University of Cambridge: Transcripts of letters and documents

Scope and Content

With occasional facsimiles of signatures taken from Lansdowne and Harley MSS in the British Library, from Lambeth Palace MS 663, and other MS sources. (fo. 20) autograph signatures of 'subscribers for the Imperial Dictionary': Mynors Bright, A. J. Manson, W. Scott, P. M. Clark, T. Carpenter, 'Miss Sutton', William Banham, Stephen Sparrow, 'Miss Mason', William Roberts, Edmund Carver, Richard Foster, C. H. Cooper, J. S. Purton, B. H. St John Pell, W. J. Roome, Frederick Pary, Edwin Chancellor, Joshua Woollard, Charles Phillips. Attached to fo. 21 are cuttings from the Essex Weekly News, 30 July 1880.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Presented by F. J. H. Jenkinson, Librarian, 1897.

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