Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives: 1997 Accessions

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

• Mary (1542-87), Queen of Scots: documents (2) rel to the attempt of Henri III of France to save her life (Add 9462)
• Ronald Gorell Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell (1884-1963), author: corresp (Add 9439)
• George Edward Lovelace Carter (d1974), Indian Civil Service: papers on India, Pakistan and Kashmir (Add 9456)
• Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1849-95), statesman: letters to CH Milthorp (Add 9460)
• Charles Henry Cooper (1806-66), solicitor and antiquary: biographical notes on Cambridge alumni and historical papers (Add 9474)
• Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist: letters to Daniel Oliver, HW Bates and Lady Dorothy Nevill (DAR 185)
• James Essex (1722-84), architect: account book (Add 9463)
• Thomas Firminger (1775-1861), assistant to Astronomer Royal: letters (Add 8856/317-20)
• John Donohue Fitzgerald (1848-1918), barrister: diary and journal of a walking tour of Ireland (Add 9472)
• Richard Simpson Gundry (1838-1924), editor of North China Herald: journal of trip from Shanghai to Ningpo (Add 9269)
• William Gunter, naval chaplain on HMS Egmont: journals 1864-70 (Add 9427)
• Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis (b1907), author, editor and publisher: papers of and rel to Siegfried Sassoon (Add 9454)
• Edward King (c1735-1807), writer and antiquary: notebook (Add 9438)
• William Manning (1732-1825): journals of educational tours of the northern counties of England (Add 9457)
• Thomas Martin (1697-1771), antiquary: commonplace book (Add 9421)
• Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (1874-1953), archaeologist and Russianist: corresp and papers (Add 9436)
• Peter Dennis Mitchell (1920-92), biochemist: corresp and papers (PD Mitchell papers)
• John Robert Monsell (1877-1952), illustrator: corresp and papers (Add 9437)
• Augustus de Morgan (1806-71), mathematician: letters to William Hepworth Dixon, historian (Add 9428)
• Sir Michael Postan (1899-1981), historian (addnl): papers and research notes (Add 8961)
• Eileen Power (1889-1940), historian (addnl): papers and research notes (Add 8961)
• Nicholas Ridley (1500?-55), bishop: reply to bishop Hoopers scruples about vestments (Ridley Hall MSS)
• Sir Owen Seaman Bt (1861-1936), editor of Punch: letters to EC Bentley (Add 8856/309-316)
• William Stukeley (1687-1765), antiquary: scheme for building a new royal palace 1761 (Add 9432)
• George Cohen & Armstrong Disposal Corporation Ltd (addnl): records c1923-28 (Vickers)
• Indo-China Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London (addnl): minutes 1900-20 (Jardine Matheson)
• Fenland Research Committee: minutes 1932-48 (Add 9462)
• Legal precedents (4 volumes) late 17th cent (Add 9430)
• Legal cases and precedents in pleadings (10 volumes), late 18th cent (Add 9431)
• Charge to judges on circuit 17th cent (Add 9433)
• Treatise on justices of the peace c1619 (Add 9434)
• Papers rel to a visit to Britain of a Chinese military delegation 1896 (Vickers)