Ten Thousand and Counting
The Manuscripts Department has just reached a milestone with the arrival of its ten-thousandth Additional Manuscript, a collection of letters addressed to the poet and […]
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The Zoologist’s Wartime Christmas
“In the swirl of the dark waters sighs the Spirit of the Sea. The moon has set. From out of the darkness flashes the scudding […]
Continue reading »Constance Gordon-Cumming: Intrepid Victorian Traveller … and Umbrella Historian?
A particularly prescient manuscript for this year has recently been added to Janus, the online catalogue for Cambridge archives and manuscripts. MS Add. 6185 is […]
Continue reading »Siegfried Sassoon’s Poems for ‘Mamsy’
The University Library is pleased to announce that descriptions of two new series of the Siegfried Sassoon papers are now available on Janus, the Cambridge […]
Continue reading »Joanne Limburg Papers
For some time the Library has been engaged in building its collections of papers of modern and contemporary poets with local Cambridge connections, whether to […]
Continue reading »A Claudel archive
During the First World War, the poet, playwright and diplomat Paul Claudel (1868-1955) struck up a friendship with Audrey Parr, the wife of a British […]
Continue reading »The Crimean War letters of Captain Blackett
Alma Crimea Sep th 21st My dear Father, I have hardly a moment, but take the present opportunity of letting you know that all is […]
Continue reading »The Papers of Edmund Blunden
Recently added to the online catalogue of the Library’s Additional manuscripts on the Janus website are two collections of papers relating to Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), […]
Continue reading »A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers 2
RCMS 37/5/76 As promised, the restored text of Queen Victoria’s rebuke to Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers has been reproduced, as no cryptanalyst […]
Continue reading »A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers
The Royal Commonwealth Society department is completing a detailed online description of the papers of the politician Hugh Childers (1827–1896). One of the most fascinating items […]
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