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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Augustus Theodore Bartholomew: Journals and papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8786
Scope and Contents Comprises a series of diaries and private journals kept by Bartholomew between 1904 and 1925 giving a detailed record of his daily life, social engagements and friendships, aspects of his work at the University Library, progress of various literary projects, plays attended and important books that he read. The entries during the last dozen years covered by the journals show Bartholomew as increasingly preoccupied by real or imagined health problems, and subject to fits of depression and...
Dates: 1897-1933
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).
 Fonds

Edward Willson: Catalogue of books and manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8368
Dates: 1857-1884
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).
 Fonds

Four volumes of Yarrell's British Birds in the fourth edition from the library of Thomas Parkin

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10245
Dates: 1834-1909
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).
 Item

General catalogue of books at Norbury, Early nineteenth century

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10304/32
Scope and Contents

A list of books, docketed '/ Norbury / - Genl. Catalogue of Books'. An entry on the last bifolio reading 'Hisy Bucaniers America' suggests a terminal date after the publication of James Burney's History of the Buccaneers of America in 1816.

Dates: Early nineteenth century
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).