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Correspondence between Waters and academic institutions regarding permissions to make copies of title pages of English navigational works up to 1640 (H-P). (Manuscript) 1961-1970 WTS/41/5/2
20 folders containing correspondence between Waters and academic institutions regarding permissions to make copies of title pages of English navigational works to use for a short title catalogue. Arranged alphabetically by location or correspondent name from Harrison D.…
Reunion dinner, 1975. (Manuscript) 1975 WTS/40/4
Letter from Captain P.E. Fanshawe, 11 April 1975 confirming arrangements for the Drake Term Dinner, plus a souvenir certificate from this dinner, a guest list and a menu.
French navigation. (Manuscript) WTS/41/4/9
Notes about Samuel de Champlain, Olivier Bisselin and Philippe van Lansberg.
Navigation Bibliography, Paris. (Manuscript) WTS/41/4/10
Folder marked "Navigation Bibliography / Paris" containing library slips from the Bibliotheque Nationale, and lists of authors of navigation, whether they are found in the Bibliotheque de l'Histoire de la Marine, and pages of biographical notes on various authors, in French.
Midshipman’s journals (2 volumes) by Waters aboard the LUCIA, BARHAM, BERWICK, SOMME and MEDWAY, 1929-1931. (Manuscript) 1929-1931 WTS/29
Volume 1 – 1929-1930, Devonport to China. Includes technical drawings, watercolours of Chinese and other coasts, maps, also watercolour pictures including one depicting a junk. 280 pages.
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Correspondence and notes relating to the British Council in Lisbon. (Manuscript) 1959 WTS/41/2/7
File containing two pieces of correspondence with the Librarian at the British Council in Lisbon, 5 handwritten notes, and 4 pages titled "Checklist of Portuguese Navigational MSS".
Correspondence relating to Portuguese navigation bibliography. (Manuscript) 1955-1959 WTS/41/2/6
File containing correspondence between Waters and A. Rosenthal, Ltd (booksellers), and Senhor Estorninho (Librarian at the British Council in Lisbon), concerning various Portuguese navigation books. Also contains a Portuguese pamphlet dated 1955, and 4 handwritten notes.
Folder: ‘Spanish – biography and index – notes for’. (Manuscript) WTS/41/1/1
File containing index cards with notes about Spanish navigational authors, a hand-drawn timeline of Spanish navigational books, and library slips.
Folder: 'Cuts, Tables and Tablas of Pedro de Medina’s Regimientos 1552 and 1563, compared'. (Manuscript) WTS/41/1/5
File containing a mix of photocopied and handwritten notes about Pedro de Medina's life and work, with photocopies of woodcut prints, diagrams and tables from the Regimientos of 1552 and 1563 separated into subfolders.
Folder: 'Portuguese biography and index'. (Manuscript) WTS/41/2/1
File containing dividers labelled with Portuguese navigators from Bastiam to Vaz Fraguoso, some with index cards containing biographical information.
Medina Suma (circa1560), Biblioteca Nacional Madrid. (Manuscript) 1968 WTS/42/2/5
Folder containing a loose photographic copy of a portrait of Pedro de Medina, and a set of photograhpic copies of the contents of his Suma de Cosmographia.
Folder: ‘Tentative short title list of printed Portuguese Navigational books, 1496-1640’. (Manuscript) WTS/41/2/4
File containing correspondence relating to editing and translation of the 'Tentative Short Title List".
Folder: 'Portuguese title pages, bibliographical descriptions and notes on contents'. (Manuscript) WTS/41/2/3
File containing typed and handwritten notes about Portuguese navigational works before 1700.
Ensayo de Bibliografia Maritima Espanola. (Manuscript) 1943 WTS/41/1/7
File containing two typed copies (interleaved) of an Ensayo de Bibliografia Maritima Espanola, 1943, by the Instituto Nacional del Libro Espanol, Barcelona.
Biography of Pedro de Siria. (Manuscript) WTS/41/1/8
Single page biographical note on Pedro de Siria, author of Arte de la Verdadero Navegacion, Valenicia, 1602.
Robert Recorde. (Manuscript) WTS/41/3/12
Folder marked "Recorde, Robert" containing two pages of notes about Recorde's work The Ground of Arts.
Loose notes. (Manuscript) WTS/41/3/16
Folder containing a set of handwritten notes titled "Title-pages from Mr Taylor's Photostats" (circa 30 pages), and a page of typed notes about Edmund Wingate.
Ioannes Taisnier translated by Richard Eden. (Manuscript) WTS/41/3/13
Folder marked "Taisnier, Ioannes / Tr. Eden, Richard" containing notes about a book on navigation dated 1578.
Drawings, plans and photographs of the Twaqo type of Singapore junk. (Manuscript) 1937-1946 WTS/8
Drawings, plans and photographs of the Twaqo type of Singapore junk, circa 1937. Also an annotated copy of the article 'Chinese Junks - The Twaqo' by Lieutenant Commander D.W. Waters, published in 'The Mariner's Mirror' Vol 32 No 3, July 1946.
Notes on a handbook of Chinese craft to be written by Dr W.J. Rees, Lieutenant Commander D.W. Waters and Winston Megoran, circa 1946. (Manuscript) circa 1946 WTS/3
Notes on a handbook of Chinese craft to be written by Dr W.J. Rees, Lieutenant Commander D.W. Waters and Winston Megoran, circa 1946.
The English and the Influence of the Atlantic routes upon science and strategy. (Manuscript) 1968 WTS/34/11
The English and the Influence of the Atlantic routes upon science and strategy, reprinted from a Spanish publication Anuaro de Estudios Americanos XXV, from the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, Sevilla, 1968.
Glass photographic plates. (Manuscript) WTS/42/7/1
Box: “Tapp (1632) The Seaman’s Kalender” containing 1 glass negative