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Transport in Fiji
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091G
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs illustrating a typescript thesis 'Transport in Fiji' by W.A.T Bowles submitted to the Institute of Transport in November 1969. The prints vary in size from 175 x 125 to 195 x 245 mm. Numbers 6, 9, 20-21, 23-25, 28-43, 46, 49-50 are by W.A.T. Bowles; numbers 2 & 3 by Nitin Lal, Fiji Visitors Bureau; numbers 4-5, 7-, 10, 12-13, 18-19, 45, 47-48, 52-55 by Rob Wright, Public Relations Office; number 26 by the Public Relations Officer; 14-15 and probably 16 by...
Dates:
1969
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Transvaal Annexation Commission
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055H
Scope and Contents
142 x 101 mm. A cabinet print with identifying captions on the reverse. The print is a permanent photograph of some kind but the precise process has not been identified. The print shows a formally posed group portrait of Sir Theophilus Shepstone and his staff during the annexation of the Transvaal in April 1877. The attribution of this photograph to H.F. Gros is from Rider Haggard's ‘The days of my life' (2 vols. London 1926) where a photograph of the group (Vol. I, facing p.73), taken...
Dates:
1877
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Travel diaries of George Williams
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 53
Scope and Contents
Diaries of visits made by George Williams to Canada, North Africa and the Middle East, with correspondence regarding the Williams family and the gift of the collection to the R.C.S.
Dates:
1921 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Travel diaries of Marjory Warren
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 51
Scope and Contents
Illustrated diaries of Dr Warren's travels in Europe, Northern America and Morocco.
Dates:
1927 - 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Travels in South Asia and Australia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3024A
Scope and Contents
The album contains a mixture of original photographs, hand-coloured postcards and clippings. Most have manuscript or printed captions. Subjects include travel, hunting, scenes of natural beauty, natural products, and notable places or buildings.
Dates:
1904
Conditions Governing Access:
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Treasury Order for the purchase of Bishop John Moore's Library
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4357
Scope and Contents
Order of the Treasury Commissioners for the payment of £6400 to Samuel Clarke, D.D., executor of John Moore, bishop of Ely, for the purchase of Bishop Moore's library, 24 October 1715, signed by Sir R. Walpole, Earl of Orford, D. Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, and T. Newport, Lord Torrington, 2 folios. The order is endorsed by the Earl of Denbigh and the Earl of Halifax. On fo. 1v is the receipt signed by Samuel Clarke, 9 November 1715, and witnessed by William Ireland. The order is accompanied...
Dates:
1715-1905
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Treatise Against an Opponent of Newton
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8874
Scope and Contents
A defence of Sir Isaac Newton against the attack of George Gordon, made in Gordon's Remarks on the Newtonian philosophy, as propos'd by Sir Isaac Newton, in his Principia naturalis, and by Dr. Gregory, in his Principia astronomiae physicae (London, 1719). The treatise (47 pages) contains an examination of several of Newton's propositions, and Gordon's contradictions, with regard to centripetal forces, friction, projectile motion and gravity.
Dates:
1720 (circa)
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Treatise of the Plantation of Idolatrous Religion etc.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5961
Scope and Contents
Seven hands. (p. 1) 'An historical treatise of the plantation of Idolatrous religion here in England and of the first preaching of the gospel; Of the building and endowment pf christian Churches and provision made for the maintenance of Priests and Ministers to Attend the Service of God in them.' Unprinted; (p. 113) 'An Historical Treatise of Sacrilege and of the misfortune and evil that cometh thereby.' Unprinted; (p. 135) blank. The book had been prepared to contain some account of English...
Dates:
1700-1804 (circa)
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File
Treatise on Prayer
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6265
Scope and Contents
In shorthand, 155 folios: (fo. 1) 'John Barrow Holker in Cartmel 1819'; (fo. 3) drawing of a woman, bareheaded, seated on an upturned basket, perusing a book, with a church, hills and a tree in the background, and a border of hops; (fo. 4) text. On a fly-leaf: 'John Barrow Holker Cartmel'. On a label affixed inside the front cover: 'John Barrow, Hole of Ellel, Holker'.
Dates:
1819
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Treatise on public finance in Brabant
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4453
Scope and Contents
'Les regles en matière des charges publiques'.
Dates:
1708 (Circa)
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File
Treatise on Respiratory and other Diseases
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6856
Scope and Contents
Latin treatise on respiratory and other diseases, fos 1-25. There is a list of contents on fo. ii which is partly torn away. At the foot of this is the name 'Arthur Holl[ingworth]', and on fo. 43 in the same hand is 'Arthur Hollingworth P.tuo', below which, in a different hand, is 'Rowland Freeman 1705'. It is not clear if Hollingworth is the author or the scribe. After the treatise, in the same hand, are 'Clavis verborum omnium in Chymia', Latin and English explanations of chemical symbols...
Dates:
1703 (Circa)
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File
Treatise on the Sacraments
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6177
Scope and Contents
Incomplete treatise on the sacraments, beginning 'To prove the Reall presence of Christs body'.
Dates:
1625 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Treatises on Fortification and Practical Geometry
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8906-8907
Scope and Contents
Uniformly bound volumes, both stamped with the arms of the Arborio family of Savoy.
Dates:
1675 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Trevor Newton: poems and letters to Sir Geoffrey Keynes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10346
Scope and Contents
'The Brinkley knight or A schollar in Arcady being a poeticall tribute addressed to: Sir Geoffy. Keynes of Lammas House: in the countie of Cambridgeshire conceiv'd and compos'd by Trevor Newton MCMLXXIX' (sewn booklet with illustrations); 'Flora's festival being a tributary ode: compos'd upon the occasion of the 93rd birth-day of Sr. Geoffy. Keynes by T. P. Newton Esq 1980' (sewn booklet with illustrations); 'Apologia acrostica or The penitent poet being a sort of sonnet compos'd upon the...
Dates:
1979 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Trinidad
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3075F
Scope and Contents
An album containing photographs measuring 90 x 65 mm., inserted four to a page, with four unused spaces. Four (8/8A, 26/43, 31/38 and 51/52) are duplicates. The clothes and aeroplane shown in 45 and 47 suggest a date about 1930. The majority of the photographs are landscapes and general scenes, and as 3-6, 8-9, 11, 13-15, 18, 21-22, 26, 30-32, 34-35, 37-40, 43 have ‘Trinidad’ printed with the photograph - 5 and 11 also have titled - it seems probable that most of the collection was...
Dates:
1930
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Fonds
Trinity College Cambridge Book Club: Minutes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6169
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of members, books and names of candidates. There are many blank pages.
Dates:
1852-1860
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File
Trinity College, Cambridge: Testimonial for Philip Atkinson by the Vice-Master and senior Fellows
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2717.6
Scope and Contents
Signatures of R. Scott, deputy Vice-Master, W. Lynnet, R. Stedman, J. Hawkins, R. Moyle, B. Pulleyn, W. Corker, and T. Bainbrigg. Endorsed in 17th-cent. hand: 'Mr Atkinson's Testimoniall'.
Dates:
1683
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Trinity College, Cambridge: Testimonial for Seth Hawley by the Vice-Master and senior Fellows
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2717.5
Scope and Contents
Signatures of C. Neville, Vice-Master, H. Babington, W. Lynnet, R. Stedman, R. Scott, J. Hawkins, B. Pull[e]yn, and T. Bainbrigg. Endorsed in 17th-cent. hand: 'Mr Seth Hawley's Testimoniall'.
Dates:
1673
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Trinity Parish, Ely: Vestry Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6622
Scope and Contents
Trinity Parish, Ely, vestry book, 272 pages: (p. 1) list of certificates taken in by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish, 1698-1798. The list contains the date, the name of the poor person and the name of the parish from which the certificate came; (p. 65) list of certificates granted and apprentices put out by the same, 1707-1800; (p. 137) list of persons examined or ordered to be removed from the parish, and of those appealing against the assessment of rates, etc.,...
Dates:
1698-1808
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Trip to Australia and New Zealand 1888-1889
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted photographs of various sizes, by various photographers, with either handwritten captions or captions on the prints. The captions may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The photographs were bought during a tour to Australia and New Zealand, breaking down into geographical units thus: 1-8 Suez Canal and Aden; 9-127 Australia; 128-135 New Zealand; 136-137...
Dates:
1888 - 1889
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File
Tripos verses
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3873
Scope and Contents
44 sets of Latin verses, circulated when an act for degree was kept, written in various hands. Nos 1-14 are dated 1575-1584. The following are endorsed: 'Carmina bach. tripodis 17o f[eb.] primo die quadragesime 1579 secundum compotum ecclesie Anglie' [3]; 'Carmina patris viz magistri Hutchynson in ultimo actu scilicet 17 Martii 1579 secundum compu[tum...]' [4]; 'Carmina patris die comitiorum quadragesime 1581' [7]; 'primo die Quadragesime 1582 secundum computum ecclesie etc. D. Palmer Tri.'...
Dates:
1575-1590 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Trousdell Southern Nigeria Photographs, 1905-7
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043A-B
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums of photographs taken by Trousdell whilst posted in Nigeria and on leave from that posting.Y3043B, a larger album of 201 prints, contains most of the photographs in this volume as well as later work. 56 captioned photographs record the period from January 3 - October 13 1907 during Trousdell's second tour of duty at Bonny. A few uncaptioned photographs have not been identified as to date or place. The prints in the earlier album are generally in a better...
Dates:
1905 - 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
True Blue Club: Minute Books
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8877
Scope and Contents
Minute books for 1756-1865, 1865-1959, and 1959-88; with Copy minutes for 1756-1865 and 1865-1913. The books cover rules, lists of members, fines for offences against the rules, notes of meetings, dinners, and other meals.
Dates:
1756-1988
Conditions Governing Access:
Partially restricted. No restriction on access for material older than 80 years. No photocopying, but other means allowed.
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Trust, Sutton Cranwell, Lincolnshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1033
Dates:
10 Dec. 1736
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
Trustees of Charles Simeon: Correspondence, Minutes and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8293
Scope and Contents
The Revd Charles Simeon (1759-1836), Fellow of King's College and Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, began to purchase advowsons in 1817 in order to secure an Evangelical ministry in perpetuity in important centres. Friends contributed money for the purpose and some were associated with Simeon as Trustees of the livings. In 1829 Simeon drew up a 'Solemn Charge' to his Trustees, setting out the principles on which they were to make appointments, which was printed in 1833. In January...
Dates:
1798-1981
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the deposited records is unrestricted, and use may be made of them in publications without reference to the Trustees. Formal permission should, however, be sought for any full-length publication of material derived from them.
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Cambridge University Library