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Sir John Milner Gray: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7739
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a wide range of correspondence and papers relating to the Gambia, Kenya, Kilwa [Kilwa Sultanate] and Pemba, Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania], Uganda, Zanzibar, West Africa, and other parts of the continent. Some of the topics covered are ethnic groups and Indigenous peoples, languages, the slave trade, the Portuguese colonization in Africa, and archaeology. There are articles by J. Schacht, Emin Pasha, Gervase Mathew, M. Posnansky, and others on Africa, as well as...
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).
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Sir John Moore: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9340
Dates:
1803-1805 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir John Robert Seeley: Letters to Robert Herbert Quick
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9366
Scope and Contents
26 letters, some dated roughly according to references in the letters; 1 to Bertha Quick after her husband's death.
Dates:
1868-1891 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir John Skene: 'Scotiae Veteres Leges et Constitutiones'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9301
Scope and Contents
An earlier MS of Regiam Majestatem. Scotiae veteres leges et constitutiones, 1607, describing laws of Scotland previous to James I (336 ff.). It contains laws from the time of Malcolm MacKenneth II to Robert III, as well as 'Leges Burgorum' (Laws of the Forest). On a flyleaf it reads 'Skenaei Leges Scotiae transcribed by James Mershall 1606 [=1607]. Leges Burgorum Scotiae'; the volume is signed throughout by Mershall. Most of the writing is in Latin, but the Laws of the Forest are in...
Dates:
1607
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir John Spry collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 351
Scope and Contents
Papers and photographs relating to Sir John Spry's legal service in Saint Helena and the British Antarctic Territory.
Dates:
1989 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sir Joseph Banks: Journals
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6294
Scope and Contents
Two journals in a volume of 94 folios: 1. 'Journal of an Excursion to Eastbury and Bristol etc. in May and June 1767'. 2. 'Journal of an Excursion to Wales etc. Began August the 13th 1767 Ended January the 29th 1768'.
Dates:
1767-1768
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Joseph John Thomson: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7654
Scope and Contents
Part I. Correspondence A-Z Correspondence. PP Other personal papers. Part II. Research, lectures and speeches BD Drafts of books. PD Drafts of published scientific papers and lectures. ED Drafts of contributions to dictionaries and encyclopaedia. UD Drafts of unidentified or unpublished works. SN Notes for speeches. NC Notes and calculations. PH Photographs and diagrams. UL University lecture notes. EX Draft Examination questions. Part III. Thomson's work outside physics Government...
Dates:
1880-1939 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Lala Sukuna
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091H
Scope and Contents
200 x 250 mm. Head and shoulders portrait. The image is stamped on the reverse with the date '5 Aug 1958' and also 'Public Relations Office, Fiji Official photograph.'
Dates:
1938 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Leo George Chiozza Money: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259
Dates:
1900-1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Leopold George Heath: Letterbook, Abyssinian campaign [British expedition to the Ethiopian Empire]
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9654
Scope and Contents
Contains contemporary copies of letters sent form Heath to the Secretary of the Admiralty between July 1867 and December 1870, copies of enclosures (mainly letters by other naval officers, list of sails, purchases, officers' allowances, etc) with alphabetical index. 675 pages. Last 4 letters in volume in different hand; possibly autograph signed copies of 4 letters by Heath.Notable entries include those regarding the suppression of the East African slave trade, with Heath's reports...
Dates:
1867-1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sir Mark Aurel Stein: Family Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8838
Scope and Contents
Stein had arrived in Lahore early in 1888 to take up a position at the University of the Punjab, and he made the first of many annual visits to Kashmir that summer. The letters to Ernst Stein therefore describe his second visit. The letters to his uncle are shorter; they would be among the latest letters to Hirschler, who died in November 1891.
Dates:
1889-1891
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Matthew Hale: The History and analysis of the Common Laws of England
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3820
Scope and Contents
'Copyed from the Bishop of Worcester's copy that was taken after the originall under My Ld Ch. Justice Hales own hand before it was abused.' pp. ii-vi, 105-10: blank.
Dates:
1696
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sir Michael Foster: papers on sponges
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9924
Scope and Contents
Papers on Red Sea sponges, written during a voyage to build a lighthouse opposite Mount Sinai in 1860. Presented, with letter, by Michael Foster (son) to George Bidder, 1930.
Dates:
1860
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Michael Tippett: ''Words for music perhaps''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9230
Scope and Contents
Dye-line of copyist's manuscript of 'Words for music perhaps, a sequence of love poems by W.B. Yeats', set to music by Tippett; with photocopy of original manuscript; 'Words for music perhaps' was commissioned by the BBC, composed 1959-60, and broadcast 8 June 1960
Dates:
1960
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Moses Finley: papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9607
Dates:
C.1950-1980
Conditions Governing Access:
Files B25, G30, H3 and H6 are restricted.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Sir Moses Haim Montefiore: Correspondence with Charles Hunt
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8331
Scope and Contents
Letters to, from, and about Montefiore. The are four pieces of correspondence concerning the sum of £50 donated by Charles Hunt of Yoxall, Staffordshire, in 1876 to the testimonial fund set up in Montefiore's name. There are also three items concerning Hunt's late sister, who was a close friend of Montefiore. 1. Montefiore to Charles Hunt, 18 Oct. 1871. 2. Hunt to Montefiore, 24 Oct. 1871. 3. Montefiore to Hunt, 16 Nov. 1871. 4. Lewis Emanuel, Secretary of the Sir Moses Montefiore...
Dates:
1871-1876
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Napier Shaw: Notebook and corrected proofs of 'The air and its ways'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9584
Dates:
1913-1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Norman Moore: Bequest of Irish books MSS
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9552
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on the transfer of Moores books and MSS to CUL, lists of books, 1923-25. [1-54] Correspondence, SIR ALAN MOORE, MILICENT, LADY MOORE, FRANCIS JENKINSON, EDWARD THOMAS, CHARLES SAYLE, ALWYN SCHOFIELD (1923-25) [55-56] Obituaries: Death of Sir Norman Moore, Sussex Express, 8 DEC 1922; Alan Moore, Sir Norman Moore, booklet, n.d. [57-59] Lists of Moores books, memoranda, 1923. [60] Miscellanea. Formerly Res.a.11285.
Dates:
1923-1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Owen Seaman: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8990
Scope and Contents
Letters to Owen Seaman, many accepting or declining invitations to a dinner of the Royal Literary Fund in 1912.
Dates:
1890-1935 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Patrick Bateson: research, teaching and administrative records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10285
Scope and Contents
Personal and scientific working papers of Patrick Bateson. Personal papers include material relating to Bateson’s schooling and education, family history papers, diaries, notebooks and journals, a small number of photographs and material relating to his post-retirement interests. Scientific papers include research notebooks, experiment data, offprints, articles and draft articles, material relating to books and proposed books, and assorted notes covering the full range of Bateson’s research...
Dates:
1912 - 2017
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer: Rede Lecture
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8857
Scope and Contents
The Rede Lecture, delivered 10 May 1991, on the relationship between British universities and government, probable changes in the next few years, and the effects on universities' work and performance.
Dates:
10 May 1991
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Philip Burne-Jones: Album
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10428
Scope and Contents
Album of sketches and letters (mostly fragmentary) by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, titled on the front board 'Phil B.J's scraps'. Recipients of the letters and sketches include 'Grahame', 'Nelly' and 'Felicia', and some are written or drawn on headed notepaper with addresses in Egerton Terrace, London; Dovre Steet, London; Edenbridge, Kent; Rottingdean, Sussex; and Ostende. 49 sheets or fragments are pasted into the album, and there is one loose sheet. Titles or captions supplied by Burne-Jones...
Dates:
1901-1921 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Sir Ralph Hone collection : South Arabia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3021B
Scope and Contents
An album containing scenes in the Federation, probably by official photographers. Most of the prints measure 210 mm x 160 mm, though a few are slightly smaller, and all are excellent photographs.Between 1959 and 1965 sixteen states and the British Colony of Aden joined to form the Federation of South Arabia. In 1965 Sir Ralph Hone and Sir Gawain Bell were appointed to make recommendations for a constitution for the Federation. They reported early in 1966, but the constitution...
Dates:
1965 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Sir Raynor Arthur Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs and slides, by various photographers, relating to the career of Sir Raynor Arthur. Apart from one photograph of Cyprus, the photograph collection relates to Arthur's last three posts (Bermuda, the Falkland Islands and the Bahamas), and, as well as more general scenes, includes images of several special events and distinguished visitors. Most of the Bermuda and Bahamas material consists of professional photographs; those of the Falkland Islands and Falkland...
Dates:
1937 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Sir Richard Colt Hoare: Journals of tours in Italy and Europe
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3545-3555
Scope and Contents
Journals and notebooks of Hoare's extensive European tours, mainly through Italy.
Dates:
1785-1791
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library