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Fonds
Adam Murray: Farm accounts
Fonds
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
Fonds
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
Fonds
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:
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 Papers
Fonds
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
Fonds
Adam Sedgwick: letters to William Ainger
Fonds
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
Fonds
Adam Sedgwick: Miscellaneous Letters
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7670
Dates:
1819-1868
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
Adams: Notebooks and papers of Edgar Tarry Adams
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/ADA
Dates:
1901-1925 mainly
Found in:
Downing College
Fonds
Adamson: the papers of George Worsley Adamson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/ADA
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of original artwork for editions of 'Meet My Folks', 'How the Whale Became' and 'The Iron Man'. There is also a small quantity of correspondence received by Adamson from Ted Hughes regarding illustrations for Hughes's books.
Dates:
1960 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access:
All material within the collection is open for consultation.
Excluding material that is the copyright of the Ted Hughes Estates (for which see below), photographs may be taken for private research purposes only. Those wishing to publish any material from the collection are required to seek the permission of the relevant Estate or company prior to publication. Items that are not the copyyright of the George Adamson Estate are noted within the catalogue. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for the George Adamson Estate.
The material within the collection that is the copright of the Ted Hughes Estate is open for consultation but photographs may not be taken without the permission of the Ted Hughes Estate. Those wishing to publish any material that is the copyright of the Ted Hughes Estate should seek permission from the Estate prior to publication. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for the Estate.
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
Fonds
Addition to Alexander Stuart Watt: Notebooks and Papers
Fonds
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
Fonds
Additions to Ware's Irish bishops
Fonds
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:
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
Address from the women of Ballarat and Ballarat East in the colony of Victoria to the women of England
Fonds
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
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).
Found in:
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:
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
Adhmar de Saint-Venant: Papers on an article by G.G. Stokes
Fonds
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
Administration
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/Ad
Dates:
1300 - 2020
Found in:
Corpus Christi College Archives
Management Group
ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1936/THAR
Dates:
1200 - 2019
Found in:
Trinity Hall archive
Sub-Management Group
Administrative records
Sub-Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHAR
Scope and Contents
Records listed here include those of the President and the Bursar, the Women's Art Collection, the Development Office, and the Kaetsu Educational and Cultural Centre. Also financial records and records relating to buildings and grounds, appeals and fundraising and conferences. Administrative records from the Porters' Lodge.
Dates:
1851 - 2017
Management Group
ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEAR
Dates:
1878 - 2024
Found in:
Selwyn College Archives
Management Group
Administrative Records
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/1935/EDAR
Scope and Contents
This section includes records of Masters, Vice-Masters, College Officers, and the Bursar; also financial records and Chapel records [there are also records relating to the building and fabric of the Chapel amongst the archives of Masters in this section; see also EDPH for photographs of the Chapel].
Dates:
1819 - 2016
Found in:
St Edmunds College Archive
Management Group
Administrative Records of Downing College
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR
Scope and Contents
Records of the Bursar and College Office, including Downing family and estate records and those created by the bursarial function.
Dates:
1548-[1970]
Conditions Governing Access:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. Records containing sensitive, confidential or personal information remain closed for 100 years.
Access to open records is by appointment only.
Found in:
Downing College
Fonds
Admiral Dicken: Memoirs and papers
Fonds
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
Fonds
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
Fonds
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:
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
Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.842
Scope and Contents
At a view of frankpledge and Court Baron held by Charles Halloway, Esq., steward, 3 Apr. 1635. To this court came Andrew Pettitt and Alice his wife who held by copy given at a view and Court held 19 Apr. 1632 (after the death of Humphrey Mickley, clerk) for the said Alice and her heirs one messuage...in the west end of Ashwell...(the said Alice having been examined by herself secretly), and they now surrendered the messuage to the use of John Shipman of Ashwell who is here and seeks to be...
Dates:
3 Apr. 1638
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
Admission, Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.845
Scope and Contents
At a Court Baron of the manor of Ashwell, before Francis Dickens, esq., steward, 3 May 1727. John Payne came and surrendered by the hands of the steward, a messuage situated in the west end of Ashwell, formerly of Susanna Payne and before that, of John Shipman, to the sole use of John Cotton...And John Cotton comes...and is admitted. Signed by Francis Dickens.
Dates:
3 May 1727
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