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Acton Collection
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7732
Scope and Contents
Notes relating to Acton Library
Dates:
1900 (20th century)
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
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Acts and Opponent
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.19
Dates:
1834 (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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Cambridge University Library
File
Acts regarding Merchants of the Staple.
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4129
Scope and Contents
A compendium of Acts of Parliament regarding merchants of the staple, 2 Edw. III to 20 Hen. VI, 65 folios. The title suggests the 'xxxvith yere of Kynge Henry the sixt' as the date of composition.
Dates:
1458
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
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Ada Seeley: Transcripts of British Museum and Public Record Office Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4252-4305
Scope and Contents
Transcripts made by Miss A.E. Seeley for Professor J.R. Seeley, mainly of diplomatic correspondence from the 18th Century
Dates:
1885-1887
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
Adair Welcker: 'Book of Generation' and other poems
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4306
Scope and Contents
A volume of 35 folios: (fo. 1) prefatory matter; (fo. 3) The Book of Generation; (fo. 6) To the Guest; (fo. 9) Kalleidon; (fo. 11) There is no Death; (fo. 15) The Convict's Complaint; (fo. 17) Alone-alone; (fo. 18) Bonds; (fo. 23) Astoria; (fo. 24) Visions of Night; (fo. 29) To the Woman; (fo. 32v) note. Printed extracts are attached to fos 2v and 33.
Dates:
1905
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Adair Welcker: Choctaw Mascot Iago
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4180
Scope and Contents
A story. Title-page, with a manuscript note by the author; (fo. ii) prefatory matter; (fo. 1) text.
Dates:
1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Adair Welcker: Five poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3839
Scope and Contents
With prefaratory and explanatory notes by the author.
Dates:
1898
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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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Adair Welcker: Five poems
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3840
Scope and Contents
With prefaratory and explanatory notes by the author.
Dates:
1899
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Adair Welcker: Louis XVI
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3157
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of a play in autograph. (p. i) prefatory note; (p. iia) extract from Glasgow Evening Times; (p. ii) copy of editorial from Daily News, 22 Sep. 1893; (p. 8) further prefatory matter; (p. 11) text. The play is apparently unprinted.
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Adair Welcker: Louis XVI
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3838
Scope and Contents
(fo.iv) prefatory notes; (fo. 17v) text. Incomplete at end. The play is apparently unprinted.
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Adam Murray: Farm accounts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8104
Scope and Contents
Accounts of stock and crops. Running from the back of the volume, on the reverse of the page, are a few pages of rentals.
Dates:
1735-1770
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
Adam Sedgwick: Correspondence
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9967
Scope and Contents
Part of transfer from Department of Zoology, c.1989 (ZOO 61-62), including MSS Add.9876-9925.
Dates:
1893-1911
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
Adam Sedgwick: Letters and notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5100-5102
Scope and Contents
Copies of letters from Adam Sedgwick to Miss Duncan and Mrs Parker; notes and letters concerning Life and letters of Adam Sedgwick (Cambridge, 1890)
Dates:
1850-1891
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Adam Sedgwick: Letters and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7652
Scope and Contents
Section I A-H. Letters to Sedgwick, 1821-1849, relating to English geology, museum accessions, etc. Section II A-Z, AA-II. Letters to Sedgwick, 1850-1872, relating to geology, the work of John William Salter, museum accessions, Lucas Barratt, etc. The correspondents include Harry Govier Seeley, Henry Keeping and Henry Wilkinson Cookson. JJ-OO. Letters to George William Featherstonhaugh and Osmond Fisher, 1827-c.1890s. The correspondents include Sir Richard Owen, Roderick Murchison and his...
Dates:
1818-1916
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
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Adam Sedgwick: letters to William Ainger
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8396
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Adam Sedgwick and William Ainger, with a summary of contents including information about their relationship.
Dates:
1807-1840
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
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Adam Sedgwick: Miscellaneous Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7670
Dates:
1819-1868
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Addition to Alexander Stuart Watt: Notebooks and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10431
Content Description
Three notebooks containing bibliographical notes on ecology from publications primarily in English and German language, first half of twentieth century. Two photocopies (one black and white and one colour) of a painting titled the Naturalists by L.J. Watson, depicting A.S. Watt. A.G. Tansley, C. Diver and E.B. Ford based on a tour of the Suffolk Heaths with the artist in 1949. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy exhibition at Burlington House in 1956 and purchased by the Nature...
Dates:
1949 - 1990
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Additions to Ware's Irish bishops
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8426
Scope and Contents
A transcript of additions to J.H. Todd's copy of Walter Harris' edition of The works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland, 1745, vols 1-2, 'The bishops'.
Dates:
1869 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Address from the women of Ballarat and Ballarat East in the colony of Victoria to the women of England
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 299
Scope and Contents
A roll of paper 31 x 1067 cm in size. In 1863 it was recommended to increase the number of convicts transported to Western Australia, and the proposal was met with strident opposition from it and the other Australian colonies through a series of petitions. Reaction in Victoria was especially strong because of anxiety that its goldfields would attract many escaped or former convicts. Although it was decided in early 1864 not to expand penal transportation to Western Australia, many had...
Dates:
1864-10
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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Cambridge University Library
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Address presented to Miss G. Croft, M.B.E., Principal of Vincent Girls' High School, Batticaloa (1922- 1948) by the public of Batticaloa, Ceylon on the eve of her departure to England
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 402
Scope and Contents
Typescript on oblong palm leaves, 55 x 255 mm in size, attached to the covers by a silver chain running through a single hole in each leaf. The covers are decorated in silver with inner linings of dark blue velvet. The upper cover is engraved, 'To Miss Gladys Croft M.B.E. in affectionate remembrance from the residents of Batticaloa Ceylon'. The volume is housed in a dark blue, clasped velvet box, lined with grey silk, produced by ‘Hemachandra Bros jewellers Kollupitiya.’The address...
Dates:
1948
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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Cambridge University Library
File
Address to Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6211
Scope and Contents
An address by the University of Cambridge to Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend, thanking him for his part in securing Bishop Moore's library for the University, 1715. There is a draft of Townshend's reply, an account of the expenses of foreign ministers of the British Crown, 1741, and an address from the University of Louvain to the University of Cambridge, 1919.
Dates:
1715-1919
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Adhmar de Saint-Venant: Papers on an article by G.G. Stokes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8244
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and notes, written in 1862, on G.G. Stokes' article 'On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion, and of the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids', read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on 14 April 1845. The volume contains pages 241-414 of the Society's Transactions, vol. VIII, part III (Cambridge University Press, 1847), of which Stokes' article forms pages 287-319. The letters and notes are inserted into the volume next to the article, sections of...
Dates:
1847-1862
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
Admiral Dicken: Memoirs and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7351
Scope and Contents
The principal part of the collection is comprised of Dicken's detailed hand-written memoirs, accompanied by related documents and photographs. The remaining items are a printed volume on the cruise of the Flying Squadron, 1869-1870, in which Dicken participated; a journal from his service on H.M.S. 'Alexandra' in the Mediterranean, 1883-1884; and assorted papers collected for the memoirs.
Dates:
1834-1937
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
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Admiral Henry Duncan Grant (1834-1896): Journal when Third Lieutenant on HMS Pearl with the Central American Squadron 1855-1857
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9531
Scope and Contents
A daily journal kept on board HMS Pearl, December 1855 - August 1857, 234 pages. The daily journal begins with the ship’s fitting out and victualing at Woolwich and Spithead and later participation in the grand naval review at Portsmouth before Queen Victoria on 23 April 1856, on the occasion of the end of the Crimean War. The journal covers the voyage to Central America, where the Pearl cruised northwards from Panama to the coasts of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala and southwards to...
Dates:
1855 - 1857
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.841
Scope and Contents
View of frankpledge and Court Baron of William Laude, Bp. of London, for Manor of Ashwell, before Charles Halloway, esq., 19 Apr. 1631. To the court comes Humphrey Mickley by his attorney John Clark, gent., and by virtue of a surrender...made on 22 Apr. 1629 sought to be admitted to a messuage lying in the west end of Ashwell and was admitted for life with remainder to Alice Pettitt, wife of Andrew Pettitt and their heirs etc...And he is admitted...Signed by Charles Halloway, steward, as...
Dates:
19 Apr. 1631
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library