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Fonds
Chartwell Manuscripts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHWL
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of material either sent to Churchill during his lifetime or sent as a tribute to him after his death, and is extremely varied. It includes artefacts such as certificates of Churchill's membership of various societies, historically important items such as the degrees Churchill was awarded in Zurich [Switzerland] in 1946 after his "United Europe" speech or a tribute signed by members of the French Resistance. There are also some facsimiles of...
Dates:
1704 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Chateau Tongariro and Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089X
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 80 x 60 mm, captioned in the negative. The prints are a commercial souvenir set contained in a printed envelope. Photographs by New Zealand Tourist Department.
Dates:
1950
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
Chatteris, Cambs: Inclosure Award
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7554
Dates:
1819
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
File
Chemical Observations and Related Notes
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5978
Scope and Contents
A series of descriptions of, and observations on, various chemical experiments, fos 1-67, with an index at fos 77v-79r. This is followed by medical recipes written in another hand, fos 68-76 and 84v, the last of which is dated 1706. On fo. 1 in the second hand is 'John Fry / Wooburne / Beddfordshire', and opposite in the same hand 'Hic Liber est meus'. Most of the versos are blank. Loose in the book are accounts on a slip of paper dated 6 April [17]74.
Dates:
1700-1774 (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
Chester Perne: Cambridge commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7876
Scope and Contents
A commonplace book concerning Cambridge University affairs, particularly elections and matters of law. The text runs from both ends of the book.
Dates:
1727-1740 (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
Chesterton, Cambridgeshire: manorial papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2607
Scope and Contents
Copy of indenture between Richard Brakyn, lord of the manor of Chesterton, and Thomas Brakyn his son and heir, and the copyhold tenants of part of the manor, 13 Nov. 1577, with index and modern copy; Chesterton rental, 1585; John Benstead, ferryman: list of persons paying acknowledgement to lord of manor for ferry passage, 1693. fo. 1: 'For Mr Francis Carter Written by Ri. Meade g[ent] in the yeare 1693', 'Thos H. Naylor MA 1881', 'in the year 1715 Abd. Halls His Book', 'Jonathan Johnson...
Dates:
1577-1693
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
Chesterton, Cambridgeshire: two terriers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3562
Dates:
1656
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
Chief Malaboch
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3055F
Scope and Contents
82 x 120 mm. Showing the aged Chief Malaboch wearing a European overcoat and hat and seated in front of a thatched hut. A woman, possibly a wife, is seated beside him. A note on the reverse of the print, in Mrs. de Kock's hand reads in part: ‘Chief Malaboch (over 86? [in fact, about 92 in 1936]) Blauwerg Mts near Zoutpansberg/Louis Trichardt. Transvaal ... Still flew the Union Jack in 1936 on the Kopje on which he has his Kraal. Withstood a long siege against the Dutch. His taunting...
Dates:
1936
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
Chief Olowa at Jubilee Durbar, Lagos, June 22 1897
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043K
Scope and Contents
A print measuring 207 x 139 mm. The print is mounted on card, on the reverse of which is the carefully printed caption reading: 'Chief Olowa and other representatives from His Majesty the Awajale of Jehu at the Durbar held at Lagos on the 22nd of June 1897 on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Orange House, Lagos, West Africa'. A group photograph showing Chief Olowa and retinue gathered in the garden of Orange House, Tinubu Square,...
Dates:
1897-06-22
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
Childers papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37
Scope and Contents
Political papers relating to Childers' public career and private papers concerning his family, first wife Emily (nee Walker, 1827-1875) and their eight children.
Dates:
1683 - 1950
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
China, Hong Kong and Siam [i.e. Thailand]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377A
Scope and Contents
Album of albumen prints, by unknown photographers, with pencilled captions. The majority of the photographs show scenes in China, but there are also some of Hong Kong and, towards the end, Siam, though the different countries are intermixed.
Dates:
1860 - 1889
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
Cholmondeley (Houghton) Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ch (H)
Scope and Contents
The papers include a large collection of political papers collected by Sir Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain, during his long political career. Also included are working records of the estate office of Houghton Hall, Walpole’s family seat, papers of the Pell family, and collections relating to various generations of the Walpole family.
The larger part of Sir Robert's papers consist of reports, memoranda, and petitions. There are abstracts of all papers signed...
Dates:
Circa 1600 - 1800
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Chorale Directorium
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6626
Scope and Contents
Chorale Directorium, in an elaborate Italian hand in imitation of print, 14 folios. A collection of the prayers, antiphons, etc., sung on festivals and other occasions by the choir of the Ducal Convent at Venice. On fos 2v and 11v a few prayers are added in another hand. Most headings and a prayer on fo. 10 are in Italian. The headings and most initials are in gilt lettering. Other initials are in green. Each page has a rectangular border in gold or green. The lettering of the title-page...
Dates:
1717
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
File
Christ Church, Canterbury: Obits
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5341
Scope and Contents
Obits for 1289-1507 from the 'Nomina Monachorum' register of Christ Church, Canterbury, transcribed by W.G. Searle, 129 folios. Attached to fo. 64 is a letter from J.M. Cowper to Searle, 2 May 1901. Fos 1-19 and 64-129 are blank, apart from a few pencilled entries.
Dates:
1901 (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
Christ Church, Munnar, Travancore [i.e. Kerala]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NNNN
Scope and Contents
A collection of mounted photographs. The photographs belonged to Albert and Ethel Wright, members of the original congregation, when living in Madupatty Estate, one of a group of James Finlay tea estates in the area. Hatch (1933, p.166) notes: 'One of the most beautiful mountain sections of Travancore is found in the northernmost part - the High Range... This particular section is called the Plateau of the Anamalais. The plateau is over 5,000 feet above sea level, and possesses a most...
Dates:
1920 - 1929
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
Christison Family Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHIE
Scope and Contents
The small collection of Christison papers held at Churchill Archives Centre comprises a bound volume of Sir Philip's autobiography and two items relating to his father Sir Alexander Christison, who was a medical officer in the 2nd Burmese War.
Dates:
1851 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Christopher E. Blackett: Letters to his parents from the Crimea
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9587
Scope and Contents
Letters from Blackett to his parents, during the Crimean campaign. The letters illustrate his patriotism and pride in his profession, combined with a critical attitude to mismanagement in the field and by politicians at home. He was ambitious for promotion, and willing to use his family's money and social influence to achieve it. He evidently enjoyed army life, took an active interest in his brothers' careers, had a hard-headed attitude towards matrimony, and a great affection for his dog...
Dates:
1854-1856
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
Christopher Hassall: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8905
Scope and Contents
Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.
Dates:
1900-1999 (20th 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Christopher Hassall: Letters to George Benson and related papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10400
Scope and Contents
Correspondence written by Christopher Hassall to his friend George Benson, together with related items including a diary volume with entries by Hassall, literary texts by Hassall, notes by Benson, letters between other correspondents, and printed items.
Dates:
1933-1963
Conditions Governing Access:
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
Christopher Hogwood Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10096
Dates:
1941 - 2014
Conditions Governing Access:
The archive is not yet fully catalogued. Some materials are subject to access restrictions. To discuss consultation please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk or music@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
Christopher Hudson: translation of Le Parfait Capitaine
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9642
Scope and Contents
Christopher Hudson, translation into English of French works Le parfait capitaine (1636) and De l’interest des princes et estats de la chréstienté (1639) by Henri, Duc de Rohan (1579-1638).1 volume, contemporary calf binding, somewhat scuffed and with old worm holes.‘July 27. 1640. The perfect Captaine, or, An abridgement of the wars out of the Commentaries of Caesar. Augmented with a treatise of The interest of the Princes and Estates of Christendom. The last edition....
Dates:
1640
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
Christopher Pemberton: letters to him
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8397
Dates:
1808-1844
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
Christopher Webb Smith: Cape birds, flowers and scenery
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9919
Dates:
1838-1859
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
Christopher Willoughby: Farm and household accounts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8097
Scope and Contents
Accounts relating to Willoughby's farm, housekeeping, occasional expenses and cash, with a brief index on the inside cover of the volume.
Dates:
1771-1775
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
Christy collection of photographs on Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A
Scope and Contents
Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...
Dates:
1880 - 1913
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