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William Ree: Commonplace book
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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
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William Renwick: Papers and Correspondence
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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)
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William Robertson Smith: Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7449
Dates:
1868-1889 (Circa)
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William Robertson Smith: Papers
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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)
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William S. Mann Collection
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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:
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William Samuel Stratford: Papers
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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
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William Searle, diary at Queens' College, 1854-57
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9931
Scope and Contents
1 volume, Diary as fellow of Queens.
Dates:
9 Apr. 1854-15 Sep. 1857
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William Sherwin: 'Some remarks upon Bishop (Gilbert) Burnet's History of His Own Times'
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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
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(William) Sidney Walker: Correspondence, miscellaneous verses and other papers
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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
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William Silver: Letters by him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6650
Scope and Contents
Extracts from letters written while travelling with the Duke of Bedford and others on the continent, between 1 December 1813 and June 1827, written in a contemporary hand, 182 folios: p. iii: portrait of Silver; p. vi: dedication to his wife; p. ix: list of places from which the letters were sent; p. x: extracts from obituary notices regarding Silver.
Dates:
1813-1827
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Simpson: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9515
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers, 1838-89.
Dates:
1838-1889
Conditions Governing Access:
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William Smith (1756-1835) and family correspondence, journals and other papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7621
Scope and Contents
The larger part of the collection dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chronicling William Smith's personal and political career, as well as illustrating the lives of his wife Frances and their children. The collection includes letters from Smith's friends, among them Charles James Fox, William Wilberforce and Sir Francis Burdett. The papers also chronicle Smith's time in Paris in 1790, where he witnessed and recorded his reactions to the 14th July celebrations. The...
Dates:
1678-1951
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William Smyth: Horae Lyricae
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4455
Scope and Contents
Drafts of various poems and songs.
Dates:
1786-1830
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William St Hill Bourne: Poems and hymns
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9989
Dates:
c.1900
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William Stephen: Farming Today broadcasts
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8094
Scope and Contents
Typescript of broadcasts for Farming today, 29 September 1937 - 26 January 1938, including the dates of transmission.
Dates:
1937-1938
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William Swainson: descriptions of bird specimens
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9909
Dates:
c. 1830
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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
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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)
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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)
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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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