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Alfred Selley: letters to Spencer George Perceval
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6335
Scope and Contents
A collection of 98 letters and postcards dealing with collections and objects of antiquarian interest. Following no. 3 are two photographs of various flints, and following no. 28 a sketch, taken from a local paper, of the 'old bascule bridge and harbour at St Augustine's'.
Dates:
1901-1908
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
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Algernon Freeman-Mitford: Letters from Japan
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8669
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of letters written by Freeman-Mitford in Japan, 1866-1869.
Dates:
1866-1869
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
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Algernon Herbert: Christus Cyclopeus, or an essay illustrative of the Christianity of Britain in the fifth and succeeding centuries
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.617
Scope and Contents
Prepared for press, but never published.
Dates:
1850-1855 (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
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Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz: papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9938
Scope and Contents
Material relating to the work of Prof. G.E. Moore and Dr. Ludwig Wittgenstein, including notes taken during their lectures and notes on Wittgenstein's 'Blue' and 'Brown' books.
Dates:
1932 - 1988
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
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Alienation letter, Cologne, Germany
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1277
Scope and Contents
Extracted from Add. 3166.
Dates:
1419
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
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Alistair W. Hay Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 369
Scope and Contents
The collection includes copies of letters written by Hay to family and friends. Three describe his work with the Protectorate, colleagues, travel and leisure and are dated 1923, Canton; 1929, Taiping; and 1933, Kuala Lumpur (17 sheets). A second series of letters dating from 1940-42 narrates Hay’s wartime experience (57 sheets). The collection includes a copy of a photograph showing a memorial plaque honouring Hay and other members of the Chinese Protectorate who lost their lives...
Dates:
2007
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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Allan, Mrs Jemima. Papers collection, 1879-1884
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Reference Code: GBR/0013/ALLAN/1
Scope and Contents
Box 1: Extracts from letters written by his mother Jemmima Aimee Allan, wife of Alexander Allan, to her sisters in Edinburgh, from India, 1879-84. 153 pp. Xerox.
Alexander Allan was proprietor of Glenmore & Pillor Coffee Estates, Coonoor, South India.
The letters of Mrs. Allan describe the social life and domestic incidents of daily life in an English home in India at the time.
(Other families mentioned include the Shaw Stewarts and Cadells, whose papers are also in the...
Dates:
1879 - 1884
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Allanson, Harry Llewellyn Lyons. Papers collection, 1897-1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0013/ALLANSON/1
Scope and Contents
Box 1 - Menu cards for various dinners; Diaries, 1897-1905. Box 2 - Note on the settlement of Sonthal Parganas; various Government reports and documents; other papers related to the Sonthal Parganas and their administration. Box 3 - Papers relating to Mr Allanson’s career in the I.C.S., including notes giving the reasons for his resignation; newspaper cuttings; reports of trials. ...
Dates:
1897 - 1938
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Allen Hazen collection of paper specimens
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9828
Dates:
1500-1983
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
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Allenholme Press Archive
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9945
Dates:
1957-1989
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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Allgrove, Joseph William. Papers Collection, 1920-1984
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Reference Code: GBR/0013/ALLGROVE/1
Scope and Contents
Microfilm No. 72 - Account of journey to Singapore, 1920; prisoner of war diary, Changi, 1941-45.Box 1 - Memoir by J.W. Allgrove entitled ‘Things Told and Remembered’; notes on plantation life. Box 2 - Copy letter-books, 1969-84; private correspondence, 1955-56; tour notes, 1959, 1961. Box 3 - Tour notes and tour diaries, 1964-74. Box 4 - Tour notes and tour diaries, 1964-74 (box 3 contd.). Box 5 - Tour notes, 1974-75; crop estimates and statistics. Box 6 -...
Dates:
1920 - 1984
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Allsop, Fred. Papers collection, 1925-1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0013/ALLSOP/1
Scope and Contents
Small Collections Box 1
Pamphlets:
1. ‘”Blue print” for Burma. Report by certain Conservative Members of Parliament on the future of Burma.’ December 1944.
2. ‘Towards a greater Burma: speeches on Burma Reconstruction at the Anglo-Burman Conference and at a dinner given by F.E. the Rt. Hon. Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, G.B.E., Governor of Burma.’ Simla, 1944.
3. ‘Three years under the Japs’, by Khin Myo Chit. 1945.
Reprints:
1. Shifting cultivation in Burma: its practice, effects, and...
Dates:
1925 - 1946
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Allum Papers collection, 1889-1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0013/ALLUM/1
Scope and Contents
Small Collections Box 1:
Newspaper cuttings:
1. Advocate of India, 7 March, 1907. Article on the proposed Great Ghat Electric Scheme referring to the hydro-electric supply scheme from the Bhor Ghats, Bombay, put forward by messrs Dorab J Tata and Rutton J Tata
2. Times of India, 8 March 1907, on the same
3. Times of India, February 1915. Leader: ‘The steadiness of India’, referring to the inauguration of the hydro-electric power scheme from the Bhor Ghats
4. Advocate...
Dates:
1889 - 1935
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Alonso de Cardenas: Relation of the State of England
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8992
Dates:
1638-1656
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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Alphabetical list of incunabula and later printed books to 1653 in the University Library, Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2755
Scope and Contents
In Latin.
Dates:
1755 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Alpin, H.M. Papers collection, 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0013/ALPIN/1
Scope and Contents
Box description: Miscellaneous collection of books and engravings. India general, 1895
Glimpses of India: a grand photographic history of the land of antiquity, the vast empire of the East … Bombay 1895.
2 engravings: Sir Thomas Munro, Governor of Madras, painted by Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins. (In roll).
Lady Munro, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, engraved by Thomas Lupton. (In large frame)....
Dates:
1895
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Alpine song, for unison voices and piano
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9440
Scope and Contents
Incomplete score, last page only (of 2), autograph in ink, 'Alpine song', marked for printing, with tonic sol-fa in red ink, and alterations to piano accompaniment also in red ink. Alpine song was published by J. Curwen & Co. in the series 'Choruses for equal voices' (No. 1322, 1911). The words were translated from German by James Vila Blake. [Music subject index : Songs with piano
Dates:
1911 (c. 1911)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Altham Family: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9270
Scope and Contents
2 volumes of correspondence, arranged chronologically, with an index volume.
Dates:
1618-1716
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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Alwyn Faber Scholfield: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7894-7895
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Montague Rhodes James, notes on classical literature and translations, correspondence and material relating to the University Library.
Dates:
1905-1968
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
Item
Amateur Dramatic Club photographs
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10342
Scope and Contents
A collection of 24 photographs showing named principal actors in costume of the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club in 1858, together with a copy of 'Croke: A curious relique of ancient poesy, to which is added a short memoir of John Beangaphlyns, Esq., edited with copious notes, by J.B.' (Cambridge: W. Metcalfe for the Booksellers, 1858), annotated and extra-illustrated with photographs of F. C .Burnand, H. W. Johnston and A. W. Edgell.
Dates:
1858
Conditions Governing Access:
The volume is very fragile and Conservation assistance is required to consult it. (An alternative, unannoted copy is available in the Department of Rare Books and Early Manuscripts, classmark Cam.d.858.17.)
The photographs are 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
Ambarum Club: Minutes
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6367
Scope and Contents
Minute book with list of members, 74 folios.
Dates:
1880-1917
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Ambrose Fleming: Notes on James Clerk Maxwell's lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8082-8083
Scope and Contents
Notes by Ambrose Fleming on the last course of lectures given by James Clerk Maxwell at Cambridge University, delivered October 1878 - June 1879. There is an index at the front of each volume.
Dates:
1878-1879
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
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Americas miscellanea
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240
Scope and Contents
A wide range of material concerning different countries in North and South America, notably Canada, Belize and the West Indian islands. A number of the collections are comprised of single items, such as legal documents and paintings.
Dates:
1697 - 1988
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
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Among the Maoris (MSS 89) [now RCMS 301]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089R
Scope and Contents
Containing a journal of 18 typescript pages, 11 small watercolours and photographs. The prints measure approximately 200 x 150 mm. Photographs are captioned on the prints, and also have handwritten captions stuck to the prints. Photographers unknown with the exception of 11, by A. Martin of Wanganui.The journal (author unknown) describes a six month holiday in New Zealand taken by the writer and her husband, arriving in New Zealand in December 1898. The journal is chiefly...
Dates:
1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Amos: Diaries and photographs of Anne Elizabeth Fisher (later Pike and Amos)
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/AMO
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries and photograph album, with some loose enclosures. The diaries provide a detailed description of the daily social life of a wealthy young lady during the Victorian era, in London and on visits around the country, including dinners, dances and parties, concerts, galleries, theatre and academic lectures. Many include lists of 'books recommended' or read. From 1864, Anne gave detailed accounts of sermons she had heard and exhibitions in London, also describing first-hand...
Dates:
1852 - 1900
Found in:
Downing College