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Fu Bingchang diaries and papers
Gallery of Canadian history
Prints of paintings from Confederation Life's Gallery and Archives, spanning 450 years of Canada's history and including significant events in each province and territory, and in the country as a whole. Below each image is a short description in both English and French.
George Badger: Letters and papers concerning Muscat, Zanzibar, Aden, Persia and Egypt, and East Africa and the slave trade
A collection of papers compiled by or for George Badger relating to his work on various diplomatic missions in Oman (Muscat), Egypt and Zanzibar. Includes correspondence, both official and otherwise; official reports and memoranda, some from the Indian government; maps and plans.
Historical paintings of the Hudson's Bay Company
Hughes: the papers of Olwyn Marguerite Hughes
The papers consist of material collected by Olwyn Hughes, mainly during the period she acted as literary agent for her brother Ted Hughes. Papers include copies of early appearances of many of Ted Hughes's and Sylvia Plath's poems and essays in literary magazines and newspapers and many newspaper cuttings relating to the work and lives of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and their children. The collection contains no original manuscript material by Ted Hughes or Sylvia Plath.
Igor Stravinsky: Copies of settings of poems of K. Bal'mont
Copyist's MSS of songs, for voice and piano, used by engraver for first edition published by Russicher Musikverlag, Berlin, 1912. With plate numbers R.M.V. 130, 131 marked in pencil at bottom of first page of each song. Words in Russian, German (translated by Berthold Feiwel) and French (translated by M.D. Calvocoressit).
Indian scrapbooks of the Haig family
Scrapbooks kept by Neil and Gerard Haig and other members of their family, with related papers.
J. H. Prynne Papers
The collection principally consists of Prynne's literary papers and correspondence, together with documents relating to his career as an academic.
James Simmons: Letters from Mauritius
102 letters to his mother, 1847-55, (1 to 'Jack', 1 letter of appointment, 1 letter jointly written by Simmons and his girl friend, who writes in French); describing aspects of life in Mauritius.
Jardine Matheson Archive
Jean-Baptiste Lully: MS copy of his opera 'Alceste, tragédie mise en musique', opera in 5 acts, with prologue; words by Philippe Quinault; composed c.1674
Printed title page, Foucault, [1710], engraved portrait of Lully by Bonnart. Publisher's list of ballets and opera by Lully and others, many available handwritten. MS copy of 'Alceste', heavily annotated by Geneviève Thibault, Comtesse de Chambure, some notes attached as flaps.
Jean-Baptiste Lully: MS copy of 'Le carnavale mascarade', composed 1668; words by Isaac de Benserade
MS copt, short score, 69ff. Contemporary calf binding.
Long: the papers of Roger Long
The collection consists of Roger Long's Commonplace Books and notebooks as well as posthumous material collected by the College.
Mary Queen of Scots: Appeal by Henry III of France
Mauritius history
An undated history of Mauritius, 412 pages, comprising a page inscribed 'No. 24 Notice Historique'; 'Table des Matieres de la Notice Historique' (numbered pp. 787-799); and a chronological account of events in Mauritius from 1507 to 1824 (numbered pp. 801-1196).
Mers-el-Kébir, 3 juillet 1940: Exposé chronologique du combat de Mers-el-Kébir, d'après les documents photographiques
Newscuttings on Africa and South East Asia
The principal part of the collection is a set of thirteen scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to East Africa, particularly Kenya and Tanganyika. The rest of the collection consists of a volume of cuttings relating to post-war trading opportunities in Nigeria and three scrapbooks concerning rubber and mining in South East Asia.
Newscuttings on the Uganda disturbances
Cuttings from various publications on the 1892 disturbances, some in French and German with typescript translations. There is a note at the front by H.B. Thomas, October 1968: 'Formerly in Secretariat Library, Entebbe, Uganda, used by Margery Pelham when writing "Lugard, the years of adventure"'.
Ortelius: the papers of Abraham Ortelius
The principal item in the collection is Ortelius's 'Album Amicorum'. There are also copies of research relating to the 'Album'.
Papers of Sir Harry Parkes
Pembroke College Archive
Philibert Broutesauge: Le Vray Miroir Philosophal aux Amateurs de Vertu, pour cognoistre les pierres precieuses naturelles
Descriptions of various gemstones and their properties.
Pitt: the papers of William Pitt the Younger
The collection consists primarily of correspondence from William Pitt to friends and colleagues. Although there is some further contemporary material in the form of published writings by Pitt, the other significant part of the collection is posthumous and concerns commemorations of Pitt at Pembroke College.
Ralph Alexander Leigh: Papers concerning Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Material collected by Leigh concerning Rousseau. Unless noted otherwise, all letters are in French.
Richard Hill: Letters and papers
20 papers in French, many concerning financial matters, 1695-1715; letters, mostly to Hill, from M. Servati, L. Desprez, Di S. Tomaso, Joseph Bouer, Dalique, Tobie Rocayrol and Abbe Provana; letters to Bruce (possibly Hill's secretary) from Marmande; letters to Chetwynd (Hill's secretary in Turin) from Clignet, the Comtesse de Guarene, and Fischer and De Riqueba; and a price list of paintings by Guillaume Desnoues. The identification of some of the writers is tentative.