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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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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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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
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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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Writing Book of Ottaris Salvione
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7606
Dates:
1602
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
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File
Writings on 17th Century Italy and France
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4440
Scope and Contents
'Relatione del modo col quale si gouernano in Francia gli Uganotti', 'Relatione della tenuta delli stati di Bearne' and 'Relatione dei successi seguiti in Bearne'.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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W.W. Newbould: notes on ''Manual of English botany''
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9677
Scope and Contents
Written by Rev. W. W. Newbould about the work of his colleague, Charles Cardale Babington, 'Manual of British Botany'
Dates:
1862-1881
Conditions Governing Access:
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W.Y. Ottley: Collections on armour
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2742
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Ottley, memoranda and extracts from various publications and manuscripts and drawings and tracings.
Dates:
1828-1835
Conditions Governing Access:
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Wyon Family: Business and Personal Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7651
Scope and Contents
The collection contains family and personal correspondence, and also genealogical papers mostly compiled by Walter J. Wyon. There are papers relating to the family's official work, and also to their private commissions as medallists, engravers and sculptors.
Dates:
1800-1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
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Yass, New South Wales 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086W
Scope and Contents
Collection of professional photographs, each 90 x 70 mm, published for the Yass Newsagency by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney and Melbourne. Yass is 43 miles north of Canberra. Its population in 1947 was 3254.
Dates:
1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Year Books for 28 and 37 Henry VI
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2593
Scope and Contents
Late fifteenth-century hand. fos 52-60: missing. loose at fo. 19: strip from draper's account book, 13 Nov. - 12 Dec. 1587, with the name Thomas Robson, and on verso the beginning of a letter from Edward More to 'Mr Palliser'.
Dates:
1490-1587 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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'Yesterday, today, and Toodyay'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 384
Scope and Contents
This is a semi-autobiographical memoir recording how Helen Shaw’s parents travelled to Malaya in September 1940 during the Second World War, where her father, Dr William D. Ainslie, took up the post of Medical Officer of Health, Penang. Shaw was born in May 1941. She recounts how she and her mother Marcia Margaret Ainslie were evacuated from Penang to Singapore, and then Java, after Penang was bombed by the Japanese in December 1941; their travel from Java to Western Australia in January...
Dates:
2008 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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York Ecclesiastical Formulary
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8802
Scope and Contents
Formulary of documents, some in the names of John Dakyn, George Palmes and John Rokeby.
Dates:
1556 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Young collection on Gibraltar
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3016A
Scope and Contents
A number of the images depict Gibraltar, the remainder relate to Young's service in Woolwich, Shoeburyness, and elsewhere in the U.K.
Dates:
1885 - 1888
Conditions Governing Access:
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'Your obedient servants, 1895-1918'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 173
Scope and Contents
An unpublished account of the role of the early district officer in Kenya and the problems inherent in implementing policy, with illustrations and maps, 501 pages. There is a five-page survey of sources, but only limited source references. The book was written with the financial support of the Department of Technical Cooperation, which enabled Cashmore to spend two years on research and writing, one of which was spent in Kenya. The volume is dated at the front October 1964.
Dates:
1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Zachary Gray: Sermons etc. (Phillips MS 23906)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8516
Scope and Contents
Manuscript sermons, with lectures on the catechism at the back of the volume.
Dates:
1727-1739
Conditions Governing Access:
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Zachary Grey: Abstracts and transcripts on religious and Cambridge University affairs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3308
Scope and Contents
Autograph, with second hand interspersed. Including: (fo. 2) 'The horrid Barbarity of the Spanish Inquisition': preface by Grey, followed by abstract of William Lithgow, Totall Discourse of rare Adventures, 10th ed., pp. 421 ff.; (fo. 35) 'The Jesuit in Disguise': referenced abstracts from several printed works; (fo. 59) Grey, 'A Review of Mr Neal's History of the Puritans', printed with omissions Cambridge, 1744; Grey, 'What Authority there is for the use of the present singing Psalms in...
Dates:
1738-1760 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Zachary Grey: The Glory of the British Flag exemplified. In a chronological Series of the most memorable victories obtained at Sea. By the Bravest of Our English Admirals, Sea captains etc...Extracted from our best Naval-Writers, and English Historians
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3847
Scope and Contents
fo. 1v: 'Rd Day', and booksellers notes in pencil.
Dates:
1760 (Circa.)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Zanzibar (Chandler Collection)
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047B
Scope and Contents
A collection of separate photographs and a panorama. The photographs date from Chandler's residence in east Africa, and are chiefly of Zanzibar Island, but 60-73 and 83-87 are of Dar es Salaam, 75 is probably of England, 88-89 are of South Africa and 90-96 are of the Victoria Falls.
Dates:
1920 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
File
Zoology of Jamaica
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7040
Dates:
1846
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