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Clare Hall, Cambridge: papers, mostly relating to John James, and to the mastership of William Grigg.

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2615
Scope and Contents Inside front cover: bookplate with arms of Jewkes quartering Jones, earl of Ranelagh, motto 'Ranelagh'. Inside front cover: 'These following Manuscripts (as far as a Copy of Verses on Mr Jones' Death in a Black Cpver), I found in the Library of my most worthy Friend, the Revd Mr John James; & tho to another Person they may seem perhaps of little or no consequence, yet as Relicts of his, they deservedly claim a Place, in that Study so genteely encreased by his generous Addition.'...
Dates: 1715-1748 (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).
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Clare Holtham: personal papers

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Reference Code: GBR/2911/HLT
Dates: 1950s-2010
Conditions Governing Access: This collection is available to researchers at Newnham College Archive Restrictions apply to some items; please check individual catalogue entries.
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Clarion Publishing Archive

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9927
Scope and Contents

Clarion Publishing Company was the business of Dr. Trevor Weston, in Alton, Hants. It published poetry ('Prospero Poets', 1994-7), short stories ('Clarion Tales', 1996), and some other texts (1994-2009) in illustrated limited editions of 499 copies or fewer. Letters from Trevor Weston are generally photocopies of ms. letters, and sometimes carbon copies of typescript drafts.

Dates: 1986-2011
Conditions Governing Access: The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access.
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Clarke-Newling Correspondence

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7082
Scope and Contents

Correspondence mainly from members of the Clarke family of Shropshire to the Newling family, of which many are from William Clarke (d 1771) antiquary, and from E. D. Clarke (d 1822), the traveller, later Cambridge University Librarian.

Volume with sheets, mostly correspondence, running to number 115 mounted inside. Other items include newspaper cuttings and ledger pages. Item numbered 1 missing, items 2-3 loose in front of item.

Dates: 1748-1810 (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).
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Classics Faculty - Teaching collection of glass lantern slides

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/CLAS
Scope and Contents

The Faculty of Classics' teaching collection of monochrome glass lantern slides, featuring ancient Greek and Roman architecture, sculpture, pottery, coins and other artefacts from classical antiquity.

Dates: 1910-1934
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Classics papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8860
Scope and Contents

College examination papers, c. 1886-1910, and lecture notes and specimen essays for the Classical Tripos, 1910-1958.

Dates: 1886-1958
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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Claude Lefébure de St Benoist: Florilegia

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4140-4143
Scope and Contents

A collection of quotations arranged under headings in alphabetical order, with marginal notes and references.

Dates: 1650 (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).
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Claude Sitwell and Uganda 1895-1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172
Scope and Contents Claude George Henry Sitwell (1858-1900) followed his father into the British Army, initially as a militia subaltern. He served in the Afghan War of 1879-1880, and in Egypt during 1882. Sitwell was a Captain in the Manchester Regiment attached to the Egyptian Army when he accepted employment in the civil administration of Uganda in 1895. Sitwell was recruited because his recent experience in Egypt and knowledge of Arabic made him well-qualified to lead the Sudanese troops which formed...
Dates: 1895 - 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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Clearing a fallen tree, East Africa (?Mombasa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468X
Scope and Contents

A collection of three uncaptioned loose prints measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm. There is no indication with the prints of what they depict and their source is unknown. The pictures illustrate attempts to remove a tree which has fallen across the path of a narrow gauge rail track. From the smallness of the line, it is possible that this is the trolley line on Mombasa Island.

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).
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Clerical Lending Library, Old Malton, Yorkshire: Catalogue

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8887
Scope and Contents

Printed catalogue, 1824; with annotations relating to the cost of replacing lost books, signatures of members, and borrowings, 1824-47. There is a letter from T.E. Lindsay, Archdeacon of Cleveland, to Alfred James Walker, Vicar of Malton, 27 November 1928, on returning a book to Malton.

Dates: 1824-1928
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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Clubs and societies

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Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHAS
Scope and Contents

Including New Hall Union (undergraduate and graduate student unions), New Hall Society (alumnae association), Friends of New Hall (development and fundraising), and New Hall Boat Club.

Dates: 1957 - 2017
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Clubs and Societies

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Reference Code: GBR/1935/EDAS
Dates: 1898 - 1992
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Clubs and Societies

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/Soc
Scope and Contents

The College Archive includes a variety of student led clubs and societies, ranging from sports teams to debating groups to purely social socities. Surviving records are mainly in the form of minute books, although there are some team photographs, notably for the Chess Club, invitations and theatre programmes etc. Most photographs are catalogued separately in the CCCC/Ph classification, particularly sporting and May Ball photographs.



Dates: 1833 - 2020
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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

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Reference Code: GBR/1936/THCS
Dates: 1859 - 2019
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Clubs and Society Records

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCCS
Scope and Contents

Records of the Alumni Association (founded in 1922), Amalgamation Club and various sports clubs and academic, dramatic and musical societies, although survival and transfer of records is sporadic. Also includes records of various social clubs and the May Ball. There are many sports clubs and other societies, such as The Theological Society, for which no records are extant or available.

Dates: 1894 - 2023
Conditions Governing Access: Some records series (such as minutes) are subject to closure periods for GDPR and confidentiality reasons.
Found in: Downing College
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CLUBS, SOCIETIES, PUBLICATIONS

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Reference Code: GBR/0276/SECS
Dates: 1882 - 2023
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Coats of Arms of Cambridgeshire Families

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6589
Scope and Contents Drawings in colour of the coats of arms of various Cambridgeshire families and personages, 46 folios. Those of the following appear: de Ghaundes; de Meynil; de Hastinges; Peche; Avenell; de Gardyn; de Hulles; Dakeney; de Haluntone; Bagehot; de Maneres; de Trumpingtone; de Lacy; de Boxworth; de Estafford; Touks; de Rydwere; de Fulbourne; Eschalars; de Bordeleys; Hereward; de Suylverstone; Ingle, Shelford; Wale, Bankes, L. Shelford; Blackburne, Metcalfe, Fowlmere; Bening, Thriplow; Stephenson,...
Dates: 1884 (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).
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Cobham Collection

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Cobham
Scope and Contents

The majority of the photographs in the collection concern antiquities and historic buildings.

Dates: 1870 - 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).
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Cochin

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022PPP-YYY
Scope and Contents A collection of albums containing photographs, the majority taken by A.C. McKay but some by R.V. Kamath and by professional photographers.The collection consists of photographs mostly 85 x 60 mm, but with occasional enlargements, carefully mounted in large albums and described in some detail in clear white writing on the black leaves. Each album is numbered on the spine, and clearly formed part of a larger collection than has been received.McKay was a prolific photographer,...
Dates: 1928 - 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).
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Cockcroft Associated Material

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT AS
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to Cockcroft, particularly his research work and correspondence with the Cavendish Laboratory, and lectures by and concerning him.

Dates: 1938 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Cockerell: Two volumes of Inscriptions collected by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), architect and archaeologist

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/CKRL
Scope and Contents Two volumes, each respectively entitled on the spine, 'MS. Inscriptions collected in Greece by C. R. Cockerell, 1810–14, I' and 'MS. Inscriptions collected in Greece by C. R. Cockerell, 1810–14, II'. A description of the contents is written on the title page of Volume One, possibly by C. R. Cockerell himsef: ‘Inscriptions collected in various parts of Greece by C. R. Cockerell, from the year 1810–14; they were copied from the original manuscripts in this form by Signor Amati, in Rome,...
Dates: 1815
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Codicil to will of Julian Kenward (copy), Yalding, Kent

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1111
Dates: 28 Feb. 1619 (Either 1619 or 1620?)
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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Codicil to will of Julian Kenward (copy), Yalding, Kent

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1114
Dates: 28 Feb. 1619 (Either 1619 or 1620?)
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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Col. Bertram Romilly: Letters from Sudan and France

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9656
Scope and Contents

Letters written to Romilly's father describing his military experiences.

Dates: 1912-1915
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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Cole family letters

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9698
Scope and Contents

Letter book, written by Charlotte Smith Barry in 1894, and added to in 1922. About 3/4 of the volume is unused. In describing putting the work together, Barry refers to having acquired some of the letters from the daughters of Lady Florence Balfour at Fairy Hill.

Dates: 1801-1922
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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