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Memoirs of Yvonne Fox
Collection
The Years Between, a typescript memoir dealing with her family, social and religious life, and with her later work as a teacher training college lecturer, covering the period 1945-1960; Bawku, carbon copy of a typescript memoir relating to period in the Gold Coast from 1939.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates:
[c1939-1960]
Memorial of the life and character of John Shute Duncan by his brother Philip Bury Duncan
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. e. 697
Memorial of the life and character of John Shute Duncan by his brother Philip Bury Duncan
Extents: 97 Leaves
Dates:
1844-1845
'Memorialls & Remaines containing the Life & Death of my deare Sonne John Freind...'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon f. 31
'Memorialls & Remaines containing the Life & Death of my deare Sonne John Freind...'
Extents: 372 pages
Dates:
Written about 1675-1678 by Nathaniel Freind
Microfilm of Eton College MS. 167
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Film 1156
Microfilm of Eton College MS. 167: Life of Sir Thomas More
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1500 - 1599
Microfilm of the papers of the Codrington family
Collection
Microfilm of the papers of the Codrington Family.
Extents: 0.66 linear metres (15 boxes)
Dates:
1700-1869
Miscellaneous 'Scraps' in English
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 4
Miscellaneous 'Scraps' in English
Extents: 64 Leaves
Dates:
Written in the 16th-19th century
Notebooks of Alexander Chalmers
Collection
Notebooks of Alexander Chalmers, containing literary references for the lives of well-known persons.
Extents: 1.20 Linear metres (24 boxes)
Dates:
1810
Notes made by Ann Thwaite while compiling My Oxford
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 116-124
Notes made by Ann Thwaite while compiling My Oxford
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates:
1976-1977
Notes of a perambulation of Oxford by an artist
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 33
Notes of a perambulation of Oxford by an artist, written in A.D. 1785.
Extents: 55 Leaves
Dates:
written in A.D. 1785
'Nouvelle Mnémonique appliquée à l'Histoire d'Angleterre. Pour faire suite à l'histoire de France d'après la même méthode par Mme *** [Laure de Saint-Ouen]
Single Item
Shelfmark: Vet. E6 c.26/1
A manuscript fair copy of an educational tool which seems to have been eventually published as Tome I of Saint-Ouen's Tableaux historiques des peuples modernes européans, composés de médaillons, etc, accompagné d'un text explicatif (Paris: J. Carez, 1825). Here it accompanies a set of plates used for the publication.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates:
[c.1823-1824]
'Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex & George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Some Observations by way of paralell ...'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 104
'Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex & George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Some Observations by way of paralell ...', written in about the middle of the 17th century.
Extents: 45 Leaves
Dates:
written in about the middle of the 17th century
Paper on Gladstone at the Colonial Office, 1846
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 543
Paper entitled Gladstone at the Colonial Office, 1846, by Professor Alan Shaw of Monash University, presented at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Australian Studies Centre, 1986.
Extents: 16 ff.
Dates:
1986
Papers of A.F. Gray
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2322
Typescript memoirs of A.F. Gray detailing his work as a Meteorological Officer in Northern Rhodesia / Zambia from 1951 to 1971.
Extents: 2 ff.
Dates:
1999
Papers of Basil Henry F. and H. John Barnard
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 268
Albums of captioned photographs, with local newspapers, depicting the work of Basil Henry F. Barnard in the Malayan Forestry Service, and of H. John Barnard in the Malayan Police, 1901-1948.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1901-1948
Papers of Boyd Alexander relating to William Beckford
Collection
Papers of Boyd Alexander (1913-1980), publisher of works on William Beckford (1760-1844), author, MP and art collector.
Extents: 4.6 Linear metres (46 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
19th-20th century
Papers of Charles Richard M. O'Brien
Single Item
Shelfmark: Micr. Afr. 431
Copies of letters, in diary form, 1900-1902, including regimental experiences, South African War, January-June 1900, as President of the Military Tribunal in Johannesburg, June 1900-April 1901, the Johannesburg Civil Police, May 1901- May 1902; with illustrations, photographs and press cuttings.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1900-1902
Papers of Frank Thomas Russell
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1939
Detailed memoirs of service, 1930-1973.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1930-1973
Papers of Geoffrey H.S. Wood
Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 556
Letters and press cuttings from and about Wood, 1952-1957.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1952-1957
Papers of Henry William Carless Davis, mainly relating to his work as editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7042
Papers of Henry William Carless Davis, mainly relating to his work as editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Extents: 177 Leaves
Dates:
1904-1960
Papers of J. R. Granville Bantock
Collection
Letters home, diaries, reports, photographs and press cuttings relating to service in the Ceylon Police Force, 1920-1939.
Extents: 3 boxes, 1 volume
Dates:
1920-1939