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A Logbook of H.M.S. 'Elk'
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9725
Scope and Contents
The logbook was kept by an unidentified junior officer of H.M.S. 'Elk'. It opens on 12 May 1858 and continues until 20 November 1859. The entries describe how the ship cruised off Amoy (Xiamen) and the Pescadores; made an expedition to Australian and New Zealand ports; and took part in an operation to search for H.M.S. 'Sappho', which had disappeared between the Cape of Good Hope and Sydney. The logbook entries follow a standard, partially tabulated format, with data relating to wind...
Dates:
1857-1859
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A memoir of life as a colonial officer in Sierra Leone, West Africa
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 376
Scope and Contents
Memoir (228 pages) accompanied by notes and rough drafts (circa 100 pages). An index is filed with the collection.
Dates:
1961 - 1964
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A Morall Apologeticall Discourse of Obedience and Government by T.W. gent.
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3854
Scope and Contents
Written in two hands. Includes a synopsis of logic Discourse (1st hand, English) beg.: 'Time & season sweeten fruits & ripen ...'; ends: '... can testifye it is the candid truth.' Unprinted. Synopsis (2nd hand, Latin) begins at fo. 21. It is imperfect at both ends, and partly misbound.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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A mythology of Nova Scotia
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 254
Scope and Contents
An unpublished collection of typescript prose and poetry fragments, 162 pages, described by the author in a letter to the R.C.S. Librarian, 26 September 1996: 'This resulted out of a year spent in Cambridge in 1979-80 and the literary effort trying to mend the split in my mind between Cambridge and Nova Scotia/Canada'.
Dates:
1996-07
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'A patriarch of Empire': typescript autobiography
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 55
Scope and Contents
A memoir of Sir Frederick Young with related papers.
Dates:
1933 - 1938
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[A photograph of a drawing of Napier in 1864]
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089O
Scope and Contents
A print, mounted on card, and measuring 142 x 100 mm, with a caption stating 'Napier, N.Z. 1864' and signed 'E.J. Mountier. 1894'. The photograph is a reproduction of a painting of the young settlement viewed from an overlooking hill, with the sea at the left and houses and enclosed land in the foreground.
Dates:
1894
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A. S. F. Gow: Letters from Cambridge
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7225
Scope and Contents
Typed copies of 70 letters from Gow, dated but missing addressees; it would appear these were sent to a large number of people, as a serial of Ludlow's opinions and experiences, appearing to be very much one-sided. Some letters appear multiple times.
Dates:
1944 (Circa)
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A Satyr against Injustice: or, Sc[ro]gs upon Sc[ro]gs
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2657
Scope and Contents
Facsimile tracing.
Dates:
1680 (Circa. Date unknown, original printed in 1680.)
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'A Short Character of Charles the Second'
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9322
Scope and Contents
'A short Character of Charles the Second King of England setting forth his untimely death &c', an anonymous short account of the character of Charles II (1630-1685; King, 1660-85), by someone who knew or served him. It is unbound, and includes reference to the opinion of Dr. Thomas Short, physician, that Charles II was poisoned. 10pp.
Dates:
1675-1699 (Circa)
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A short history and description of the Parliament House, Melbourne
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087M
Scope and Contents
Printed book illustrated by six photographs purchased in 1904. There is also a lithographed plan and a cross-section elevation.Victoria's Parliament House was designed by Peter Kerr and J G Knight; building began in 1856 and the first stage was completed in 1860. In 1877 a Royal Commission on the Parliament Buildings with G H Jenkins, author of the book, as Secretary was set up. Further construction was carried out as a result of its recommendations, and in 1885 a tender for the...
Dates:
1886
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'A short history of Paterson, Simons & Company'
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 368
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript history of the Singapore company, which was established on 1 May 1859, and during the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, acted as agents for the Johor government, and insurance, shipping, planting and rubber companies. The history describes the company’s founders, who had been active as shippers and merchants under other names in Singapore before 1828, and traces its operations up to 1974. It is accompanied by notes, correspondence and other research...
Dates:
1879 - 1976
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A 'short terrier' (draft) of lands to be auctioned, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4139
Dates:
1806
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A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 95
Scope and Contents
A work on the constitution of the Kandyan Kingdom, the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, 414 pages. The manuscript is endorsed at the end 'Copied by J.H. Direckize Translator of the Ratnapura Kachcheri (?) 28th Octr. 1892'.
Dates:
1892
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'A Tale of Ludlow Castle'
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9786
Scope and Contents
A poem in four cantos, with title page, preface, prologue, notes and appendix. The poem, a story of Fulke Fitzwarine, appears to be loosely based on a thirteenth-century romance 'Fouke le Fitzwarin', as printed in excerpt and described as 'an old Englisch boke yn ryme of the Gestes of Guarine and his sunnes' in Leland's 'Collectanea'. The Fitzwarine family story had been treated in verse earlier in the nineteenth century in 'Fitz-Gwarine, A Ballad of the Welsh Border' (1812) by John F. M....
Dates:
1865 (conjectured; the preface in the printed edition is dated December 1865)
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A view in Belize
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3078D
Scope and Contents
240 x 155 mm. A photographic copy of a mezzotint by A. Bayntun showing the Bridge across the Belize River which joins the northern and southern section of the city. This illustration forms the frontispiece of the 'Honduras Almanack for 1829', of which the Royal Commonwealth Society Library holds possibly the only extant copy. The other illustrations in the book have also been copied with negatives numbered as follows:A view in Belize - CN 2503Title page with coat of arms - CN...
Dates:
1979
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'A walk to the Nyassa country'
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 221
Scope and Contents
An account of Edward Steere's journey to Lake Nyassa written in Zanzibar, Lent 1876, 24 pages. There is an accompanying letter from Steere to Major Evan Smith, Consul General, 23 August 1875, informing him of his plans for the expedition.
Dates:
1875 - 1876
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A.B. Brewster photograph album
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3091I
Scope and Contents
200 x 150 mm. modern copies of original prints.
Dates:
2006
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A.B. Farn: Correspondence
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6466
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Granville Clutterbuck, Francis Jenkinson, G. Bertram Kershaw and others. Also includes some correspondence of Francis Jenkinson.
Dates:
1873-1923
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A.B. Farn: Letters
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6465
Scope and Contents
Letters written by A.B. Farn, with a few photographs.
Dates:
1871-1922
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'Abolitionist societies 1787-1838: a half-century of abolition': University of London MA thesis
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 28
Scope and Contents
380 pages.
Dates:
1935
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Aboriginal Australian Art
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308K
Scope and Contents
Loose prints produced by the Australian Information Service. The printed captions on the reverse have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1973
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Aboriginal Australians
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308J
Scope and Contents
Book containing two portrait images.
Dates:
1881
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Abraham de la Pryme: Diary
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7519
Scope and Contents
Titled 'A Diary of my own life containing an account likewise of the most observable things that I have taken notice of from my youth up hitherto.' The first volume has a brief family history and summary entries for de la Prynne's youth, written in circa 1690, when he began writing the diary. The first volume ends in 1699, with the second volume continuing in 1700 with the final entry in 1704. Both volumes include printed material, correspondence and notes pasted in.
Dates:
circa 1690-1704
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Abraham Hartwell: Basilis Epistemon
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6861
Scope and Contents
'Basilis epistemon, sive de serenissimae D. Elisabethae Angliae Franciae et Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensatricis in Academiam Cantabrigiensem adventu Ao. 1564° Aug. 5° narratio Abraham Hartwelli Cantabrigiensis ad clarissimum virum D. Gualterum Haddonum Regiae Maiestati a supplicum libellis', 67 folios. The MS is a poem in elegiacs, containing over fifteen hundred lines: (fo. 3) dedication to Queen Elizabeth I; (fo. 5) preface addressed to Walter Haddon; (fo. 14) text. On fo. 2v is...
Dates:
1564
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Abridged Copy of an Inquisition taken by a Commission at Woburn, Bedfordshire, 30 April 1641
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.295
Dates:
9 Jan. 1736 (Date of original event: 30 April 1641, date of copy: 22 March 1722, date of present abridged copy: 9 January 1736)
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- Peterhouse, Cambridge 4
- Powell, Wilfred, 1853 - 1942 (explorer and consular official) 4
- Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 (writer) 4
- Powys, Littleton Charles, 1874-1955 (schoolmaster and author) 4
- Queens' College, Cambridge 4
- Raverat, Gwendolen Mary, 1885-1957 (née Darwin, artist) 4
- Shilleto, Richard, 1809-1876 (classical scholar) 4
- Silk, Dennis Raoul Whitehall, 1931-2019 (schoolmaster and cricketer) 4 ∧ less
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