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'William Fitzwilliam Owen: hydrographer of the African coast': PhD thesis
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 47
Scope and Contents
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of Syracuse, 1972 (348 pages), with related correspondence between R.T. Brown, D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, and Dr Peter K. Mitchell of the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, 1978-1979 (1 envelope).
Dates:
1972 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Fleetwood Sheppard: mathematical papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10267
Scope and Contents
Mathematical tables and notes on equations.
Dates:
c. 1900-1930
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Frederic Eagles: Mathematical and commercial notebook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8796
Scope and Contents
Commercial notebook, containing notes and exercises on the rule of three direct, the rule of three inverse, compound proportion, simple interest, commission, insurance, purchasing stocks, discount, compound interest, equation of payments, barter and brokage.
Dates:
1822
Conditions Governing Access:
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William French: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8805
Scope and Contents
Thirty-five letters, mostly to French, including letters of support for his committee to elect Lord Lyndhurst as High Steward (1840), thanks for copies of his translation of the Psalms and replies to invitations to Installations of Chancellors.
Dates:
1820-1847
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Frend: Correspondence and Transcripts.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7886
Scope and Contents
Files of correspondence and transcripts, including letters from the following people: Rev. Francis Blackburne, father of Mrs. Frend, brother of Mrs. Lindsey, 3 letters. Sir Frances Burdett, 1 note, typed by Miss Antrobus. Edward Clark, geologist and traveller, 3 letters about Cambridge. W. Cogan, mathematician, 1 letter about maths, 1824. Miss M. Cooper, Stoke Newington, regarding local events, 1831. T. Dalby, mathematician. Rev. J. Disney, 1 letter about Frend's impending trial. George...
Dates:
1780-1841 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William George Searle: Historical papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5983-5986, 6599-6602 and 6951-6954
Scope and Contents
Various notes on Cambridgeshire villages, manuscripts, Crowland Abbey and lives of various saints.
Dates:
1875-1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Gerhardie: Correspondence and literary papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8292
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of around eight thousand items of correspondence and more than forty boxes of drafts, notes and other working material, personal and financial documents, press cuttings, many of them annotated, and photographs. The majority of Gerhardie's surviving literary papers date from his most productive period, from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s. His earlier and later work is less well represented. His letters include significant correspondence with fellow writers, in...
Dates:
1900-1970 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Gerhardie: Letters to Margaret Penn, 1941-1977
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8841
Scope and Contents
39 personal letters from Gerhardie to Margaret Penn, 1941-1977, including a few typed copies; newscuttings (2); photographs of Gerhardie at Bixlet Haven (3); letters to Margaret Penn from 'Selma', 7 May 1963, and from Harold [Sergings], 13 December 1966; and a letter from Margaret Penn to Gerhardie, 13 July 1977.
Dates:
1941-1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Gerhardie papers of Michael Holroyd
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9598
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, correspondence and other items created or accumulated by Holroyd in the course of his relationship with and work on Gerhardie.
Dates:
1900-2000
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Gibb: Journals of Voyages in the Carnatic and Yangtze River
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9377
Dates:
1838-1844
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Govett Romaine: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9768
Scope and Contents
The 200 letters in this collection, mostly to Romaine or his wife Frances, provide glimpses of his official activities at many points in his career; written by a wide range of peers, Government and Admiralty officials, and colonial officers, mostly only one or two from each correspondent; so that the collection has rather the character of an autograph compilation perhaps made by his wife, or else his daughter, Augusta Enthoven, theatrical historian and collector. There is a letter from Sir...
Dates:
1854-1892 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Greenwell: Letters to Spencer George Perceval
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5343
Scope and Contents
Letter 35 is not in Greenwell's hand.
Dates:
1876-1908
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Gunter: Naval Chaplain's Journals 1864-70
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9427
Scope and Contents
William Gunter (1838-1901), Royal Naval chaplain (1864-81), Rector of Abberton (1888-1901). He served on HMS Egmont in South America in 1864 and 1867, to which years two of the journals relate; the third volume relates to service in home port (1870). 3 Volumes; Lett's Diary for 1864, 1867, 1870, intermittent entries. [1] 8 OCT 1864 - 31 DEC 1864. [2] 1 JAN 1867 - 31 DEC 1867 (with letter from KATIE WARD (niece) [3] 1 JAN 1870 - 28 NOV 1870 (brief entries).
Dates:
1867-1870
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hay: Religio philosophi
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8463
Scope and Contents
An unsigned manuscript translation into French of the fourth edition (London, 1771) of Hay's Religio philosophi. There are two inserted items in English: a letter from Arnold C. Klebs, 11 July 1929, at the front of the volume, and an obituary notice of Klebs by Erik Walker, 1943, at the back.
Dates:
1771 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hayley: letters to William Long
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2613
Scope and Contents
89 letters, including some undated and/or incomplete. Also including: 'Proposals for publishing a Life of the late William Hodges Esq.' 25 May 1797; two versions of the poem 'Peace to these Reliques! Once the bright attire ...', Mar. 1800 (epitaph on George Steevens, d. 1800, another version printed in J. Nichols (ed.), Literary Anecdotes, London, 1812, 2, p. 657); 'Private Squib: The adventures of an unfortunate Muse', undated and unpublished. Item 90: letter from Henry Richards Luard to...
Dates:
1793-1812
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Haywood: Ten sermons, preceded by a prayer for use in St John's College, Oxford
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3009
Scope and Contents
fo. 2: 'Laus Deo. By me William Haywood. November xxvi 1629.' Many leaves have been removed. Bound with the MS is a printed copy of T. Sternhold and J. Hopkins, Whole Book of Psalmes collected into English Meeter, London, 1629.
Dates:
1629 (Circa)
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William Hazlitt: Letters from him and concerning him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8533
Dates:
1817-1977
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
William Henry Hatchard Elliott: Totnes Church Library Catalogue
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6313
Scope and Contents
A catalogue of the books in Totnes church library, Devon, made on slips, 298 folios. Accompanying the catalogue is a draft article describing the library for the Totnes church parish magazine, and a letter from T.H. Elliott to W.H.H. Elliott, 22 October 1903.
Dates:
1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
William Henry Playfair: Memoranda
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6305
Scope and Contents
The volume contains notes on bridge construction and on watercolour painting (fos 2-12); a journal of an excursion from Edinburgh to Arran and back, 1-9 May 1811, with notes of expenses (fos 13-20 and 44r-43r); undated notes of other travelling expenses (fo. 47r); pencil sketches, one of a crane at Bell Rock Lighthouse (fos 47v and 45); and addresses of London tradesmen (fo. 42v). Fos 42-47 are entered from the back of the book. Fos 20v-42r are blank. Administrative / Biographical History
Dates:
1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Herbert: Typographical Antiquities
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3313-3318
Scope and Contents
Drafts of proposed re-impressions, prepared for press by William Herbert. Autograph and other hands.
Dates:
1793-1795 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hewett: Memoirs of Tobias Rustat Esq.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7773
Dates:
1849
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Holman Hunt: Letters to Henry Virtue Tebbs and Mrs Tebbs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8667
Dates:
1862-1874
Conditions Governing Access:
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Fonds
William Homan Thorpe: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8784
Scope and Contents
Diaries, notebooks, laboratory notes and field observations, correspondence, conference notes, research and lecture papers and notes, publishers' correspondence, University papers, Royal Society material, papers on conservation, psychical research, photographs and tape recordings.An addition to the collection in 2018 includes offprints of publications by Thorpe c. 1930s-1980s and a small quantity of interfiled miscellaneous publications by others, along with a series of the...
Dates:
1918-1984 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Hudson: Treatise on the court of the star chamber
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3106
Scope and Contents
Labels inside front cover: '2708/2', and '732/2'.
Dates:
1750 (Circa)
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William Hugh Plommer: Correspondence and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9367
Dates:
1930-1983 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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