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Correspondence concerning the deposit of the diary of John Bois [Boys] at Cambridge University Library
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7194.I
Scope and Contents
John Bois (1561-1644) was a biblical translator whose main legacy were the notes that he made during the discussions relating to the formation of the 1611 King James Bible. This correspondence concerns the attempts to establish provenance of a diary of John Bois, attempts to find a suitable institution to hold it and its eventual donation to the Cambridge University Library by Louisa Howes.
Dates:
13 Mar. 1835-10 May 1881
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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Correspondence concerning the Frederic William Maitland Memorial Fund1907-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4497
Scope and Contents
The correspondence listed below charts the establishment and progress of the Fund.
It includes letters concerning invitations to attend (and in some cases speak at) the public meeting of 1 June 1907, and to join the General Committee; suggestions as to the purposes to which the Fund should be devoted ; the formation of groups of supporters in London, the United States and elsewhere; payments or pledges of contributions; and the commissioning of a medallion or (as was finally decided) a...
Dates:
1907-1909
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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Correspondence from John Riley to John Robert Jackson Hammond
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10315
Scope and Contents
126 letters and cards from Riley to Hammond, mostly with envelopes, and 2 letters from Tim Longville to Hammond.
Dates:
1956- 1978
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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Correspondence of A.C. Seward over publication of Darwin and Modern Science
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7733
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the publication 'Darwin and Modern Science', edited by A.C. Seward.
Dates:
1908-1909
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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Correspondence of Andor Gomme
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9417
Scope and Contents
Frank Raymond Leavis (1895-1978), Fellow of Downing 1936-62, Reader in English 1959-62. Andor H. Gomme (1930- ), Gonville and Caius 1956-59, Professor of English, Keele University. 9 letters, Leavis to Gomme, 1956-68, including 1, BASIL WILLEY to Gomme, 1961.
Dates:
1956-1968
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed until 1 January 2027
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence of authors and collectors
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10005
Scope and Contents
An artifical collection accumulated by David J. Hall. Most of the letters are accompanied by folders on which Hall has written information regarding the writers and recipients, together with a note of his own MS numbering (for which see 'Former reference').
Dates:
1770-1993
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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Correspondence of Charles Taylor (1840-1908), Master of St. John's College, Cambridge
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7308
Scope and Contents
Letters concerning the purchase of a copy of the block-printed collection of Tibetan Buddhist literature known as the Kanjur (bKa' 'gyur) by Cambridge University Library; included in the collection is a receipt for Charles Taylor's gift in the sum of £275. The Kanjur in question is now located at Cambridge University Library Tibetan.1-104. [Some alternative transiterations of the name of the Tibetan Canon are bKángjur, kang-gyur, kan-jur, Kangyur or bka'-'gyur].
Dates:
1907
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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Correspondence of Edward Arthur Milne with officers of the Cambridge University Natural Science Club, with related correspondence and a report
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10378
Dates:
1921
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence of Ernest Rutherford and others with Adolph Isenthal, concerning radium
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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
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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).
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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).
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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).
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Cambridge University Library
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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).
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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).
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Cambridge University Library
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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).
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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).
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Cambridge University Library
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Correspondence of Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk, and related items
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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
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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).
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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