Asia (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16197 Collections and/or Records:
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Group of officers of the Bikaner Forces, 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 15/89
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints the majority of which are circa 290 x 215 mm., but 4-6, 9-18, 20-27, 51-55, 91-94, and 96-98 are approximately 140 x 100 mm. Nos. 4-27, 51 are scenes of the Royal Visit in November 1905, 19-26 being triumphal arches. The other subjects are the Maharajah and his family (1-3), Lallgarh Palace (28-50), Gujner (52-64), the Old Palace (65-82, 85), Bikaner City (83-84, 891-98 and Bikaner forces (89-90). There are printed captions: the collection is in a richly bound album...
Dates:
1905
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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Group of palms and lawn, Peradeniya Gardens, Grass (Andropogon), 1890 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/163
Scope and Contents
135 x 91 mm.
Dates:
1890 - 1910
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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Group of participants in diocesan Summer School, 1906 - 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 33/30
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1906 - 1938
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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Group of Phongyre at their assembly to petition the Viceroy, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/30
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1870 - 1889
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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Group of Phoongyees , 1870 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/44
Scope and Contents
The face on the man appearing in the balcony above has been cropped out of this copy, but is visible in a duplicate print at Y3029M/45 'Conghis, Birharis Priests, Rangoon, Burma'.
Dates:
1870 - 1927
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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Group of planters and their wives at a club meeting, 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/17
Scope and Contents
197 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1890
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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Group of Primary I girls, Ahlayyah Girls’ School, 1949 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/59
Scope and Contents
155 x 107 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1949 - 1959
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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[Group of Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Maharajahs of Ulwar [i.e. Alwar], Idar, Jodhpur and Bikanir], 1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 16/3
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints by J and H King of Simla bound in padded red leather album inscribed on the cover: 'Presented to Her Royal Highness: The Princess of Wales: Rawalpindi Manoeuvres and Review 5th-8th December 1905.' The prints, 290-300 x 195-230 mm unless otherwise stated, are mounted on cardboard pages with printed captions.
Dates:
1905-12-05 - 1905-12-08
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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Group of pupils at the Clarence Memorial School for Daughters of Kandyan Chiefs, 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 2/34
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of platinum prints, 280 x 225 mm, mounted in a volume bound in red leather with 'The Royal Visit to Ceylon April, 1901' and the Royal Arms on the front cover. They are by various photographers and record the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V and H.M. Queen Mary) 12-15 April, 1901. The prints are mounted on cardboard pages and have printed captions, which have been recorded as found. They may include language which is...
Dates:
1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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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Group of relatives of the 2,000 Greeks missing, 1974
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/18
Scope and Contents
Group of relatives of the 2,000 Greeks missing since the invasion, displaying photographs of their families.
Dates:
1974
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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Group of Rock Veddahs, the Aborigines of Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 2/27
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of platinum prints, 280 x 225 mm, mounted in a volume bound in red leather with 'The Royal Visit to Ceylon April, 1901' and the Royal Arms on the front cover. They are by various photographers and record the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V and H.M. Queen Mary) 12-15 April, 1901. The prints are mounted on cardboard pages and have printed captions, which have been recorded as found. They may include language which is...
Dates:
1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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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Group of Saumbur, 1907-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/281
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. And one spotted deer at the Menagerie, peoples park, Madras.
Dates:
1907-12
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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Group of Saumbur, 1907-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 2/282
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. And one spotted deer at the Menagerie, peoples park, Madras
Dates:
1907-12
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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Group of Secondary II girls, Ahlayyah Girls’ School, 1949 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/1/60
Scope and Contents
155 x 107 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1949 - 1959
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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Group of servants, 1870 - 1879
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022ZZZZ/12
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
An accordion fold album containing 12 albumen prints showing domestic scenes, 143 x 100 mm in size, with pencil captions beneath each image (written over fainter pencil captions). The photographer is unknown, but a similarly titled album of the same size has been credited to the French photographer Jean Baptiste Oscar Mallitte (1829-1905).
Dates:
1870 - 1879
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Souvenir of India
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Group of shark fishers cutting up sharks, 1908-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 17/4132
Scope and Contents
Half-plate (landscape format). Caught in the neighbourhood of Wei hai Wei: shark fin is a great Chinese delicacy. [Showing two fishermen cutting shark meat, two carrying meat hung from a pole and three other men standing by on a beach with cliffs behind].
Dates:
1908-11
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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Group of Signals Section, Malay States Volunteer Rifles in Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur, circa 1916, 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 4/38
Scope and Contents
140 x 82 mm. Showing a group in military uniform posed informally in the Lake Gardens. The figures are identified on the reverse of the print as: Albert Wolfgang JUST (1869-); Junior Officer, Perak 1892; appointed Magistrate, Kuala Lumpur 1917; William Arthur WHITE (1874-); G.P.O. Singapore 1903; Senior Assistant Auditor, External Audit 1917; Edgar Maurice BAKER (1870-); Secretariat, Singapore 1889; Assistant Treasurer, F.M.S. 1907; (Sir) Andrew CALDECOTT (1884-1951); Malay Civil Service...
Dates:
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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Group of the principal Chin chiefs, Mandalay, Burma [i.e. Mandalay, Myanmar], 1889 - 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029A/2
Scope and Contents
239 x 179 mm.
Dates:
1889 - 1891
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Burma Campaigns 1889-91
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[Group of thirteen Chinese people (mostly children)], Apr. 22.93, bright, no stop, counted 8, 1993-04-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30377H/39
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...
Dates:
1993-04-22
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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Group of those in Hall during ceremony [conferring of KGCMG on Sultan Ibrahim of Johore, May 11 1916], 1916-05-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/BAM 6/4
Scope and Contents
284 x 214 mm. A group photograph of the Sultan, European officials and Malay soldiers gathered on the steps of a specially erected open-sided wooden platform at some stage during the proceedings. Sultan Sir Ibrahim (1873-1959), who ruled from 1895 until his death, stands at the centre of the group next to Sir Arthur Henderson YOUNG (1854-1938), Governor of the Straits Settlements 1911-1919. Other figures identified in the group are: Mrs OLIVER; wife of staff officer; (Lady) Maud RIDOUT;...
Dates:
1916-05-11
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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Group of three men identified on the back as Sir J.A. Swettenham, Admiral of the Fleet Sir H. Keppel and Vice-Admiral H.R.H. Prince Henry of Prussia, 1899 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031C/1
Scope and Contents
235 x 285 mm. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Harry Keppel (1809-1904) had long and distinguished service in the royal Navy; from 1843-1844 he was Senior Officer in the Straits of Malacca and cooperated with Sir James Brooke in the supression of Borneo piracy. He paid two visits to Singapore in old age, spending the winters of 1899-1900 and 1901-1902 there. It is likely that this phtoograph dates from the former visit since Sir Alexander Swettenham was Acting Governor of the Straits Settlements...
Dates:
1899 - 1900
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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Group of thugs, 1860 - 1865
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/51
Scope and Contents
291 x 215 mm. Group portrait of seven Thugs seated cross-legged on a woven carpet. The inclusion of the carpet in the photograph, and the age of the sitters, makes it appear likely that this photograph was taken at the Jubbulpor School of Industry. This institution was founded by (Sir) William Henry Sleeman (1788-1856) to give employment to ex-Thugs and their dependents and, amongst other productions, was noted for the excellence of its carpets. The practice of ritual murder and robbery...
Dates:
1860 - 1865
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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[Group of unnamed Indians] , 1897 - 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BBB/22
Scope and Contents
210 x 150 mm.
Dates:
1897 - 1902
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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Group of Upoongyees and scholars - the central figure is that of a head-man , 1885 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/Y3029M/219
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
This collection is mostly of albumen prints of photographs taken in Burma [Myanmar] in the later nineteenth century. Many are captioned and the captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. Many photographs have been identified as the work of Felix Beato. All of these photographs belonged to Rodway Swinhoe (1863-1927), who may have bought them after the closure of Beato's emporium in Mandalay c.1906. On...
Dates:
1885 - 1927
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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Group of villagers (Cyprus), 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS.Cob.P.18.155/39
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.
Dates:
1900
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).