India
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Birds-124 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 84.2: 177r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Bowater Sanderson: Naval Journal
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9516
Scope and Contents
The journal (c. 305 pages) begins in September 1747, describing the voyage out to India, and concludes with the return of Royal Duke to England on 5 June 1750. The volume includes navigational exercises, transcribed sailing directions and pencil landfalls, and a sketch of the British settlement at Oriocopong.
Dates:
1747-1750
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cassia glauca / Cassia pubescens / cotyledons, 1878-11-13 - 1878-11-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 209.6: 55-56
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1878-11-13 - 1878-11-21
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David Binnie: World tour diaries and photographs
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8558-8560
Dates:
1873-1874
Conditions Governing Access:
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Dendrobium [application of caustic], 1879-07-05 - 1879-07-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 209.8: 65
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1879-07-05 - 1879-07-14
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Dimorphism / Oxalis being trimorphic in S[outh] Africa & S[outh] America, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 111: B3r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Elizabeth Adelaide Manning: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6379
Scope and Contents
Includes material relating to Indian schooling and religion, work of the National Indian Association, childcare and literature.
Dates:
1844-1888
Conditions Governing Access:
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Expression / Blyth says some Indian Ruminants allied to Antelope erect hair, 1867-01-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 189: 13r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1867-01-22
Conditions Governing Access:
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Expression queries (answers summarised geographically): Australia and India, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 186: 22r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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Expression queries (answers summarised geographically): India, Ceylon, South Africa, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 186: 23r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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found the earth in the intestinal canal praesepe cum lapillis commixtum, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 64.1: 93
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin lacks beginning
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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Hardinge Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hardinge
Scope and Contents
The diplomatic letters and papers of Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, accumulated during his years in the Diplomatic Service. They include papers from his many foreign appointments including Constantinople, Tehran, St. Petersburg, and Paris. He served as Viceroy of India 1910-16 and a large amount of correspondence relates to this period. Lord Hardinge also accompanied King Edward VII as Minister in Attendance on His Majesty's journeys abroad. The bulk of the collection consists of original...
Dates:
1880-1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Sub-Series
Letters to India, 1800-1883 (with some photocopies made in c. 1983)
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/C10
Scope and Contents
Fair copies of letters from Jardine, Matheson & Co. (J10/15-67) and its precursors (J10/1-14), Canton, Macao and Hong Kong, to correspondents in India, as well as some in the East Indies, Australia and other locations. Most of the letters are unsigned. Prior to 1832 the letters are from the companies that preceded Jardine, Matheson & Co., notably Charles, Magniac & Co. and Magniac & Co. C10/2-63 and C10/65-67 include indexes of recipients.
Dates:
1800-1883 (with some photocopies made in c. 1983)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson & Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_permission_form.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
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Sub-Series
Letters to India and the Straits, 1881-1905
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/C16
Scope and Contents
Press (C16/1-4) and typed (C16/5) copies of letters from Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, to places in India and the Straits Settlements. C16/1-3 include indexes of recipients.
Dates:
1881-1905
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson & Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_permission_form.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access to some records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Lionel Berkeley: Letters and papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7979
Scope and Contents
Letters, reports and other papers regarding Berkeley's career, including material concerning the Indian Mutiny (1857). The collection includes a printed 'Record of the services of Mr L. Berkeley', comprising extracts from official correspondence, and a manuscript list of Berkeley's posts and leave while stationed in the Punjab. There is also material relating to 'Uncle' Leopold Oliver Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Extra Assistant Commissioner, and his death in the Googairah District, aged 27,...
Dates:
1850-1870 (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).
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Lionel Dunsterville (1865-1946): Letters to his sister May
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9498
Scope and Contents
This collection of correspondence of his youngest sister May (later Mrs Lionel Armitage), consists substantially of letters from Lionel Dunsterville, covering schooldays with Kipling at the United Services College, Westward Ho!, and extending up to the time of his marriage in 1897. Many letters include plans or amusing sketches, and some from Dunsterville as a schoolboy are written in blood or secret inks. Kipling features intermittently - in the schoolboy series there is one certain...
Dates:
1875-1922 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Lord Randolph Churchill: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9248
Scope and Contents
Political and personal correspondence, including letters from most leading political figures of the time, Joseph Chamberlain, the Lord Justice Gerald Fitzgibbon, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. The correspondence with Gerald Fitzgibbon sheds much light on Churchill's own career. Comprises letters written to Churchill by political and personal associates, and copies of letters written by him, covering the period 1870 - 1895,...
Dates:
1870-1894
Conditions Governing Access:
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Mammals-21 Note, 1868-03-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 83: 21
Scope and Contents
Much struck at the oddness & distinctness of the colours of various Antelopes
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Zoolog[ical] Soc[iety]
(Note)
Dates:
1868-03-11
Conditions Governing Access:
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Mammals-99 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 83: 101r
Scope and Contents
The Indian C[ercopithecus?] oryzu[?] of Ceylon became spotted in summer dress
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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Man (used)-19 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 85: A32r
Scope and Contents
Mr Scott tells me after attending at my request to subject in India that he has never noticed a man with a beard darker than his hair but sometimes with it lighter-coloured
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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Darwin Archive
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'Descent of man': portfolios
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'Descent of man': first edition, 1871, and 'Insectivorous Plants'
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'Descent of man' first edition: used scraps relating to 'Man' and notes relating to principles of sexual selection, polygamy and number of sexes
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Descent Portfolios 1st edn, Sexual Selection: Man (used)
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Military sketches and plans
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4217
Scope and Contents
A series of sketches and plans, mostly of hill forts in India, with a map of settlements in New South Wales (fo. 75), a sketch of Tristan da Cunha (fo. 78), views near Cork (fos 78 and 83), and maps of parts of Arabia and the Persian Gulf (fo. 87), 109 folios. The original artist is named in the following cases: Capt H. Mitchel (fos 9 and 14), Capt. J.J. O'Donoghue (fos 12, 27, 34, 41, 42, 47, 49, 53, 81, 95 and 106), Lieut. Nutt, Bombay Engineers (fo. 16), Semboo Sing (fos 54, 55 and 58),...
Dates:
1826 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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NS I Chap 3-6 Note, 1841-01-01 - 1841-01-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 17-18
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1841-01-01 - 1841-01-31
Conditions Governing Access:
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NS I Chap 3-7 Note, 1841-06-01 - 1841-06-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 19-20
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Maer
(Note)
Dates:
1841-06-01 - 1841-06-30
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NS I Chap 3-27 Note, 1854-10-01 - 1854-10-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 49: 43r
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1854-10-01 - 1854-10-31
Conditions Governing Access:
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NS I Chap 4-87 Note, 1857-11-01 - 1857-11-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 45: 102
Scope and Contents
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
(Note)
Dates:
1857-11-01 - 1857-11-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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