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Rhoda Watson: Journal of tour in Japan
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8561
Scope and Contents
Journal of a tour of Japan, 29 July - 31 October 1892, 173 pages, some of which are unused. The volume contains inserted material, including trading cards, photographs, postcards, maps, and menus from RMS Empress of Japan. The diary is in English, but some of the additional items are in Japanese.
Dates:
1892
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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Fonds
Rhodesia-Nyasaland [i.e. Zimbabwe-Malawi] Royal Commission Photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L
Scope and Contents
Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...
Dates:
1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Rhodesian records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052O-S
Scope and Contents
Collection of five albums of family photographs, made up almost entirely of amateur snapshots between 80 x 60 mm. and 110 x 150 mm., and many of which are of purely personal interest. However, taken as a whole, they comprise a record of aspects of life in Rhodesia and elsewhere in Africa of interest to the social historian. The albums are carefully annotated by Zöe Ellison towards the end of her life (she died in Cambridge on 4 August 1986, only a fortnight after her last letter to the RCS...
Dates:
1915 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Rhodesian [Zimbabwean] views
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052T
Scope and Contents
Collection of glossy black and white photographs, taken by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information and other official sources. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1958 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe 1965-1980
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052U
Scope and Contents
Collection of black and white press agency and official photographs (including 5 duplicates) relating to developments during 1965-80, from the time of Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of Independence (UDI) until the emergence of the republic of Zimbabwe. Many were collected to illustrate articles in 'Commonwealth in Focus', and some were reproduced in the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition 1982. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1965 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Rice family letters: Mostly Thomas Rice to John Rice
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9479
Scope and Contents
[1-26] Letters, Thomas Rice to John Rice, on family matters, especially referring to their brother Harry's affairs. [27-31] letters from other members of the Rice family. Thomas Rice , probably a legal writer; John Morgan Rice (b.1774) seems to have been an unbeneficed clergyman.
Dates:
1797-1812
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Adams documents collected by John Chidley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10287
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection of papers relating to Richard Adams, assembled by John Chidley. It includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems and prose by Adams; letters from Adams to Chidley; proofs corrected by Adams; and printed, duplicated and photographic items.
Dates:
1968-1991 and undated
Conditions Governing Access:
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Richard Bastard, naval lieutenant: Quarterly account book.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9503
Scope and Contents
A leather bound pocket notebook (42 pages), covering the period from October 1807, just prior to Bastard's promotion to the rank of lieutenant, until 1822, when he had been on half pay for some time and was working temporarily in the merchant marine. At the front of the book, pages 1-28, there is a list of quarterly bills (loans), with their due dates, together with brief notes of Bastard's movements between vessels, with dates. These are followed by records of transactions; the mess account...
Dates:
1807-1822
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Richard Bentley: Letter to John Evelyn
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5952
Scope and Contents
Includes a draft of a letter from Evelyn to Bentley, 29 October 1697.
Dates:
23 Oct. 1697-29 Oct. 1697
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Boulind: Cambridge Libraries Questionnaire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9357
Scope and Contents
Completed questionnaire returns, some with accompanying correspondence, library guides and photographs of buildings, books and manuscripts. There is also an index. The correspondents include Andrew J. Armour (Assistant Chief Librarian, Cambridgeshire); Michael J. Farrar (County Archivist, Cambridgeshire); Kenelm Foster (Librarian, Blackfriars, Cambridge); Martin Golding (Librarian, Peterhouse); Virginia M. Kerr, (Avery Library, Columbia University, New York); Jean F. Lambert (Librarian,...
Dates:
1985
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7490
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of official papers from the last phase of Mayo's political career. The papers cover most aspects of policy-making and execution: military, diplomatic and security matters, economic policy, transport and communications, agriculture, famine relief and health, the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to India during 1869 and 1870, and Mayo's assassination. Some papers also provide insights into the working relationships amongst officials and amongst members of the...
Dates:
1868-1872
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Brynkley of Lincoln: Legal notebook
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7558
Scope and Contents
The working notebook of a practising lawyer, containing a great deal of miscellaneous material and transcripts of deeds. Also includes texts of Magna Hengham, Parva Hengham, the Liber Curialis of Ranulf of Glanville and the Customs of the Cities of Lincoln and Kingston on Hull.
Dates:
c. 1520
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Richard Cranshaw: autograph letter
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7316
Dates:
1643-2-20
Conditions Governing Access:
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Richard de V. Thomas: Letters on Persian border mission
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9500
Scope and Contents
32 letters from Thomas to his family, 1871-72; MS essay 'Persia  a buffer state'. [1-32] Letters from de Visme Thomas to members of his family, l4 NOV 1871 to 22 JUN 1872, while private secretary to Goldsmid during the expedition to survey and negotiate settlement of Perso-Afghan and Perso-Baluch border questions. The letters describe the voyage to the Persian Gulf (NOV-DEC 1871) and the expedition to Tehran (JAN- JUL 1872). [33] Thomas, MS essay 'Persia  a buffer state'.
Dates:
1871-1872
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Richard Farmer: Poetry
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4494
Scope and Contents
'Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy', with various poems and other juvenilia.
Dates:
1752
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Foster: Granta
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.27
Scope and Contents
Six leafs numbered 290-295, taken from a manuscript volume and one blank flyleaf.
Dates:
1717 (circa)
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Fonds
Richard Frederick Rainsford collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304AA
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises four small photograph albums and assorted loose photographs. The albums are labelled. The photographs have been grouped together loosely or in envelopes, labelled and arranged by year by R.F. Rainsford's daughter, Mrs Downend, prior to donating the material:1868-1919. Portraits of RFR and family.1910-11. Collection taken during Police work in 1911-13.1918. Kismayu during the Aulihan expedition 1917-1919. 1920. Kisumu jail; Nairobi Police...
Dates:
1840 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Gooch: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2616
Scope and Contents
A collection of treatises, published and unpublished, extracts, notes, drats and verses, many relating to the University of Cambridge. Includes drafts of the following works by Gooch: 'Liber Cantabrigienses', unpublished biographical notes on officials and students of the University of Cambridge; 'The British Youths' Familiar History of the Town and University of Cambridge', unpublished; 'America and the Americans', unpublished, with 15 watercolour sketches; 'Cantabrigia', newspaper cuttings...
Dates:
1823-1839
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Hill: Letters and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8793
Scope and Contents
20 papers in French, many concerning financial matters, 1695-1715; letters, mostly to Hill, from M. Servati, L. Desprez, Di S. Tomaso, Joseph Bouer, Dalique, Tobie Rocayrol and Abbe Provana; letters to Bruce (possibly Hill's secretary) from Marmande; letters to Chetwynd (Hill's secretary in Turin) from Clignet, the Comtesse de Guarene, and Fischer and De Riqueba; and a price list of paintings by Guillaume Desnoues. The identification of some of the writers is tentative.
Dates:
1695-1715
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Hollick of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, v. Ebenezer Hollick: notes on a legal dispute, with the opinion of S. Thompson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.4
Scope and Contents
Paginated 181-4. Endorsed: 'Whittlesford Camb', 'Caley 10/6 12 Holb. Ct Grays Inn', and 'Randall Cambridge'.
Dates:
15 Oct. 1807
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Hollwaye: Collection of 1,000 numbered theological extracts.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.75
Scope and Contents
There is an alphabetical index at fos 78-86. The book includes additional sermons and notes in the hand of Samuel Knight DD (d. 1746), two dated to Ascension Day and the Feast of St Peter 1707. fos 4, 5, 115: blank.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Hunter's collection of manuscript and printed material relating to the history of psychiatry
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10297
Scope and Contents
A collection of manuscript and printed ephemera relating to the early history of the treatment of mental illness, much of which relates to the Hanwell Asylum (later Middlesex County Asylum). Comprises: correspondence, committal returns, maintenance orders, petitions, accounts, printed extracts, engravings and illustrations. Together with some disparate material relating to Bethlem Hospital, Gloucester County Asylum, Hertfordshire County, Dr Bedford Pierce at the Retreat in York and to a...
Dates:
1684 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Richard M. Schwartz Collection of First Editions of Classical Music: manuscript notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10426
Dates:
Circa 1990-2010
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Richard Mackenzie Bacon: correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6239-6248
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Edward Harbord, 3rd Baron Suffield to R. M. Bacon and others
Dates:
1752-1844
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Richard Neville, 4th Baron Braybrooke: Diary in Canada
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9556
Scope and Contents
1 vol., diary of military life in Canada, 21 AUG 1838 Â 19 MAY 1840: life in barracks, descriptions of buildings, pastimes, women in Canadian towns and settlements; detailed report on rebellion at Beauharnois.
Dates:
1838-1840
Conditions Governing Access:
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