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Switzerland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

 File

"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter, "Other Travels, 1946-49", 1946-06 - 1967-08

Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/51
Scope and Contents

Account of climbing the Matterhorn during a visit to Zermatt, Switzerland, 1946, visiting the Eastern Vilayets, Turkey, 1948, and visiting Canada with Leo Amery, 1949, which was not included in the published volume. Includes a few original letters from JA to his parents.

Dates: 1946-06 - 1967-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Correspondence on foreign observatories, 1958 - 1961

Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/437
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including those in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Finland and Denmark.

Dates: 1958 - 1961
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, 1957 - 1968

Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/780
Scope and Contents Correspondence with various overseas observatories, S-Z, including the following items:Saudi Arabia: correspondence regarding the setting up of a large telescope in Riyadh, and minutes and correspondence concerning a special committee to advice Riyadh University.South America: correspondence with the National Observatory of Argentina.Spain: correspondence regarding the Seville Observatory and its lease by the Royal Greenwich Observatory from the Jesuit...
Dates: 1957 - 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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Correspondence with foreign observatories, 1953 - 1958

Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/431
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with foreign observatories, including those in Finland, Belgium, Mexico, South Africa (the Union Observatory), Italy, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Rome, Argentina and Brazil.

Dates: 1953 - 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 the Chief Assistant, 1894 - 1906

Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/19
Scope and Contents Correspondence of the Chief Assistants with the Astronomer Royal during the latter's official absences.(1) Letters from F.W. Dyson to the Astronomer Royal, 1894-1895, covering the following subjects:1. Forwarding of mail from the Admiralty on the subject of chronometers.2. Forwarding personal mail.3. Repairs to the Royal Observatory letterbox and a request for instructions.4. Administrative matters.5. Information on the use and the repair of...
Dates: 1894 - 1906
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

Lady Lloyd's diaries, 1903 - 1966

Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 28
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers consist of: personal material, including photographs, press cuttings and correspondence; papers on Eastern affairs, including reports and correspondence from Lloyd's time at Constantinople and official copies of telegrams to and from the Turkish Government; papers and correspondence from Lloyd's various Eastern postings in the First World War; papers from India, during Lloyd's governorship of Bombay and also later papers from Lloyd's membership of the India Group; official...
Dates: 1903 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
 Item

(Mlle Guenther, and) 'Everybody at lunch'; secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1081
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

'Nora Frieda & Olga asleep in the hay'; secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1082
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

'Nora & Johanna at the door of our chalet'; secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1078
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

'Nora Johanna Babette Frieda'; secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1083
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

'Nora & Johanna'; secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1076
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

'Nora & Johanna'; secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1080
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

NS I Chap 4-95 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 45: 110r
Scope and Contents

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

NS II Palaeontology, geology-278 Note, 1857-02-17

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 205.9: 325r
Scope and Contents

L[y]ells letter to Horner Heer says all the M[ount] Bolca fossil plants different from Heers Lower M


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1857-02-17
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

'Olga Sophie Marjory & Rosemary'; secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1074
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Papers on Universal Time, 1885 - 1898

Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/146
Scope and Contents Canadian and North American Papers relating to Universal Time:Printed notice from the Royal Society of Canada drawing attention to matters of time determination and nomenclature, 1890.Letter from Wilhelm Prealt of Hamburg, in German, 1890.Letter from Sandford Fleming, Ottawa, enclosing a Bill to be laid before the United States Senate regarding the reckoning of time in the United States, 1891.Letter from [J.P. Sohiham] of Vienna sending a copy of a booklet by...
Dates: 1885 - 1898
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).
 Item

Papers relating to MT’s visit to Switzerland, 1980, 1980-08 - 1980-09

Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/20/6/7/1
Scope and Contents

Includes: lists of guests meeting MT at a luncheon on 15 August (with briefing notes on the individuals); two letters to MT from Yehudi Menuhin, both August 1980; and listing by Sir Douglas Glover of people MT had met, September 1980

Dates: 1980-08 - 1980-09
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in June 2015
 Fonds

Personal Papers of Rosemary Saunders, 1973

Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Saunders
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises a diary of a field trip to Switzerland; photographs of the participants in the trip; and a bundle of geography notes.

Dates: 1973
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Report on Swiss opinion of the British navy and propaganda, 1940

Reference Code: GBR/0014/FICA 1/1/5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Papers on overseas propaganda.

Dates: 1940
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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Transcript of interview: Basil Eastwood, 2005

Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 107
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2005
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
 Item

(unidentified man and laden mule); secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1077
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

(unidentified man and woman); secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1075
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
 Item

(unidentified man and woman) 'The field below the chalet'; secondary type: photo, 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 1079
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida Darwin née Emma Cecilia Farrer to Sir Horace Darwin; written at [Switzerland] in enclosed with See item 1073


(Letter, photo)

Dates: 1901-01-01 - 1901-12-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.