Showing Collections: 8051 - 8075 of 8123
Fonds
William Lewin: Paintings of British Birds' Eggs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6300
Scope and Contents
A series of paintings of the eggs of British birds made from the specimens in the Portland museum, 97 folios. There is an index at fo. 91.
Dates:
1789-1798 (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
Fonds
William, Lord Conway of Allington and family: Letters and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7676
Scope and Contents
The collection contains around 4,300 letters, of which the majority are between Martin Conway and his relatives, principally his parents William and Elizabeth Conway; his first wife Katrina, and her mother and stepfather, Abigail and Manton Marble; and his daughter Agnes and her husband George Horsfield. Of correspondents outside the family, only letters to and from Henry Bradshaw and Karl Pearson (the latter nearly all typed copies) survive in any great numbers. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1822-1950
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
Fonds
William Manning: Journal of tours, England, 1744-45.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9457
Scope and Contents
1744: Yarmouth - Norwich - Swanton - Blickling - Wolterton - Holt - Cley - Stiffkey - Wells - Holkham - Brancaster - Houghton - Raynham - Hillington - Kings Lynn - Narford - Downham - Denver Sluice - Littleport - Ely - Cambridge - Barnwell - Newmarket - Bury St. Edmunds - Ickworth - Culford - Euston - Thetford - Wymondham - Norwich - Yarmouth. 1745: Yarmouth - Kings Lynn - Holbeach - Halfway House - Lincoln - Gainsborough - Sandbeck - Sheffield - Attercliff - Wentworth Woodhouse - Wakefield...
Dates:
1744-1745
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
Fonds
William Margetts: journals
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10274
Dates:
1784-1807
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
Fonds
William May: Commonplace book, Cambridge, Latin and Greek studies
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9980
Dates:
1676-1683
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
Fonds
William Milner Fawcett: Architectural Notes and Sketches
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6233
Scope and Contents
Architectural notes and sketches.
Dates:
1886-1899
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
File
William Morris: The Lovers of Gudrun
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6162
Scope and Contents
A calligraphic copy by William Graily Hewitt of William Morris's The lovers of Gudrun, commissioned by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1908-1909.
Dates:
1909
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
Fonds
William Otter: Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10039
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on diocesan and Church matters, with Julius Hare, Henry Manning and others
Dates:
1831-1842
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
Fonds
William Ottley; tracings of watermarks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2878
Dates:
1820-1830 (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
Fonds
William Palmer Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Palmer
Scope and Contents
Palmer's papers consist of extensive transcripts, notes, and original items relating principally, though not exclusively, to the history of Cambridgeshire and its parishes. Among the primary materials are a journal of an Italian tour kept by Peter Cowling in 1786; a diary of M. F. Dayrell for 1866; the journal and sketch book maintained by Peter Cowling of Fenstanton on a round trip from Fenstanton to Oxford in 1810; a day book of John Davey of Hadstock, carter, dung and straw merchant,...
Dates:
1750-1924
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
Fonds
William Pamplin: Letters to him
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189
Scope and Contents
In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...
Dates:
1700-1895
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
Fonds
William Paulet, 1st Marquis of Winchester: Letter to Sir Michael Stanhope
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7587
Dates:
c.1540
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
Fonds
William Perkins: Sermons
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8563
Scope and Contents
A small collection of sermons by William Perkins.
Dates:
1598-1599
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
Fonds
William Pitt and William Pitt the elder: Copy letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9493
Dates:
(1785-1790, 1758-1761)
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
Fonds
William Pitt : correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6958-6959
Dates:
1773-1805 (Copies of originals made circa 1850)
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
Fonds
William Pollock: Selection for Ministry in the Church of England
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8659
Scope and Contents
'Selection for ministry in the Church of England. A report on practice and theory of selection and research and challenges which candidates have experienced before, during and after selection.' The report examines the national selection of the Church of England, but also tackles issues relevant to vocational guidance, selection and training, and to a variety of denominations.
Dates:
1987
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
Fonds
William Ree: Commonplace book
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8131
Scope and Contents
Autograph commonplace book containing entries on a wide range of subjects arranged under headings with an index at the end. 550 numbered pages, including blanks, some later entries, a few leaves removed, nineteenth-century bookplate of Arthur Evans S. T. P., contemporary vellum wrappers (later spine title), folio.Ree inscribed the top of the first page: "Admissus fui in Collegium Sti Johannis die [blank] Maij 1621 Gulielmus Ree". Venn, Alumni Cantabrigiensis, records...
Dates:
c. 1621
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
Fonds
William Renwick: Papers and Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8372
Scope and Contents
The papers are not extensive, relating essentially to the development of the EDSAC computer, 1947-1949, and include framed photographs of the machine and of its first printout in 1947.
Dates:
1943-1971 (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
Fonds
William Robertson Smith: Letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7449
Dates:
1868-1889 (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
Fonds
William Robertson Smith: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7476
Scope and Contents
Comprises: lectures on various subjects including Old Testament poetry, Old Testament liturgy and general Biblical subjects; notebooks on the Old Testament and other Biblical subjects, and Arabic and Semitic language notes; sermons arranged in canonical order; papers relating to William Robertson Smith's libel trial for alleged heresies and errors; memoranda, including early family correspondence and accounts of family members; assorted newscuttings, rough notes and a small number of...
Dates:
1860-1894 (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
Fonds
William S. Mann Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10015
Scope and Contents
Contains musical compositions by Mann; also some works by friends. No items known to be published.
Dates:
1947-1958
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
Fonds
William Samuel Stratford: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4236-4238
Scope and Contents
Mainly consist of astronomical calculations, including work relating to Halley's Comet. Also includes some accounts and draft regulations for the London Chemical Society.
Dates:
1827-1838
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
Fonds
William Searle, diary at Queens' College, 1854-57
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9931
Scope and Contents
1 volume, Diary as fellow of Queens.
Dates:
9 Apr. 1854-15 Sep. 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
William Sherwin: 'Some remarks upon Bishop (Gilbert) Burnet's History of His Own Times'
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4022
Scope and Contents
The volume includes the following: (fo. i) quotation from Cicero, De oratore; (fo. ii) dedication 'To the right honourable James Earl of Derby, Lord of Man and the Isles'; (fo. iii) prefatory letter to the Earl of Derby; (fo. iv) title; (fo. v) dedicatory letter to Dorothy, Countess of Burlington; (fo. 1) text; (fo. 26) postscript addressed to the same countess. Fo. 29 and most of the versos are blank.
Dates:
1725
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
Fonds
(William) Sidney Walker: Correspondence, miscellaneous verses and other papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5942
Scope and Contents
The letters which form the bulk of the material catalogued here, were written by Sidney Walker over a quarter of a century to several female relations: principally, his mother (who after her husband's death lived at various addresses in London and its suburbs); his mother's sister Maria, who had married William Walker, a solicitor at Thirsk in the North Riding (and probably a brother or cousin of Sidney's father); and his unmarried cousin Margaret, a daughter of Maria Walker. The letters,...
Dates:
1809-1839
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