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William Smith (1756-1835) and family correspondence, journals and other papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7621
Scope and Contents
The larger part of the collection dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chronicling William Smith's personal and political career, as well as illustrating the lives of his wife Frances and their children. The collection includes letters from Smith's friends, among them Charles James Fox, William Wilberforce and Sir Francis Burdett. The papers also chronicle Smith's time in Paris in 1790, where he witnessed and recorded his reactions to the 14th July celebrations. The...
Dates:
1678-1951
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
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William Smyth: Horae Lyricae
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4455
Scope and Contents
Drafts of various poems and songs.
Dates:
1786-1830
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
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William Stephen: Farming Today broadcasts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8094
Scope and Contents
Typescript of broadcasts for Farming today, 29 September 1937 - 26 January 1938, including the dates of transmission.
Dates:
1937-1938
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
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William Swainson: descriptions of bird specimens
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9909
Dates:
c. 1830
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
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William Swainson: Drawings of birds
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9901
Scope and Contents
Two boxes containg four volumes of sketches, plates and other illustrations from Swainsons various ornithological projects, including his Illustrated Birds of Brazil.
In many cases the scientific names presented are no longer in use, where possible the name of the species and it's current scientific name have been presented, but in most cases the original nonclemature is left to stand alone.
Dates:
1789-1830
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
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William Taylor collection
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Reference Code: GBR/3540/TAYLOR
Dates:
1971 - 1979
Found in:
Clare Hall Archives
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William Thomas: Notes on Cambridge colleges
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7877
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes on Cambridge colleges, 293 pages, dated 30 January 1824, followed by an index. At the end of the volume are family trees and genealogical notes relating to the Thomas family.
Dates:
1824 (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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Cambridge University Library
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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin: Family Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8818
Scope and Contents
68 letters, mostly from Kelvin to his sister Elizabeth; a few to David King; some from Margaret Thomson, Kelvin's first wife, and Frances Thomson, his second wife; 3 from Charles and Margaret Watson at the time of Margaret Thomson's death; and 4 from Frances Thomson to Elizabeth, daughter of David and Elizabeth King. The letters cover family news; occasional references to Kelvin's scientific work; the long illness of Margaret Thomson, and of David King; the laying of Atlantic telegraph...
Dates:
1836-1906
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
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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7342
Dates:
1840-1907 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the original papers is restricted. A set of microfilms is available for consultation, reference CM04807-CM04856
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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William W. Newbould, various botanical notes, mid-19C
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9696
Scope and Contents
William Williamson Newbould (1819-1886), botanist[1] Catalogue of English plants together with the names of their first discoverers in England by Dr. Pulteney.Transcribed from the original manuscript preserved in the British Museum by Newbould (1860).[2] Rubi nonnulli Styriae finitimaeque Carinthiae auctore Dr. L. Ch. De Vest.[3] Conspectus dispositionis Salicum Sueciae elaboratae ab Elia Fries.[4] Notes of Relham’s herbarium at the Linnaean Society May...
Dates:
c. 1860-1863
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
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William Walton: Music for film ''Hamlet''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8927
Scope and Contents
Two orchestral sections (6.M.2, 18.M.3) for Sir Laurence Olivier's film 'Hamlet', 1947. In pencil, marked in blue and red crayon with precise timings of length of sections.
Dates:
1947
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
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William Webb and Ann Gould: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5868-5883
Scope and Contents
Memoranda, notes on sermons, a journal of a journey to Scotland, verse and conundrums.
Dates:
1639-1849
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
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William Webb: Cambridge Pedigrees
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5987
Scope and Contents
A series of pedigrees transcribed by William Webb, collected c. 1816-1853, 188 folios. The pedigrees were mainly supplied by the College of Arms. Nearly all are of members of Cambridge University, tracing their descent from Edward I or Edward III. There are also a few descending from Henry VII, and two examples descending from the kings of Scotland. The pedigree on fo. 37v is of Henry VIII's descent through Elizabeth de Clare, foundress of Clare Hall. Written from the other end of the book...
Dates:
1853 (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
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William Webb: correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7884
Dates:
1800-1850 (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
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William Williams: Welsh Compositions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6172
Scope and Contents
Compositions in Welsh by William Williams, with a sermon or religious text found in the church of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire.
Dates:
1800 (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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Cambridge University Library
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William Woolley, 'History of County of Derby', in the hand of Stephen Glover
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4162
Scope and Contents
Includes dedication to George Rogers, Merchant at Mile End, near London. Inside the front cover is a pasted slip describing the contents; a note by Samuel Sandars; the note 'Bought at Sotheby's at Sale of the Bateman Heirlooms May 1893 per Mr Quaritch. It has not appeared in print SS'; and the bookplates of Bateman of Middleton Hall (by Youlgrave) in the County of Derby, and of Samuel Sandars, 1893.
Dates:
1856
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
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William Younghusband: receipted bills and miscellaneous items
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7922
Scope and Contents
With a few exceptions, the items are addressed to William Younghusband. Most are receipted bills (some containing detailed lists of goods or services), while others are receipts for which no bill survives. The goods supplied include cloth and haberdashery; leather goods; ironmongery and metal ware; pottery and glass ware; medicines; beef, mutton and other meat; wine, brandy and rum; tea, sugar and spices; candles; and hay and oats. Timber was purchased over a number of years for repair of...
Dates:
1749-1820
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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Cambridge University Library
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Williams: Papers Relating to George Williams
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/GW
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise correspondence, notes and biographical material.
Dates:
1823 - 1971
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Williams: the Roger Williams collection
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/WIL
Scope and Contents
The collection does not contain any original material created by Williams. The collection contains posthumous material, principally copies of research carried out into Williams and information about foundations he is connected with including Rhode Island and Pembroke College, Brown University.
Dates:
1889-2013 and undated
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Wilson: Papers Relating to Hugh Stanley Wilson
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/HSW
Scope and Contents
The collection contains chiefly correspondence related to the 1919 publication of 'Letters of Hugh Stanley Wilson' (HSW) edited by Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Cosmo Gordon, copies of letters not included in the book, and photographs of Hugh and Steuart.
Dates:
1870 - 1968
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Wim Klein: Dot matrix computer print-outs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10269
Dates:
c. 1964
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
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Wimberley Collection on Nigeria, c.1903-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043OO
Scope and Contents
Collection of 91 glass negatives, 106 x 80 mm; 3 negatives on film, 90 x 60 mm; and 3 modern prints, 150 x 120 mm. Many of the negatives lack descriptive captions. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1903 - 1918
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
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Wimbish Manor court rolls, minutes etc., Shepreth, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3611
Dates:
1686-1811
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
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Windham Baldwin Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Windham Baldwin
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of ARTHUR WINDHAM BALDWIN 3RD EARL BALDWIN OF BEWDLEY (1904-1976) mostly concerning his father STANLEY BALDWIN 1ST EARL BALDWIN OF BEWDLEY (1867-1947)
Dates:
1897-1998
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
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Window tax assessment, the Hundreds of Ely and Witchford, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.391
Scope and Contents
Assessment of certain parishes in the Hundred of Ely and part of the Hundred of Witchford by Commissioners in respect of windows and inhabited houses. The amounts assessed are set out in tabular form with the totals. Signed by Thomas Gotobed, Samuel Kempton, Thomas Poole.
Dates:
1794
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