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William Henry Playfair: Memoranda
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6305
Scope and Contents
The volume contains notes on bridge construction and on watercolour painting (fos 2-12); a journal of an excursion from Edinburgh to Arran and back, 1-9 May 1811, with notes of expenses (fos 13-20 and 44r-43r); undated notes of other travelling expenses (fo. 47r); pencil sketches, one of a crane at Bell Rock Lighthouse (fos 47v and 45); and addresses of London tradesmen (fo. 42v). Fos 42-47 are entered from the back of the book. Fos 20v-42r are blank. Administrative / Biographical History
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Herbert: Typographical Antiquities
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3313-3318
Scope and Contents
Drafts of proposed re-impressions, prepared for press by William Herbert. Autograph and other hands.
Dates:
1793-1795 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hewett: Memoirs of Tobias Rustat Esq.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7773
Dates:
1849
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William Holman Hunt: Letters to Henry Virtue Tebbs and Mrs Tebbs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8667
Dates:
1862-1874
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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William Homan Thorpe: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8784
Scope and Contents
Diaries, notebooks, laboratory notes and field observations, correspondence, conference notes, research and lecture papers and notes, publishers' correspondence, University papers, Royal Society material, papers on conservation, psychical research, photographs and tape recordings.An addition to the collection in 2018 includes offprints of publications by Thorpe c. 1930s-1980s and a small quantity of interfiled miscellaneous publications by others, along with a series of the...
Dates:
1918-1984 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hudson: Treatise on the court of the star chamber
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3106
Scope and Contents
Labels inside front cover: '2708/2', and '732/2'.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hugh Plommer: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9367
Dates:
1930-1983 (Circa)
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William Hyde Wollaston: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7736
Scope and Contents
The collection contains notebooks containing medical notes and records of various scientific experiments, correspondence, lecture notes and various miscellaneous papers. Box 1 Miscellaneous There are two sets of material, one containing copies of articles, notes, letters, etc., the other consisting of letters and notes in brown envelopes to or from L.F. Gilbert. Notebooks 1st series: 1-4. scientific notebooks 'O', 'H', 'G', and 'D'; 5. 'Tours', notes on Wollaston by Henry Warburton; 6. 'Ink...
Dates:
1786-1967 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Kemp: letters to him, including letters from Charles Darwin and Robert Chambers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10252
Dates:
1840-1861
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Langhorn: Series of meditations
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.28
Scope and Contents
Topics: 'Whitsunday', 'An Altar', 'Upon the sight of an Hearse standing by a Green', 'Good Friday', 'Easter Day', 'A Garden' (3 versions), 'Warr', 'Against Fear and Distrust', 'A False Wife', 'A Husband of a False Wife', 'Ascension Day', 'Suddaine Death', 'Ille Newes', 'The variability of success in disturbed times', 'Prosperous Success in wicked undertakings', 'My Garden', 'The Augmentation of my Garden', verses and anagrams. All apparently unprinted. fo. 1: writer's name, with some Latin...
Dates:
1629 (Circa)
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William Lewin: Paintings of British Birds' Eggs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6300
Scope and Contents
A series of paintings of the eggs of British birds made from the specimens in the Portland museum, 97 folios. There is an index at fo. 91.
Dates:
1789-1798 (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).
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William, Lord Conway of Allington and family: Letters and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7676
Scope and Contents
The collection contains around 4,300 letters, of which the majority are between Martin Conway and his relatives, principally his parents William and Elizabeth Conway; his first wife Katrina, and her mother and stepfather, Abigail and Manton Marble; and his daughter Agnes and her husband George Horsfield. Of correspondents outside the family, only letters to and from Henry Bradshaw and Karl Pearson (the latter nearly all typed copies) survive in any great numbers. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1822-1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Manning: Journal of tours, England, 1744-45.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9457
Scope and Contents
1744: Yarmouth - Norwich - Swanton - Blickling - Wolterton - Holt - Cley - Stiffkey - Wells - Holkham - Brancaster - Houghton - Raynham - Hillington - Kings Lynn - Narford - Downham - Denver Sluice - Littleport - Ely - Cambridge - Barnwell - Newmarket - Bury St. Edmunds - Ickworth - Culford - Euston - Thetford - Wymondham - Norwich - Yarmouth. 1745: Yarmouth - Kings Lynn - Holbeach - Halfway House - Lincoln - Gainsborough - Sandbeck - Sheffield - Attercliff - Wentworth Woodhouse - Wakefield...
Dates:
1744-1745
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Margetts: journals
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10274
Dates:
1784-1807
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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William May: Commonplace book, Cambridge, Latin and Greek studies
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9980
Dates:
1676-1683
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Milner Fawcett: Architectural Notes and Sketches
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6233
Scope and Contents
Architectural notes and sketches.
Dates:
1886-1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Morris: The Lovers of Gudrun
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6162
Scope and Contents
A calligraphic copy by William Graily Hewitt of William Morris's The lovers of Gudrun, commissioned by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1908-1909.
Dates:
1909
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Otter: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10039
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on diocesan and Church matters, with Julius Hare, Henry Manning and others
Dates:
1831-1842
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Ottley; tracings of watermarks
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2878
Dates:
1820-1830 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Palmer Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Palmer
Scope and Contents
Palmer's papers consist of extensive transcripts, notes, and original items relating principally, though not exclusively, to the history of Cambridgeshire and its parishes. Among the primary materials are a journal of an Italian tour kept by Peter Cowling in 1786; a diary of M. F. Dayrell for 1866; the journal and sketch book maintained by Peter Cowling of Fenstanton on a round trip from Fenstanton to Oxford in 1810; a day book of John Davey of Hadstock, carter, dung and straw merchant,...
Dates:
1750-1924
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Pamplin: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189
Scope and Contents
In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...
Dates:
1700-1895
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Perkins: Sermons
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8563
Scope and Contents
A small collection of sermons by William Perkins.
Dates:
1598-1599
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Pitt and William Pitt the elder: Copy letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9493
Dates:
(1785-1790, 1758-1761)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Pitt : correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6958-6959
Dates:
1773-1805 (Copies of originals made circa 1850)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Pollock: Selection for Ministry in the Church of England
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8659
Scope and Contents
'Selection for ministry in the Church of England. A report on practice and theory of selection and research and challenges which candidates have experienced before, during and after selection.' The report examines the national selection of the Church of England, but also tackles issues relevant to vocational guidance, selection and training, and to a variety of denominations.
Dates:
1987
Conditions Governing Access:
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