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School Empire Tour in Canada
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 237
Scope and Contents
Diaries and photograph albums of the 1933 tour created or collected by Harold Welch. There is a covering letter from Welch to T.A. Barringer, R.C.S. Librarian, 28 March 1997, regarding the collection.
Dates:
1933
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
School Empire Tours Record 1927-1939
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, by various photographers, relating to School Empire Tours, probably compiled by Miss Margaret Best. All the prints are captioned and some also have dates and places written on the back in Miss Best's hand.It should be noted that most of the images show groups of the participants, either before setting out or in the country concerned, but there is very little to show their activities - the 1932 tour to Canada is the best in this respect. It is clear from...
Dates:
1927 - 1939
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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School groups in Calcutta, ?1920s-30s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022UU
Scope and Contents
Collection consisting of loose prints of school groups in Calcutta. The schools have not been identified. Photographs by Edna Lorenz and H. Paul.
Dates:
1920 - 1939
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
Fonds
Scientific tracts and lectures, early 18th century, on natural philosophy, mechanics, magnets, hydrostatics, etc., with diagrams.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9415
Scope and Contents
In contemporary calf binding, title on spine somewhat lost, 'Lectures o[n] experim[ental] philoso[phy]'. [p.1] Treatise on natural philosophy. Mechanicks. Of the leaver. Of the axis in peritrochio. Of the wedge. Of descending bodies. Of the magnet. Mr. Boyle's observations upon the magnet. [p.97] Hydrostatics. [p.123] Hydrostatics. [p.163] Usefulness of trials of hydrostatic balances [in another hand]. 3 lectures. [p.183] Of barometers,thermometers, and hydrometers. [p.196] Experiments of...
Dates:
1700-1749 (Early 18th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Scott Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Scott (James)
Scope and Contents
The collection includes palm leaf manuscripts in Burmese and Lao Tham scripts, Burmese, Shan and Lao folding books, Shan manuscripts on silk paper, Chinese documents, letters and maps and ephemera collected by Scott during his time in the Far East. Also included are reports and correspondence relating to Scott's administrative duties in Burma.
Dates:
1750-1910 (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
"Scottish Soldier": the Autobiography of Major-General Douglas Wimberley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WIMB
Scope and Contents
Churchill Archives Centre holds excerpts from volume one and a complete copy of volume two of the autobiography. Subjects covered include Wimberley's service in the First World War, between the wars and during the Second World War.
Dates:
1973
Conditions Governing Access:
The autobiography is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Scrapbook on Alan Gray, Mus. D.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8496
Scope and Contents
A scrapbook on Alan Gray, compiled by Cecil Hurry, containing postcards and letters from Gray to Hurry, letters to Hurry concerning Gray, obituaries of Gray from newspapers, and other material. At the front of the volume is a photograph of Alan Gray.
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Scripture References
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6376
Scope and Contents
A list of scriptural references, arranged for the whole Bible verse by verse, with a few verses omitted, 195 folios. There are occasional footnotes and other annotations. At fo. 176 are annotations to various passages from Genesis to Isaiah. Inside the front cover is 'John Bell' and 'G. Dav[id] 25/11/22'.
Dates:
1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Seals and coats of arms
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 30
Scope and Contents
A collection of letters, pictures and two seals received in reply to the R.C.I. circular of 1904, with later additions, including booklets, newscuttings, newsletters and volumes. A summary list describing the earlier material is in the first box.
Dates:
1904 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Second Duke of Cambridge: letters to Sir Thomas Wyke
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9596
Scope and Contents
26 letters, 1855-96, from the Duke of Cambridge to Sir Thomas Wyke, on diplomatic, political, dynastic and personal matters.
Dates:
1855-1896
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
Fonds
Second Intercolonial Exhibition, Brisbane
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085H
Scope and Contents
Album containing printed title page and twelve mounted prints measuring approximately 290 x 235 mm., and showing scenes in and around the Exhibition Buildings. All the photographs have brief printed captions. The title page in full reads: 'Under the Patronage of His Excellency Sir Arthur E. Kennedy KCMG., C.B., twelve photographic views of the Second Intercolonial Exhibition held in Brisbane, Queensland August 21 1877, under the auspices of the National Agricultural and Industrial...
Dates:
1877-08
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
Fonds
Second mortgage, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1868
Scope and Contents
On 23 Jan 1760, Zachariah Mart of Cambridge, gent, mortgaged (in the form of a lease for 1,000 years at peppercorn rent) a tenement, which he currently occupies, in Preachers Street, parish of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, to John Whittred of Cambridge, butcher, in return for #100. On the same security and terms, he now borrows a further #50 from Whittred, nominal repayment date being 26 Apr 1762. Signed and sealed by both parties, witnessed by Thomas Wilson and John Smith, duty stamp....
Dates:
26 Oct. 1761 (2 George III)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Securing growth: The ritual system of the Kuria people of East Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9579
Scope and Contents
Typescript unpublished book, 306 pp, by Malcolm J. Ruel, together with letter discussing deposit of the item to the library from Ruel.
Dates:
1985
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sedgwick Migration Photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011LLL
Scope and Contents
A collection of 3 albums (now disbound) containing a small number of original photographs as well as letters, pamphlets, press cuttings and memoranda. The photographs are spread throughout volumes 1 and 2. Volume 3, 1913- (which was marked vol. IV inside) has no original photographs. Images reproduced in cuttings and articles are not listed.
Dates:
1910 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sedley Taylor: Correspondence and sermons
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6254-6260, 6263
Dates:
1779-1920
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
Fonds
Sedley Taylor: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6290
Scope and Contents
Includes sketch book containing sketches of Swiss mountain scenery, lists of letter writers in CUL MS Add.6247, various music copied by, or associated with, Mary Anne Bacon and music composed by Sedley Taylor.
Dates:
1825-1826 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
See Adversaria
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.99
Dates:
800-1500
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Segni and Medici, Florentine Merchants: Business Letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8963
Scope and Contents
50 business letters, of which 22 are addressed to Niccolo, Gianni and Lorenzo Segni, 1616-25; 2 to Lorenzo Segni, 1625; and 26 to Lorenzo Segni and Francesco Medici, from agents in other Italian cities, on commercial and financial matters. Many have original string ties, seals, addresses and postal markings.
Dates:
1616-1634
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Selden : Guybon Goddard's annotations on Selden's 'Of the originall of Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction of Testaments', and, 'Of the disposition or Administration of Intestates goodes'.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/SELDEN
Scope and Contents
The front pastedown bears the ownership mark of Thomas Martin (the celebrated Norfolk Antiquary, ‘Martin of Palgrave’ (1697-1771) (for whom see William Carew Hazlitt, 'The book-collector', (London, John Grant, 1904), pp. 5, 9, 123, Seymour de Ricci, 'English collectors of books and manuscripts (1530-1930)' (CUP, 1930) pp. 65 and 68, and, most recently David Stoker in ODNB (https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18212) a possible ex-library number, 230, and a price 2 - 6, which is the price shown...
Dates:
1619-02-23 - 1626
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
Selden Society: Minutes, Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7937
Dates:
1887-1996
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
Selected Correspondence of Marshal of the RAF 1st Lord Trenchard
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/TREN
Scope and Contents
Xeroxed material used by Captain Stephen Roskill for his book "Hankey, Man of Secrets", consisting of Trenchard's correspondence with Winston Churchill, 1st Lord Hankey and Sir Samuel Wilson over air defence, particularly as relating to naval forces, and papers on his agreement with Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes over relations between the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
Dates:
1919 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Selection of photographic subjects of the Union of South Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm or 290 x 230 mm. The album has a decorative hand-painted title page reading: 'This selection of photographic subjects is presented by the Railways and Harbours Department of the Union of South Africa [signed] [illegible], Minister 1925'. There are captions (in gold ink) beneath the photographs, which have been used as titles. The titles may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been...
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sénégambie-Niger reports
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 142
Scope and Contents
Five volumes of manuscripts. Each volume is bound in leather with the title and elaborate tooling on each front cover. They appear to be reports to the Governor-General from local officials. Each cover is marked: '1903-1904; Sénégambie-Niger: Cercle de ...' with the appropriate name. The books are full of lined paper, and neatly written reports, each in a different hand on the history, administration etc. of the area. Four of the five volumes contain a hand drawn map of the...
Dates:
1903 - 1904
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Senex Africanus'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 180
Scope and Contents
A carbon copy of a typescript of Sinclair's reminiscences of his time in England, Kenya, Zanzibar and Tangier, 177 pages. Although there is a list of photographs, the illustrated copy of the memoir is believed to be lost.
Dates:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Seretse Khama statue
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30549D
Scope and Contents
Two coloured photographs of a statue of Sir Seretse Khama (1921-1980). In 1984 the library was approached by Franta Belsky (born 1921), the sculptor, who was endeavouring to produce a model for a statue of Sir Seretse Khama, but was unable to obtain a profile photograph. The library was able to lend him a photograph taken during the 1977 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, which he described as 'invaluable.' He gave these photographs of his model to the library in July 1985, and the...
Dates:
1984 - 1985
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