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From Siegfried Sassoon, [American Red Cross Hospital, Lancaster Gate], Aug. 1918 ('Sunday')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/S/51
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Is not allowed visitors until Tuesday; asks Dent to 'phone before visiting; A Room With A View is 'just what I wanted'; Counter-Attack reviewed in The Observer

Dates: Aug. 1918 ('Sunday')
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 Siegfried Sassoon, Kensington, Feb. 1916 (Circa, 'Sunday')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/S/15
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Hopes to see Dent in London, while on leave

Dates: Feb. 1916 (Circa, 'Sunday')
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 Siegfried Sassoon, Kensington

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/S/55
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Trying to arrange a lunch meeting

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 Siegfried Sassoon, Mayfair, 8 June 1917 (Circa, 'Friday', date taken from postmark)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/S/41
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Has written to 'the CB' asking to see him in Cambridge; will call on Dent

Dates: 8 June 1917 (Circa, 'Friday', 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 Siegfried Sassoon, Mayfair, June 1917 (Circa, 'Wednesday')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/S/42
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Arrangements for visit to Cambridge, to be 'inspected by this Military Don'; has not been declared unfit for foreign service

Dates: June 1917 (Circa, '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 Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry [Composer and Author], Royal College of Music, 6 Oct. 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/23
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Did not return from America in time to send anything to Piccoli; welcomes Dent's work on 17th-century English opera; Clive Carey is 'well fitted with his job and must be a godsend to the soldiers with his singing'

Dates: 6 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 Sir James Steuart Wilson, Kensington, 30 June 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/107
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Whereabouts of his will - Dent is named as executor

Dates: 30 June 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 Sir James Steuart Wilson, Kensington, 27 Aug. 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/111
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Glad to learn that Figaro is finished; has suggested to Mrs Browne that Denis's music be given by Mrs Murphy to Cambridge University via Dent, postcard

Dates: 27 Aug. 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 Sir James Steuart Wilson, Kensington, 4 Feb. 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/127
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His infirmities have led him to put off his return to Cambridge; will try for the War Office in March; has been reading some familiar music: The Lotos Eaters, Aida, and Otello; memories of CUMS performances

Dates: 4 Feb. 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 Sir James Steuart Wilson, [Kensington], 21 June 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/129
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Thanks for the wedding present; observes that there are many who would contribute to put the CUMC on its feet

Dates: 21 June 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 Sir James Steuart Wilson, War Office, Whitehall, 8 June 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/128
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'[T]he Cavaliere's crown is a sort of consolation prize' [Wilson was appointed Cavaliere in the Order of the Crown of Italy]; sorry that the [CUM] Club is closed; would like a lamp as a wedding present

Dates: 8 June 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 Sir Sydney Philip Waterlow, Gipsy Hill, 7 June 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/9
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Is obliged to decline proffered membership of the Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club

Dates: 7 June 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 Sir W.J. Hooker, Kew, 17 Oct. 1861

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189/23
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: 17 Oct. 1861
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 Sydney A. Wells, Artists' Rifles (?), Romford

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/25
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Has been passed A1; leave obtained through 'inventing' an ailing relative; thoroughly miserable and uncomfortable; an insane Marlburian

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 Sydney A. Wells, [London]

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/16
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Is unwell and will leave for Newdigate; is to make 'a legal prosecution of a slight but delicate nature'

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 Sydney A. Wells, Romford, 19 Sep. 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/26
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Does not appreciate being once again a private soldier; recognises no one; attractive comrades

Dates: 19 Sep. 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 Sydney A. Wells, Romford, 22 Sep. 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/27
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Enjoys being 'pleasantly miserable'; Dent's chair upholstery; his young Army friend; sees better prospects of a peace; many of his OCB friends have been killed in France

Dates: 22 Sep. 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 the Linnean Society, London: printed letter to Associates of the Society [signature of Secretary removed], 11 May 1802

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8190/26
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Letters to Robson, with the exception of Add. 8190/13, on botanical and other matters.

Dates: 11 May 1802
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 Thomas Greenwood, 1 Garden Court, Middle Temple, 19 Nov. 1823

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/17
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.

Dates: 19 Nov. 1823
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 Thomas Greenwood, 1 Garden Court, Temple, 18 Dec. 1818

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/9
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.

Dates: 18 Dec. 1818
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 Thomas Greenwood, 1 Garden Court, Temple, 26 Apr. 1823

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/14
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.

Dates: 26 Apr. 1823
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 Thomas Greenwood, 1 Garden Court, Temple, 6 May 1823

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/15
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.

Dates: 6 May 1823
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 Thomas Greenwood, 1 Garden Court, Temple, 1 July 1824 (Undated, 'Thursday morng', date taken from postmark)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.

Dates: 1 July 1824 (Undated, 'Thursday morng', 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 Thomas Greenwood, 1 Garden Court, Temple, 29 Apr. 1825

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/24
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.

Dates: 29 Apr. 1825
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 Thomas Greenwood, 1 Garden Court, Temple, 10 June 1825

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/25
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.

Dates: 10 June 1825
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).