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Paper from J.B. Emmett, 1815-11-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 537-538
Scope and Contents
With drawings of an instrument for observing lunar transits.
Dates:
1815-11-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
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Papers of Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7620
Scope and Contents
Approximately one third of the bulk of papers comprise working papers and notebooks. About another quarter comprises correspondence, certificates and ephemera relating to honours awarded by various bodies or relating to Frederick Gowland Hopkins' association with learned societies. The remaining material is a combination of papers and photographs generated by Frederick Gowland Hopkins' family (much of it predating his birth); together with correspondence and papers he generated in a personal...
Dates:
1800-2009 (early 19th century-2009, but predominantly 1910-40)
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
Papers of John Tanfield
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10386
Scope and Contents
Papers of John R. Tanfield, amateur actor, makeup artist, producer and director in Cambridge and several provincial theatres including in York, Newcastle and Wolverhampton. He studied at Sloane School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and was later history master at the Perse School in Cambridge. Tanfield was a member of the Marlowe Society and the ADC committee. Comprises mainly theatre programmes including productions of the ADC, the Marlowe Society, Cambridge...
Dates:
c. 1919 - 1960s
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of the Paget Family
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10379
Scope and Contents
The deposit contains letters, documents, photographs, newspaper cuttings, publications, sketchbooks, notebooks, travel diaries, human hair, plant material, paintings, and a portable writing desk.
The letters, beginning in 1799, include family correspondence and George Edward Paget’s professional correspondence.
There are a number of packets of letters and legal documents assembled by members of the family for particular historical purposes; the earliest document, an...
Dates:
1648; 1799 to 2020, mostly nineteenth century.
Conditions Governing Access:
Part restricted. Open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room. Some material may be restricted for data protection reasons or because of its fragility.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Papers on determining galvanic longitudes, 1852 - 1854
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/633
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers concerning the use galvanic signals to determine longitude. The papers describe the attempts to establish the longitude of the Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge Observatories by observing set stars and taking the difference between the local time and the Greenwich Time received by telegraphic signal. Other centres included in the project, but not necessarily tested, were Liverpool, Dublin, Vienna, Bristol and Lowestoft. The papers include correspondence with C.P....
Dates:
1852 - 1854
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
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Papers on magnetism, 1845 - 1861
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/694
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers on magnetic disturbances, alleged new discoveries and theories, and experiments on magnetism. There are calculations for the mean declination of Greenwich, 1849; C. Hansteen's extensive magnetic observations at Christiana (Oslo), and a French paper by him on terrestrial magnetism; E. Sabine's remarks on W. De La Rue's diurnal magnetic theories; an unsigned manuscript on the magnetic disturbances of 24 September 1847 at the Royal Observatory; observations of...
Dates:
1845 - 1861
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
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Papers on the galvanic longitude of Edinburgh, 1855 - 1858
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/636
Scope and Contents
Papers regarding the operation to discover the longitude of Edinburgh by means of electric telegraph. The papers include material on the arrangement of stars for observation; calculations of longitude at Edinburgh deduced from observations; and instructions and arrangements for those involved in the tests, including J. Washington, W. Ellis, C.V. Walker, C.P. Smyth, J.C. Clark and C.F. Varley. There are also letters on the longitude of Paris by U.J.J. Le Verrier, of Brussels by L.A. Quetelet,...
Dates:
1855 - 1858
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
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Personal Papers of Aelfrida Tillyard, 1856 - 2013
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Tillyard
Scope and Contents
The papers include Aelfrida Tillyard's personal and biographical records, the most substantial of which are 75 personal diaries in an unbroken sequence dating from 1897 to 1959. The papers also include copies of some of her published works and manuscripts of some of her unpublished writings, in particular those religious works and novels which she wrote in the 1940s and 1950s. Papers of both daughters are also held in the archives: see GCPP Graham A1 (Alethea Graham, Girton 1926) and GCPP...
Dates:
1856 - 2013
Found in:
Girton College Archive
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Personal Papers
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Photographs of events and visits, 1914 - 1923
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/2/2
Scope and Contents
Includes: interior of the Tipperary Club meeting room in Fitzroy Street; several photographs of Tipperary meetings and social events, including women with children and garden party (with children's train track) in Downing Master's Lodge garden and sewing sand bags for the war effort; exhibits for homemade toy exhibition, including dolls' house (2) and Red Cross hospital (6) made by Marion and Margery Seward; visit of Admiral Weekes (in naval uniform), Lady Jellicoe (with Mrs Keynes), Lady...
Dates:
1914 - 1923
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Found in:
Downing College
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Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
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Papers of Sir Albert Charles Seward, Master of Downing College (1915-1936)
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Family papers and photographs of Albert Charles Seward and Marion Seward and their children (mainly copies)
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Papers of Marion Seward
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Tipperary Club: papers and photographs (copies)
Series
Printed notice of arrangements for the funeral of Professor C.C. Babington, Cambridge, 26 July 1895
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189/21
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...
Dates:
26 July 1895
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Fonds
Professor William Keith Chambers Guthrie collection, 1915 - 1982
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH
Scope and Contents
Includes: personal papers and family correspondence, photographs and slides from travels, including holidays, speeches and reviews re Guthrie's various publications, with some limited papers from his tenure as Master.
Dates:
1915 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access:
Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.
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Programme for test and inspection of the Inglis Bridge at the Cambridge rifle range, Grange Road, initialled: 'RESB' [Royal Engineers and Signals Board], 26 Apr. 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8091/1/5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes correspondence with Lt-Col. A.G. Gadd, and others (1-98) and publicity and information pamphlets (99-101). Unless otherwise stated, all items are in typescript.
Dates:
26 Apr. 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Fonds
Richard Gooch: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2616
Scope and Contents
A collection of treatises, published and unpublished, extracts, notes, drats and verses, many relating to the University of Cambridge. Includes drafts of the following works by Gooch: 'Liber Cantabrigienses', unpublished biographical notes on officials and students of the University of Cambridge; 'The British Youths' Familiar History of the Town and University of Cambridge', unpublished; 'America and the Americans', unpublished, with 15 watercolour sketches; 'Cantabrigia', newspaper cuttings...
Dates:
1823-1839
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
Robert Malcom Deryck Davies: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7999
Scope and Contents
Box 1: 15 subject files, mainly concerning Davies's works as an M.P. - Parliamentary Labour Party, local government, bills, correspondence, etc. Box 2: Planning, 11 files - Guildhall, traffic and roads, University development, etc. Box 3: Housing, Rating, Public Health, and Education, 11 files. Box 4: Correspondence, etc. Only files 7 and 8 (Planning) and 11 (Cambridge City Labour Party) are open to readers. Box 5: Various committees, etc., 6 files and printed items - local government...
Dates:
1947-1968 (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
Series
Roll: `Plan of communications in area of 4 Cambs Bn H.G. (excluding G.P.O. telephones)', 1939 - 1945
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7959/6
Dates:
1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Access restricted due to fragile nature of material.
Fonds
Samuel Sandars: Transcribed extracts from British Library manuscripts concerning the town and University of Cambridge
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.729
Scope and Contents
Inside front cover, a note `Care has been taken not to copy any thing contained in MSS. Baker II, IV, VI, IX, X, XI, as transcripts of these volumes are already in Cambridge Unviersity Library'. [1] (fol.2) `Vetus liber Archdiaconi Eliensis', dealing with church furniture in Cambridge c.1276-1349, from Baker MS.3 (Harl.7030), p.507, a transcript of Caius College MS.204; in Latin. [2] (fol.16) Andrew Perne, order against playing football, 1580, from Baker MS.3, p.423. [3] (fol.17) Note of...
Dates:
1869
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
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Secretary, University Engineering Dept, to Gadd, confirming that five sets of launching trolley parts will be ready for inspection by 5 December, [Cambridge], 3 Dec. 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8091/1/72
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy
Dates:
3 Dec. 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Fonds
Sir Gordon Sutherland: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8353
Scope and Contents
The collection provides some documentation for most aspects of Sutherland's career, apart from his two periods at the University of Michigan, for which there is virtually no material. For the 1930s there is extensive correspondence, but no laboratory records, and for the wartime period there is a very full sequence of letters exchanged with H.W. Thompson, 1937-1947. Section C contains papers relating to the National Physical Laboratory, and Section D documents Sutherland's involvement with...
Dates:
1921-1982 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Some items are restricted at the discretion of the Keeper of Manuscripts
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sir John Milner Gray: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7739
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a wide range of correspondence and papers relating to the Gambia, Kenya, Kilwa [Kilwa Sultanate] and Pemba, Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania], Uganda, Zanzibar, West Africa, and other parts of the continent. Some of the topics covered are ethnic groups and Indigenous peoples, languages, the slave trade, the Portuguese colonization in Africa, and archaeology. There are articles by J. Schacht, Emin Pasha, Gervase Mathew, M. Posnansky, and others on Africa, as well as...
Dates:
1950 (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
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Sketch Book
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6298
Scope and Contents
A series of drawings in watercolour, sepia and pen-and-ink of views in Great Britain and Ireland, 32 folios. The drawings are of locations in Ireland, Scotland, the Lake District, Cambridge and Fen Ditton, and Alderley Park (possibly in Cheshire).
Dates:
1798-1799
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
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Stellar positions and proper motion, 1765 - 1822
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 4/213
Scope and Contents
Remarks and tables on proper motion and comparisons of star positions. The volume includes the apparent diameter of the Sun, Moon and primary planets as viewed from the Earth; changes in the obliquity of the ecliptic, 1668-1822, and that observed by the Arab astronomers, 832-1463; unused forms for observational results; proper motion of Arcturus in right ascension from Tycho's observations; rules on aberration of light in calculating the place of a planet; longitude of Cambridge, New...
Dates:
1765 - 1822
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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).
Fonds
T.C. Lethbridge, 'The ivory tower': word-processed autobiographical account
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9593
Scope and Contents
Typescript autobiographical memoir 'The ivory tower', with a prefatory notice by Mena Lethbridge in which the work is described as 'a picture of Cambridge Academic life between the two World Wars'.
Dates:
1989 (date of prefatory notice by Mina Lethbridge)
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
Tipperary Club papers, 1915 - 1924
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/2/1
Scope and Contents
Includes: card announcing visit of Lady French, 30 April 1915; letter from Courtney Kenny accepting invitation to speak, 4 Dec. 1915 (or 1918); names of subscribers of the Tipperary Club, 1916; printed address of M. R. James, Provost of King's College, at the unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Cambridge Tipperary Club on 12 July 1916; card announcing possible visit of the Queen while on a visit to the First Eastern General Hospital, 4 Oct. 1918; printed address to members of the...
Dates:
1915 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Found in:
Downing College
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Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
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Papers of Sir Albert Charles Seward, Master of Downing College (1915-1936)
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Family papers and photographs of Albert Charles Seward and Marion Seward and their children (mainly copies)
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Papers of Marion Seward
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Tipperary Club: papers and photographs (copies)
Item
To an unnamed young minister, advice not to exert himself beyond his strength, Cambridge, 25 Apr. 1830
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8293/C/5/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Revd Charles Simeon (1759-1836), Fellow of King's College and Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, began to purchase advowsons in 1817 in order to secure an Evangelical ministry in perpetuity in important centres. Friends contributed money for the purpose and some were associated with Simeon as Trustees of the livings. In 1829 Simeon drew up a 'Solemn Charge' to his Trustees, setting out the principles on which they were to make appointments, which was printed in 1833. In January...
Dates:
25 Apr. 1830
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the deposited records is unrestricted, and use may be made of them in publications without reference to the Trustees. Formal permission should, however, be sought for any full-length publication of material derived from them.
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Typed transcript of letter to Rev. C.B. Elliott, describing recovery of health, purchase of Corporation Livings, and situation in Cambridge, Cambridge, 2 May 1836
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8293/C/5/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Revd Charles Simeon (1759-1836), Fellow of King's College and Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, began to purchase advowsons in 1817 in order to secure an Evangelical ministry in perpetuity in important centres. Friends contributed money for the purpose and some were associated with Simeon as Trustees of the livings. In 1829 Simeon drew up a 'Solemn Charge' to his Trustees, setting out the principles on which they were to make appointments, which was printed in 1833. In January...
Dates:
2 May 1836
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the deposited records is unrestricted, and use may be made of them in publications without reference to the Trustees. Formal permission should, however, be sought for any full-length publication of material derived from them.