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From J.DeC. Sowerby to William Borrer, Camden Town, 1 Jan. 1835

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8186/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Some items are accompanied by typescript explanatory notes, apparently made at the Department of Botany.

Dates: 1 Jan. 1835
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).
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From John Brande Trend, [London], 6 Dec. 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/58
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Is distracted by a noisy party; Chester [Purves]; Edgar Matthews; Sheppard; Arnold Foster at a Diaghilev performance of Papillons; the Old Vic to stage Comus and Faustus

Dates: 6 Dec. 1918
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).
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From John Brande Trend, Marble Arch, 5 Dec. 1918 (Circa, 'Wednesday', date taken from postmark)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/57
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Expresses sympathy [for Dent's attack of 'flu]; work in the War Office; has been to 'Le Donne' once more, the music is ravishing; is there a book Dent would like?

Dates: 5 Dec. 1918 (Circa, 'Wednesday', date taken from postmark)
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).
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From John Brande Trend, Savile Club, Piccadilly, 22 July 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/52
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Has heard part of Tristan und Isolde; sends a book of cantatas

Dates: 22 July 1917
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).
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From John Brande Trend, Savile Club, Piccadilly, 7 Nov. 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/56
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A summons to Room 222 in the War Office; has been told to write a confidential book; then may go to Italy; 'What you say of my Dante stuff is most encouraging'; Fanny Davies recitals

Dates: 7 Nov. 1917
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).
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From John Francis Toye [of Trinity College, Cambridge, Musicologist and Critic], PoW Camp, Feltham

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/9
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Wishes to secure musical rights to two [Frances] Cornford poems, and seeks her address; 'I have become an inferior kind of lieutenant at this rather agreeable camp'; hopes to see Dent in London

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).
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From John Hunnemann to Jacob Sturm, London, 12 Nov. 1829

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189/31
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: 12 Nov. 1829
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).
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From John Smith, Kew, 18 Nov. 1863

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189/47
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: 18 Nov. 1863
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).
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From John Townshend to Edward Mills, thanking him for his support in the recent election, Pall Mall, 11 Oct. 1780

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7896/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes documents on elections, appointments and statutes.

Dates: 11 Oct. 1780
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).
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From Mona Wilson to E.J. Dent, Kensington, 5 Jan. 1914 (recte 1915)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/82
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Steuart has been wounded in the chest

Dates: 5 Jan. 1914 (recte 1915)
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, 20 Oct. 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/69
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Returning Dent's spare latch-key

Dates: 20 Oct. 1915
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, 2 May 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/80
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He leaves tonight, would like The Cambridge Magazine forwarded

Dates: 2 May 1916
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw to E.J. Dent and Theo [Bartholomew], Wimbledon Common, 16 Sep. 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/67
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Has contracted a bad cold; may miss their rendezvous; alternative plans

Dates: 16 Sep. 1915
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 11 Sep. 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/66
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Has been sent home for six weeks, 'as something has gone rather unpleasantly wrong with my stomach'; plans to come to Cambridge, thence to Cornwall with his family

Dates: 11 Sep. 1915
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 20 Sep. 1915 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/68
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Has been ordered back to bed; a projected demonstration in Cambridge of the ?Clutsam cradle

Dates: 20 Sep. 1915 (Circa)
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 29 Oct. 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/70
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Appointments to meet friends; 'The board offered me an extension of two months. In a moment of moral cowardice, I bargained for one only'; has to have daily injections

Dates: 29 Oct. 1915
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 5 Nov. 1915 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/71
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Hopes the party [to celebrate Charles Harman's 21st birthday] will come off

Dates: 5 Nov. 1915 (Circa)
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 11 Nov. 1915 (Circa)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/72
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Regrets Mr Hext will not be able to attend the party; further arrangements

Dates: 11 Nov. 1915 (Circa)
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 22 Nov. 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/73
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Arrangements for a meeting

Dates: 22 Nov. 1915
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, Jan. 1916 ('Wednesday')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/75
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Has had a relapse; hopes to convalesce in Cambridge; will have to miss Pan, but sends his best wishes to [Cyril] Rootham

Dates: Jan. 1916 ('Wednesday')
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 24 Jan. 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/76
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Is still confined to bed; plans to visit Cambridge; hopes Dent will escape conscription

Dates: 24 Jan. 1916
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 27 Jan. 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/77
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Has to postpone his plans as he is to appear before a medical board

Dates: 27 Jan. 1916
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).
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From P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Wimbledon Common, 6 Feb. 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/78
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Has been given a month's leave for a complete rest, and wishes to visit Cambridge; has met Raymond's mother, and Geoffrey Garrett

Dates: 6 Feb. 1916
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).
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From Raffaello Piccoli, Pro Italia Committee, Regent St, 15 Sep. 1915 (Possibly 18 Sep.?)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/25
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Acknowledges receipt of Dent's paper; musical contributions from leading composers

Dates: 15 Sep. 1915 (Possibly 18 Sep.?)
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).
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From Ralph Vaughn Williams [Composer], Cheyne Walk, 1914 (Circa, undated (late 1914?))

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/V/2
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Is grateful to Dent for his offer [apparently to copy parts for VW's London or Pastoral symphony] and will, in some measure, take him up on the offer

Dates: 1914 (Circa, undated (late 1914?))
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).