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Sams : 'Lighter moments in the I[ndian] C[ivil] S[ervice]'.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/SAMS
Scope and Contents
Typescript of reminiscences copiously annotated, evidently for intended publication, in ink (black and green), in biro, in blue crayon and in pencil. Many passages struck through. The annotations decrease in frequency from the earliest to the latest pages, and those in green ink are perhaps in a hand other than Sams'.
Originally in four ring binders, continuously paginated.
Dates:
1934 - 1954
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Samuel Bentham: Notebook
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6623
Scope and Contents
Notebook of Samuel Bentham, 124 folios. Fos 1-49 consist chiefly of receipts, valuations and estimates of the vicarage dues of Witchford, the list of those who paid dues having been tabulated, apparently in anticipation, as far as the year 1731. The figures for the years 1724-1731 have been filled in by another hand after S. Bentham's death. Fos 54-117 consist chiefly of extracts from the records of Ely Cathedral and from the proceedings of the Dean and Chapter, including copies of a letter...
Dates:
1717-1731
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Samuel Butler: Unconscious Memory
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5977
Scope and Contents
Draft of Samuel Butler's Unconscious Memory, 397 folios.
Dates:
1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Samuel Clarke, Simon Ockley and Richard Farmer: correspondence concerning theology.
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7113
Dates:
1712 - 1786
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Coleridge: Letter
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8526
Scope and Contents
A letter from Samuel Coleridge to Mr Hunt, bookseller, of Ramsgate, 3 pages and address, the signature of which has been removed. There is an accompanying letter from Thomas James Wise to Geoffrey Keynes, 13 March 1929, 2 pages, authenticating Coleridge's letter.
Dates:
1827
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Samuel Colvil: Mock Poem or Whiggs Supplication
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6291
Scope and Contents
Copy. 48 folios. On fo. 1: 'I pray do me the favir of sending this book home if you dont like it for if you dont you most not fale reding it for it will plese you'.
Dates:
1750 (Circa. Copy of original fo c. 1681)
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Coverly: Trading memoranda, Canton, China; Journal of voyage, Boston-England
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9639
Scope and Contents
A journal giving a brief description of Canton and information on Chinese weights and measures. It gives information on the cargo of the ship 'Alert' on its voyage to China and gives a description of Coverly's voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to England and return to Boston.
Dates:
1815-1818
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Dale: Journeys to Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3466
Scope and Contents
Journal of eleven journies from Braintree to Cambridge. There is a later addition on fo. 1 to 'Dr Woodward', but this is erroneous. The journal, on fos 1-43, is followed on fo. 48 by miscellaneous notes, and on fos 50-87, 92-107, by copies of monumental inscriptions in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, taken mostly from Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana.
Dates:
1722-1738
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Dömjen: general treatise on plants
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9675
Scope and Contents
"Tracatus Vegetationum Generalis". Entire volume in Latin. Author thought to be Father Samuel Dömjen of Transylvania, who studied at Oxford before travelling to America to learn from Ben Franklin, with the intention of completing a world tour.10 chapters:Caput 1: De rusticorum FelicitateCaput 2: De Anatomia PlantarumCaput 3: De Principio VegetationisCaput 4: De Elementari Plantarum SuccoCaput 5: De Terebratione PlantarumCaput 6: De...
Dates:
1747
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Gordon: Log book, HMS ''Veteran''
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9517
Scope and Contents
Ship's log marked 'A Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's ship Veteran. George Gregory Esquire, Commander. Commencing 17th June 1797 By me S. Gordon. Master's Mate'. Includes exercises in nautical mathematics and navigation, with diagrams and illustrations.
Dates:
1797-1798
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Hoare: Report on the death of Rasputin
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9863
Scope and Contents
Report on the death of Rasputin written by Samuel Hoare as part of the British Intelligence mission to Russia.
Dates:
January 1917
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel James Paget: correspondence and scrapbooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9948
Dates:
1903-1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Samuel Knight: biography of John Strype
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.59c
Scope and Contents
Autograph.
Dates:
1740 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Knight: Collection of sermons
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.67
Scope and Contents
Sermons apparently composed and preached by Samuel Knight. Includes: fos. 5-17: statement of accounts for cider etc, with various public houses, 28 Sep. 1671 - 6 Mar. 1674. In various hands.
Dates:
1671-1700
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Knight: Collection of sermons
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.68
Scope and Contents
Sermons apparently composed and preached by Samuel Knight.
Dates:
1700 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Knight: Collection of various biographies
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.48
Scope and Contents
Collections for a biographies of Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln; John Peckham, archbishop of Canterbury; George Montaigne, archbishop of York; Lancelot Andrewes, bishop of Winchester; John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury; and John Overall, bishop of Norwich. The latter including 'Censure of a sermon ...' (see also Add. 80 ), 'Orationes et Scripta Joannis Overall', 'Praelectio D. D. Overalli' (see also Gg.1.29 ), and copies of letters exchanged between Overall, John Cosin, and Hugo Grotius,...
Dates:
1730 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Knight: Collections for a life of Simon Patrick, bishop of Ely
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.20
Scope and Contents
Including copies of letters by George Collop; Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury; William Sancroft, archbishop of Canterbury; and Daniel Finch, earl of Nottingham. Items dated c. 1665-95. Also including epitaph for John Patrick (d. 1695), list of names of commissioners for reviewing the liturgy (1689), and a receipt signed by John Eachard for sum received from Patrick towards rebuilding of St Catharine's Hall, Cambridge (undated). The 'Life' was not published, but was evidently used in preparing...
Dates:
1665-1695 (Circa)
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Knight: Life of Dr John Colet
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.46b
Dates:
1723 (Circa)
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Knight: Notes on Cambridgeshire churches
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.21
Scope and Contents
With drafts of his lives of Erasmus and John Colet. The book was formerly used by an unidentified 17th cent. divine to draft sermons. Among the notes (fos 60-2) are copies of the wills of John Sixtin (24 Mar. 1518), John Yonge (25 Apr 1516), Andrew Ammonius (17 Aug. 1517), and William Lychefeld (2 Nov. 1517).
Dates:
1200-1700 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Minnis: History of Bourn, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7989-7990
Scope and Contents
A typescript history of the village of Bourn, Cambridgeshire, 'edited by Mr A.B. Jeffries from materials kept by the late S.E. Minnis', 166 pages. There is a table of contents at the start of the first volume. At the beginning of the second volume is an aerial photograph of Bourn and an index. After the history in the second volume is an editor's note, followed by further pieces by Minnis on the later history of Bourn. This volume also includes two loose typescripts on the village.
Dates:
1970-1980
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Partridge: List of Reviews
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.112
Scope and Contents
List of articles in the British Critics 1793-1814 reviewed by Samuel Partridge, compiled by James Plumptre at Boston. For Partridge see Gentleman's Magazine, 87 (2), pp. 186, 198; Notes and Queries, 2nd Ser. 3, p. 346.
Dates:
1814
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Sandars: Transcribed extracts from British Library manuscripts concerning the town and University of Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.729
Scope and Contents
Inside front cover, a note `Care has been taken not to copy any thing contained in MSS. Baker II, IV, VI, IX, X, XI, as transcripts of these volumes are already in Cambridge Unviersity Library'. [1] (fol.2) `Vetus liber Archdiaconi Eliensis', dealing with church furniture in Cambridge c.1276-1349, from Baker MS.3 (Harl.7030), p.507, a transcript of Caius College MS.204; in Latin. [2] (fol.16) Andrew Perne, order against playing football, 1580, from Baker MS.3, p.423. [3] (fol.17) Note of...
Dates:
1869
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Sandars: Transcripts from British Library Add. MS 6261
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.730
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of notes compiled by Thomas Tanner, bishop of St Asaph, concerning books in the University Library, Cambridge (early 18th cent.).
Dates:
1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Sandars: Transcripts from manuscripts then in private hands
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.727
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of manuscripts dated 1562 - 1737. Including copies of: Robert Glover, 'Order in proceeding to the parliament on vii January 1562'; letter from Charles I to James Butler, duke of Ormonde, 31 July 1645, transcribed from a copy then in possession of F. W. Russell MP, of Lancaster Gate (letter published in T. Carte, Life of James Duke of Ormond, Oxford, 1851, 4, p. 305); letter from 'one of the attendants of Queen Caroline' to 'a Lady in Lancashire', 29 Nov. 1737, describing Caroline...
Dates:
1869
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Samuel Sandars: Transcripts of original papers concerning the English Civil Wars
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.731
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of original papers then in the possession of Robert Green of Scalby Hall, Yorkshire, and formerly belonging to Col. Thomas Sanders of Ireton and Caldwell, Derbyshire. Copies of correspondence between: Col. Thomas Sanders, Henry Archbold, Daniell Watson, Sir John Gell, Mr Fletcher, Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, Sir John Curzon, Joseph Swetman, Nathaniel Barton, Oliver Cromwell, Major Edward Smithe, Gervase Bennett, Edward Pri[t]chard, Robert Cachett, Col. Robert Swallowe,...
Dates:
1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library