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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Adamson: the papers of George Worsley Adamson

Reference Code: GBR/1058/ADA
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of original artwork for editions of 'Meet My Folks', 'How the Whale Became' and 'The Iron Man'. There is also a small quantity of correspondence received by Adamson from Ted Hughes regarding illustrations for Hughes's books.

Dates: 1960 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access: All material within the collection is open for consultation. Excluding material that is the copyright of the Ted Hughes Estates (for which see below), photographs may be taken for private research purposes only. Those wishing to publish any material from the collection are required to seek the permission of the relevant Estate or company prior to publication. Items that are not the copyyright of the George Adamson Estate are noted within the catalogue. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for the George Adamson Estate. The material within the collection that is the copright of the Ted Hughes Estate is open for consultation but photographs may not be taken without the permission of the Ted Hughes Estate. Those wishing to publish any material that is the copyright of the Ted Hughes Estate should seek permission from the Estate prior to publication. The Archivist can provide further information and contact details for the Estate.
Found in: Pembroke College Library / Adamson: the papers of George Worsley Adamson
 Item

Churchill College Cambridge: The Guide, 2009

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CCRF/130/26
Scope and Contents

Published by the Development Office for the College's 50th anniversary, the illustrated guide by Mark Goldie is an information resource about the College and contains an account of what is distinctive about Churchill plus a description of the buildings and fabric, works of art on display.

Dates: 2009
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: College publications are open for access.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/[College Archive], Official Archive of Churchill College / Historical reference / College publications / Official College publications
 Series — DCPP/AMO/2

Diary of Anne Elizabeth Fisher, vol II, 1853-06-25 - 1854-04-30

Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/AMO/2
Scope and Contents Includes small sketch of an anteater and a pressed leaf, with list of books read in 1853-54 at back. Notable entries include: (July 1853) visits to the Royal Academy, with details of some of the paintings seen; (16 July) move into the new house, 14 York Place; (20 July) visit to see the 'Aztec Lilliputians' at Hanover Square Rooms; (12 August) rumour that Professor [William Webster] Fisher is to marry Kate Woodham; (22-30 August) holiday in the Isle of Wight, returning via Portsmouth and a...
Dates: 1853-06-25 - 1854-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Open. Access to transcripts may be provided as an alternative.
Found in: Downing College / GBR/0269/DCPP, Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates / Diaries and photographs of Anne Elizabeth Fisher (Annie Bennett Pike, later Annie Amos)
 Fonds

Donald Bowen Collection

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 360
Scope and Contents Memoirs (volumes 1-3 largely relate to upbringing, war service and work at the Commonwealth Institute; volumes 4-11 relate to the period after Bowen's retirement in 1978 and have little reference to the Commonwealth), including personal documents, certificates, photographs, drawings, correspondence, essays, notes, maps, newspaper extracts, obituaries, exhibition catalogues and reviews, lectures and drawings. Together with two sketchbooks, a selection of original drawings, and two published...
Dates: 1920 - 2019
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 / Donald Bowen Collection
 File

Etchings by Joseph Gray and Cedric Hodgson , c 1920-40

Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 2/17
Scope and Contents Five mounted etchings: two by Cedric Hodgson, of [? possibly ballet dancers on stage] in a rural scene and of boys on a bridge, entitled "The Bridge"; three by Joseph Gray [from the Battle of Britain series, 1940], showing a street scene at night [during the Blitz, entitled "Albemarle Street"], a ruined church interior with fallen bells in the foreground [St. Clement Danes church, London, entitled "‘The Bells of St. Clements"], and a river scene of the Thames embankment, with industrial...
Dates: c 1920-40
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/BRDW, The Broadwater Collection / Papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill / Papers
 File

"Graffiti: Artworks and poems from Churchill College" by John Kinsella, 2012

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CCRF/130/35
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes papers and artefacts connected with or about the history of Churchill College

Dates: 2012
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: College publications are open for access.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/[College Archive], Official Archive of Churchill College / Historical reference / College publications / Official College publications
 File

Henry Gyles: Some Rules for Painting upon Messo Tinto Justly Imparted

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4024
Scope and Contents

Probably written in Gyles' own hand, 12 folios: (fo. 1): 'Treatise in Autograph of Henry Gyles Glasspainter on Coloring Mezzotints & transferring them to glass' (19th century hand); (fo. 11v) red crayon drawings of human figures and a man-of-war, roughly contemporary with the text.

Dates: 1680 (Circa)
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 / Henry Gyles: Some Rules for Painting upon Messo Tinto Justly Imparted
 File

Our Own Magazine

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6232
Scope and Contents

Vol. 2, 1867.

Dates: 1867
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 / Our Own Magazine
 File

Photographs of Churchill College Chapel and sculptures in the college grounds, 2005 - 2009

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CCPH/10/4
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of the chapel including exterior shots, the stained glass windows (designed by John Piper and made by Patrick Reyntiens), the cross and organ. Also photographs of sculptures Four Square Walk Through by Barbara Hepworth, Gemini by Denis Mitchell, Spiral by Michael Gillespie and Flight by Peter Lyon.

Dates: 2005 - 2009
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/[College Archive], Official Archive of Churchill College / Photograph and Audio-Visual collection / Albums / collections
 File

Sir Richard Colt Hoare: Notes on paintings in Italy

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4155
Scope and Contents

Manuscript in the Sandars Collection. Two notebooks on paintings in Italy, bound together. I. Notes on paintings and other works of art in Rome (fos 1-62). The main description is on the rectos, the versos are generally occupied by additional notes. An entry on fo. 29 is dated 17 January 1787. II. Similar notes for Florence, Bologna and other towns in Northern Italy (fos 63-162). Fos 85-112, 158-162 and many of the versos are blank.

Dates: 1787 (Circa)
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 / Sir Richard Colt Hoare: Notes on paintings in Italy
 File

Various correspondence, 1933 - 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/27
Scope and Contents

Letters to Clementine from: T E Lawrence [T E Shaw, 'Lawrence of Arabia'] on his cottage "Clouds Hill" [Dorset], the effect of hearing Churchill's broadcast ["Whither Britain?"], January 1934 and plans for visits (4); William Nicholson on various visits (4), illustrated; Charles Geoffroy-Dechaume, on his daughter's marriage and a commission to copy David's portrait of Cardinal Fesch, illustrated with a sketch of the original portrait.

Dates: 1933 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CSCT, The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell / Lady Spencer-Churchill's correspondence and personal papers
 File

William Morris: The Lovers of Gudrun

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6162
Scope and Contents

A calligraphic copy by William Graily Hewitt of William Morris's The lovers of Gudrun, commissioned by Charles Fairfax Murray, 1908-1909.

Dates: 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / William Morris: The Lovers of Gudrun
 Fonds

William Smith (1756-1835) and family correspondence, journals and other papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7621
Scope and Contents The larger part of the collection dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chronicling William Smith's personal and political career, as well as illustrating the lives of his wife Frances and their children. The collection includes letters from Smith's friends, among them Charles James Fox, William Wilberforce and Sir Francis Burdett. The papers also chronicle Smith's time in Paris in 1790, where he witnessed and recorded his reactions to the 14th July celebrations. The...
Dates: 1678-1951
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 / William Smith (1756-1835) and family correspondence, journals and other papers

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