Biography
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Frances Cornford Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10410
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Cornford family, principally of the poet Frances Crofts Cornford. The collection includes letters to Francis Darwin from his second wife Ellen Wordsworth Crofts; letters to and from Frances Crofts Cornford and her husband Francis Macdonald Cornford; poems by Frances Crofts Cornford; notes on their children by Frances Crofts Cornford and Francis Macdonald Cornford; drafts of Frances Crofts Cornford's memoir of her husband; and correspondence of later generations of Cornford...
Dates:
1876-1992 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Leslie James Wilmoth, 'John Gardiner: pioneer and overlander'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 284
Scope and Contents
Comprises a typescript biography completed in 1936, and revised c. 1960 with the addition of supplementary inserts and photographs. 292 pp., with six portrait photographs inserted. The supplementary information, now housed in an accompanying file consists of: photograph of Gardiner memorial plaque at Hawthorn, with a descriptive note; list of ships passing between Van Dieman's Land [Tasmania] and the Port Phillip settlement in 1835-6 compiled by Wilmoth from the Launceston Advertiser; copy...
Dates:
1936 - 1960
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Letters from Walter de la Mare and Siegfried Sassoon to Gwen Raverat, 1935-1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10304/51
Scope and Contents
(1)-(2): Two letters from de la Mare, autograph and typescript signed, 30 December 1935 and 7 September 1942. (3)-(7): Five letters from Sassoon, autograph, 11 June 1938, 29 June 1954, 21 June 1955, 30 June 1956 and 18 July 1956.
Dates:
1935-1956
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
File
'Notes on my father Dr F. M. Cornford' by C. Cornford, 1946-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/3437/FMCD/1/3
Scope and Contents
A personal recolleciton of F.M. Cornford by his second son Christopher Cornford.
Dates:
Other: 1946-07
File
Sir Thomas More's Life by his Son in Law, William Roper, sixteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.04.21
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
File
The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, by George Cavendish, seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.03.06
Scope and Contents
'The Life and Death of Mr Thomas Wolsey, Arch-Bishop of Yorke and Cardinall, written by George Cavendish his Gentleman Usher'. On f. 1 is the name Tho: Nott.
Dates:
seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).