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Edward Gibbon: Shoemaker's bill
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8531
Scope and Contents
A receipt account by David Roch, cordonnier, 1 January 1786, in French, with a transcription taken from Revue historique Vaudoise, December 1950, and 'The personal and household bills of Edward Gibbon', an article from Notes and queries, 29 October 1949, pp. 474-476.
Dates:
1786-1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Gordon Duff: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7610-7612
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on bibliographical topics.
Dates:
1880-1909
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Gordon Duff: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8591-8632
Scope and Contents
Booksellers correspondence, notes on early printed books, book bindings, specific works and libraries, miscellaneous correspondence, catalogues and bibliographical memoranda.
Dates:
1765-1924
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Gordon Duff: 'Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5712
Scope and Contents
The Sandars Lectures for 1899 and 1904, 204 folios.
Dates:
1899-1904
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Edward Gordon Duff: The English Provincial Printers, Stationers, and Bookbinders to 1557
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4542
Scope and Contents
The Sandars Lectures for 1911, 81 folios. The text has been corrected by the author, and the four lectures are each contained in a separate envelope.
Dates:
1911
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford : Diary of Proceedings in Parliament
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6851
Scope and Contents
284 folios. The diary comprises two volumes which have been bound into one. The versos are mainly blank. Inside the front cover: '21888 Ph B44.563' (in pencil). There is an index to vol. 1 at fos 139v-142. Fo. i v (vol. 2) has notes in the text hand. Fo. 1: 'from Puttick sale 1849'. Fos i in both volumes have the label '268/2' (19th century).
Dates:
16 Apr. 1734-17 Jan. 1751
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Henry Blakeney and family: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8553
Scope and Contents
Comprises family correspondence of the Blakeney family, including letters of William Blakeney RN, who worked in the cartographic section of the Admiralty, Robert 'Bertie' Blakeney and Edward Henry Blakeney. The correspondence has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct quotation. The catalogue has retained original historic language that may be offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. In order to reflect the original context of creation, such historic...
Dates:
1858-1975 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Henry Blakeney: Poetry and Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7504-7509
Dates:
1885-1952
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Hubert Linfoot: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8726
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of biographical papers, wartime and post-war research files (including research papers relating to work on Meniscus Schmidt and related optical systems), papers concerning work for consultancies on the design of optical systems for commercial and other organisations, and drafts and related correspondence regarding publications, lectures and conferences.
Dates:
1920-1980 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Hubert Linfoot: Lectures and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8917
Dates:
1928-1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4347-4348
Scope and Contents
Two copies of Lord Clarendon's History of the rebellion and civil wars in Ireland, titled a 'Short View of the State and Condition of Ireland from the Year 1640 to this Time'. One is an anonymous copy of 87 folios. On p. 170: 'Robt. Taylor' (c. 1690). Outside the back cover: 'Sir Arthur Achison, Bart.' (19th century). The second is an imperfect copy of 45 folios. This copy breaks off at the head of p. 95 of the printed edition. A contemporary hand has noted the name of the author in the...
Dates:
1690 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward John Bowlby: Papers on Charles Darwin
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8884
Scope and Contents
Typescript of 'Charles Darwin: a biography', 1990; with notes and supporting material, papers on Darwin's ill-health, copies of Darwin correspondence, and biographies of Darwin's family, related families and contemporaries; newspaper cuttings on Darwin related topics; letters of congratulations to Bowlby on his Darwin book.
Dates:
1980-1990 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward John Dunn: autobiographical and geological papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 39
Scope and Contents
Autobiographical notes and drafts; newspaper cuttings relating to mining; offprints and publications by Dunn or given to Dunn, referencing his work; correspondence; notes.
Dates:
1844 - 1948
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 rcs@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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Edward John Dunn Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305L
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints of various sizes. The photographs are mostly family portraits and albumen print cartes de visite of leading individuals in South Africa during his time. However, there are also some photographs of his retirement home, Roseneath, showing artifacts he had collected (35-53). The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions...
Dates:
1860 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Johnston: Doodles
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8475
Scope and Contents
Doodles on the back of two pages of music with lyrics beginning 'Golden slumbers kiss your eye. Smiles awake you'.
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Johnston papers on his type-designs for the Cranach Press
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9818
Scope and Contents
Edward Johnston designed four types for the Cranach Press of Count Harry Kessler: 1. 2-line Brevier italic lower case (1912-1913) 2. 8-, 10- and 12-point blackletter (1912-1930) 3. 16-point Greek (1929-1930, abortive) 4. 2-line Brevier italic capitals (1930-1931). This collection contains papers arising from all four of these projects, as well as from some earlier design work by Johnston for Kessler starting in 1904. These papers also cover Stanley Morison's purchase of the punches for...
Dates:
1904-1972
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Lane: Papers on the Arabic-English Lexicon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8843
Scope and Contents
Comprises one bound volume of letters and papers relating to the publication of the Lexicon, including correspondence with Lord Prudhoe, and loose correspondence (copy letters) on the same subject, progress and practicalities of the publication. The correspondence has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct quotation. The catalogue has retained original historic language that may be offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. In order to reflect the...
Dates:
1841-1880 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Linfoot: Notebooks on optics
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8376
Scope and Contents
Notebooks I to XIV, with VII and X missing (from before point of donation). Index covers I to XIV, but omits the missing volumes, implying that they were misplaced before it was written.
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Lively: Treatise on the superiority of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament over the Vulgate
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3066
Scope and Contents
With preface addressed to Sir Francis Walsingham as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster (1587-90). Autograph.
Dates:
1589 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Meryon Wilson: Scrapbook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8804
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook contains reviews, press cuttings and invitation cards. The reviews cover Wilson's books, Gregora: the solitudes, 1931, and the revised edition, 1966; Some aspects of Spanish literary history, 1967; and (with F.J. Norton) Two Spanish verse chap-books, 1969. There are also further reviews, and letters by Wilson's appointment as a Fellow of the British Academy (F.B.A.), 1964. Wilson and others, on Spanish books. The cuttings describe Hispanic Studies; the discovery of Leonardo Da...
Dates:
1931-1976
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Moran: Letters to him regarding The Globe
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9324
Scope and Contents
Letters to Edward Moran, sub-editor of 'The Globe' in the 1830s from various Government officers, supplying information for publication in 'The Globe' or contradicting reports already published. A few letters are addressed to J. Gorton, possibly another of The Globe's sub-editors. The Globe was a London evening newspaper founded in 1803 by Christopher Blackett. It merged with the Pall Mall Gazette in 1921. The correspondence has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents,...
Dates:
1832-1834
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Press: 'A Banker in Abyssinia'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9949
Scope and Contents
Typescript memoir of Press's time in Abyssinia from 1928 to 1936.
Dates:
c.1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Robson: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8190
Scope and Contents
Letters to Robson, with the exception of Add. 8190/13, on botanical and other matters.
Dates:
16 Jan. 1791-14 Nov. 1808
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Rose: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9526
Scope and Contents
The surviving correspondence contains many letters from actors, actresses and theatre managers, about current productions for the London stage, and for tours in the provinces. A few letters mention the production of Rose's plays in the USA. There are letters from hopeful authors offering their novels for dramatization, from people agreeing or declining to lecture to the Playgoers' Club, and from friends wanting theatre tickets. Two owners of stately homes (Lord Barnard and Lord Donington)...
Dates:
1880-1904 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Rose: writings and family correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10138
Scope and Contents
MS Add. 10138 contains scripts (draft and later versions) of plays and other writings by Rose, as well as family correspondence covering Rose’s life from childhood until his death. Other writings by Rose include ‘The Rose Reader’ (a book outlining a method to teach children to read), a novel and poetry. Collected souvenir programmes and promotional material relating to 19th century theatre are also included. The correspondence (MS Add.10138/3) has been calendared to provide short summaries...
Dates:
c.1852-1915
Conditions Governing Access:
The MS Add.10138 Edward Rose papers are owned by the University of Cambridge and are open for consultation under the normal regulations of the University Library's manuscripts collections; see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/.
Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Edward Rose: Writings and family correspondence, Add. 10138
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