Halifax
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Captain Houston Stewart's report on Captain Graydon's celestial compass, 1826
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/43: 520-523
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding the effect of magnetic variation on the mariner's compass, the use of magnetic variation to establish longitude and the cause of magnetic variation.
Dates:
1826
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).
Series
From James Bolton, Halifax, No 9, 16 Jan. 1791
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8190/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Letters to Robson, with the exception of Add. 8190/13, on botanical and other matters.
Dates:
16 Jan. 1791
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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Letter concerning Barraud's chronometers Nos. 612 & 777, 1822-02-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 5/229: 38
Scope and Contents
Sent from John Barrow to John Pond.
Dates:
1822-02-27
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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Mounted photograph of All Souls' Church, Halifax
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8293/D/2/5
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...
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.
File
Papers on Government superintendence, 1837 - 1848
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/2
Scope and Contents
The mutual accusations of Lt. W.S. Stratford and W. Woolhouse, 1837.Correspondence on the Superintendent of the proposed Naval School at Portsmouth, 1838-1839.Letter from Captain Shirreff to Airy regarding the rate of pay of schoolmasters in the Navy, 12 August 1840, including 'Naval Notice on Regulations for the Qualification, Pay, and Half Pay of Naval Instructors and Schoolmasters'.Letters from the Admiralty examining the Greenwich Hospital Schools and concerning...
Dates:
1837 - 1848
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).
File
Theophilus Lessey: Sermons
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6228
Scope and Contents
'Skeletons' of sermons preached by the Revd Theophilus Lessey and other preachers in the vicinity of Halifax, taken down by S. Turner, some from notes by Benjamin Terry.
Dates:
1825-1827
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).
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Cambridge University Library