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Accounts, 1792-1797

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Identifier: Coll-16/IX
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1 volume of accounts, largely relating to domestic purchases, with enclosures (1792-1797)

Dates: 1792-1797

Accounts, 1793-1799

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Identifier: Coll-16/X
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1 volume of accounts, largely relating to income, with enclosures (1793-1799)

Dates: 1793-1799

Correspondence of Joseph Black I, 1754-1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/I
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Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes correspondence with James Watt (1736-1819), Lord Kames (1696-1782), James Hope Johnstone (1741-1816) and Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell (1744-1816).

1 box of letters and related documents, chronologically arranged with index (1754-1783)

Dates: 1754-1783

Domestic accounts, 1766-1799

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Identifier: Coll-16/VII
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Following the death of Joseph Black in 1799, his affairs were handled by [his nephew] George and solicitor Adam Ferguson WS

Accounts and other executry papers (1776-1799)

Dates: 1766-1799

Dr Joseph Black: A Centenary Memorial Sketch, 1899

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Identifier: Coll-16/XIII
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Newscutting (09 December 1899) of an article written by Leonard Dobbin for The Chemist and Druggist, ( 09 December 1899) to mark the centenary of Black's death.

Dates: 1899

Draft letter by Joseph Black, c1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/148
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Draft letter by Joseph Black regarding George Cottrel's blast furnace.

Dates: c1783

Draft letter by Joseph Black on smelting, c1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/137-141
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Draft letter by Joseph Black with an account of George Cottrel's experiment in smelting iron by an air furnace.

Dates: c1783

Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, 1772

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/43-44
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Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun about gold at Leadhills.

Dates: 1772

Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, 14 March 1772

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/45-46
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Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun about the assaying of sand from Leadhills.

Dates: 14 March 1772

Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, 01 April 1773

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/57
Scope and Contents

Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun about gold sand.

Dates: 01 April 1773

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Home, Henry, Lord Kames, 1696-1782 (judge and philosopher) 11
Johnstone, James Hope-, 1741-1816 (3rd Earl of Hopetoun) 7
Wilson, Patrick, 1743-1811 (astronomer) 6
Black, John, fl1728-1766 (father of Joseph Black) 5
Alexander, AJ, fl1773 (Grenada) 4
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Cottrell, George (ironfounder) 4
Hope, John, 1704-1781 (2nd Earl of Hopetoun) 4
Ferguson, James, fl1763 (Belfast (Northern Ireland)) 3
Hermann, JF, fl1779 3
Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer) 3
Arbuthnot, Robert, fl1783 (secretary to the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland) 2
Black, George, fl1795-1801 (nephew of Joseph Black) 2
Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland (1726-:) 2
Carron Company (1758-1982) 2
Dundas, Robert, fl1781 2
Ferguson, Adam, fl1799-1816 (solicitor to Joseph Black) 2
Lambert, Richard, fl1770 (surgeon) 2
St George's Hospital (1733-:) 2
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 2
University of Glasgow (Scottish University)) 2
Wilson, Alexander, 1714-1786 (professor of astronomy, University of Glasgow) 2
Brand, George, fl1781 1
Burnett, George, fl 1771 (nephew of Joseph Black) 1
Cookworthy, William, 1705-1780 (porcelain manufacturer) 1
Dobbin, Leonard, 1858-1952 (chemist) 1
Duclos, M, fl1989 1
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (American statesman diplomat, scientist and philosopher) 1
Goddard, Chris, fl1986 1
Gowdie, John, 1682-1762 (Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1
Graham, John, fl1773 (Brampton (England)) 1
Hall, Sir George, 1761-1862 (geologist and chemist) 1
Heysham, John, 1753-1834 (physician) 1
Macculloh, Ebeneezer, fl1782 1
McKie, Douglas, 1896-1967 (historian of science) 1
Menish, Henry, 1735-1809 (physician and geologist) 1
Moir, George, 1741-1818 (minister of Peterhead (Scotland)) 1
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Quin, Charles William, fl1783 1
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796 (philosopher) 1
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1723-1792 (English painter) 1
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Robison, R, fl1763 1
Roebuck, John, 1718-1794 (inventor) 1
Royal Dublin Society (1731-:) 1
Royal Medical Society (1734-:) 1
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 1
Skene, George, fl1773 (Aberdeen (Scotland)) 1
Smith, Adam, 1723-1816 (professor of philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Somerville | Mr, fl1757 (grandson to John Gowdie, principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1
Stark, William, 1740-1770 (physician) 1
Thenley, James, fl1763 (Belfast (Northern Ireland)) 1
University of Oxford (c1096-:) 1
Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) 1
Wall, Martin, 1747-1824 (physician) 1
Walton, W, fl1764 (Upton) 1
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