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Walter Bell Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10604
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Personal and professional papers of the diplomat, intelligence officer and writer Walter Bell (1909-2004). The collection includes family correspondence, papers relating to his work with MI5 and MI6 in the United States, Africa, India and the West Indies, papers relating to the East West Institute (Interdoc), correspondence relating to Bell’s spiritual life, and papers of his wife Katharine Bell relating to her wartime service and to women’s education in Africa.

Dates: 1920s-1990s (and later transcripts)
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Walter de Gray Birch: Saxon Abbots, or an Index to Kemble's Codex diplomaticus Saxonici Aevi

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.1929
Scope and Contents

Includes an Index to Dugdale's Monasticon and occasional references to other works, the whole forming a comprehensive alphabet of Saxon Abbots.

Dates: 1870
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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Walter Frewen Lord Prize in Imperial History: unsuccessful entries

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 2
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Comprises unsuccessful entries, including those marked 'PA' for awards proxime accessit. The series is incomplete and comprises only eight essays covering the years: 1938, 1950, 1952, 1955 and 1957. A full list of authors and titles is available in Donald H. Simpson (ed.), 'The Manuscript Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (1975), p. 25.

Dates: 1938 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@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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Walter Frewen Lord Prize in Imperial History: winning essays

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 1
Scope and Contents Comprises prize-winning essays received from the Imperial (later Commonwealth) Studies Committee. This series contains prize-winning essays for the following years: 1930-2, 1935, 1938-9, 1948-53, 1957-64 and 1966-73. Comprises essays, drafts and revisions, as well as published work. A full list of authors and titles can be found in Donald H. Simpson (ed.), 'The Manuscript Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (1975), pp. 22-24. Unsuccessful entries, including proxime...
Dates: 1930 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@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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Walter Johnson and Maurice Johnson: notes on civil and canon law

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10420
Scope and Contents The manuscript is titled 'Cases in civil law, and in the canon law. MSS. Collected at Cambridge by the Reverend Walter Johnson LLB. rector of Red Marshall in the diocoes of Durham SGSS. during his attending the lectures of the learned Dr Francis Dickens the Law professor at Cambridge. With others by Maurice Johnson of the Hon:ble Society of the Inner Temple London. And precedents, formulae, references and remarkes in cases of administration to intestates etc. MSS MJ No. CXXXIV'. The legal...
Dates: 1720s-1740s?
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Walter Little: 'A True Romantic: General Charles James Napier 1782-1853'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10515
Scope and Contents Draft of an intended book by Walter Little concerning the life, historical context and reputation of General Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853). The draft was in an advanced stage of development when Dr Little died. The work treats Napier’s life from a biographical perspective but does so with reference to a range of contexts: military, social and imperial. The document is a word-processed version with manuscript amendments, photocopied in 2024. Some sheets are marked '© Walter Little...
Dates: c. 2012 (copy made 2024)
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Walter Neill: Correspondence and papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9876
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Letters written by WN to friends and family from the Far East, Germany and Holland whilst interned during the First World War; notes describing the riots in Hankow, 1927; photographs of China.

Dates: 1905-1927
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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Walter of Henley: 'Hosebondrie'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4026
Scope and Contents

Transcribed by Henry Thomas Riley from Liber Horn in the Guildhall Library, London. Prefixed are letters from John Willis Clark to Francis Jenkinson, 19 July, no year; and from H.T. Riley to Henry Richards Luard, 20 November 1860. The versos are blank, with the exception of the final folio.

Dates: 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).
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Walton nr Wisbech: Dikereeves account book

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7073
Dates: 1724-1866
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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Walton nr Wisbech: Terrier

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7072
Dates: 1685-1688
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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Warrant, East Bergholt, Suffolk

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.119
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Warrant issued to the Constable of East Bergholt for the arrest of Elizabeth Sheldrake of East Bergholt charged on the oath of Elizabeth Hicks for assault. Information of Elizabeth Hicks taken 9 August 1828, the alleged assault occurring 30 July. Signed by Elizabeth Hicks, and by T. Burch Western, JP.

Dates: 9 Aug. 1828
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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Warrant for payment to John Angell, sub-dean of the queen's chapel

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.739.1
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Concerns £22 16s 4d remaining due to Angell from £62 16s 4d expended on provision of books for the chapel. Signed by William Paulet, marquis of Winchester, G. Barowe, John Angell, Hugh Rulley, Robart Shove, Thomas Wyles, James Canceller, W[alter] Mildmay.

Dates: 23 June 1568-23 June 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).
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Warrant of arrest, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1963
Dates: 1804
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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Warrant of discharge, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2856
Dates: 1885
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Warrant of discharge, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2855
Dates: 1879
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2081
Dates: 1853
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2083
Dates: 1853
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2084
Dates: 1853
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2085
Dates: 1853
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2086
Dates: 1853
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2087
Dates: 1853
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2104
Dates: 1853
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2216
Dates: 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).
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2217
Dates: 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).
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Warrant of satisfaction, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2127
Dates: 1853
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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