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Fonds
Du Cap au Zambèze. Notes de voyage dans l'Afrique du Sud, Genève: Baden-Baden printed, 1884
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305R
Scope and Contents
A printed book illustrated by photographic prints. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The book resulted from a journey from Cape Town via Kimberley and the Transvaal to the Victoria Falls and back to Port Elizabeth.
Dates:
1880
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
Duke of York's Household Book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7091
Scope and Contents
Contains accounts of wages paid for various household duties and descriptions of warrants, commissions and orders relating to the household.
Dates:
1662-1664
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
Dulcie Barron Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W
Scope and Contents
Album containing photographs of Entebbe and Kampala, colleagues and friends, travels around the country, and of the people of Uganda, including celebrations for the return of Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda.
Dates:
1955 - 1957
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
Duncan Andrews and Sir Geoffrey Keynes: correspondence relating to Stephen Gooden
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10501
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Duncan Andrews (7 copy letters, manuscript, carbon typescript and photocopies, 1969-1970) and Sir Geoffrey Keynes (19 letters and 2 cards, manuscript, 1969-1977). With a photocopied typescript headed 'Stephen Gooden', 6 pages, docketed by Andrews 'Copy of Keynes's notes for his lecture on Steve. Ca. late 50s'; manuscript notes by Andrews headed 'Sir Geoffrey Keynes Brinkley Suffolk 5 March 1969', 6 pages, docketed by Andrews 'Notes from my first meeting w/GLK'; and...
Dates:
1945-1977
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Dunn-Gardner Family: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9358
Scope and Contents
Manorial, local administrative, business, estate, and personal papers.
Dates:
1622-1925 (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
Series
E Company - Peterhouse Officer Cadets.
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0273/Pet.MS.718
Dates:
2017
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Fonds
E. Du Faur: Translations of Gui Du Faur's Quatrains de Pibrac
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5715
Scope and Contents
Typescript of Gui Du Faur's Quatrains de Pibrac, translated into English by E. Du Faur in 1907 from the original text, 78 folios: (fo. i) title page; (fo. i) 'Introductory and Historical', in English; (fo. viiv) the main text: each quatrain is transcribed in French from the printed text and is followed by its English translation; (fo. 64) 'L'Envoi' by the translator, in English; (fo. 66) notes and glossary. The versos are mostly blank. Inside the front cover is a letter from H. Montagu...
Dates:
1907-1913
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
E. Shotbolt and W. Wright (?), Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.724
Dates:
1623
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
E.A. Gay collection on Grenada
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30771A
Scope and Contents
Prints showing a variety of scenes in town and country. They are listed in manuscript on a sheet of paper inserted at the front of the album and these descriptions have been transcribed as found.
Dates:
1890 - 1893
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
E.A. Rothery Collection on Nigeria 1928-1939
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043GG
Scope and Contents
Group photograph and amateur snapshots, presumably mostly taken by E.A. Rothery, mounted on 23 card sheets from a disbound album. Unless otherwise noted, the photographs are of varied up to 110 x 70 mm, black and white or sepia.The photograph relate to Rothery's career as a surveyor up to 1939, and have been captioned by him. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. A few additions,...
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Earl of Bristol v. Searle, Great Chesterford, Essex
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.696
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
Earl of Hardwicke (?), Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.683
Dates:
After 1754
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
File
'Early History of the Marlowe Dramatic Society'
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2717.8
Scope and Contents
Typescript.
Dates:
1923
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
Early history of the University Bibliographical Press
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9624
Scope and Contents
Gaskell's account of his efforts in founding the University Bibliographical Press, and then records of its work ('Journal of the Press'). Account references documents (numbered DP1, DP2 and DP3) that do not appear to be present in this work. Volume has press cuttings, letters, photographs affixed, with an appendix 'check-list of pamphlets etc printed at the Water Lane press' inserted.
Dates:
1951-1955
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
Early views of the Gold Coast
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448U
Scope and Contents
Little is known of the provenance of this album of photographs, but an inscription on the inside of the front cover, 'W. H. Himbury, Grosvenor Club, Piccadilly', suggests that its owner was Sir William Himbury (1871-1955). Himbury had a very successful career in the cotton industry and served as Chairman of the Council of the British Cotton Growing Association. In 1918, he was appointed to the Empire Cotton Growing Committee, and did much to promote cotton cultivation within the Empire and...
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
East Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468FF
Scope and Contents
It is not known how the RCS acquired this collection of uncaptioned glass negatives. It is believed that they represent East Africa, but research will be required to identify the photographers, dates of creation and the slides' subjects.
Dates:
1890 - 1940
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
East Africa and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] during the 1940s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468AA
Scope and Contents
Collection of 248 photographs, chiefly amateur. Most captions are derived from the original album pages or the printed titles of postcards. Photographs without measurements are approximately 80 x 60 mm in size, and this suggests that they may have been taken by the collector, with the others acquired from colleagues or purchased.The photographs, housed in two albums, were found pushed through the letterbox of Woodspring Museum. They had clearly suffered from damp, the albums were...
Dates:
1940 - 1949
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
'East Africa and Uganda 1912'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 154
Scope and Contents
This account (81 pages) describes a visit to East Africa from South Africa in 1912 by James Dick. He travelled by the Uganda railway from the coast to Kisumu, with stops on the way including Nairobi and a visit to the bamboo forest. Dick crossed Lake Victoria on the ‘Clement Hill’ to Entebbe, and thence went by rickshaw to Kampala. His journey ended at the Ripon Falls. There is a good deal of historical background and other information; the journey covered well-traversed ground, but the...
Dates:
1912
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
East Africa: Charles Stokes collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468P
Scope and Contents
Collection of twenty-four loose prints (including eight duplicates), mostly modern copies of contemporary photographs of the career of Charles Stokes (1852-1895) collected in connection with the biography by Anne Luck: 'Charles Stokes in Africa' (1972). There are also fourteen modern copy negatives.Material for a biography of Stokes was gathered by H.B. Thomas, but in 1961 he handed it to Anne Luck, then resident in Uganda, who undertook research on the spot, including interviews...
Dates:
1878 - 1895
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
East African Photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468BB
Scope and Contents
Collection of four modern copies each 115 x 75 mm, of photographs taken in East Africa at the beginning of the century. The images were accompanied by a photocopy of a typed note relating to No. 1 and an incomplete list of those portrayed in No. 2, probably written in c. 1938.These photographs are of particular interest as they show the three families; Bodeker, McQueen and Wallace, who can claim to be the first European settlers in Kenya, since they trekked up from the coast in the...
Dates:
1900 - 1938
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
East African Railways and Harbours 1952 to 1964
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30469L
Scope and Contents
13 photographs and 3 letters documenting Satwant Singh Suman's service with the East African Railways.
Dates:
1952 - 2008
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
East Circular Quay, Sydney
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086T
Scope and Contents
302 x 215 mm. A loose uncaptioned print. A view looking down on the east side of the quay, where three large steamers are moored. Beyond the quay can be seen Government House and the Botanical Gardens, Farm Cove, and the naval deport on Garden Island. The turreted building behind the quay is in the place Fort Macquarie originally stored. The building seen here is actually the tram depot, completed in 1902. On the left-hand corner of the photograph states 'Registered 1903, Melvin...
Dates:
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
Management Group
East Midland Regional Examinations Board (EMREB)
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/2086/EMREB
Scope and Contents
Records of the East Midland Regional Examinations Board (EMREB). This collection includes regulations, syllabuses, question papers, examiners’ reports and instructions for making entries.
Dates:
1965 - 1992
Found in:
Cambridge Assessment Archives & Heritage
Fonds
Eastern Association: Statement of accounts
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8072
Scope and Contents
A statement of monies received and disbursed for military purposes by Thomas Buckley of Cambridge, 20 April-2 November 1643, in his role as treasurer of the Association of Eastern Counties. The statement records the proportion paid to each county 'truly collected out of the bookes of Accomptes belonginge to the sayd Treasurer; examined and agreeable with the Orders (for payments) from the sayd Committee, under theire hands; and caste up per John Welbore gent'.
Dates:
1643
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
Eastern Counties Folklore Society: Records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7515
Scope and Contents
Records, minute book, articles, photographs and notes.
Dates:
1897-1954
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