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Copy memorandum by Lord Bessborough [Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough], 1932-03-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LASL 8/7/1
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Memorandum of a conversation with Sir Winston Churchill, giving his views on the Byng Case, ie whether Lord Byng, when Governor General of Canada, was right to grant a dissolution to Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada, which he had previously denied to William Mackenzie King, in the first year of the new Canadian Parliament.

Dates: 1932-03-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Permission to consult CLOSED material within the Lascelles papers (LASL 1/2/1-6; and sections of LASL 2-4) and the catalogue describing the closed material must be obtained from the Royal Archives. The remainder of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Copy of an unpublished memoir, 1865-1926, 1926 - 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CAVN 1/1
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Comprising: Home, Clevedon, Eton; Sandhurst and Examinations; The Grenadier Guards; Racing: a Story of the Inevitable; Ireland; Canada; South African War 1900-1902; Tennis, Hunting, Stalking, Golf, Fishing and Shooting; The First German War: France and Belgium; Italy; Some Notes on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto and After; From Aldershot to Washington; and War Office 1922-26.
With correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1925 (2).

Dates: 1926 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1908-05 - 1914-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/1
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Alfred Deakin [Leader of the Opposition, Australia] on LSA's case against Home Rule; Frederick Oliver on the intention of David Lloyd George [? Chancellor of the Exchequer] to visit Canada [part of letter missing]; General Sir Ian Hamilton [Adjutant-General to Forces] on the hostility between China and Japan, and which side Britain should back. Also includes copies of letters from LSA to: Andrew Bonar Law [Leader of the Conservative Party] on the state of...
Dates: 1908-05 - 1914-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - F, 1941-01 - 1941-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/32
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of convoy commodores and of the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (3); the Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on concerns about the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (2); Sir Walford Selby [former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna] on uniting the anti-Nazi elements in Austria (2); 1st Lord Sankey; Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council,...
Dates: 1941-01 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - K, 1927-12 - 1928-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/15
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Herbert Baker on his plans for a new memorial area in Westminster Abbey [London]; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on LSA's return from his Empire Tour and on his impressions of Canada; Sir Otto Beit; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden, 1st Sea Lord; Alfred Beit; Richard Bennett, Leader of the Conservative Party in Canada, on the possibility of a uniform currency throughout the Empire; Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in...
Dates: 1927-12 - 1928-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - K, 1926-01 - 1927-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/11
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Anatole de Monzie, French Minister of Public Works; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; 2nd Lord Lamington [earlier Charles Cochrane Baillie]; Elise Aubry (4); [George] Nevile Bland, Foreign Office; [?] Lucy Baldwin; Sir John Beale, on protection for manufacturing; Sir Hugh Bell, on the death of his daughter Gertrude Bell (2); Sir Henry Dobbs [High Commissioner and Consul-General for Iraq] on subjects including the...
Dates: 1926-01 - 1927-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1935-01 - 1935-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/25
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Julian Amery; Vera Astley-Rushton on the death of her husband Edward Astley-Rushton; Stanley Baldwin, thanking LSA for his book ["The Forward View"]; Jacques Bardoux on subjects including Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on the case for isolationism; Richard Bennett, Canadian Leader of the Opposition, on his defeat in the Canadian elections; Sir Henry Birchenough; Sir William Birdwood on subjects including...
Dates: 1935-01 - 1935-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1936-12 - 1937-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/27
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Joe Amery (3); Harold Armstrong; Mary Arnold-Forster; 1st Lord Baden-Powell; Sir Abe Bailey; Stanley Baldwin (2); Richard Bennett [Canadian Leader of the Opposition] on the proposed Anglo-American trade treaty; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] on the Imperial Conference; Edward Keeling, Secretary of the British School of Archæology in Iraq, inviting LSA to become President of the school; James Butler; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime...
Dates: 1936-12 - 1937-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1939-01 - 1939-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/29
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams on LSA's being included in the new Cabinet; Harold Armstrong on LSA's advice to delay publishing his unfavourable biography of Winston Churchill or revise it (6); Sir Abe Bailey (3); Stanley Baldwin on a poem by LSA; Jacques Bardoux; Robert Bower, RAF Coastal Command; Sir Frank Fox (2); [Edward] Leslie Burgin [Minister of Supply] on buying policy; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] on subjects including a proposal to give a copy of the...
Dates: 1939-01 - 1939-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1946-07 - 1948-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/41
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir [Leslie] Patrick Abercrombie; A V Alexander, Minister of Defence on subjects including LSA's ideas on the National Service Bill (2); [Albert] Spenser Allberry (2); Carleton Allen; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Sir Algernon Aspinall; Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees, on subjects including the chances of civil war in Palestine; [William] Bankes Amery [Head of British Food Mission to Australia] on the food parcels sent to...
Dates: 1946-07 - 1948-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1955-01 - 1955-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/51
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 9th Lord Albemarle [earlier Lord Bury]; John Allen; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Katharine, Duchess of Atholl; Clement Attlee, recalling the fall of the Chamberlain Government and the draft letter by himself, LSA and others asking Winston Churchill to remove [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax from his new Cabinet; Archduke Robert of Austria; Frank Aydelotte; Cyril Bailey; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; Thomas Balogh, with a memorandum on the...
Dates: 1955-01 - 1955-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1919-01 - 1920-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/2
Scope and Contents Correspondents (mainly congratulating LSA on his appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies) include: Sir William Allardyce, Governor of the Bahamas (2); Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Baikie; Henry Birchenough; General Sir William Birdwood; Reginald Brock; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Lionel Curtis on the British colonial section in the peace negotiations; Lord Curzon; Thomas Comyn-Platt, offering to work as LSA's Private Secretary (2); Alison Cuninghame; Violet...
Dates: 1919-01 - 1920-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1948-01 - 1949-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/43
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alexander [Governor-General of Canada]; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on subjects including recalling his time as Assistant Editor of the Outlook with J L Garvin (2); Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees; Thomas Balogh; Jacques Bardoux on the decline of the Communist Party in France and the death of his wife (2); Sir Ernest Barker; Enid Moberly Bell; 1st Lord Birdwood; Robert Boothby [delegate...
Dates: 1948-01 - 1949-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence L - Z, 1928-01 - 1929-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/16
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Henry Lewin (2); Basil Liddell Hart on an article by LSA on army reform; O Louwers, General Secretary of the Institut Colonial International, inviting LSA to join the institute (3); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on a suggested honour for Major-General Charles Luard [General Officer Commanding Forces in South China]; Harry Luke, thanking LSA for his appointment as Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone; Joseph Lyons, Premier of Tasmania; 14th...
Dates: 1928-01 - 1929-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence L - Z, 1925-12 - 1926-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/12
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Lloyd, High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, congratulating LSA on the negotiations over Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq] and his difficulties with Saad Zaghlul Pasha [President of Egypt] and the weakened British position in Egypt; Beryl Lafone on the enforced retirement of her husband, Edgar Lafone [Chief Constable Metropolitan Police]; Edgar Lafone; Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Brentford]; 14th Lord Lovat [earlier Simon Fraser] (2);...
Dates: 1925-12 - 1926-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence M, Part 5: Lord Minto, 1903-10-23 - 1904-08-20

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/2/26
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Comprising correspondence with Lord Minto [Governor General of Canada] (18).

Dates: 1903-10-23 - 1904-08-20
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence M - Z, 1927-01 - 1927-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/14
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Roderick Macleod (3); 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor, on a memorandum by LSA on House of Lords reform; 1st Lord Midleton [earlier St John Brodrick] on House of Lords reform; Howard Moffat, Premier and Minister of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] on the death of Sir Charles Coghlan [former Premier] and on LSA's visit to Rhodesia; John Lockhart, Philip Allan and Company Limited, publishers, on LSA's proposed book on Imperial economics (3); Michael...
Dates: 1927-01 - 1927-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence on academic works, 1847 - 1850

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/465
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on various academic works, including W.H. Stevenson's thoughts on hydrogen, gas and water; E.W. Brayley's injury to book bindings by gas; and R.S. Poole's places of the sun and moon's longitude in regard to ancient Egyptian chronology. There are papers by F. Coxworthy on the influence of electricity in regard to various scientific phenomena; M. Faraday's galvanic experiments; Airy's essays on the route of the Israelites during the Exodus; a small map of North Canada...
Dates: 1847 - 1850
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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Correspondence on colonial observatories, 1959 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/440
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Correspondence regarding colonial observatories, including those in Canada and South Africa.

Dates: 1959 - 1960
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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Correspondence on eclipses, 1910 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 8/91
Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding eclipses, including letters concerning the eclipses of 28 April 1911, 24 August 1914, 21 September 1922, 14 January 1926, 29 June 1927, 9 May 1929, 21-22 October 1930, 31 August 1932, 19 June 1936 and 29 May 1938. The correspondence is concerned principally with the choosing of sites, the shipping of equipment, insurance, payment for observers and results. There is correspondence on the instruments left in Russia at the beginning of the First World War and letters...
Dates: 1910 - 1940
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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Correspondence on observatories, 1948 - 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/430
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Correspondence, notes and other papers regarding observatories, including sections on foreign observatories; English observatories; the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge; colonial observatories, including those in Canada and South Africa; Commonwealth observatories, including those in Australia; the Norman Lockyer Observatory; the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; and Denmark.

Dates: 1948 - 1952
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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Correspondence on observatories, 1924 - 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 8/22
Scope and Contents (1) Miscellaneous foreign observatoriesLetter from R. Atkinson to Colonel Gerado Dianderas, Peru, regarding equipment for the proposed Arequipa Observatory, 1946.Correspondence with the Hong Kong Royal Observatory regarding time signals, 1946.Letter from S. Jarocinski, Warsaw, to Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd, regarding the Babia Góra Observatory, 1937.(2) Miscellaneous British observatoriesLetters from E.M. Lindsay, Armagh Observatory, to Sir...
Dates: 1924 - 1948
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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Correspondence on the Nautical Almanac Office, 1939 - 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 8/27
Scope and Contents (1) Miscellaneous correspondence and related material concerning the Nautical Almanac Office. There are papers regarding staff finance, including concession passes issued to staff, salaries, reference sheets and data supplied by the N.A.O. to H.G. Barker, Secretary and Cashier for the Royal Observatory, for making payments. There is also correspondence regarding Hollerith equipment for the N.A.O.; telegrams from the Colonial Office regarding Greenwich Mean Time and British Summer Time in the...
Dates: 1939 - 1956
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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Correspondence with colonial observatories., 1952 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/434
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Correspondence with colonial observatories, including those in Canada and South Africa.

Dates: 1952 - 1958
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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Correspondence with foreign observatories, 1964 - 1968

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/779
Scope and Contents Correspondence with various overseas observatories, A-R, including the following items:Australia: papers concerning the 150-inch telescope proposal, the use of the Isaac Newton Telescope at the Mount Stromlo Observatory, and other observatories.Egypt: correspondence concerned mainly with the Helwan Observatory, including observing trips, maintenance and students studying at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.Africa: correspondence with various African observatories,...
Dates: 1964 - 1968
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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