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Royal Colonial Institute Freemasonry Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 390
Scope and Contents
A collection of books, pamphlets and ephemera relating to Freemasonry.
Dates:
1917 - 1956
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
Fonds
Royal Commonwealth Society Artefacts Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS
Scope and Contents
Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Colonial Institute had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South Kensington, and the creation of the Imperial Institute, the plan was abandoned. Over the years, however, the society built up a small, eclectic collection of objects as members donated items they had received as gifts or purchased during work or travel overseas.
Dates:
-2500 - 1970-05
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
Management Group
Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO
Scope and Contents
The RGO archives collection is now deposited in the University Library and consists of all the surviving historical paper records of the Royal Observatory from 1675 until circa 1980, though many later records are held and the collection accrues as material is deposited. The records are public records under the 1958 Public Records Act and are subject to the provisions of the 1958 and 1967 Acts, including the 'thirty-year rule'; at present all records created before 1992 January 01 are open...
Dates:
1675 - 2019
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
File
Royal Hospital, Dublin: Charter
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4340
Scope and Contents
Consists of 40 folios: (fo. 10) copy of the charter of the Hospital granted by King Charles II, 19 February 1684, made c. 1711; (fo. 28v) list of Governors of the Hospital; (fo. 30) annual standing charge of the Hospital, c. 1711. On the binding are the arms and crest of William Bayntun. Inside the front cover: 'J. Craven, 9th May 1810'. On fo. 1: 'W. Bayntun'.
Dates:
1711
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
Fonds
Royal Navy: Estimates
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5282-5334
Scope and Contents
Estimates for vessels in harbour and for building and repair work on ships of war.
Dates:
1707-1803
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
Fonds
Royal Navy: Mediterranean Fleet Order Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6658
Scope and Contents
Copies of orders from Admirals James Dundas and Edmund Lyons as commanders, Mediterranean Fleet, and from Admiral Houston Stewart, second-in-command of the same, with copies of related despatches, resolutions and other communications, written in three hands, 92 folios.
Dates:
1855-1856
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
Fonds
Royal Tour of Commonwealth 1953-54
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011EEE
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs by various photographers. Captions are derived from information on the back of some photographs and from official programmes and published books on the tour.H.M. King George VI was anxious to undertake a major post-war tour of the Commonwealth, but was prevented by ill-health. It was therefore agreed that H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth and H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh would travel to East Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and they flew from London airport on the...
Dates:
1953 - 1954
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
Fonds
Royal Tour of the West Indies, 1966
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307C
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose photographs measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm, with captions pasted to the backs of the prints. The photographs show scenes and events during the tour of 1966 which started at Georgetown, British Guiana and following the line of the islands (apart from a detour to Nassau) and ended in Jamaica. This was the first visit of the Queen to most of the islands although she had been to Jamaica and Bermuda during her world tour of the Commonwealth in 1953-4. Photographs by...
Dates:
1966
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
Fonds
Royal visits to Nepal 1911 and 1921
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022KKKK
Scope and Contents
A Christmas card, dated December 1922, containing two photographs, 135 x 80 mm.
The card has a printed greeting, with 'December 1922. Kathmandu' and is signed Kaiser Shamsher (i.e. Kaiser Shamser Jana Bahadur Rana, 3rd son of the Maharaja (1892-1964)). The card came from the effects of Miss Elizabeth Vann but the original recipient of the card is unknown.
Dates:
1922-12
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
Fonds
R.P. Reinal: Treatise on Natural Philosophy
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4488
Dates:
1740 (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
Fonds
R.T. Lowe and L. Blomefield: papers on fishes of Madeira, 1840s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9891
Dates:
1840-1850
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
Fonds
Rubbings of sixteenth-century bindings in the University and college libraries of Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum and in private hands
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6654-6655
Dates:
1910-1913 (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
Fonds
Runic Calendar
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7713-7717
Scope and Contents
Four volumes containing photgraphic plates of a runic calendars held in Stockholm and Upsala. One volume of hand written index by E. Magnussen
Dates:
1878 (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
Fonds
Rupert Brooke: Book of words and extracts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8478
Scope and Contents
Notes on poetry and prose compiled by Brooke at school and university, including inserted leaves of miscellaneous notes.
Dates:
1905-1910 (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
Fonds
Rupert Brooke: Democracy and the Arts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8479
Scope and Contents
Text of a paper read by Brooke to the Cambridge University Fabian Society in his room at King's College.
Dates:
Circa 1909
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
Fonds
Rupert Brooke: Poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8481
Scope and Contents
Seventeen poems by Brooke, with a pencil drawing by Jacques Raverat, at the front of the volume, of the author's head in profile.
Dates:
1910 (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
Fonds
Rupert Brooke: two letters to James Dixon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10368
Scope and Contents
Two autograph letters from Rupert Brooke to James Dixon, a member of the Fijian Civil Service whom Brooke had met during a visit to Fiji. The first was written from the Grand Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand, dated 'December 17? 1913' (the query is Brooke's), and accompanied a gift of books from Brooke to Dixon and his family. The second was written from Rugby, dated 21 July 1914, and responded to news of Dixon's terminal illness; it is accompaned by an envelope postmarked London, 24 July 1914,...
Dates:
1913-1914
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rupert Chawner Brooke: Draft of John Webster and the Elizabethan drama (London, 1916).
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6202-6203
Scope and Contents
Includes an appendix and a typescript of chapters from the same work.
Dates:
1911-1912
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
Fonds
Rushes from Catalogue Room, Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.821
Dates:
c. 1850
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
Fonds
Russell family papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/2911/RUS
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, scrapbooks and sketchbooks of members of the family of Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878). They include sketchbooks of his second wife, Fanny Elliot, whom he married in 1841, his stepdaughter, Adelaide, eldest daughter of his first wife Adelaide Lister (d. 1838), and their two children, Georgiana and Victoria. Family albums belonging to Lady Agatha contain photographs of her nephew, Bertrand Russell, and one album from her brother Rollo has...
Dates:
1800s - 1900s
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is available to researchers at Newnham College Archive
Found in:
Newnham College Archives
Fonds
Russian alphabet, St Petersburg, Russia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1085
Scope and Contents
In a roll composed of 21 sheets of paper rather over 12 inches x 8 inches each, pasted together endwise, containing a kind of illuminated Russian alphabet, written by Sidar Kamykov, a soldier of the Preobrazhensky Guards Regiment (one of the crack Russian regiments). Each letter is illustrated by a text beginning with that letter, in a medallion in red and black, and is followed by various forms of that letter in black. The alphabet includes both the Church and civil letters.
Dates:
20 Oct. 1727
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
Fonds
Russian Anti-Bolshevik Posters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9217
Scope and Contents
Portraits of military leaders and anti-Bolshevik propaganda posters
Dates:
1919-1922 (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
Fonds
Russian Language Course notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8696
Scope and Contents
Typescript notes for a Russian language course in Belgrade.
Dates:
1950 (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
Fonds
Russina Petions and Charters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8291
Scope and Contents
'O Razzorenii Tsarstva Moskovskago I Knyaze Pozharskom', a collection, compiled in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, of petitions submitted to Russian rulers by the Streltsy and others, and charters and letters received from the rulers. A note at the front of the volume indicates that it was bought in 1748 for two roubles, and again in 1816 for fifty roubles. There is a covering note by Ellis H. Minns, Pembroke College, 24 September 1930.
Dates:
1700 (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
Fonds
Ruth Darwin: correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9790
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of letters from Ruth Darwin to members of her family but predominantly to her sister (Emma) Nora Darwin, and correspondence and papers arising out of Ruth's work with the British Committee of the French Red Cross in France in 1917-1919.
Dates:
1890-1944
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