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English legal commonplace book, in law French, c.1620
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9754
Scope and Contents
1 volume, c.1620, written in one hand throughout, subject titles in English, notes in law French; original boards covered in calf, each board stamped with gilt 'EE'. Formerly owned by John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St. Andrews (1779-1861), Lord Chancellor, his card pasted inside front board.
Dates:
1620 (circa)
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English translation of Khairuddin Muhammad of Allahbad's History of Jaunpur
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3866
Scope and Contents
Oval Indian stamp at fo. 85v. Attached at end are 3pp. of notes on villages in the district.
Dates:
Sept. 1857-Apr. 1858
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English translation of Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazzali's Nasihat al-Muluk
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3867-3868
Scope and Contents
Translated by James Walker. The translation is dated at Rotterdam, 22 May 1702, but this MS consists of sheets watermarked 1808 and 1810. The translator's English is imperfect: he admits in his preface to being 'not as yet accustomed to the expressing properly of the English terms'. The text continues without a break from vols 1 to 2 and is paginated continuously 1-953, although there are numerous errors in the pagination. The English text is on the verso throughout. The recto was apparently...
Dates:
1808-1810
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English Translation of Psalms 1-69
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6161
Scope and Contents
Attributed to 'the late Joseph Fawcett'.
Dates:
1818 (Circa)
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Enlarged photographs of unknown New Guinea
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084C
Scope and Contents
Five loose black and white prints, presented to Sir Harry Wilson by Lieutenant E W Pearson Chinnery F.R.C.S.
Dates:
1914 - 1919
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Environs of Cape Town
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3059P
Scope and Contents
A collection of nine (of an original eleven) loose prints measuring approximately 150 x 110 mm. with pencilled captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. The majority of the prints show views on the Kloof Road which runs out from West Cape Town and round the Lion's Head. Photographs are possibly by C.F. Wienand.
Dates:
1905
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E.P. Farrow: ''Ecology of the vegetation of Breckland''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9681
Scope and Contents
'With two hundred photographs, charts and diagrams in the text and supplement'. 351 pages. Typescript for publication. It would seem that the document as a whole was never printed, but sections were adapted for publication in the Journal of Ecology (see Publication Notes).
Dates:
1915
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Epistles addressed to the Family of Love
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2808
Scope and Contents
English translations of anonymous text. fos. ii, 73v, 74: 'C:18G', and further 17th-cent. jottings.
Dates:
1650 (Circa. In 17th text-cent. hand.)
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Epistles addressed to the Family of Love
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2809
Scope and Contents
English translations. Includes: 'The Fourth Epistle: A Declaration upon the Second Chapter of Genesis', unprinted; 'The Sixth Epistle: An Information how or in what manner Christ dyed for our Sinns', unprinted; Hiel [Hendrik Janson], 'A Declaration of the Spiritual powerful Work of Job and Nabuchodonosor in the patient Humanitie', unprinted; Janson, 'A Short Instructive Direction', unprinted. fo. ii: 'C.22(6). J.B.' (in 17th-cent. hand).
Dates:
1650 (Circa. In 17th-cent. hand.)
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Epistles and Orations
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4447
Scope and Contents
Composed between 1656 and 1671, collected by an amanuensis.
Dates:
1685-1688
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Eric Humphrey Holroyd-Doveton: accounts of the First World War in Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10405
Scope and Contents
Accounts of the outbreak of the First World War and the conduct of military operations in Africa. With a note by John Holroyd-Doveton concerning Eric Humphrey Holroyd-Doveton.
Dates:
c. 1914-1918 (with note, 2022)
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Eric Partridge: Letters to Oliver Stonor
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8425
Scope and Contents
Seven envelopes of letters to Oliver Stonor, 1928 and 1958-1979. 1-482. Letters predominantly from London. 483-530. Letters from Newton Abbott. 531-536. Additional items.
Dates:
1928-1979
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Ernest Augustus Perceval: Account book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6328
Scope and Contents
Includes: (fo. 1) note upon work and wages in the mills at Knutsford; (fo. 2v) various notes upon domestic matters; (fo. 15) notes upon certain payments and allowances; (fo. 16) general accounts, kept daily, January 1831 - December 1834; (fo. 64v) accounts of sums spent upon particular objects, 1835-1838; (fo. 120) drafts and receipts, 1831-1836; (fo. 129) rough notes and accounts for 1837. On the fly-leaves at the end are rough pencilled notes and accounts. On the fly-leaf at the beginning...
Dates:
1831-1838
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Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson (1871–1937): Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7653
Scope and Contents
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was born in Nelson, New Zealand. In 1895 he came to England to be a research student under J.J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. His first professorial appointment was at McGill University in Montreal, 1898-1907, where he and Frederick Soddy advanced the transformation theory, the still-accepted interpretation of the phenomenon of radioactivity. While in Canada Rutherford also made contact with two other outstanding...
Dates:
1890-1938
Conditions Governing Access:
The MS Add.7653 Ernest Rutherford 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/.
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Ernest Gedge Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K
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A collection of photographs by Ernest Gedge comprising:(1) 81 prints, probably made in the 1920s. All these prints relate to the Jackson/Gedge Expedition of 1888-91 (see below). 80 are from negatives in the Royal Geographical Society and one from the negatives now in RCS (iii). Some new prints were obtained from the Royal Geographical Society in place of originals which had been stolen.(2) 1 print not in the above collection and taken from the RGS negative.(3) 11 glass...
Dates:
1880 - 1902
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Ernest H. C. Walsh: photograph albums of India and the Younghusband expedition to Tibet
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9586
Scope and Contents
6 albums, photographs in India and Tibet: [1] scenes at Delhi, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow and Benares; [2-6] Tibet, photographs uniformly 3-inches square, 7 X 2 inches, or 5 X 3 inches identified and dated by Walsh (at end of [2], photographs of 'self').
Dates:
1902-1904
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Ernest James Worman: Handlist to the Taylor-Schechter Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6404-6405
Scope and Contents
List of manuscripts in the Taylor-Schechter Collection. For each item there is the title with a summary description, size, material, language, and date (when ascertainable).
Dates:
1906-1909
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Ernest Lanning Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 362
Scope and Contents
Archives relating to Lanning's work in Kenya and Sierra Leone, and as a colonial administrator in Uganda.
Dates:
1932 - 1978
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Ernest, Lord Rutherford: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8249
Scope and Contents
List of subscribers to a presentation made to Rutherford, McGill University, Montreal, 1 May 1907. Letter from Rutherford to 'Mr Becker', 1 Feb. 1909. Letter from the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, to Rutherford, 28 May 1912, with a rough translation by Rutherford. Contract between the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft and Rutherford, 7 Aug. 1912, with a rough translation by Rutherford. Letter from W. Vaughan, Montreal, to Rutherford, 16 Aug. 1912. Statement of accounts due to...
Dates:
1907-1936
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Ernest, Lord Rutherford of Nelson: Letters to George Briggs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8832
Scope and Contents
13 letters from Rutherford concerning his and Briggs' work in nuclear physics, especially the velocity of a-rays, and containing details about members of staff and the Cavendish Laboratory.
Dates:
1924-1935
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Ernest Rutherford: Letters to A.B. Wood
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8404
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript letters from Ernest Rutherford to A.B. Wood, with a covering note of 28 March 1984.
Dates:
1913-1935
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Ernest Tristram Crutchley: Australian Diaries and Memoir
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9257
Scope and Contents
Australian diaries and an incomplete draft of a memoir. [1-10] Diaries: 1 January 1928 - 3 April 1929; 11 April 1929 - end of year; 1930; 1931; 13 February 1932 - 30 June 1933; 1 July 1933 - 16 December 1934; 1 January 1935 - 4 December 1936; 6 December 1936 - 6 November 1938; and 8 November 1938 - 28 September 1940. There are biographical notes by Brooke Crutchley in volume 6. [11-12] Draft of autobiographical memoir, incomplete; typescript copy made by Brooke Crutchley.
Dates:
1928-1940
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Ernst Herman Meyer, composer
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10253
Scope and Contents
1 box containing: medals Handelspreis and Humboldt university; small wooden box of glass slides; card index of 17th Century manuscripts in various musems; card box of religious music.
2 boxes of printed material, including concert programmes, newspaper cuttings 1940s-1980s
Dates:
1940 - 1980s
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Ernst Junger: Der Friede
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8422
Scope and Contents
Hardbound, typewritten copy of the work. Was circulated in a clandestine fashion in Germany after being written in 1943, and was not properly published until 1948.
Dates:
1945 (Circa)
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Essay on Man in four Epistles addressed to Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke with explanation notes by Alexander Pope
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7043
Scope and Contents
To which are added The Messiah and other poems with a letter to and from Mons. Racine, In vindication of the Author's religious tenets
Dates:
1816
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