India (nation)
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Letters from India
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 72
Scope and Contents
A transcript of letters from Copeland to his mother, 6 June 1917 - 22 April 1918, 236 pages, describing his service in Agra and Chakrata, U.P; Maymo, Burma; and Poona. The volume is marked 'Volume 5', but nothing is known of the earlier and later volumes, or of the fate of the writer. The transcript was presumably made by Copeland's mother, although the date it was written is not known. The volume includes 101 photographs and 12 postcards of India and Burma, including architectural...
Dates:
1917 - 1918
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Letters from India, 1915 - 1927
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 49/1/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Rice's time in India, 1915 (2 letters) and 1925-1927 (14 letters), comprised predominantly of letters to his mother.
Dates:
1915 - 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).
Sub-Fonds
Letters from Lt Harley in Nigeria, Aden and India, 1973
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 22/40
Scope and Contents
Xerox copies of letters of 1921-1927 describing Hartley's impressions of life in the countries he visited and of his military duties. There is an accompanying list of his letters of 1917-1927, from which this selection was made.
Dates:
1973
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Cambridge University Library
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Commonwealth miscellanea
Fonds
Letters of Hugh Drummond Pearson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 356
Scope and Contents
Following Hugh Pearson’s death, the principal recipients of his letters, his mother Mrs Jean Pearson and his youngest sister Ursula Pearson, prepared them for publication along with extracts from his diaries. Copies were sent to London literary agents in 1928 and again in 1930, but plans to publish the memoirs as a book with the title ‘A sapper’s letters to his mother’ were never realised. It appears that this manuscript is a copy of the projected book, which was to be divided into three...
Dates:
1894 - 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Sub-Fonds
Letters to Archibald Colquhoun from Indian colleagues, 1882 - 1884
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 63/4
Scope and Contents
Four letters written by old friends from Colquhoun's time in India, including references to mutual friends and past events.
Dates:
1882 - 1884
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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Cambridge University Library
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Asia miscellanea
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[Level crossing, ? Walajabad], 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/115
Scope and Contents
101 x 73 mm. As captioned.
Dates:
1895
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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[Level crossing, ? Walajabad], 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3029C/116
Scope and Contents
100 x 72 mm. As captioned.
Dates:
1895
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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Lidar [Liddar], 1902 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q/111
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.
Dates:
1902 - 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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Lidar [Liddar], 1902 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022Q/114
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.
Dates:
1902 - 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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Liddar River, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/40
Scope and Contents
52 x 48 mm. A view of the river, which flows near Pahlgam, Kashmir, with trees in the background.
Dates:
1939
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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[Liddar River], 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/43
Scope and Contents
53 x 49 mm. A river with trees in the background. Two figures are visible on the left of the photograph.
Dates:
1939
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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Liddar River, 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/46
Scope and Contents
51 x 42 mm. A man and a woman sat on a log in the middle of the river, which flows near Pahlgam, Kashmir.
Dates:
1939
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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Linga chapel in the Great Cave, Elephanta, 1873
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 21/1/9
Scope and Contents
205 x 157 mm. (p. 73).
Dates:
1873
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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Lioness
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/31
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
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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Lions
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/33
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...
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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List of China and South African War medals [Gwalior Army], 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/1/14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.
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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[List of military honours], 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 89/35/2/17
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.
Dates:
1906
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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List of the countries in Hindostan mentioned in the Burmese religious works; and Miscellaneous notes in English and Burmese on Buddhism, 1825 - 1841
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 65/2/8
Scope and Contents
There are two copies of the list, a draft and a finished copy. On the latter is written, 'Some Bengalee Bramins at Ava furnished me with these lists of the countries and cities mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures with corresponding names in Bengalee Sanscrit. H. Burney' (12 pages).
Dates:
1825 - 1841
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 8, "The First British Empire" [eventually included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various post-war revises., 1954 - Jan 1957
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/432A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript and typed drafts and galley proofs (some described as first, second, third, fourth, or penultimate revise, "duplicate", or final proof) for: chapters entitled "The (American) War of Independence", "The United States", "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Austrian Succession and the Forty-Five", "Colonial America" or "The American Colonies", "The First World War", "The Royal Revenge and the Conflict of the Peoples" or "The Quarrel with America", "The House of Hanover", "(Sir)...
Dates:
1954 - Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: articles., Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/563
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Is the Navy Obsolete?" on international reaction to the naval rebuilding programme; "The Ebbing Tide of Socialism" on the limited effects of Socialism in Britain; "Can Partition Bring Peace to Palestine?"; "Why I am Against Partition"; "Ten Million People are in Peril!" on the risk to Europe, especially Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia], from Germany; "My Prophecies for 1937" on the danger of war; "India"...
Dates:
Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles., 01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/232
Scope and Contents
Proofs and cuttings of articles by WSC on the following subjects: "Mr Macdonald's Opportunity" on the visit of Ramsay Macdonald to the United States; "The Naval Argument" on British and American naval policy; "Prohibition" in the United States; "California"; "Wall Street" on the Wall Street crash; "The Battlefields" about Virginia; "Hollywood"; "Palestine and the Zionists" on violence in Palestine and the need for reconciliation between Jews and Arabs; "Why We Lost" on the defeat of the...
Dates:
01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles., 01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/231
Scope and Contents
Proofs and cuttings of articles by WSC on the following subjects: a review of the speeches of Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith]; the life of Lord Ypres [earlier Sir John French and Lord French] including a summary of his career and relationship to WSC; "Will the British Empire Last?" for "Answers" on the principle of self-government, the unifying effect of the British monarchy and the administration of India and Egypt; American industry and finance; "Socialist Quackery" for the Daily Mail...
Dates:
01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: Articles 1., Jan 1934 - Aug 1934
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/498A-B
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "What Neville Ought to Do" on the April 1934 Budget; "Where are we heading?" on progress since 1915; "The Last Night of the Old World" on the beginning of the First World War; "Will the World swing back to Monarchies?" in support of monarchy; "Are Parliaments Obsolete?" in support of democracy and constitutional government; "My Fight for Lancashire" and "Our Last Chance" on the new Indian Parliament and the Lancashire...
Dates:
Jan 1934 - Aug 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles: Amalgamated Press., Jan 1934 - Aug 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/501
Scope and Contents
Proofs, press cuttings and correspondence on the following articles by WSC: "Do Bye-Elections Count?" discounting the East Fulham bye-election, stating the differences between bye-elections and general elections and discussing the divisions in the Conservative Party; "Defence not Defiance" on the current strength of the country; "How we made the Irish treaty" in defence of the Irish Settlement [1922] and WSC's meetings with Michael Collins; "Will the League survive?" on the crisis facing the...
Dates:
Jan 1934 - Aug 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles by WSC for the Daily Mail., 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/317
Scope and Contents
Proofs and newspaper cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "I was conscious through it all" and "My New York [United States] misadventure" on WSC's accident in which he was hit by a motor car; "The Academy reveals Britain's brave gaiety" on the Royal Academy exhibition (including a draft of the article by Edward Marsh); "My happy days in the Bahamas "; "Words on the Irish Treaty" on the announcement by [Eamon] De Valera of the abolition of the Oath of Allegiance; "Lord Oxford [and...
Dates:
1932
Conditions Governing Access:
Open