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1st Baron Acton: papers
1st Duke of Buckingham: household accounts
Volume with much older documents pasted in. Includes wax seal.
1st Lord Acton: Historical notes and transcripts
1st Lord Acton: Notes and lectures
1 folder contains flashcards, the rest contain pages removed from notebooks. The latter are paginated, and some have headings in Roman numerals, assumedly dividing different lectures. Accompanying titles include 'The Tennis Court Oath', 'Napoleon' and 'Madame Roland'.
1st Lord Acton: Notes for intended chapter I of ''Cambridge Modern History''
Includes bibliographic references
2 photographs of Newfoundland inserted in 'The History of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1754-1783', M.A. Thesis by Gordon O. Rothney (1934)
Photographer unknown. The prints form part of the thesis (RCMS 236) and are stored with it.
2 photographs taken at the opening of the second House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea
Two loose black and white prints with typewritten captions attached to reverse, taken by W Pedersen for the Australian News and Information Bureau.
3rd Baron Gorell : Letters to him
[5 photographs of Auckland. c.1897]
Loose photographs, some captioned, measuring approximately 210 x 150 mm, and showing views of Auckland and Waitemata Harbour.
7:84 (England) Theatre Company: Records and Papers
A Book of Christian Prayers
Private prayers for several occasions alternated with extracts from the Psalms, and with an extract from the Litany. Inside the front cover is the crest of Samuel Sandars.
A Breviate of the Spanish Government in Flanders from the Beginning to this present
A brief historical memoir of Delhi and guide to points of interest together with the official programme in detail of the Imperial Coronation Durbar of 1911
Leather-bound booklet, measuring 6¾ x 8 inches, of 153 pages, illustrated by photographs stuck in. The majority of the photographs are by Johnston and Hoffman.
A catalogue of the earlier papers in the 1st vol. of Dr. W. Webb's Cambridge Collection
fo. 1v: [in hand of Charles Sayle] 'By a resolution of the Library Syndicate, 7 June 1893, "Leave was given to Mr J[ohn] W[illis] Clark to borrow one volume at a time of the Webb Collection of University Papers, and the Librarian was requested to see that the separate pieces were stamped and numbered before they were taken out of the Library." Mr A. Rogers states that this was done, 7 Nov. 1919.'
A collection of Photographs illustrative of the Railway System of New South Wales 1887
A collection of Planning Reports, etc. for Great Britain and Ireland
A collection of verses and translations transcribed by Mary Anne Bacon
Authors include Sir Henry Purcell, George Handel, Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron.
A course of Botanical lectures explaining the principles of vegitation
A Description of Scotland and other papers
'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'.
A. G. Church: Political papers and correspondence
A general state of the question laid before the referees . . . concerning the rights and privileges of a Gillingham Fellow in Emmanuel College
'A grave without a cross'
A translation by Trevor Jaggar from the Kiswahili of the 1990 reprint of Kareithi's novel, with a translator's note and preface, 54 pages. In his note Jaggar explains that his purpose in translating Karethi's work was 'to enable British and other readers of English to learn something of what the Mau Mau War felt like to a Kikuyu striving for the independence of Kenya from British colonial rule'.
A journey in French West Africa in 1901
An account of a journey undertaken by White, then 23, and two companions, from Dakar through St Louis, Kayes (on Mungo Park's route to the Niger), and Djéné on the Bani River, arriving finally at Bobodiulasso, 15 pages. There are references to the activities of Samori and comments on colonial policy. The account is accompanied by a covering letter from White to the Secretary of the Royal Empire Society, 12 July 1948, and the Secretary's reply, 21 July 1948.
A journey to Asia and Africa
A Kallender of the Pelles of Recept and Exitus and Bundells of Privie Seales uppon the same from the firste yeare of Edward the firste untill this present
The calendar continues to 43 Eliz. It is arranged in columns showing rolls and bundles existing for each regnal year. After 19 Edw. IV no further issue olls are recorded until 39 Eliz. No privy seal bundle is recorded after 22 Henry VIII. Attached to fo. 13 is a torn sheet with rough notes in 17th cent. hand of 'Pells of Issues wanting' for the reigns of the first two Stuarts.
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