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Tiger Hunting [Singapore]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30311D
Scope and Contents
270 x 205 mm. Showing a posed group of a European holding a rifle by a dead tiger, with malays standing around.In Falconer (1987), he writes of a copy of this photograph: 'This photograph must show one of the last tigers killed on the island and represents a reminder of the scourge which plagued Singapore for many years. In the earliest days of the settlement tigers, preferring the dense jungle, posed little threat to the inhabitants. The first recorded account of a tiger attack...
Dates:
1890 - 1899
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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Tillyard: Letters Received by Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/EMWT
Scope and Contents
Letters from early twentieth century authors to EMWT.
Dates:
1925 - 1957
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Tithe commissioners, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.753
Dates:
1854
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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Tithe roll, Great Barnwell, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1375
Dates:
1720 (Circa. Early 18th century)
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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T.J. Alldridge Sierra Leone collection, 1890s
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30446F
Scope and Contents
A collection of mounted prints, signed and captioned by Alldridge and measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm. The captions have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Four prints from the original collection of 35 are missing: 'A young chief, Upper Mendi'; 'A tenketti or hammock bridge over the Sehli River, Kuranko country'; 'A bush path, Upper Mendi'; 'Town...
Dates:
1890
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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Tom Raworth: Poems and Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10033
Scope and Contents
Letters, postcards and notes (10 items) from Tom Raworth, nine to Ken Edwards and one (a copy) to Eric Mottram. With an untitled collection of poems by Raworth, dated 21 August 1987, some consisting of part of 'Visible Shivers' and the remainder of more recent work, 55 sheets in a binder strip, the cover sheet and one interior sheet annotated by Raworth; a copy of Raworth's 'Tractor Parts' (1984); and a flyer publicising 'Infolio'.
Dates:
16 Oct. 1986-18 Jan. 1998 (and no year)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Tom Salkield Delhi Album 1905-1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022YY
Scope and Contents
An album containing 139 prints, mostly captioned, and one separate group photograph. From internal evidence it was the property of Tom Salkield. The majority of the photographs relate to his family - his wife Mary and their children Nancy, Leonard, Robert and John (born circa 1910). There are however 25 photographs (115-139) relating to his professional work, and a group photograph (140) shows him as a Captain in the 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles. The photographs are, for the most part,...
Dates:
1905 - 1916
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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Tomline: the papers of George Pretyman Tomline
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/TOM
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of drafts and notebooks created during the preparation of Tomline's biography of his friend William Pitt the Younger: 'Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable William Pitt' by George Tomline, first published in 1821. There are also 2 small sets of correspondence (GBR/1058/TOM/10).
Dates:
1753 - 1827
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Torkel Weis-Fogh: Scientific Papers and Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8250
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of a small amount of biographical material (with very little personal materials), materials covering Weis-Fogh's work on locust flight up to his 1958 discovery of resilin, materials related to his research in Copenhagen and Cambridge, some items pertaining to Weis-Fogh's lectures, addresses, and publications, as well as his participation in conferences, visits and lecture tours, and a selection of professional correspondence in English, Danish, German and...
Dates:
1941-1976
Conditions Governing Access:
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Tour of the South Seas
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309C
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted photographs of various sizes showing scenes in Australia, Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. The collection of amateur photographs is by members of the tour and professional work mainly by Burton Bros. of Dunedin (but see a note on the photography below). The most interesting and historically important photographs are those showing scenes from, and participants in, the Samoan Civil War of 1899. There is also a good portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, and pictures of...
Dates:
1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Town Gaol Act, no place
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.675
Dates:
1823-1827
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Townshend v. Wilkin, Isleham, Cambridgeshire and Freckenham, Suffolk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.701
Dates:
1841
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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Toynbee Hall, London: Letters to Ernest Aves, Sub-Warden
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9281
Scope and Contents
31 letters to Ernest Aves, agreeing or declining to lecture at the Hall.
Dates:
1887-1905
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
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'Tractatus Geographicus': Treatises on Geography and Harmonics
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8987
Scope and Contents
Treatises in Latin, written in a single hand throughout, with points of compass in Dutch. The first part contains a Tractatus geographicus, a treatise of geography, hydrography, longitude and distance, including diagrams of points of compass, projections, calculations of distance, and a table of the longitude and latitude of German towns. The second part contains a treatise on harmonics.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Tracts on Ireland
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4352
Scope and Contents
Contents: (fo. 1) 'Discourse concerning the Affairs of Ireland' (printed 1650); (fo. 16v) title; (fo. 17) Latin couplets and scribblings; (fo. 17v) 'For the right honorab and my very good Lord Edward Lord Viscount Conway and Cann C Canningham' (c. 1690); (fo. 18) 'Relation of some Passages in the North of Ireland'; (fo. 37v) 'Memorandim quod...S W Arthur Chichester Colonell H O H Qui aime le honeur ne craine la morte'; (fo. 38) 'Right trusty and right entirely bloved'; (fo. 38v) scribblings;...
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Tradesmen's bills, Scilly Islands, Cornwall
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1317
Scope and Contents
Tradesman's bills for work done for the Duke of Leeds' properties.
Dates:
1806
Conditions Governing Access:
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Traité de change etranger et de diverses sortes et mesures et poids
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10051
Scope and Contents
Treatise on foreign exchange, weights and measures and local duties, compiled by or for a civic or customs official in Lille, north France. Red morocco binding, gilt, panelled decorated spine, and on front board in a panel, 'Pierre D'Eloigne Comissionaire a Lille'. Ownership label 'Ex libris D. Puille'
Dates:
1703-1710
Conditions Governing Access:
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Tranchell Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Tranchell
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises personal papers and correspondence.
Dates:
1916-1990
Conditions Governing Access:
Includes numerous restricted files: see paper catalogues for details
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Transcipt of The Image of Ypocrycye attributed to John Skelton
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3309
Scope and Contents
Transcribed by Thomas Martin of Palgrave, Suffolk, from an manuscript then in the possession of James West, and now BL Lansdowne 794, completed 23 Feb. 1738 (fo. 82). Inside front cover: 'R. Farmer' (c. 1790), and a note in his hand, 'Tho. Martin' (1738), 'Thos. Phillipps Middle Hill' (c. 1836). fo. i: (in Martin's hand) 'The original of this Book was bought at the Auction of Mr Le Neve's Library, by James West of the Inner Temple Esqre for 15 shillings', and further notes on the original...
Dates:
1738
Conditions Governing Access:
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Transcript of Aristotle's Historia Animalium in Greek and Latin
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3080
Scope and Contents
(fo. i) list of contents for Greek text; (fo. 1) 'Historia Animalium', Greek, 'the text of Bekker with the variants of the edition of Aubert and Wimmer' - section numbers are given and the pages of Bekker's edition inserted in the margin; (fo. i) note of leaves on which the separate books of the Latin version begin; (fo. 1) 'Historia Animalium', Latin; (fo. 522) 'index animalium'.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Transcript of Biographical and Historical Subjects
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5119
Scope and Contents
Transcript dealing with miscellaneous biographical and historical subjects from an unknown source, made by Alfred Rogers, 54 folios. Fos 14-54 and the versos throughout are blank.
Dates:
1900 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Transcript of Chartularium for Begham Abbey, Sussex
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4156
Dates:
1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Transcript of CUL MS Oo.7.50(2)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2756
Scope and Contents
A list of manuscripts numbered 831-1025 in the library of John Moore, bishop of Ely. Compiled for Henry Bradshaw, Librarian of the University Library, Cambridge, apparently by Alfred Rogers. In Latin.
Dates:
1880 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Transcript of fragments from J Barbour's 'Troybook'.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2791
Scope and Contents
Transcriptions from CUL MS Kk.5.30 fos. 11-19, 304v-23v made for Henry Bradshaw.
Dates:
Sept 1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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Transcript of John Caius's 'De Libris Propriis'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3026
Scope and Contents
Donor suggests the hand to be that of William Cole, but this appears unlikely.
Dates:
1750 (Circa. In 18th Century hand)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library