Showing Collections: 1876 - 1900 of 9057
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Correspondence of E.G. Browne and Sir E.D. Ross
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7605
Scope and Contents
Edward Granville Browne was a noted scholar and Fellow of Pembroke, with a deep knowledge of the languages, history and culture of the Middle East. Apart from the many books and articles which bore his name, Browne also undertook as a labour of love the wearisome task of cataloguing the Islamic manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library and some of the college libraries, as well as two smaller collections at the India Office Library. He was also responsible for the publication of many...
Dates:
20th February 1891-15th July 1925
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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Correspondence of Ernest Rutherford and others with Adolph Isenthal, concerning radium
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10369
Dates:
1903-1908 (and one dated without year)
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence of George Edward Moore, Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood and Iris Lady Wedgwood
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10059
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the long friendship of the philosopher G. E. Moore and the railway administrator Sir R. L. Wedgwood and his wife Iris Lady Wedgwood. George Moore and Ralph Wedgwood were contemporaries as undergraduates at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the mid-1890s, and their friendship continued until Wedgwood's death in 1956. The principal contents of the collection are two sets of letters, Moore to Wedgwood and Wedgwood to Moore, and another set to Moore from Iris Wedwood, who...
Dates:
1895-1958
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence of Gilles David concerning Siegfried Sassoon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9963
Scope and Contents
Letters addressed to Gilles David in response to enquiries made in the course of researching a thesis on Siegfried Sassoon
Dates:
1968-1974 (approximate)
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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Correspondence of Henry Jackson and John Peile concerning the status of St. Edmund’s House, Cambridge, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7327
Scope and Contents
St. Edmund’s House was founded in 1896 by the fifteenth Duke of Norfolk and Baron Anatole von Hugel as a hall of residence for Catholic priests and ordinands studying in Cambridge. Two years later von Hugel sought formal recognition for St. Edmund’s as a public hostel of the University through a vote in Senate, a move which polarised opinion in Cambridge and beyond, the opponents raising fears of the malign influence of Rome. The supporters of recognition included two of the most prominent...
Dates:
1898
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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Correspondence of Kenneth Day relating to books on typography
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9821
Scope and Contents
The correspondence relates to 3 different books planned for publication by Ernest Benn Ltd, of which Day was a director. The third of the titles was never published.
Dates:
1952-1973
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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Correspondence of Kenyan settlers, Robert Hall and Ione Minnie Hall (née Varley)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 413
Content Description
The collection comprises letters between Robert and Ione Hall, and between the Halls and Ione's parents, Cromwell Oliver Varley and Minnie Caroline Varley, 1921-1938, relating to life in Kenya, the purchase of various properties, Robert and Ione's separation and the eventual breakdown of their marriage. The correspondence concerns the purchase of land in Gilgil and Naivasha from 1917, farming life in the 1920s and 1930s, growing of flax, wheat and wattle, as well as dairy farming,...
Dates:
1915 - 1938
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Correspondence of Laurie E. Deval
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10010
Scope and Contents
In 1961 Deval was commissioned to assemble a collection of British private-press printing for the library of McGill University. This collection consists principally of the letters he wrote to printers to solicit their publications.
Dates:
1961-1963
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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Correspondence of Leonard Forster relating to the 'Anglica Germanica' series
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9928
Dates:
1967-1983
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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Correspondence of Max Aub and members of his family
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10174
Dates:
1916 - 1972
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
Correspondence of Professor Henry Jackson concerning the Acton Library
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7720
Scope and Contents
In 1890 Lord Acton, whose financial affairs were in a state of some embarrassment, decided to sell his vast historical library at auction, and the first part of what was to have been a many-volumed catalogue was issued by Messrs Puttick & Simpson, containing 2,400 lots to be sold on eight days in July. Before this sale took place, Andrew Carnegie had (at the suggestion of Acton's friend and political mentor Gladstone) purchased the entire library, and allowed Acton to retain possession...
Dates:
1902-1903
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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Correspondence of Rene Hague and Philip Hagreen
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10244
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, typescript and photocopied copies of correspondence.
Dates:
1978-1980
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
Correspondence of Robert Clark, missionary in the Punjab, India 1863-96
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7667
Scope and Contents
For more than forty years Robert Clark was the senior Church Missionary Society representative in the Punjab, organising the building of missions in the province and on the frontier, founding schools for both sexes, establishing hospitals, dispensaries and agricultural settlements, encouraging Indian converts to play active roles in the church, and (with an Indian colleague) writing scriptural commentaries for their use. Light is thrown on many aspects of Clark’s work in the correspondence...
Dates:
1863-1896
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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Correspondence of Robert Potts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4427-4428
Scope and Contents
The letters relate to two contested elections at Cambridge in 1847, the first for the chancellorship of the university, in which Prince Albert (supported by Potts and many other reformers) defeated the conservative Earl of Powis; and the second for the university seats in the general election, at which the sitting members, Henry Goulburn and C.E. Law, survived challenges from Viscount Feilding and J.G. Shaw-Lefevre.
Dates:
1847
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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Correspondence of Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, and related items
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10382
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, together with poems, verse dialogues, newspaper cuttings, photographs and related items. The letters date between 1953 and 1967. They are from Sassoon, and addressed from Heytesbury, unless otherwise stated. A few were addressed jointly to Dennis and Diana Silk. There are three letters from Dennis Silk to Sassoon, and letters from a few other correspondents are included as enclosures.
Dates:
1918-2012 (bulk 1953-1967)
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Correspondence of William Wallace
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 148
Scope and Contents
Letters and related papers concerning William Wallace's life in Africa and his retirement.
Dates:
1916 - 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
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Correspondence of Windham Baldwin concerning G. M. Young's biography of Stanley Baldwin
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7938
Dates:
3 Apr. 1946-7 Feb. 1954 (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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Correspondence regarding John Donne's Seal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5147
Scope and Contents
10 folios, including the following letters: (fo. 1) Augustus Jessopp to Francis Jenkinson, 20 August 1911; (fo. 2) Arthur William Crawley-Boevey to an unidentified recipient, 16 December 1895 (copy); (fo. 3) Brinsley Nicholson to Jessopp, 29 August 1891; (fo. 4) Nicholson to Jessopp, 15 September 1891; (fo. 5) John Jeremiah Daniell to an unidentified recipient, 12 June 1897; (fo. 6) Henry R. Merewether to an unidentified recipient, 5 June 1897; (fo. 7) Crawley-Boevey to Francis L.S....
Dates:
1891-1911
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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Correspondence relating to the New Cambridge Modern History
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7921
Scope and Contents
The collection contains papers of Sir George Clark and Ernest Alfred Benians relating to the establishment and progress of the New Cambridge Modern History project.
Dates:
1937-1964
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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Correspondence with zoologists
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9912
Dates:
1860-1910
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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Cory: Papers Relating to William Johnson Cory
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/WJC
Scope and Contents
Fair copies and photocopies of poems by Cory, and letters from him.
Dates:
1840 - 1990
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Cosslett Associated Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/COSS AS
Scope and Contents
Drawings relating to the construction of the first UK high voltage transmission electron microscope at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Dates:
1960 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Cotton Estate Papers, Girton and Madingley, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.679
Dates:
c. 1700-1900
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
Council of Trent: Decisions and Declarations
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4318
Scope and Contents
A series of explanatory notes on the decrees of the Council of Trent, 416 folios. The sessions concerned are 4-7, 13-14 and 21-25. There are nineteenth-century entries on fo. 1, including 'Paraphe au desir de l'arrest du 5 juillet 1763 Mesnil' and 'Colle. Paris Societis Jesu'. Inside the front cover is 'J. Lee Doctors Commons. Bound: December 1836 London No.9/103', and Lee's bookplate.
Dates:
1763
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
Council records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 2
Scope and Contents
This section contains minutes, papers and correspondence of the Council of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, together with related papers such as items previously contained in the minute books. Many of the volumes of minutes contain items tipped or pasted in, such as accounts and reports of committees; also letters and notices relating to administration, premises, collections, gifts, publications and books, prizes, scientific papers and research, membership, departmental visits and other...
Dates:
1819 - 2000
Found in:
Cambridge Philosophical Society