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Arthur J. Gray: Notes on Bookbinding
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6398-6399
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).
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File
Arthur Joseph Munby: Susan, a poem of Degrees
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6974
Scope and Contents
Manuscript as prepared for the printer, 78 folios.
Dates:
1892
Conditions Governing Access:
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Arthur Q. Henriques: Diary of a visit to Australia
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9582
Scope and Contents
Includes some lists of passengers for boats taken during the trip, and a daily note of latitudes & longitudes for a voyage from Sydney to Suez, over two months.
Dates:
1858-1859
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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Arthur Saxon Dennett Smith: Journals
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8956
Scope and Contents
Arthur Smith's papers comprise a diary, 1902-3, made at Jesus College, Cambridge; MS record of races run, 1906-08; typescript record of athletics achievements, 1896-1908; biographical memoir; and an obituary by Ashley Rowe. Smith's brother's papers consist of typescripts: Lists of journeys, 1910-32; Journal in Argentina, 1914; Journal in the Falkland Islands, 1915 (incomplete); Journal in Uruguay, 1916; and a Sea voyage back to England, via Madeira, Canaries, undated. The papers also contain...
Dates:
1900-1935 (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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Fonds
Arthur Schnitzler papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Schnitzler
Scope and Contents
The collection contains sketches, first drafts and variants of the most important of Schnitzler's literary manuscripts and part of his correspondence (mainly that which Schnitzler personally filed in folders). Correspondents include Hermann Bahr, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Otto Brahm, Georg Brandes, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt, Felix Salten, Gustav Schwarzkopf and Jakob Wassermann.
Dates:
1885-1937 (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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Arthur Tansley: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Tansley
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of biographical materials (mainly about or rembrances of Tansley), notes and notebooks used by Tansley for field notes, manuscripts and notes for Tansley's book and lectures and psychology, correspondence and other materials relate to publications, material related to lectures and broadcasts (the latter of which Tansley may not have been involved in), documentation of Tansley's involvement in various Societies and Organisations (he had key roles in several),...
Dates:
1854-2008
Conditions Governing Access:
Some items are restricted at the discretion of the Keeper of Manuscripts.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Arthur Westcott: Poetry commonplace book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9953
Scope and Contents
MS and printed poems including some of his own compositions
Dates:
1879-1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Arthur Willey: Correspondence and papers, c.1890-1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9914
Scope and Contents
MS Add.9914/1-15 Correspondence on formation of 'Nucleus' or Q.J. Club, 1900 (cytologists)
Dates:
1890-1920
Conditions Governing Access:
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Arthur William Young: Catalogue of Bibles in his Possession
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6751
Scope and Contents
Catalogue of Bibles in Young's possession, written on 239 blue slips and pasted into the volume, 94 folios. The price, provenance, and date of purchase are generally included. The bibles were donated to the Library with the catalogue in 1933.
Dates:
1863-1913 (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).
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Articles from 'The Field'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 322
Scope and Contents
Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...
Dates:
1888 - 1921
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
Articles of Agreement between Elizabeth Fry of Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire and Charles Roome of Woburn, Bedfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.294
Scope and Contents
Charles Roome is to hold certain land of Elizabeth Fry's in Woburn for a term of three years. She will put the premises in repair before the commencement of the term. He may not sublet without her consent. Witnesses: Edmund Greene, St John Thomson. Two seals are attached.
Dates:
14 Nov. 1712
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Articles of agreement, Trumpington etc., Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1810
Scope and Contents
The declared purpose of this agreement is to put an end to various legal proceedings in the courts of King's Bench, Exchequer, and Chancery, principally concerning Christopher Anstey DD and his wife Mary, and John Dowsing, clerk, arising from the disputed will of James Thompson esq, Mary Anstey's nephew. The Ansteys in effect buy out Dowsing's claims, and the parties agree to pay their own legal costs. On 26 May Dowsing acknowledges receipt of #260 for the household goods at Thompson's house...
Dates:
2 May 1748-26 May 1748
Conditions Governing Access:
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Articles of agreement, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1018
Dates:
23 Jan. 1724
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Articles on international treaties between Popes and rulers, late 16C
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9765
Scope and Contents
A collection of articles in Italian and Latin on international treaties, 1510-59, including agreements between Pope Leo X and the Swiss, and Henry VIII and Emperor Maximilian, 1516, and Pope Paul III and Emperor Charles V, about heresy and Protestantism in Germany, 1546. Â1 volume, Sommario de capitalationi fatte fra diversi Pontefici, et Principi Christiani, Italian and Latin, in a single hand throughout, late 16C; in modern boards
Dates:
1550-1600
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Artificial Collection of Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5944
Scope and Contents
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Includes correspondence, verses, notes and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1400-1947
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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Management Group
Artificial collection of stray items.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/Pet.Misc.2
Dates:
1693 - 1987
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
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Artwork by schoolchildren
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 58
Scope and Contents
Paintings and drawings by school pupils in Africa and India and a selection of artwork from other countries, some mounted on cardboard. The collection includes work by pupils of George Stevens, a friend of Richard Carline, who taught at a school in Africa before the Second World War. A covering note by Unity Spencer explaining the origins of the collection is with RCMS 58/1.
Dates:
1923 - 1968
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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Ascension, West Africa, New Zealand, etc
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III
Scope and Contents
A collection including scenes from Ascension, Canary Islands, Madeira, Egypt, Brazil, New Zealand, Japan, Senegambia, Sierra Leone, the U.K., Gibraltar and Norway. The arrangement is a random one, but is seems likely that the left-hand photographs, one of Norway, the remainder definitely or probably New Zealand, were inserted later than those on the right. 108-113 are loose prints. The following is a list of the locations:New Zealand: 1, 12, 14, 16, 18Possibly New Zealand: 3, 7,...
Dates:
1850 - 1900
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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A.S.F. Gow: Notes on Theocritus MSS
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8246
Scope and Contents
First half of volume consists of notes translated from Philologus, 1874, pp 385-, with second half appearing to be original notes on the works.
Dates:
1917 (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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Ashbee: The Papers of Charles Robert Ashbee
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/CRA
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several documents concerning C.R. Ashbee and his work with the Guild and School of Handicrafts, as well as several additional items on the Ashbee family. The heart of the collection is in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with the journals and memoirs of Charles Ashbee and his wife, Janet. The collection also contains a small number of pieces of creative writing - essays, reports, plays and poems - as well as a number of published volumes written by...
Dates:
1689 - 2012
Management Group
Ashburnham : 'Narrative of his attendance on Charles I from Oxford to the Scotch army and to the Isle of Wight and a vindication of his conduct.'
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/ASHBURNHAM
Scope and Contents
A scribal copy in 17th-century binding. (Calf-bound with double gilt fillets on either side of each of 5 sewing bands and decorative roll at head and foot of spine. Double gilt fillet on all outer edges of boards with inward-facing fleurons at each corner.)
The narrative occupies pp. 57 to 136 of volume 2 of the text published in 1830.
Dates:
1646 - 1648
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
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Asia miscellanea
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63
Scope and Contents
A wide range of papers and artwork concerning different parts of Asia. Much of the material relates to India.
Dates:
1790 - 1977
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
Asia photograph collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302G
Scope and Contents
An untitled album of photographs measuring generally between 65 x 110 mm and 210 x 165 mm, uncaptioned and undated, save one which is a postcard of a man and a woman, on the reverse is written: ‘Sunday, 24th July 38. The album contains a number of blank pages. Subjects include life on a ship (including images of the crew in fancy dress), buildings, groups of people, a ship-wreck, a boat ran aground, harbour scenes, two obituaries (C. Williams. A.B. H.M.S. Kent, killed at Hong Kong Dockyard...
Dates:
1910 - 1940
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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Asphalt Lakes, Trinidad
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3075D
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs mounted on card, measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm., with brief typed captions pasted to the mounts. The collection shows stages in the extraction, transportation and refining of pitch from the asphalt lake at La Brea, in the south-west corner of the Island. Raleigh used the pitch from this lake to caulk his ships as early as 1585, declaring it to be the best he had ever used.
Dates:
1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Asser: Life of King Alfred
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3825
Scope and Contents
Alfred's will is at fo. 33v. Though not so stated, occasional scribal errors suggest that this is a transcript of the 'Parker' edition, printed London, 1574, but with the Old English letterforms normalised. fos 38, ii-lxvi: blank. fo. 1: signature 'Arundel', presumably Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel (1585-1646, restored to title 1604).
Dates:
1604 (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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Cambridge University Library