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'Eleven exciting years': typescript on the Cameroons
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 141
Scope and Contents
Letters from Elizabeth O'Kelly in the Cameroons (224 pages), itinerary and diary notes (18 pages) and 23 black and white photographs. The document is a photocopy of the original 1965 typescript. Part one covers Buea, 1950-1952; part two covers Nsaw, Barenda Province, 1952-1961. There are accompanying notes, supplied by Miss O'Kelly, describing her career, assignments as a freelance consultant and publications.
Dates:
2002
Conditions Governing Access:
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Elias Avery Loew: Sandars Lectures
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5907
Scope and Contents
Typescript of the Sandars Lectures for 1914 by E.A. Loew, 75 folios: (fo. 1) title-page; (fo. 2) list of contents; (fo. 3) 'Characteristics of the so-called National Scripts'; (fo. 36) 'Graeco-Latin Manuscripts'; (fo. 47) 'The Codex Bezae and the Codex Laudianus'. There is also an envelope containing 19 copies of manuscript abbreviations.
Dates:
1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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Eliot: The Papers of the Hayward Bequest of T.S. Eliot Material
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/HB
Scope and Contents
These papers comprise the typescripts, manuscripts, letters, and photographs given by T.S. Eliot to his friend, John Davy Hayward. They include drafts and proofs for some of T.S. Eliot's most famous works, including 'The Waste Land', 'Sweeney Agonistes', 'Four Quartets', 'Murder in the Cathedral', 'The Family Reunion' and 'The Cocktail Party'. Also included are the texts of several broadcasts and lectures, books from T.S. Eliot's library (many of them annotated), and over 350 photographs...
Dates:
1860 - 1988; 1860 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
HB/M/21 is reserved (not available to researchers) under the Data Protection Act.
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Elisabeth Lutyens: Suite 'La chambonnières', full score
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9240
Scope and Contents
For flute, 2 horns in F, string orchestra; allemande - courante - sarabande - gigue la Verdinguette, autograph score
Dates:
1900-1999 (20th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Eliza Meteyard: Letters to her
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9499
Scope and Contents
23 letters to Eliza Metayard, 1844-63. [1] ELIZA ACTON (cookery writer) (1852), mentioning Mrs. Howitt; [2] VALENTINE BARTHOLOMEW (flower painter) (1863), his lessons; pictures sent to Water Colour Society 'all sold as soon as doors opened'; [3] THOMAS BATEMAN (archaeologist) (1860), visit of Dr. & Mrs. Davis; [4] JOHN CASSELL (publisher) (1859), asks to see MSS; [5] ROBERT CHAMBERS (publisher) (1844), asks for more of her papers; [6] ELIZA COOK (poet) (1849), envelope only; [7]...
Dates:
1844-1863
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Elizabeth Adelaide Manning: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6379
Scope and Contents
Includes material relating to Indian schooling and religion, work of the National Indian Association, childcare and literature.
Dates:
1844-1888
Conditions Governing Access:
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Elizabeth Anne Wheler: Reminiscences of my early life
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8691
Scope and Contents
A manuscript copy of the reminiscences of Elizabeth Wheler, originally written between 1895 and 1904. The account, which was based at least partly on a diary, describes Wheler's life up to 1865, after which she states that her children will remember events better than she can. The reminiscences are mostly discursive, and are filled with anecdotes, although towards the end they become more like diary entries. The Galtons were very well connected: there are numerous references not only to...
Dates:
1905
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Elizabeth Beale: Memoir
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4351
Scope and Contents
A short life of Mrs Elizabeth Beale, with extracts from her letters.
Dates:
1825 (Circa)
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Elizabeth Lyttelton: Commonplace book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8460
Scope and Contents
A manuscript commonplace book, 87 leaves, containing poetical extracts, prose fragments and religious aphorisms and verse, written from both ends of the volume. The book was kept for the benefit of the daughters of Sir Thomas Browne, and was principally the property of his daughter Elizabeth. It contains pieces by and relating to Sir Thomas Browne, including a poem and piece of prose by him, although none of the writing is in Browne's hand. The name of his daughter Mary (d. 1676) is written...
Dates:
1680 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Elizabeth Maconchy: ''Sonnet sequence'', vocal score
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9241
Scope and Contents
Autograph score, 'Sonnet sequence' (words by Kenneth Gee) for soprano and strings... [arrangement for voice and piano]; with singer's annotations (possibly Joan Cross)
Dates:
1900-1999 (20th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Ellen Ettlinger: Diary of visit to Moscow and Leningrad
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8641
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript diary of a visit to Moscow and Leningrad, 1928, 94 pages, with an index at the end. There are two accompanying pieces of correspondence with the donor, in English, 21 May 1986 and 2 June 1986, regarding the gift of the collection to Cambridge University Library.
Dates:
1928
Conditions Governing Access:
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Ellis Hovell Minns: Influence of Materials upon Writing
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6588
Scope and Contents
'Influence of Materials upon Writing', lectures delivered by E.H. Minns as Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge, November 1925, 81 folios: (fo. 1-58) text, with comparative tables of certain alphabets inserted (fos 7a, 12a, and 21a); (fo. 59-70) photographs. The writing is on the recto only.
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Elsie Shantus: Material for a Dictionary of ''Law French''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8321
Scope and Contents
The typescript draft of a dictionary of Law French compiled according to the method of the New English dictionary, with quotations from printed texts.
Dates:
1934-1938 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Ely Cathedral Statutes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7986
Scope and Contents
A manuscript compilation of Ely Cathedral statutes of 1666, 146 pages, preceded by an index. The rest of the volume is unused. Apart from the index, the text is on the rectos only, although the versos are also numbered.
Dates:
1680-1700 (circa)
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Ely Consistory Court: Records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6605
Scope and Contents
Nearly every parish in the diocese is represented in the records. There are citations, depositions and interrogations, also letters from incumbents or churchwardens to the Registrar of the Court commending persons cited to his interest or begging to be excused attendance on behalf of themselves or others. There are forms of confessions or penance, accounts and inventories. The dates of the papers lie between 1579 and 1674, though the majority belong to the years 1589-1596. Also included are...
Dates:
1501-1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Ely Dean and Chapter records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS EDC
Scope and Contents
The archives consist of the administrative records of the cathedral, the College (or close), the extensive manors and estates of the Dean and Chapter, and include records of the medieval monastery, the `Prior and Convent' of Ely. There is also a small number of records about the Cathedral School. The monastery (later the Dean and Chapter) was a considerable landowner in the area and this collection is a superb source of information about social and economic history and agriculture in the...
Dates:
974-c2015
Conditions Governing Access:
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Ely Diocesan records
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS EDR
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of records of the bishop's administration, and of his officials. The bishops' registers, which at first contained all episcopal acts but later recorded only certain important items of business, start with Bishop Montacute's register in 1337. Earlier registers, and those from 1610 to 1702, are lost, but transcripts of some 17th century registers survive.From the fifteenth century separate registers and records were kept of various branches of the bishop's...
Dates:
1251-c2015
Conditions Governing Access:
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Embarkation of horses for the Boer War from Australia, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308M
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints, measuring approximately 200 x 150 mm. With the exception of Y308M/45, they all show horses on the quayside, being embarked, and stabled on board ship, or views of the ships which transported them. Two of the prints (Y308M/2 and 45) have inscriptions in pencil on the backs, in the same handwriting, and some individuals are identified by writing on the actual prints (Y308M/18 and 27). There are no other captions, but some of the ships' names are visible. ...
Dates:
1899 - 1901
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
Emil Heitz : Index verborum in Aristotelem
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6237
Scope and Contents
In Latin and Greek.
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Emmanuel Gauthier: Louis Veuillot et Victor Hugo
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8643
Scope and Contents
'Louis Veuillot et Victor Hugo' (Thse Complmentaire de Doctorat-es-lettres), 220 pages.
Dates:
1938 (Circa. Undated but written after 1938.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Empire Settlement Tour
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353
Scope and Contents
Kelsey’s record of the tour includes two volumes of daily diaries, a photograph album, loose photographs, eight boxes of lantern slides, a map, and a file of ephemera.
Dates:
1928
Conditions Governing Access:
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E.N. Sinskaja: The species problem in modern botanical literature
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8106
Scope and Contents
A typescript translation (88 pages) made by Dr H. Fox in the Russian Department, Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, School of Agriculture, Cambridge, of an article from Uspekhi sovremennoi biologii, vol. 15, no. 3 (Moscow-Leningrad, 1942), pp. 326-329.
Dates:
1942
Conditions Governing Access:
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Enfeoffment indenture, Campton, Bedfordshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.227
Scope and Contents
Whereas Thomas Wilkinson of Campton, clerk, has agreed to the sale by him to Edmond Williamson of Campton, clerk, of certain land in Campton; Thomas Wilkinson releases to Edmond Williamson the land in question, to him and his heirs to the use of him and his heirs for ever. Witnesses: Henry H. Goodhall, Benjamin Barker. On the back are 1) a certificate of delivery of seisin. Witnesses: the same; 2) a receipt for the consideration money signed by Thomas Wilkinson. Witnesses: the same. One seal...
Dates:
7 Feb. 1805
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[England?]
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3013A
Scope and Contents
A small untitled album 210 x 165 mm containing photographs mostly four to a page inserted into oval, square and rectangle photograph slots. Some slots are empty. There are no captions or identifying information, save for one loose small image (60 x 45 mm) of two boys in school uniform captioned on the reverse with 'John and Eric, Wyndham Park, June 1930.' Most of the images are of, presumably, family groups, and children, in what appears to be England, but also included are a number of...
Dates:
1920 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
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Englands fore-warning or: A relation of true strange and wonderfull visions and propheticall revelations concerning these tragicall, sinfull, and dismall times shewed foure yeeres since to Mrs Grace Carye of Bristoll
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.32
Scope and Contents
fo. i: blank. fo. iii: dedication to [Robert Devereux, 3rd] earl of Essex. fo. iv: title page. fo. v: prefaratory matter. fo.: 1 text. fo. 13: blank. fo. 37: prayers. fo. 38: blank. The verso is blank throughout.
Dates:
1639
Conditions Governing Access:
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