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Latitudes and longitudes from a voyage of HMS Mary Ann to Jamaica in 1822, 1822-03-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 297-299
Scope and Contents
Certified as correct by Master James Ferrier.
Dates:
1822-03-06
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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Le Balleurs de L'ovatoire of the University of Angers on some new lunar tables, 1789-06-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/46: 8-10
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding various astronomical and nautical tables.
Dates:
1789-06-01
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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Letter about collecting their parents from London in the middle of an air raid and wartime work, 1940-09-17 - 1940-09-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/7/1/20
Scope and Contents
Adele and the children have been home for nearly three weeks and their parents had been to stay but had returned to London for a youth meeting their father was to take at Church. After the big bombings of London began, he had travelled to London to check on them after hearing no news and found them ready to leave, with the house on the corner of their road 'blown to bits'. Their parents were now staying with them in Cambridge which, apart from the occasional alarm, was so far spared from the...
Dates:
1940-09-17 - 1940-09-18
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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Letter accompanying a report concerning repairs to a chronometer, 1833-03-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 216
Scope and Contents
The letter is unsigned and the report is non-extant. Sent to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1833-03-19
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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Letter accompanying a sliding rule invented by Mr Glazebrook, 1822-06-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/30: 329-330
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1822-06-04
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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Letter accompanying delivery of a two-day chronometer for submission in trial, 1830-09-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 172
Scope and Contents
Sent from John Grant to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1830-09-29
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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Letter accompanying delivery of Lowden chronometer No. 2 to the Royal Observatory, 1832-04-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 211
Scope and Contents
Sent from William Lowden to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1832-04-18
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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Letter accompanying receipts for repairs to chronometer Nos. 699, 902 and 1095, 1831-06-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 194
Scope and Contents
Sent from Parkinson & Frodsham to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1831-06-07
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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Letter advising chronometer not for sale, 1828-07-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 78-78a
Scope and Contents
The letter, sent from W. Lowden to Thomas Taylor, also expresses hope that the Lowden chronometer will succeed in a trial.
Dates:
1828-07-07
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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Letter advising completion of repairs to Margetts chronometer No. 223, 1831-04-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 181-181a
Scope and Contents
Sent from Clement Harris to John Pond.
Dates:
1831-04-20
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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Letter advising cost for repairs to a chronometer, 1831-04-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 184
Scope and Contents
Sent from Richard Webster to John Pond.
Dates:
1831-04-23
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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Letter advising cost of repair for a silver chronometer, 1831-11-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 208
Scope and Contents
Sent from Parkinson and Frodsham to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1831-11-02
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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Letter advising cost of repair for chronometer No. 589, 1832-01-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 210
Scope and Contents
Sent from Barraud and Sons to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1832-01-05
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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Letter advising cost of repair to 8-day chronometer No. 342, 1833-07-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 218
Scope and Contents
Sent from Thomas Hewett to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1833-07-18
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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Letter advising costs of repair for chronometer Nos. 10 and 777, 1831-10-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 207
Scope and Contents
Sent from Barraud and Sons to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1831-10-31
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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Letter advising of price of chronometer Nos. 33 and 35, 1829-08-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 110
Scope and Contents
Sent from Henry Appleton to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1829-08-03
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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Letter advising on the price of chronometer No.741, 1829-08-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 120
Scope and Contents
Sent from C. James Cope to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1829-08-06
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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Letter advising price of chronometer, 1828-07-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 80
Scope and Contents
Sent from G. Thorne to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1828-07-07
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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Letter advising price of chronometer, 1829-08-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 119
Scope and Contents
Sent from Edward Taylor to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1829-08-05
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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Letter advising price of chronometer No. 20, 1829-08-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 111
Scope and Contents
Sent from Peter Des Granges to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1829-08-03
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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Letter advising price of chronometer No. 40, 1829-08-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 112
Scope and Contents
Sent from George Heyes to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1829-08-03
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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Letter advising price of chronometer No. 368, 1829-07-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 109
Scope and Contents
Sent from Thomas Cotterell to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1829-07-04
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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Letter advising price of chronometer No. 925, 1829-08-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 117
Scope and Contents
Sent from Brockbank & Atkins to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1829-08-05
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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Letter advising price of chronometers, 1828-07-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 81
Scope and Contents
Sent from Richard Webster to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1828-07-07
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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Letter advising sale price for chronometer No. 147, 1828-07-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/237: 72
Scope and Contents
Sent from McCabes & Strachan to Thomas Taylor.
Dates:
1828-07-05
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).