Showing Collections: 6951 - 6975 of 7075
Fonds
Will of William Strand, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1377
Scope and Contents
William Strand bequeathes to his wife Mary a sum of money and certain pieces of furniture; also for life a cottage in Bottisham, to go on her decease to his son Francis; to his son William certain property in Bottisham; to his son John certain land in the same; to his son Francis, his daughter Sarah Walker, his daughter Anne Pamplin, his grandsons Thomas, William and Cornelius Pamplin and Thomas and John Walker, and his granddaughter Anne Strand, sums of money; the residue to his son...
Dates:
8 Sep. 1735
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
Will, Orwell, Cambridgeshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3742
Dates:
1695
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
Willem Surenhuis: Praxeis ton hagion apostolon (Praelectiones in Acta Apostolorum)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10291
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript of lectures on the Greek text of the Acts of the Apostles, delivered as professor of Greek at the Amsterdam Athenaeum Illustre. There appear to be two cycles of topics (112 and 103 entries respectively), and notes about revision are variously dated 27 September 1716 and 1722. The style is similar to that of Surenhuis’ 1713 Biblos katallages, but the content is not identical.
Dates:
c.1713-1722
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
William Almack: Journal
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9529
Scope and Contents
A bound journal of 164 pages, plus a further 17 pages of miscellaneous items at the end. The journal describes Almack's voyage to China on the barque Anna Robinson, and thereafter provides a clear and detailed record of the events leading up to the first Anglo-Chinese or Opium War (1840-1842). The account also covers the principal events and military engagements at the outset of the war, leading up to the convention which ceded Hong Kong to the British Crown in 1841. There are numerous...
Dates:
July 1837-July 1841
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
William Alwyn and Doreen Carwithen Archives
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/Ms/Alwyn
Scope and Contents
Around 150 boxes of manuscript music, correspondence, concert programmes, photographs, paintings, press cuttings, writings, and ephemera.
Dates:
1915 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
Most of the archive is available to researchers at Cambridge University Library. Some items are closed.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
William Arnold Lloyd: Papers on Education
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8882
Scope and Contents
Letters to Lloyd in South Africa, 1956-59, including a letter from John F. Coales, with the lecture 'Education for automation', read at the International Conference on Automation, Paris, 12 April 1957. Photograph of the 'First non-European class. Bachelor of Education. University of Natal 1953-1954', and papers of Witwatersrand University, Graduate School of Education: programmes for seminars in education, 1958; examination papers for the Bachelor of Education degree, 1959; and background...
Dates:
1949-1970
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
William Atkinson Warwick: Robert the Bruce
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4513
Scope and Contents
An historical play, written in Warwick's own hand, 184 folios: (p. i) 'W.W. care of Mr. Smith, Publisher, Cambridge.'; (p. x) list of the cast at the performance, with autographs of the following: 'Miss Maturin', 'Miss Saker', 'Mary Barratt', 'Mrs. Walters', 'P. C. Nantz', 'George Krefong', 'R. H. W. Chicheley', 'H. C. Crowe', 'Charles Bland', 'Charles Gill', 'Benjamin Harrison', 'Brien', 'James Martin' and 'G. Moss'; (p. xiii) title; (p. xv) dramatis personae; (p. 1) text, signed 'Wm. A....
Dates:
1837
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
William Ayres: Journal of Maori Wars [also called the New Zealand Wars or Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9538
Scope and Contents
A handwritten journal with several sketches and pasted-in newspaper cuttings, providing a detailed account of the principal events during the cruise of HMS Harrier, 28 November 1860 - 17 March 1865, 189 pages. The account includes a detailed description of the main events of the Waikato river campaign of 1863, including the Battle of Rangiriri of 20 November 1863, in which Ayre himself took part. The journal is unsigned, and was evidently written up after the events it describes. The author...
Dates:
1860-1865
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
William Bate Hardy: manuscript notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9913
Scope and Contents
Comprises: manuscript notes on oxidation processes in living animals and specific granulation; manuscript notes on oxidation or reducing actions in the body, muscle granules, colloids and absorption. 16 sheets in total.
Dates:
1892 - 1893
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
William Bateson: Scientific Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8634
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, field notebooks, material relating to Bateson's career, lecture notes, material relating to the University of Cambridge, papers documenting various scientific debates, draft publications, lectures, material relating to societies and organisations and photographs.
Dates:
1859-1935 (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
William Bateson: Text of paper about fossils
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9882
Scope and Contents
With plates of photographic illustrations. First page missing.
Dates:
c. 1900
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
William Batters: 'Harry Tate's Navy
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7980
Scope and Contents
Memoir of Batter's time in the Royal Naval Patrol Service.
Dates:
1969 (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
William Behnes: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9655
Dates:
1817-1869
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
William Black: Biographical notes on eminent seventh-day baptists, and on other observers of the seventh-day sabbath
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3101
Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically. Among supplementary notes on slips, guarded in, are letters to Black from (fo. 4c) 'J. E.', no date; (fo. 4e) J. H. Bransby, 31 July 1846; (fo. 11a) J. O. Halliwell, 7 July 1850; and (fo. 11i) William Courthope, 16 Sep. 1847.
Dates:
1847
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
William Blake: poem
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8522
Scope and Contents
'When Klopstock England defied', a poem transcribed by A.C. Swinburne during the nineteenth century from p. 5 of the Rossetti MS of William Blake.
Dates:
1850 (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
William Blake: two poems
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8457
Scope and Contents
Copies of 'The shepherd' and 'The echoing green' by Edward Johnston.
Dates:
1905 (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
William Borrer: Correspondence and notes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8186
Scope and Contents
Some items are accompanied by typescript explanatory notes, apparently made at the Department of Botany.
Dates:
1811-1857
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
William Borrer: Letters to C.C. Babington
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8185
Dates:
1836-1860 (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
William Butterfield Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS William Butterfield
Scope and Contents
Comprised of biographical material (including a large selection of diaries), material related to Butterfield's work at Guy's Hospital London, extensive documentation of Butterfield's period working at Cambridge University, a record of Butterfield's lectures and visits, and his work for conferences, material related to Butterfield's publications, documentation of Butterfield's substantial involvement in societies and organiations, material related to Butterfield's engagement with the House of...
Dates:
1945-2000
Conditions Governing Access:
Some items are restricted at the discretion of the Keeper of Manuscripts.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
William Camden: Historical armorial of England
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8137
Scope and Contents
A collection, probably autograph, of five hundred and ten coats of arms in colour. The entries are arranged chronologically, starting with William I and ending with James I. Genealogical notes and other particulars have been added in most instances. The majority of the book was compiled around 1598, but there are two coats of arms of James I that probably date from the year of his succession (1603). There is catalogue entry describing the collection on the inside cover.
Dates:
1600 (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
William Coe: Diary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6843
Scope and Contents
Diary, 25 December 1693 - 25 May 1729, 111 folios. At fo. 102 is an account of Jonas Hubbart, 1688. Fos 88-99 are blank.
Dates:
1688-1729
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
William Cole: History of the parish of Fen Ditton
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6980
Scope and Contents
A history of the parish of Fen Ditton, a description of the parish registers and a description of the church.
Dates:
1780
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
William Cole: letter to John Nichols
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.739.3
Scope and Contents
List of contents and notes on Cole in hand of Samuel Sandars.
Dates:
29 Sept. 1774-29 Sep. 1774
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
William Cole: Lives of Seven Bishops of Ely
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4153
Scope and Contents
A collection of the biographies of seven bishops of Ely, 1438-1515, including: (fo. 1) Lewis de Luxemburgh; (fo. 13) William Gray (sic); (fo. 23) John Morton; (fo. 43) John Alcock; (fo. 55) Richard Redman; (fo. 71) James Stanley; (fo. 79) Nicholas West (sic). The lives are numbered XXIV to XXXI, with the omission of XXV. The versos are blank, except for occasional notes and additional matter. Copious references to authorities appear in the margin. Inside the front cover are the bookplates of...
Dates:
1768
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
William Cole: Papers on Cambridgeshire Landholdings
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6224-6225
Scope and Contents
Copies of documents relating to landholdings in Cambridgeshire, 13th century - 17th century, arranged by hundred.
Dates:
1746-1747 (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