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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).
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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).
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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:
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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:
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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
Fonds
Eau Brink, Cambridgeshire: statement of sums due Messrs Jolliffe Banks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2718.12
Scope and Contents
With certificate of entitlement addressed to the commissioners of drainage.
Dates:
12 June 1821-14 June 1823
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Management Group
Ecclesiastical Patronage, Rectories and Tithes
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1934/ECC
Scope and Contents
Patronage Fund and individual parishes by name.
Dates:
1777
Found in:
St Catharine's College Archive
Fonds
Eden papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3540/EDEN
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises papers on the foundation of the College with newscuttings, subsequent publications, papers and photos
Dates:
1962 - 2012
Found in:
Clare Hall Archives
Fonds
Edgar Fawcett: Reminiscences of Bishop Cridge 1854-1923
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6418
Scope and Contents
In typescript, 52 folios. (fo. 1) Extracts from the diary of Bishop E. Cridge covering his marriage and departure from England for Victoria, Vancouver Island, September - October 1854; (fo. 1) reminiscences of Bishop Cridge from the time of his arrival in Vancouver Island by Edgar Fawcett. A notice of the Bishop by J.D.H. Dickson, further extracts from the Bishop's diary, and an obituary notice and account of his funeral from two local newspapers are added; (fo. 33) list of members of the...
Dates:
1923 (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
Edgar Gaston Furtado Abraham: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7928
Scope and Contents
I. Files accumulated by Abraham as an Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet from January 1918, mainly relating to the Peace Conference of 1919, and containing principally sets of printed or duplicated minutes, memoranda, etc., and nothing of an unofficial or personal nature. War Cabinet: Eastern Committee (E.C.) Minutes, 28 Mar. 1918 - 7 Jan. 1919. War Cabinet, E.C. Meetings, Shorthand Notes, 16-30 Dec. 1918....
Dates:
1890-1955 (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
Edicts on book censorship
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8158
Scope and Contents
Printed and manuscript documents comprised of edicts on the censorship of books and protests against the edicts.
Dates:
1756
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
Edmonds: 'Fragments of Attic Comedy' manuscript by John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958), classicist, poet and dramatist
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMES
Scope and Contents
Rough copy and Fair copy of Edmonds' 3 volume publication, The Fragments of Attic Comedy (pub. 1957). This material was returned to Edmonds by the publishers, Brill of Leiden, probably between 1958-9. There is one post-mark on a piece of packaging from 1958, and the parcels of manuscript were packed with leaves of The Times Literary Supplement, dated Friday April 10, 1959.
Dates:
1948 - 1957
File
Edmund Barker: Specimens of translation from Longinus, Cicero, and Tacitus
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2768.8
Scope and Contents
With notes by Barker on various classical authors, some dated 28 Nov. 1833, notes by Richard Bentley on slips, extract from N. Boileau-Despréaux, Le Lutrin (trans. J. Ozell, London, 1708, pp. 91-2), letter from A. Amos to Barker, 4 Feb. 1833, and postscript of letter from R. T[weddell] to Barker, undated.
Dates:
19 June 1809
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
Edmund Blunden: Letters to Phyllis Burley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9859
Scope and Contents
Letters from Edmund Blunden to Phyllis Burley, with related correspondence and other items.
Dates:
1938-1980
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
Edmund Blunden: letters to Siegfried Sassoon and Dennis Silk
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10384
Scope and Contents
Ten letters from Edmund Blunden to Siegfried Sassoon, with one from Blunden to Dennis Silk and one from Clare Ross to Sassoon.
Dates:
1962-1966
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Edmund Blunden: Two poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8523
Scope and Contents
'Fresh thought on an old poem' and 'To Diana', holograph poems signed by Edmund Blunden.
Dates:
1950 (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
Edmund Crosby Quiggin: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7800
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises correspondence, articles and similar items. The bulk of it consists of approximately 40 letters to Quiggin and to his wife Alison (née Hingston, m.1907), approximately 110 sheets of notes relating to publications, 19 offprints of articles by Quiggin and others, and 10 reviews of his work.
Dates:
1902-1994 (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
Edmund Hopkinson: Notes on Nicholas Saunderson's Lectures
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9752
Scope and Contents
Covers mechanicks, hydrostaticks, pneumaticks, sounds, opticks, the rainbow, astronomy and tides.
Dates:
1723
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
Edmund Leigh: Commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.102
Scope and Contents
Contains notes and extracts on philosophy, astronomy, natural history and medicine. fo. 2: 'Edmundus Lëus 1607'.
Dates:
1607
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
Edmund Stoneham collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3026A
Scope and Contents
A file of loose prints collected by Stoneham during his tenure in India.
Dates:
1910 - 1930
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
Edmund Williamson: Rent Book
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5936
Scope and Contents
Rent book covering estates at Writtle, Essex; Great Queen Street, Middlesex; and Dean and Pollushill, Bedfordshire, 66 folios. Fos 1v, 2, 5v-27r, 31v-38r, 42v, 43r and 66v are blank.
Dates:
1827 (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