Joseph Lemuel Chester: Papers

Scope and Content

Transcripts or extracts from Cambridgeshire church registers, copies of monumental inscriptions in Huntingdonshire churches and genealogical correspondence and notes relating chiefly to Cambridgeshire.

Access Information

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

The papers belonged to G.E. Cokayne, which he possibly acquired as Chester's literary executor. Presented to the Library by Brien Cokayne, 1st Lord Cullen of Ashbourne, 1912.

Other Finding Aids

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