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A Description of Scotland and other papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5124
Scope and Contents
'The description of Scotland and the King's entertainment there', 8 folios. It begins: 'First for the country I must confesse...', and ends: '...a tower as Edenborough in Lowsir Scotland'. The papers include: (fo. 2) [Thomas Scott], 'Vox Populi', 1620; (fo. 8v) verses, 'Ther's proclamation sent, Great Brittaine round about'.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Accounts of Travelling Expenses
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6299
Scope and Contents
Accounts of travelling expenses on various journeys in England and Ireland, and between the two countries, 77 folios. Fos 1-4 and 13v-77 are blank.
Dates:
1798-1801
Conditions Governing Access:
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Alexander William Kinglake: Letters and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7633
Scope and Contents
The collection sheds light on the Kinglakes's family life, including the lavish amounts spent by William Kinglake on his children's education, and the support he gave his eldest son through his earliest and unsuccessful years as a barrister. They also show A.W. Kinglake developing a taste for the best society and its attendant expense (letters 1/38, 81 and 96) Kinglake's love of travel is seen in letters written on journeys in Wales, 1833 (1/76-9); France, 1834 (1/81-2); North Africa and...
Dates:
1819-1891
Conditions Governing Access:
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Bowater Sanderson: Naval Journal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9516
Scope and Contents
The journal (c. 305 pages) begins in September 1747, describing the voyage out to India, and concludes with the return of Royal Duke to England on 5 June 1750. The volume includes navigational exercises, transcribed sailing directions and pencil landfalls, and a sketch of the British settlement at Oriocopong.
Dates:
1747-1750
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge Expedition to Ecuador, 1985: report and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8646
Scope and Contents
Includes pamphlets, articles, newspaper cuttings, maps and a final report. Authors: Michael Potts, Timothy Pritchard, Gary Baker, Kemlin Furley and Louise Semple.
Dates:
1972-1986
Conditions Governing Access:
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Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming: Pagodas, Aurioles, and Umbrellas
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6185
Scope and Contents
Draft of article relating the history of pagods, aurioles and umbrellas in Asia. A large part of the article is devoted to umbrellas and the early role they played in lives of people in China, India, and Tibet.
Dates:
1888 (Circa)
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David Binnie: World tour diaries and photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8558-8560
Dates:
1873-1874
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David Ricardo: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7510
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscripts of several of Ricardo's works, correspondence between Ricardo and James Mill, letters to Thomas Malthus ans letters to Ricardo's brother in law, J.H. Wilkinson. Also included is correspondence and papers from the twentieth-century concerning the Ricardo Papers.
Dates:
1794-1976 (Circa)
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Diary of a Journey through Germany
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6651
Scope and Contents
Diary of a journey through Germany, 8-29 September [1835], apparently in Baly's hand, 122 folios. On fo. 2 is an explanatory note in the hand of the donor. Running from the end of the volume are notes on the geological formations in the districts visited and financial accounts for travel expenses.
Dates:
1835
Conditions Governing Access:
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Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6406-6409
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1810-1903
Conditions Governing Access:
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Ellen Ettlinger: Diary of visit to Moscow and Leningrad
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8641
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript diary of a visit to Moscow and Leningrad, 1928, 94 pages, with an index at the end. There are two accompanying pieces of correspondence with the donor, in English, 21 May 1986 and 2 June 1986, regarding the gift of the collection to Cambridge University Library.
Dates:
1928
Conditions Governing Access:
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Family papers of George Biddell Airy
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10450
Content Description
A set of Airy Family papers passed down through the family by Hilda Routh (née Airy), daughter of Astronomer Royal, George Biddell Airy.It includes a set of letters sent to Hida Routh on her honeymoon (from George, her mother Richarda, and sister Christabel Airy), newspaper cuttings primarily relating to George B. Airy, and miscellanea. It also includes three framed items: a photograph of George B. Airy on his 90th birthday and two lithographic prints showing Airy and the Airy...
Dates:
1860 - 1875
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Cambridge University Library
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F.H.H. Guillemard: Journals and notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7783
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of nine volumes of journal entries and notes written during the voyage of the 'Marchesa' and one volume of notes for Guillemard's biography of Ferdinand Magellan. Some of the volumes include lists of letters sent home by Guillemard during his voyage to eastern Asia, China and Japan, which provide a rough itinerary of his journey.
Dates:
1882-1893
Conditions Governing Access:
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F.H.H. Guillemard: Photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7957
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twelve large numbered green box-files of monochrome photographs (the majority mounted on boards) of Japan and the Pacific islands. Around eighty percent of the photographs were taken during the voyage of the 'Marchesa'; the remainder probably date from the late 1870s, including photographs purchased by Guillemard, which include many of the smaller images in the collection. The name of Dr Guillemard and the place are recorded on the outside of the boxes. Pasted...
Dates:
c. 1875-1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Gaillard de Boëncourt: Voyage des Françoises en Pologne
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4151
Scope and Contents
'Voyage des Françoises en Pologne', 68 folios: (fo. 2) title; (fo. 3) dedication to L.F. de P. le Fèvre d'Ormesson de Noyseau (Avocat General du Parlement); (fo. 6) preface; (fo. 11) text with occasional footnotes; (fo. 64) list of contents. The binding has the arms of Le Fèvre d'Ormesson.
Dates:
1752
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George Robert Graham Conway: Transcripts from National Archives of Mexico
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7226-7306
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of volumes of Inquisition Records from the National Archives of Mexico. The majority of the transcripts concern legal suits and trials. There is also material describing the family and descendants of particular individuals, including Juan Suarez Davila and Diego Suarez Pacheco, 1529-1588; Martin Lopez and Geronimo Lopez; Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano and his son, Don Carlos, 1559-1611; Don Tristan de Arellano, 1575-1634; Rodrigo de Vivero, 1597-1673; and Don Rodrigo de Vivero,...
Dates:
1923-1943
Conditions Governing Access:
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Harriet Susan Miller: Continental Tour Journal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6230
Scope and Contents
Journal by Harriet Miller of tours on the continent with her husband, Professor W.H. Miller, 1856 and later.
Dates:
1856 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Herbert Clinch : material relating to a 1935 trip to the Soviet Union
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9996
Scope and Contents
The archive contains photographs, postcards, and notes from the Soviet Union, Herbert Clinch's own articles on the trip, with additional ephemeral material such as money, cigarettes, and posters advertising Clinch's talk on his trip and his candidature for local elections.
Dates:
1934-1995 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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James Plumptre: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5784-5861, 5864-5867
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts of plays, journals of travels in the United Kingdom, diaries, notes on Great Gransden, correspondence and notes.
Dates:
1770-1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Jane West: Extracts from tour journals chronicling travels in Wales and Ireland
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.738
Scope and Contents
Includes three poems. Early nineteenth-century hand (paper watermarked 1813), apparently not autograph. The poems are 'To Glen Luce', 'To Mrs Isted on her return from Ireland in 1807', and 'A Farewell to Leamington, 1833'. Bookplate of Samuel Sandars inside front cover.
Dates:
1813 (Circa)
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John Harwood: Journal of visit to Paris
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7968
Scope and Contents
An autograph journal of Harwood's visit to Paris, 26 May - 22 June 1685. The account includes entries on libraries, statues, water supplies, stonework, drink, trades, the waterworks of Versailles, the epitaph of Descartes, a disputation at the Sorbonne, the feast of D'Boun, and the library and cabinet of Charles Mons. Le Brun. Harwood describes the places he visited, which included St Omer's College, the Tuileries, the monastery of Val de Grace (including a description of the chapel), the...
Dates:
1685 (circa)
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John Smart: Letters from North America
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8663-8664
Scope and Contents
Letters from John Smart in America to his mother, pasted into scrapbooks with additional material, including postcards, photographs, newscuttings and printed items, with comments and explanations by Smart.
Dates:
1932-1953
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Joseph Woods: Journal of a Tour of Ireland
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4342
Scope and Contents
Consists of 100 folios: (fo. 1) text; (fo. 91) notes on the text; (fo. 100) an index of place names. There are observations on local antiquities, natural history, social conditions and topography. The text is heavily corrected and appears to be a draft. On fo. 1r: 'Ireland. No. 1'. Accompanying the manuscript is a lithograph circular letter from J.B. Wells, 10 January 1829.
Dates:
7 July 1809-15 Oct. 1809
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Journal of a Tour in France
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6302
Scope and Contents
Travel journal, 1802. 'Journal of a Tour in France begun July 23rd 1802'. From internal evidence the writer was an English army officer. Fos 48-50 and 85-94 are blank. 94 fos 8 x 5.75 in.
Dates:
1802
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Journal of a Tour to Russia
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8720
Scope and Contents
Travel journal in the form of letters to 'J.H.' - John Henniker(-Major), who succeeded his father as 2nd Lord Henniker in 1803, 375 pages. The journal describes, in a series of letters, 'A Northern Tour in the Years 1775 and 1776 through Copenhagen and Petersburgh to the River Swir joining the Lakes of Onega and Ladoga'. It includes sketches of scenery, architecture and modes of transport. In the inside cover is the bookplate of Lord Henniker (1804) and a cutting from an unnamed sale...
Dates:
1775-1776
Conditions Governing Access:
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