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Cruise of the Yacht St George, 1880s-92
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011P
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose modern prints measuring approximately 245 x 180 mm. This prints were copied from an album containing 53 prints compiled during the voyage. Included with the prints are xeroxes of the original explanatory captions. The R.Y.S. 'St George' was owned by Ernest James Wythes (1868-1949); the compiler and/or photographer has not been identified.
Dates:
1979
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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Curwen Press Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9853
Scope and Contents
The collection contains papers of the company and personal papers of Oliver Simon, Herbert Simon, and Basil Harley. These include correspondence; papers relating to specific printing jobs and to types, paper, printing processes, etc.; business papers; and specimens of printing.
Dates:
1853-1998
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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Customs Establishment
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5224-5281
Scope and Contents
'Quarterly establishment books of the customs, London, out-ports, etc.', recording the names and salaries of customs officers, arranged geographically. A number of the volumes have labels on the inside cover recording that they were held originally in the Customs House, Lower Thames Street, London. Some of the volumes have indexes
Dates:
1763-1829
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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Cuthbert Christy Album of India 1899-1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022V
Scope and Contents
Album containing photographs of various sizes together with three loose prints. From internal evidence it was compiled by Dr Cuthbert Christy, but was not with his papers and photographs received from the Royal African Society in 1972. The photographs in this collection are chiefly of two types, large albumen or collodio-chloride prints and small (?) collodio-chloride prints which are generally inferior in subject and quality. Some of the larger ones are clearly professional work; others...
Dates:
1899 - 1901
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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Cuttings on the Queensland sugar industry
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 294
Scope and Contents
A bound volume containing 212 pages of 'newspaper cuttings relating to the Queensland Sugar Industry 1878-1884. Hy Ling Roth, late Hon Secretary Mackay Planters and Farmers Association'. The newspapers include the 'Queenslander', 'Mackay Standard', 'Mackay Mercury', 'Australasian', 'Maryborough Chronicle', 'The Week', 'Brisbane Observer' and 'Queensland Punch'. The subject matter includes many aspects of the Australian sugar industry and reviews, mostly hostile, of Roth's book, 'A report...
Dates:
1878 - 1884
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Cypriot charge sheet
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2768.16
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cyril Bibby: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8320
Dates:
1914 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cyril Wright: Correspondence and lecture notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8281-8282
Dates:
1920-1960 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
D. Campion: Notes and Corrections to Edward Elliott's Hours of Apocalypse
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8836-8837
Scope and Contents
Notes and corrections to Edward Bishop Elliott's Horae Apocalypticae, a commentary on the Apocalypse critical and historical, 1844. Vol. I. Additions and corrections to the 1844, 1846 and 1851 editions. Vol. II. Additions and corrections to the 1862 edition.
Dates:
1977-1978
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
D. J. Enright papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10303
Dates:
1920-2002
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to some boxes is restricted pending appraisal for sensitive information relating to living individuals. Enquiries should be made to the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
D. Manley: Transcripts of Sermons
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5940
Scope and Contents
Two sermons upon II Thess. iii.13 preached by [ ] Per[ ] at Beccles, the first dated 12 May 1695, in the hand of D. Manley, 32 folios: (fo. 31v) 'Kinde Reader if in these few Lines you meet mistakes in this or that or th'other sheet Impute them not to to'th Preacher but to me whose sluggish pen had not dexterritee to take verbatum truths as he them preacht Such rapid swiftness I yet neer have reacht D Manley'.
Dates:
1695
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
D.A. Winstanley: Skit on Thomas 1st Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor 1763
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.17
Dates:
1923
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Dacca [i.e. Dhaka] University Football Club, winners of the 'Ronaldshay Shield', Dacca [i.e. Dhaka] Sports Association, 1924
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022XX
Scope and Contents
Print, measuring 285 x 234 mm, mounted on card. The photograph is a group portrait of the football team, with inset head and shoulders portraits of two unidentified players. Mr (later Sir) Philip Joseph Hartog (1864-1947), first Vice-Chancellor of Dacca University 1920-25, is seated in the centre of the group. The only other identified figures are P. Mitra, Captain of the Football Team and Manmatha Roy, Hon. Secretary. Photograph by the Coronation Studio, Dacca.
Dates:
1924
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Dampier Bide Travel journals
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8567
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts of the travel diaries of Elizabeth Bide Dampier and Thomas William Dampier Bide, of Kingston Manor, Yeovil. Some volumes written as accounts, rather than diary entries. Includes two edited typewritten transcription of some diaries, made by Edith H. Whetham, one of which also present in formally printed copy (as 'Travel Diaries from Kingston Manor, Yeovil, 1882-1886').Also present is a Japanese phrase book with accounts & lists of purchases sent home; a bundle...
Dates:
1882-1886
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
Fonds
Fonds
Daniel Dal Barba of Verona: six musical compositions
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6001
Scope and Contents
(fo. 1) 'Beatus vir', first violin part; (fo. 3) 'Messa Greve' for four voices and instruments; (fo. 47) the same: voice and instrument parts in sequence; (fo. 114) 'Domine' for four voices, violins and trombones; (fo. 144) 'Dixit' for four voices, violins and trombones; (fo. 196) 'Beatus Vir' for four voices, violins and horns; (fo. 246) 'Magnificat'; (fo. 264) 'Credo' for four voices with instruments. Inside front cover bookplate with the letters 'MLThC'.
Dates:
1753-1754
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Daphne du Maurier: Letters to Régis Bouis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9395
Scope and Contents
14 letters, mostly from Dame Daphne Du Maurier, with a few draft replies from Bouis.
Dates:
1957-1958
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
Fonds
Darwin Archive
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR
Scope and Contents
The Darwin archive comprises the personal and scientific working papers of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), together with correspondence and papers of many members of the wider Darwin family. Darwin’s scientific papers include his significant corpus of work on species, evolution and natural selection, and papers relating to the voyage of HMS Beagle, 1831-6. This material consists of: experimental and theoretical notebooks; draft essays; loose notes and scraps of notes, generally...
Dates:
[1662- 1980s], bulk 19th century
Conditions Governing Access:
Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Darwin Correspondence Project Archive
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10447
Scope and Contents
The archive is divided into two sections, covering the Bennington, Vermont, office and the Cambridge, UK, office. There may therefore be some duplication. Most aspects of the DCP's activities are covered, including appeals for funding, the search for letters, editorial policy, early computerisation, reports, publicity, outreach, and correspondence.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-2022
Conditions Governing Access:
Researchers wishing to consult this collection will be required to complete a data release form. Additionally, some material is closed following the Archive's confidentiality guidelines for sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)). Some material is closed under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, 2000: Section 41 information given in confidence. Please see individual catalogue entries for details.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
David Binnie: World tour diaries and photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8558-8560
Dates:
1873-1874
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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David Chaloner, 'Hotel Zingo'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10024
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript of the poems in the book, with a title page dated 1979. The poems bear dates between 1972 and 1979. With two sheets of manuscript notes in the hand of John Welch, one apparently not relating to 'Hotel Zingo'.
Dates:
1979
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
David Chaloner, 'Today Backwards' and related papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10023
Scope and Contents
David Chaloner, 'Today Backwards', a gathering of typescript poems (some with manuscript anotations and deletions) published in Chaloner's book of that title, with title page and colophon, and with three further poems and 'Today Backward' (sic) printed in 'Vanessa Poetry Magazine', No. 2. The poems are dated in typescript with dates between 1972 and 1975. With a copy of 'Vanessa Poetry Magazine', No. 2; John James, 'Variations on "Today Backwards"', duplicated typescript; a pasted-up typeset...
Dates:
1969-1980
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
David Davey: ''The Johannine Problem''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8345
Scope and Contents
An analysis of St John's Gospel seeking to establish the correct sequence of the original pages, continuing and extending the work of F.R. Hoare, author of The original order and chapters of St John's Gospel (1944). There are 517 pages accompanied by loose sheets demonstrating the reconstructed sequence of pages. At the front of the volume is an introduction by Bishop Christopher Butler, O.S.B., September 1962.
Dates:
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
Fonds
David Gadd: Correspondence and papers for book 'The Loving Friends'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9476
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and research material for 'The loving friends', c.1973-85
Dates:
1971-1985 (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
David Holbrook Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9987
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscripts, typescripts and word-processed scripts of novels, poems, critical essays and other writings; correspondence; and files of mixed items on various subjects.
Dates:
1935-2010 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access. Users of the collection are required to complete a Researcher Undertaking Concerning Access under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to Archives Which Would Otherwise Be Closed. Two files are restricted on grounds of confidentiality, and a number of files are not available for research on account of the poor physical condition of the documents they contain.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library