Showing Collections: 1901 - 1925 of 9149
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Copy of will of William Webb, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1021
Dates:
10 June 1737
Conditions Governing Access:
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Copyhold mortgage, Orsett, Essex
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.14
Scope and Contents
Copy of manor roll. At view of Frankpledge and Court Baron. It was certified and presented by homage that on 25 May 1702 William Convers customary tenant of the manor surrendered certain property to the use of Thomas of Mucking, Essex, with the provision that the agreement be void on the payment of a certain sum by William Convers by a certain date. William Convers died before the date. Thomas Gray was admitted tenant of the property, and afterwards surrendered it to the use of Nathaniel...
Dates:
30 Mar. 1703
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Cambridge University Library
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Coral lands
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309F
Scope and Contents
A publication, in two volumes, 'Coral lands' by H. Stonehewer Cooper, illustrated with six photographs. The publication is about life in the Pacific islands (Fiji, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands) in the latter part of the 19th Century.
Dates:
1880
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Corfu
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30193C
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm. Reproduction of a drawing by T. Allom, engraved by W. Floyd, and published by Fisher, Son & Co., 1840.
Dates:
1900 - 1940
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Cambridge University Library
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Cornelius Burges: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6164-6165
Dates:
1619-1629
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Cornford: Papers of Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943), classical philosopher
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Reference Code: GBR/3437/FMCD
Dates:
1920 - 1978
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Coronation of Kabaka Mutesa II (King Freddie of Uganda), Budo, 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045J
Scope and Contents
One loose print measuring 204 x 150 mm, showing Kabaka Edward Frederick Mutesa II seated on a throne wearing his coronation robes and the crown which the Rt, Revd. Cyril Edgar Stuart (1892 - ?), Bishop of Uganda 1934-53, has just placed on his head:'Finally, dressed in the royal robes, which had been designed for the occasion and were splendidly golden, if a little heavy, I returned to the Church and received the crown and ring of Buganda from Bishop Stuart. Although it had been...
Dates:
1940
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Cambridge University Library
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Corporation of the Bedford Level: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5997
Scope and Contents
A series of letters and other papers relating to the Corporation of the Bedford Level.
Dates:
1790-1799
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Cambridge University Library
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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: copies from catalogues of the college's collections of printed books and MSS
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2589
Scope and Contents
Apparently compiled by a reader for reference. Numbers assigned by T. James, Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis, 1600, are cited, and there are occasional references to books in Peterhouse and elsewhere. fos 90-3: notes of sermons, 1599. fo. 65: owner's or bookseller's label '430' - inside front cover (poss. in hand of Henry Bradshaw): 'Fenwick 430'.
Dates:
1620 (Circa)
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Cambridge University Library
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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge: correspondence relating to Parker Exhibitions,
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2716.24
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Thomas Field, John Peile, Spencer Compton Cavendish, duke of Devonshire, Robert Payne Smith, Edward Henry Perowne, Henry Barclay Swete, and Edwin Charles Clark.
Dates:
1892-1893
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Correpondence between Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Iain Bain
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10302
Scope and Contents
88 letters and cards from Sir Geoffrey Keynes to Iain Bain, with 42 draft autograph letters or copy typed letters from Bain to Keynes. The subject-matter of the correspondence principally concerns William Blake, with some discussion of Thomas Bewick.With three letters from Keynes to Reynolds Stone, and related items, including diary notes by Bain, a letter from Peter Summers to Keynes, 1969, news-cuttings of David Garnett’s 90th birthday article on Keynes for The Times, 1977,...
Dates:
1968-1982
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence and minutes of Henry Jackson concerning the teaching of Greek at Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.22
Scope and Contents
This group of papers concerns one stage in the long campaign to relax the hold of compulsory Greek on the University's curriculum and examinations, culminating in the publication of two reports by the Studies and Examinations Syndicate in 1904 and 1906.
Dates:
22 Dec. 1902-11 July 1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence and papers concerning a volume of tributes to mark the eightieth birthday of Siegfried Sassoon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10383
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and related papers concerning a volume of manuscript tributes compiled by Rupert Hart-Davis and Dennis Silk for presentation to Siegfried Sassoon on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. There are letters between the compilers discussing progress with the volume, and between Silk and a selection of those invited to contribute. The related items include photographic copies of some of the contributions.
Dates:
1964-1966
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence and papers, mostly concerning religious teachings
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9570
Dates:
1900-2000 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence and papers of George Parker Bidder concerning the Ankylostoma Enquiry and the Great Barrier Reef Expedition
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8679-8680
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, articles, press cuttings and other papers.
Dates:
1902 - 1930
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Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence and Papers of Helen Frances Grant (1903-1992), Lecturer in Spanish at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Girton College
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8251
Dates:
1926-1985
Conditions Governing Access:
Letters in Section VI: General Correspondence, are restricted for fifty years.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence and papers of Neil Benjamin Edmonstone (1765-1841)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7616
Scope and Contents
Letters, mostly from Neil Edmondstone to family members, amnay from India. Also includes some other family correspondence, other papers and a copy of an autobiography of Sir Archibald Edmondstone.
Dates:
1783-1817
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Correspondence and papers of Philip Hall
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10311
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, papers, notebooks, photographs and other objects including research and personal records and correspondence of Philip Hall and papers of James Edward Roseblade relating to Philip Hall. Correspondence is contained in the following numbered boxes: 1-3, 8-10, 14-15, 24-26.
Dates:
1904-1982
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of a recent addition to the collection (MS Add. 10311/1) most of the collection is uncatalogued and access is subject to permission from the Keeper of Archives and Modern Manuscripts.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence and papers of Robert Walker
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 339
Scope and Contents
Letters from Robert Walker in Uganda to his family, letters to the Walker family from other correspondents and miscellaneous items connected to Walker's missionary work in Uganda.
Dates:
1888 - 1995
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Philip Smyly
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 137
Scope and Contents
Letters from Smyly to his mother from Sierra Leone; correspondence and papers relating to Smyly's time in the Gold Coast.
Dates:
1895 - 1996
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Correspondence and Papers of William Hancock (1846-1914) while an officer of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7890
Dates:
1846-1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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Correspondence and papers on the education and early career of Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961), economic historian.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7746
Scope and Contents
The letters and papers catalogued below were preserved by C. R. Fay's father, who pasted them into an unused copy of Smith's commercial scribbling diary for 1902; Mr Fay adopted a generally chronological arrangement, but does not seem to have felt himself to be bound strictly by this. Many of the documents are addressed to the elder Fay, and the collection can be regarded as being as much the papers of the father as of the son.
Dates:
1894-1910
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Correspondence and related papers of Ian Davie, chiefly consisting of letters from Siegfried Sassoon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9862
Dates:
Mar. 1959-10 Mar. 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Correspondence between Charles William Phillips, archaeologist and topographer, and Margaret Mann Phillips, Renaissance scholar, 1941-1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9673
Scope and Contents
While Charles was away from Cambridge the couple wrote to one another frequently, and their letters are catalogued below. A sizeable majority is from Charles to Grig (680, against 300 from her to him), a discrepancy in numbers attributable to her keeping most (if not all) of his, whereas he (at least until the arrival of John) kept relatively few of hers. His letters discuss his views on the progress of the war and his hopes and fears for the future of British archaeology; and...
Dates:
1941-1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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Correspondence between Denis Tegetmeier and Stanley Scott
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9832
Scope and Contents
This collection was assembled by Scott and besides his correspondence with Tegetmeier it includes various other papers relating to him.
Dates:
1954-1987
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library