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Bower Marsh, Notebook of Temple Yard inscriptions, 1885
Bower Marsh (1866–1935): Notebook containing ms copies of inscriptions in Temple Churchyard, London. Labelled on cover ‘Temple Yard inscriptions 18th April 1885’. Autograph text and drawings in ink and pencil.
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Sir Hugh Casson, Original sketches of London, 1970s
Sir Hugh Casson (1910-99), of St John’s College: Original pen sketches of London buildings, scenery and figures, probably related to Casson’s work for the Illustrated London News, c. 1972–77. Those with titles include ‘The Monument’, ‘Royal Naval College Greenwich’, ‘Rowing Boat’, ‘Dickens Inn, Thames Barge, etc’, ‘St Pauls’, ‘Southwark Bridge’ and ‘Blackfriars Bridge’.
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Sir Hugh Casson, Sketch Book, 1975
Sir Hugh Casson (1910-99), of St John’s College: Sketch Book: A personal choice of London buildings – drawn 1971–1974 and introduced by John Betjeman (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1975). Contains a selection of drawings from a series commissioned from Casson by the Illustrated London News.
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The death of Charles Taylor. Scrapbook. 1908–09.
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James Brydges Willyams. 'A Tour through France, Switzerland, Part of Savoy and Piedmont, by 2 Pedestrians – Vol 1st'. Notebook. c. 1794.
Letters from James Brydges Willyams (BA 1794) to 'R...... M..... Esquire', transcribed by the author's sister, Charlotte Champion Willyams. The letters describe travels with 'P........', perhaps William St John Patterson (BA 1800).
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Mika Hyman. 'Shifting Boundaries: A Study of William Heberden's (1710–1801) Materia Medica Cabinet in St John's College, Cambridge'. Dissertation. 2023.
Dissertation on the history of Heberden's cabinet, submitted to the University of Cambridge for the M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Includes a full catalogue of the contents of the cabinet drawers as of summer 2023. Typescript with colour photography.
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William Wesley Ellison. Notes on 'Law of Tort' lectures by Glanville Williams. 1930s.
Lecture notes with occasional insertion of cuttings. Manuscript and typescript.
William Wesley Ellison, generally known as Wesley or WWE, was born in 1917 in Barrow-in-Furness. His father was the town's mayor. Ellison studied at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge in the 1930s and became a partner in Poole & Son solicitors.
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James M. Wordie. Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Weddell Sea Log 1914-1916.
Transcript of the personal diary of Sir James Mann Wordie, published by the Wordie family in 2015.
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John Philip Morley. 'Mining in East Greenland'. Dissertation. 1965.
'Mining in East Greenland': The mining of lead and zinc at Mesters Vig, with reference to the problems of exploitation and transport in the Arctic.' A dissertation submitted for Part II of the Geographical Tripos. Typescript.