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William Swainson: descriptions of bird specimens
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9909
Dates:
c. 1830
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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William Swainson: Drawings of birds
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9901
Scope and Contents
Two boxes containg four volumes of sketches, plates and other illustrations from Swainsons various ornithological projects, including his Illustrated Birds of Brazil.
In many cases the scientific names presented are no longer in use, where possible the name of the species and it's current scientific name have been presented, but in most cases the original nonclemature is left to stand alone.
Dates:
1789-1830
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Thomas: Notes on Cambridge colleges
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7877
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes on Cambridge colleges, 293 pages, dated 30 January 1824, followed by an index. At the end of the volume are family trees and genealogical notes relating to the Thomas family.
Dates:
1824 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin: Family Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8818
Scope and Contents
68 letters, mostly from Kelvin to his sister Elizabeth; a few to David King; some from Margaret Thomson, Kelvin's first wife, and Frances Thomson, his second wife; 3 from Charles and Margaret Watson at the time of Margaret Thomson's death; and 4 from Frances Thomson to Elizabeth, daughter of David and Elizabeth King. The letters cover family news; occasional references to Kelvin's scientific work; the long illness of Margaret Thomson, and of David King; the laying of Atlantic telegraph...
Dates:
1836-1906
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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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7342
Dates:
1840-1907 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to the original papers is restricted. A set of microfilms is available for consultation, reference CM04807-CM04856
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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William W. Newbould, various botanical notes, mid-19C
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9696
Scope and Contents
William Williamson Newbould (1819-1886), botanist[1] Catalogue of English plants together with the names of their first discoverers in England by Dr. Pulteney.Transcribed from the original manuscript preserved in the British Museum by Newbould (1860).[2] Rubi nonnulli Styriae finitimaeque Carinthiae auctore Dr. L. Ch. De Vest.[3] Conspectus dispositionis Salicum Sueciae elaboratae ab Elia Fries.[4] Notes of Relham’s herbarium at the Linnaean Society May...
Dates:
c. 1860-1863
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Walton: Music for film ''Hamlet''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8927
Scope and Contents
Two orchestral sections (6.M.2, 18.M.3) for Sir Laurence Olivier's film 'Hamlet', 1947. In pencil, marked in blue and red crayon with precise timings of length of sections.
Dates:
1947
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Webb and Ann Gould: Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5868-5883
Scope and Contents
Memoranda, notes on sermons, a journal of a journey to Scotland, verse and conundrums.
Dates:
1639-1849
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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William Webb: Cambridge Pedigrees
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5987
Scope and Contents
A series of pedigrees transcribed by William Webb, collected c. 1816-1853, 188 folios. The pedigrees were mainly supplied by the College of Arms. Nearly all are of members of Cambridge University, tracing their descent from Edward I or Edward III. There are also a few descending from Henry VII, and two examples descending from the kings of Scotland. The pedigree on fo. 37v is of Henry VIII's descent through Elizabeth de Clare, foundress of Clare Hall. Written from the other end of the book...
Dates:
1853 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Webb: correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7884
Dates:
1800-1850 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Williams: Welsh Compositions
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6172
Scope and Contents
Compositions in Welsh by William Williams, with a sermon or religious text found in the church of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire.
Dates:
1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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File
William Woolley, 'History of County of Derby', in the hand of Stephen Glover
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4162
Scope and Contents
Includes dedication to George Rogers, Merchant at Mile End, near London. Inside the front cover is a pasted slip describing the contents; a note by Samuel Sandars; the note 'Bought at Sotheby's at Sale of the Bateman Heirlooms May 1893 per Mr Quaritch. It has not appeared in print SS'; and the bookplates of Bateman of Middleton Hall (by Youlgrave) in the County of Derby, and of Samuel Sandars, 1893.
Dates:
1856
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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William Younghusband: receipted bills and miscellaneous items
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7922
Scope and Contents
With a few exceptions, the items are addressed to William Younghusband. Most are receipted bills (some containing detailed lists of goods or services), while others are receipts for which no bill survives. The goods supplied include cloth and haberdashery; leather goods; ironmongery and metal ware; pottery and glass ware; medicines; beef, mutton and other meat; wine, brandy and rum; tea, sugar and spices; candles; and hay and oats. Timber was purchased over a number of years for repair of...
Dates:
1749-1820
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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Wim Klein: Dot matrix computer print-outs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10269
Dates:
c. 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Wimberley Collection on Nigeria, c.1903-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043OO
Scope and Contents
Collection of 91 glass negatives, 106 x 80 mm; 3 negatives on film, 90 x 60 mm; and 3 modern prints, 150 x 120 mm. Many of the negatives lack descriptive captions. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1903 - 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
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Wimbish Manor court rolls, minutes etc., Shepreth, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3611
Dates:
1686-1811
Conditions Governing Access:
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Windham Baldwin Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Windham Baldwin
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of ARTHUR WINDHAM BALDWIN 3RD EARL BALDWIN OF BEWDLEY (1904-1976) mostly concerning his father STANLEY BALDWIN 1ST EARL BALDWIN OF BEWDLEY (1867-1947)
Dates:
1897-1998
Conditions Governing Access:
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Window tax assessment, the Hundreds of Ely and Witchford, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.391
Scope and Contents
Assessment of certain parishes in the Hundred of Ely and part of the Hundred of Witchford by Commissioners in respect of windows and inhabited houses. The amounts assessed are set out in tabular form with the totals. Signed by Thomas Gotobed, Samuel Kempton, Thomas Poole.
Dates:
1794
Conditions Governing Access:
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Winifred Nicholson: letters and cards to Helen Gleadlow, with related materials
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10486
Scope and Contents
11 letters and five postcards from Winifred Nicholson to her friend Helen Gleadlow, 1971-1973 and undated (some apparently after March 1974). Three of the postcards are addressed jointly to Helen and Rupert Gleadlow. All but one of the letters was written from Nicholson's home, Banks Head (alternatively written as 'Bankshead'), Brampton, Cumberland / Cumbria; the exception was written from Bath. The postcards were written from Greece.With a calendar for the year 1980 bearing a...
Dates:
1971-1987 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 'Elijah'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10395
Scope and Contents
Praed's Seatonian Prize poem for 1830, written in his hand on four bifolia and sewn into a cover-sheet. There are textual variations from the published version of the poem.
Dates:
c. 1830
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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W.M. Bristow Nigerian photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3043D-E
Scope and Contents
A collection of small photographs in albums. These albums cover aspects of Bristow's work between the early 1930s and 1960.
Y3043D has virtually no captions - there are some in Y3043E, but many of these relate to groups of photographs and the listing is therefore a summary, not an individual record.
Dates:
1930 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access:
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: overture to 'The Magic Flute' in the hands of Sir George Smart and Mary Anne Bacon
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6250
Scope and Contents
Notes on the title page read 'The first page is in the hand writing of Sir George Smart who was kind enough to teach me how to score. M.A.B' and 'Imperfect. Wanting tenor and alto trombones and 2d. fagotto. M.B.' Remaining pages in the hand of Mary Anne Bacon. Signed and dated: 'Mary Anne Bacon, Dec.r 1824'.
Dates:
1824 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Women in Uganda today
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045P
Scope and Contents
Collection of thirty-nine (from an original set of forty-nine) loose prints, mounted on card and measuring approximately 375 x 300 mm. The series, which was produced for display at a conference held in Kampala in 1961 on the role of women in Uganda, is accompanied by a typed checklist of captions together with some identification on the reverse of some of the prints. The photographs are split into seven groups:Group A: In the homeGroup B: Women in the makingGroup C: Women...
Dates:
1961
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Wren Robinson Collection on South Africa
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305S
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs of Basutoland (now Lesotho) and Zululand, some loose, some in albums, taken or collected by Mrs Wren Robinson while engaged in educational and welfare work. Most have handwritten captions either underneath or on the back by Mrs Robinson. The prints are kept with her papers at RCMS 220.
Dates:
1964 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
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Writ of Habeas Corpus, Hambleton, Rutland
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.6
Scope and Contents
Ordering the production of Robert Bull of the Hambleton, Rutland in court at Westminster to answer a charge of debt brought against him by Thomas All(?). Imperfect.
Dates:
25 Apr. 1476 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library