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Wilcockson: the papers of Colin George Wilcockson
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/WIC
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of correspondence sent to Colin Wilcockson by the poet and artist David Jones and a small volume of poetry. There is also a series of tributes to Wilcockson gathered together posthumously.
Dates:
1956-01-03 - 2023-05-02
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
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Wiles Family: correspondence and genealogical papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7721
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence and genealogical papers of the Wiles Family, originally of Holywell near Stamford in Lincolnshire, then of Jamaica, London and Cambridge. There are letters from three sons of Henry Wiles (1729-1815), a gardener at Holywell, who settled in Jamaica: James (1768-1851) was superintendent of the Botanic Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica, and was joined by two of his brothers, Henry (1771-1846) and John (1778-1842). All three were plantation owners with enslaved labourers, and are...
Dates:
1791 - 1959
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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Wilfred Court collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302Q
Content Description
A collection largely of photographic slides and prints taken by the architect Wilfred Court (1929-2011) documenting his work and travels in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria from the 1950s to 1968, as well as documenting return visits to India and Ghana later in his life. The slides and photographs have been catalogued following a listing provided by Court, and his own system of numbering and labelling has been maintained. The collection also includes three digitised home...
Dates:
1954 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access:
The photographic slides have been digitised in their entirety. For ease of access, please use the high-resolution images available on Cambridge Digital Library. The other born-digital material in this collection (cinefilms and diaries) is not yet accessible in the Manuscripts Reading Room - please contact the RCS curator for access copies.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Wilfrid Airy: Journals and Notebooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8498
Scope and Contents
Contain notes mainly on engineering.
Dates:
1862-1912
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
Wilfrid Bennett Lewis: Undergraduate Lecture Notebooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8727
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the twenty-three notebooks Lewis left in the care of his brother Mr J A Lewis when he emigrated to Canada in 1946. The notebooks contain chiefly lecture notes and practical work for Lewis's undergraduate degree courses at Cambridge 1927-30. Notebook 1 contains physics notes which predate his university career and notebook 22 contains postgraduate work. Lectures by G F C Searle are identified in notebooks 11 and 12.
Dates:
1926-1931 (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
Wilkinson: Papers of Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson (1907-1985), classicist
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/LPWK
Dates:
1935-1970s
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Wilkinson: the Anthony Harwick Wilkinson collection
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/WLK
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of original illustrations for books printed by the Golden Cockerel Press [an English fine press operating between 1920 and 1961].
Dates:
1949 - 1958
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
Fonds
Wilkinson: The Papers of Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/LPW
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of papers produced by L P Wilkinson from his undergraduate days right through to his death in 1985, including undergraduate essays, radio broadcasts, notes and drafts for his unpublished 'Six Characters' and his successful 'A Century of King's' and 'Kingsmen of a Century' as well as details of his obituary and funeral.
Dates:
1928 - 1985
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Will and probate (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2277
Dates:
1860
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
Will and probate of Thomas Ellnor (copy), Basford, Nottinghamshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1176
Scope and Contents
Will of Thomas Ellnor, of Basford, Notts. He leaves all his goods etc. to Isabella his wife. Signed by Thomas Ellnor, his mark. Witnessed by Sam. Mabbott and Thos. Hawksley.
Before Timothy Fenton, clerk, Dean (?) of Nottingham, surrogate of William Ward, LL.D. Commissioner for York. Signed by John Shaw, Dep. Registrar. Signed on 'turn-over' by William Ward.
Dates:
12 Jan. 1718
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
Will, Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3736
Dates:
1774
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
Will Carter's collection of engravings by Reynolds Stone
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9830
Dates:
1932-1982
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
Will, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3005
Dates:
1897
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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2291
Dates:
1860 (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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2701
Dates:
1876
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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3059
Dates:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2812
Dates:
1881
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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2842
Dates:
1883
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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3113
Dates:
1908
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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1681
Scope and Contents
Copy of will of John Smith of Chatteris, schoolmaster. Messuages in Chatteris, after decease of Margaret his wife, are left in trust to Robert Grimditch, who is to sell some and from the proceeds to pay stated sums to testator's daughters Francis Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Ann Smith and Margaret Smith, remainder to be shared equally among them and his other children, Mary wife of Jonathan Ilett, John Smith, Richard Smith and Robert Smith. All other possessions are left to testator's wife...
Dates:
21 May 1779
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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2349
Dates:
1848
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
Will (copy), Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2444
Dates:
1865
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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Will (copy), Pampisford, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1658
Scope and Contents
Copy of will of William Kimmons of Pampisford. He bequeathes to Stephen Kimmons his eldest son one shilling; to his son Henry Kimmons his freehold messuage with certain reservations to Stephen Kimmons and his daughter Judith Kimmons, with various pieces of furniture etc. divided between the sons and daughter. Witnessed by John Haylock and Richard Wallis Nash. Includes certificate of agreement with original in Registry of Consistory Court of Ely, signed by Robert Gee, Deputy Registrar.
Dates:
1 Sep. 1791 (Date of certificate of agreement: 29 October 1792)
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
Will of Abigail Ford (copy), Nowton, Suffolk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1219
Scope and Contents
Will of Abigail Ford, widow, of Nowton. Bequests of money and household goods and clothes to the children of her late brother John Lock, viz. John, Thomas, Mary, and Elizabeth, and to the children of her late brother Randolph Lock, viz. Mary, Randolph, Elizabeth, Susan, and William. To her nephew John Sparke and his 4 sisters, Abigail, Mary, Heather, and Catherine Sparke. Her nephew John Lock and her friend Mr. Philip Blye of Nowton to be executors. Signed by Abigail Ford. Witnessed by...
Dates:
19 Nov. 1742
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
Will of Abraham Hutchinson (copy), Seamer, Yorkshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1273
Scope and Contents
Will of Abraham Hutchinson, yeoman, of Cocks House in the parish of Seamer in Cleveland, Yorks. He bequeathes all his clothes, household goods, furniture and money to his sister, Hannah Almond, widow, who lives with him, she to be sole executrix. Signed by A. Hutchinson. Witnessed by Edward Hall and Thos. Skeene.
Dates:
21 Oct. 1820
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