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Captain Edward D. Ridley: diaries and letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7065-7070
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of diaries and letters, photgraphs, telegrams, postcards, cuttings and maps from the First World War.
Dates:
1914-1918
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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Captain James Cook Memorial, Kealakeakua Bay, Hawaii, circa 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309992A
Scope and Contents
A collection of three glass plate negatives measuring 215 x 165 mm, briefly captioned and signed by the photographer, S.H. Davis. Modern prints have been made from the negatives.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Captain John Challenor: Boer War Letters, telegrams and photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9351
Dates:
1900-1902
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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Captain John Moore: Letter-book, HMS Harlequin
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9342
Scope and Contents
Copy letters received and sent. Letters from 1846 are mostly those of Douglas Curry, commander; he handed over command to Moore on 12 December 1846.
Dates:
1846-1848
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
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Captain Sir Christopher Cole: Naval letter book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9492
Scope and Contents
The letter book covers Cole's naval service under Sir Edward Pellew and his successor, William O'Brien Drury. Much of the correspondence, including several long memoranda, are concerned with Cole's claim to a senior appointment in Pellew's squadron, which led to a breakdown in relations with his senior commander. His correspondence whilst serving at Penang includes a number of letters to the Governor in Council of an administrative nature. There is also a letter to Sir Thomas Stamford...
Dates:
1802-1809
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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Captain Thomas Alexander: Journal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7223
Scope and Contents
The volume begins with 'Remarks on proceeding to the Persian Gulph from Trincomalee in 1822', describing a voyage of 21 September 1822 to 22 February 1823, following this route: Madras, Cudalore, Porto Novo, Negapatam, Trincomalee, Colombo, Quilon Coast of Malabar, Cochin, Calicut, Cannanore, Mangalore, Bombay, Goa, Bombay, Muscat, Bushire, Bussorah (Basra), Anger Sound (anchorage between Anger Island and Kishma), Muscat, Bombay. Alexander describes the places where he stops and the people...
Dates:
1822-1824
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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Card of invitation from Sir Muirhead and Lady Bone to an exhibition of drawings by Gavin Bone
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5959.4
Scope and Contents
Addressed to A.F. Scholfield, Librarian.
Dates:
1944
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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Carey: The Papers of Francis Clive Savill ('Clive') Carey
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/FCSC
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises mainly correspondence between Carey and Edward Dent, Percy Lubbock and Alwyn Scholfield, with papers and photographs relating to the University Greek Plays in the early years of the 20th century.
Dates:
1902 - 1965
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Caricatures, letters and photographs by or relating to Siegfried Sassoon and his family
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10412
Dates:
Early/mid twentieth century
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Carmen Ondarza: The Euzkaldunak (Basques)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8662
Scope and Contents
A study of the origins of the Euzkaldun (Basque) race based on linguistic evidence, 40 pages.
Dates:
1987 (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
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Carnegie United Kingdom Trust: Minutes and annual reports
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8000-8025, 8027-8055
Scope and Contents
Each volume contains the Trust's Annual Report and the annual minutes of the Trustees, Executive Committee and Sub-Committees, and includes a table of contents and an index. The collection does not include the volume for 1940.
Dates:
1914-1971
Conditions Governing Access:
MSS.Add.8038-8055 have a closure period of fifty years from the date of their publication. The rest of the collection is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Carter: Papers Relating to John Waynflete Carter
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JWC
Scope and Contents
The papers constitute a satirical publication by JWC and an obituary for him.
Dates:
1933 - 1975
Management Group
Carteret : ‘Sophia Carteret’s Extract of the History of England begun at Windsor Castle by The Assistance of The Right Hon. The Countess of Pomfret, May 29th 1758’
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/CARTERET
Scope and Contents
The source extracted is Holinshed, but the dimensions on p. 2 (length of island 587 miles and breadth 285) are apparently from 'A collection of voyages and travels, consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections'... (London, MDCCXLV. [1745]. 748 pp. vol. Volume 1 of 2, p. 13. (Dedication signed by Thomas Osborne.)Other topographical statements on page 1, e.g. that Great Britain ‘is...
Dates:
1758-05-29 - 1759-01
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
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Cartes-de-Visite of paintings of the Transvaal
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059M
Scope and Contents
Two photographs by James Edward Bruton. Bruton (also known as Brunton) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. His parents had settled in South Africa in 1820. He first opened a photographic studio in 1858, opposite the Lyceum in Port Elizabeth. In 1859 he moved to Jetty Street, Port Elizabeth, working as a photographer and tobacconist. Bruton married Mary Ann Woodman and eventually had five children. In 1874 he moved to Cape Town. Between 1876 and 1897 he appears to have been located at...
Dates:
1880
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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Cartulary: Casa delle Donzelle alla Zudecca, Venice
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9292
Scope and Contents
'Registro delle scritture spettanti all' habitation della Casa delle Donzelle alla Zudecca; et de i legati di detta Casa', a cartulary containing copies of documents from 1330, when land was granted by Doge Francesco Dandolo, to 1678. There are 91 text folios (Ff.1-89, documents; Ff. 90-91, index), with two further paper folios inserted at the beginning. The documents are copied in various hands, with several elaborate pen-and-ink capitals, some with the initials of scribes. On the flyleaf...
Dates:
1561-1678 (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
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Case and Opinion of Lancelot Shadwell
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.10
Dates:
1778
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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Case of incest, Bull of Innocent XIII, Meaux Diocese, Yorkshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.758
Dates:
1723
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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Case submitted for Counsel's Opinion upon the alteration of the Marriage Settlement of Peter Calvert and Honour his wife, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.467
Scope and Contents
Includes: An Abstract of the Settlement is set out and two questions asked, the answers to which are written and signed by Bev. Filmer; Four further questions are asked (written in another hand) and the answers are again written and signed by Bev. Filmer; A supplementary question is written and signed by the same; A further question is asked (written in a fourth hand), the answer being written and signed by the same.
Dates:
23 May 1750-29 June 1761 (23 May 1750; 4 November 1751; 26 February 1752; 29 June 1761)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Cassiodous: ''De Anima''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8133
Scope and Contents
A translation by G.E. Bevan and A.B. Turner of Stephane de Rouville's French text of 'De anima' (Paris, 1874), 35 pages, with a preface and contents page. There is a covering letter to Cambridge University Library, 2 July 1977, from Harold Palmer, who instigated the translation project and helped to organise the text.
Dates:
1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Cast or squeeze(?), Alexandretta (Mediterranean), Syria
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.757
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Catalogue of Ancient British Coins
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6091
Scope and Contents
'Catalogue of the Ancient British coins found at East Wittering Sussex in 1875-6', 76 folios. There is a separate page for each type of coin, with an illustration, description and details of individual specimens. Attached to fo. 2 is a letter to F.J.H. Jenkinson, 2 April [1918], from Mrs Margaret L. Reid, whose father, Henry Willett, found most of the coins.
Dates:
1877-1918
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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Catalogue of Antiquities
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7570
Dates:
1725-1727
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Catalogue of arms of livery companies
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9564
Scope and Contents
1 volume, 70 fos., 4 and 23 pp., in stamped and gilded calf boards, Arms of London companies. Seals of colleges, with Garter insignia stamped on front board and Nay- ler's bookplate as Garter King of Arms inside; arms of City of London livery and trading companies, many with engravings of arms, hand-coloured. Between fos. 42 and 44, a MS Catalogue of all the Companies Â
and Bodies Corporate, in the City of London &c with the time of their respective Incorporation and Â
the time of...
Dates:
1775
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Catalogue of Barakzai coins
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2768.19
Scope and Contents
Apparently unpublished.
Dates:
1924
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Catalogue of Books belonging to (Richard) Graves
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.60.2.6
Dates:
1728
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