Papers of HS Blunt, 1938-, comprise lecture notes on Prehistoric and Roman Britain, and a collection of postcards and letters.
Blunt , H S , fl 1938Papers of William Martin Conway, 1896-1897, comprise a collection of notes on the history of Spitsbergen, 1596-1897. Used by Conway in the preparation of his book No man's land: a history of Spitsbergen, published in 1906.
Conway , William Martin , 1856-1937 , Baron Conway of Allington , art criticPapers relating to HMS TRINCOMALEE comprising a synopsis of the history of the Training Ship FOUDROYANT, formerly HMS TRINCOMALEE, Frigate 38 guns and photocopies of a letter from the Captain of the TRINCOMALEE to his Admiral concerning the port of Honolulu, April, 1854.
HMS TrincomaleePapers of A G E Jones including biographical notes on Sir Allen Young, 1981; biographical notes on John L Cope, 1982; lists of ships leaving London for New South Wales and Van Diemans Land, 1786-1825; copies of press cuttings relating to finding the grave of one of Franklin's men in North Canada, 1984; copies of two letters on the loss of the log book of the DISCOVERY, 1904; copy of an article by Jaones in 'Notes and Queries' Dec 1984 on the crew of the TERROR and Franklin's last voyage; copies of two pages from the log of the SOUTHERN CROSS; typescripts of 'The Southern whale fishery' and 'Danial Bennett and Company', 1968.
Jones , A G E , 1914-2002 , maritime and polar historianPapers of Mansfield Parkyns comprising papers relating to Abyssinia and the Sudan: (a) Notes on the history of Nubia, notes on Kordofan, notes on Tagulla and on the Noubas; portion of a journal kept while in Abyssinia, and (b) Five fasciculi in Italian, of a history of the Sudan (author unidentified), together with a partial translation by Richard Hill. (See R. Hill, Egypt in the Sudan). (c) MS. In French (author unidentified). (d) Loose pages of notes in English and Arabic. Accompanied by some correspondence of 1938 and 1946 about the papers.
Parkyns , Mansfield , 1823-1894 , traveller and authorTypescript drafts of works of George Robert Farrar Prowse on the charting of the coast from Baffin Land to Maine, including copy of Cartological Material vol I: Maps, 1936, and Cartological Material vol III: Names, 1942, and extract from Prowse's Cartological Material vol IV: Voyages 'John Cabot sails for Hudson Strait known before 1073', 1944.
Prowse , George Robert Farrar , 1860-1946 , cartologistCollection of notes on the history of Tibet and Sikkim, possibly for a book as notes are numbered in sections with index, and letter from Sarat Chandra Das to Capt Cecil Godfrey Rawling answering a query about the origins of Tibetans, 1908.
Risley , Sir , Herbert Hope , 1851-1911 , Knight , Indian Civil ServantBound typescript of 'Hyderabad state in history and art' [1925], with appendices, illustrations, map and bibliography.
Rosenthal , Ethel , fl 1925Papers, photographs and maps relating to Marcus de Lavis Trafford's studies of Hannibal's route across the Alps, 1957-1990.
Trafford , Marcus Antonius Johnston , de Lavis- , 1880-1960 , historian and physician