University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes correspondence with George Macintosh (fl1782-1783), Princess Dashkova (1743-1810) and Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell (1744-1816).

1 box of letters and related documents, chronologically arranged with index (1770-1786)

Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes correspondence with Adam Smith (1723-1790), George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732-1818) and Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808).

1 box of letters and related documents, chronologically arranged with index (1785-1793).

Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes letters from John Walker, Baron de Montesquieu and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.

32 letters and related documents, mostly chronologically arranged, with index (1749-1786).

Draft letter from Joseph Black, Edinburgh to Johann Albrecht Euler, dated 4 September 1783. The letter was written in reply to Euler's letter of 24 February 1783 (Coll-16/II/104-105).

Letter from Doctor Ignace Luzuriaga, Madrid to Joseph Black, dated 16 November 1787. The letter is about proposing Doctor Francois Sobral, physician to the King, and Doctor Jean Gomez, professor of anatomy at Madrid for honorary membership of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.

Letter from G La Bruyere, Ravenhead to Joseph Black, dated 26 August 1787. The letter is about glass making.

Letter from Monsieur le comte de Saluces to Mrs Macquer et Cigna, dated 15 May 1782. The letter is about artificial saltpeter (potassium nitrate). It is printed and contains an autograph note to Joseph Black from Monsieur le comte de Saluces.