annotated lists of sea-shells
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.691
Scope and Contents
With references to major collections.
Dates:
1825 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Annuity, Woolpit, Suffolk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.802
Dates:
1 Feb. 1678-1 Feb. 1679
Conditions Governing Access:
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Answer to Bill of Complaint in Chancery, Writtle, Essex
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.189
Scope and Contents
See MS Doc.188. Robert Shettleworth says that he believes that Edward Shettleworth his father died possessed of the land mentioned in the Bill, and confesses that after his father's death they were his, and that he sold them to John Sawen the complainant; but he denies that he said he was not of age at the time of the conveyance or that the complainant had not paid the proper sum, or that he threatened to evict the complainant.
Dates:
3 May 1654
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