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'The West Indies'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 264
Scope and Contents
Text of a summer school address given at Trinity College, Cambridge, in April 1950 (30 pages).
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
The Weston Collection: Nursing in West Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043TT-VV
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, slides, negatives and watercolours. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Y3043TT and Y3043UU have been listed in detail by Erica Ryan with minor amendments by D.H. Simpson. Y3043VV has not been listed in detail. Miss Weston had spent a number of years in Northern Nigeria and Ghana with Miss Gladys M. Pearce Simmonds...
Dates:
1950 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'The Whistle': manuscript periodical produced in Changi Prisoner-of-War Camp
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 396
Scope and Contents
Subtitled, 'Leisure hour literature of D workshop'. Created by prisoners-of-war in Changi Gaol's D workshop, edited by Adrian John Clark, a British subject and, prior to his internment, legal adviser to the Federated Malay States government (died March 1944 at Changi) and secretly printed and bound in the Gaol Printing Shop. After the war, this copy of the periodical, thought to be the only copy in existence, was presented to Clark's widow, Marguerite. Approximately 34 pages, with hand-drawn...
Dates:
1942
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
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCFO
Scope and Contents
Publications, correspondence, papers, photographs and film footage of the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States
Dates:
1956-10 - 2022
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Theatre archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9610
Scope and Contents
Three photograph albums containing pictures of theatre productions, stage settings, and actor portraits.
Dates:
1927-01-01 - 1985-12-31
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
Theatre Programme Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8544
Scope and Contents
Theatre programmes, playbills, postcards of cast members, photographs, newspaper cuttings, magazines, letters, and personal record books, with accompanying explanatory notes, collected by Charles Woods, and including programmes and posters from his own shows as Horace Watson. The programmes are grouped into sets: New Theatre and Theatre Cinema (over 1,000 items), Festival Theatre (c. 100), Arts Theatre (over 2,000), London Theatres (c. 300), and Horace Watson items (c. 50). There is also a...
Dates:
1906-1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Theobald O'Flaherty: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8692-8693
Scope and Contents
Catalogue of O'Flaherty's library; a sermon entitled ''Tongues in Trees, or, the Fading Leaf and its Teaching''
Dates:
1854-c.1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Theological and bibliographical notes on works of the Fathers and other Christian writers
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4367
Scope and Contents
Also includes notes relating mainly to the history of the Church in England. The notes are mainly in Latin, but there are many in English in the later part of the book. Inside the front cover are the initials 'T.C.', perhaps those of the compiler. A number of the leaves have been removed. (Fo. 2) 'Octob. 1710'; (fo. 155r) statistics of English Catholic clergy and laity put to death in each reign from Elizabeth I to Charles I; (fo. 207) notes headed 'Dr. Hawardin Contr: Sacr: Poeniten:'; (fo....
Dates:
1699-1711
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Theophilus B. Rowe: Personal and family papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8252
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Theophilus Rowe, his wives and other family members. The largest part of the collection is correspondence, a portion of which is arranged into envelopes by year. There are also diaries, notebooks, sketchbooks, photographs, financial records (mainly bills), sets of pictorially-headed writing paper, printed items, and manuscript documents, including poems and a memoir of Rowe, written by his second wife after his death.
Dates:
1800-1900 (19th century to early 20th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Theophilus Lessey: Sermons
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6228
Scope and Contents
'Skeletons' of sermons preached by the Revd Theophilus Lessey and other preachers in the vicinity of Halifax, taken down by S. Turner, some from notes by Benjamin Terry.
Dates:
1825-1827
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'These tremendous years'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062S
Scope and Contents
Photographs, most measuring approximately 195 x 145 mm or 150 x 95 mm, which were originally housed in an album presented by Chapman to King George V and Queen Mary during the 1930s. They have been disbound for conservation reasons. Many of the photographs are stamped on the reverse with Chapman's official stamp. Not all are his own work, however. Some photographs are captioned on the reverse, but many are not, and some scenes and individuals remain unidentified. Uncaptioned prints have...
Dates:
1890 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Thestylis', religious verse play in three acts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2638
Dates:
1700 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Thirty years ago by Philip Tengely
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043LL
Scope and Contents
Unpublished reminiscences of Tengely's service in West Africa, 134 pages, illustrated with original photographs, presumably by the author.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Thirty years ago': reminiscences by Philip Tengely
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 143
Scope and Contents
Unpublished typescript and manuscript reminiscences of Tengely's service in West Africa, 134 pages, with 12 inserted photographs. The account describes Accra, Elmina, Abbeokuta, Ibadan, Sierra Leone and Benin, with particular reference to African traditions, ceremonies and beliefs. There is an accompanying letter from the author to the Royal African Society, 22 June 1939, and the Society's acknowledgement, 26 June 1939.
Dates:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Thom Gunn: poems, prose and correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9841
Scope and Contents
A small collection of verse and prose compositions by Gunn, together with letters and other communications written or received by him.
Dates:
1960s-1990s (mostly undated)
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
Thomas Attwood Walmisley: Installation Ode
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6446
Scope and Contents
Music composed by Thomas Attwood Walmisley, Professor of Music, for William Wordsworth's Ode on the Installation of H.R.H. the Prince Consort as Chancellor of the University. The ode was performed at the ceremony in the Senate House, 5 July 1847. Printed and published 1849.
Dates:
1847
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Thomas Baines on the Zambesi [Zambezi]'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 224
Scope and Contents
A description of Thomas Baines' Zambesi expeditions with inserted photographs and illustrations. The chapters are headed 'Kings' Lynn, 1820-1842', 'On the Lower Zambesi, 1858-1859', 'The Middle Zambesi, 1861-1863', 'A court of enquiry into the dismissal of Baines', 'The defence of Baines at Cape of Good Hope', 'Conclusions' and 'Appendices'.
Dates:
1976
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Thomas Barker: Verse Commonplace Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6455
Scope and Contents
52 folios. The book begins with poems, including 'Quaestio Henrici Hubbard 1733' (fo. 26) and 'Upon Bob Leak' (fos 27-28). On fos 32-48 is 'The Manners of ye Age in 13 Moral Satirs. Lond: 1733', presumably a copy of the printed work of this title. On fos 49-52, entered from the other end of the book, are extracts from Vanbrugh's plays headed 'The Cream of Poetry'.
Dates:
1728
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Thomas Bewick: Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8520
Dates:
1797-1822
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Thomas Binns: Lists of Newspapers and Serials
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5714
Scope and Contents
Lists of newspapers and serials published in various parts of the world, 137 folios. The list is arranged geographically and gives the date of first publication in most cases. The latest date mentioned is 1840. Fos 40, 53-5, 96, 103, 106 and 120-137 are blank.
Dates:
1840 (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
Thomas Blore Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3874-3921
Scope and Contents
Pedigrees and other papers relating to Derbyshire and other counties, many being transcripts or extracts from church registers, the Domesday Book and manuscripts in the British Library and Public Record Office. The papers were written or compiled by Thomas Blore, unless otherwise indicated.
Dates:
1200-1850 (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
Thomas Brand: Letters to his Sister from the Continent
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8670
Scope and Contents
A series of letters written by Brand while travelling on the Continent, some of which are incomplete. 38 of the letters are to Brand's sister Susan, addressed until October 1788 as Miss Brand of Newmarket, thereafter, from Nov. 1789, as Miss Carr of Hadstock, near Lincoln. There is one letter from Brand to the Rev. Joseph Hall, Rector of Bartlow, who was Brand's brother-in-law, and another from G. Pretyman to Miss Brand, apparently about the possibilities of preferment for Thomas. Most of...
Dates:
1779-1795
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Thomas Campbell: Gertrude of Wyoming: a poem
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10149
Scope and Contents
Manuscript 'edition' by William Gordon Mack.
Dates:
1816
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick: Photographs of Views and Manuscripts in Patmos
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9392
Scope and Contents
27 'Photographs of views and manuscripts. Patmos', mounted on card: [1-11] Views of Patmos, bay, harbour, monastery, side street, Syra, Leros, main street of Patmos, Church of the Apocalypse, and the library of the Monastery of St. John; [12-13] Eiconostasion in Church of St. Elias, and a fresco of St. Christodoulos, founder of the Monastery of St. John; [14-27] Pages of manuscripts, Codex N of the Gospels (Purpureo-argenteus), Evangelistarium, St. Gregorius Nazianz (dated A.D.941), Origenis...
Dates:
1885 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Thomas Charles (T.C.) Lethbridge: Archaeological papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9258
Scope and Contents
Comprises: various notebooks relating to expeditions or specific excavation sites or projects; correspondence and collected notes on 'witches', 'pagan burials', Fenland waterways and Fenland research.
Dates:
1916-1971
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