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Letter from Alexander Wilson to Joseph Black, 13 January 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/128-129
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Letter from Alexander Wilson to Joseph Black about the chemical compound colcothar and the grinding of a speculum.

Dates: 13 January 1783

Letter from Alexander Wilson to Joseph Black, 21 January 1768

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/26-27
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Letter from Alexander Wilson, and his son, to Joseph Black regarding thermometers, clouds, air pressure and the evaporation of ice.

Dates: 21 January 1768

Letter from Andrew Stuart to Joseph Black, 7 March 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/108-111
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Letter from Andrew Stuart, London to Joseph Black, dated 7 March 1783. The letter is about Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald's affairs.

Dates: 7 March 1783

Letter from Antoine Laurent Lavoisier to Joseph Black, 19 September 1789

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Identifier: Coll-16/IV/41-42
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Letter from Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Paris to Joseph Black, dated 19 September 1789. The letter is about Lavoisier recommending Monsieur de Boullogne, a prospective student and also about his Traite elementaire de chimie (Elementary Treatise on Chemistry). The Lavoisier letters are printed in Report to the British Association, 1872 pp. 189-92.

Dates: 19 September 1789

Letter from Antoine Laurent Lavoisier to Joseph Black, 24 July 1790

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Identifier: Coll-16/IV/43-44
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Letter from Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Paris to Joseph Black, dated 24 July 1790. The letter is about phlogiston, Lavoisier introducing Monsieur Terray "intendant de Lyon", bearer of the letter, who has come to Edinburgh with a French student. Lavoisier states that he hopes to visit Edinburgh himself, sometime. The Lavoisier letters are printed in Report to the British Association, 1872 pp. 189-92.

Dates: 24 July 1790

Letter from Antoine Laurent Lavoisier to Joseph Black , 19 November 1790

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Identifier: Coll-16/IV/45-46
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Letter from Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Paris to Joseph Black, dated 19 November 1790. The letter is about Lavoisier wanting to publish Black's reply in Annales de Chimie. He also mentions Hugo Gillan (M. D. Edin., 1786) and his own experiments on respiration. The Lavoisier letters are printed in Report to the British Association, 1872 pp. 189-92.

Dates: 19 November 1790

Letter from Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald to Joseph Black, 20 January 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/79-80
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Letter from Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, Culross to Joseph Black, dated 20 January 1783. The letter is about Cochrane's tar works.

Dates: 20 January 1783

Letter from Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald to Joseph Black, 18 January 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/81-82
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Letter from Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, Culross to Joseph Black, dated 18 January 1783. The letter is about Cochrane asking advice for patenting his method of tar production.

Dates: 18 January 1783

Letter from Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, to Joseph Black, 8 April 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/117-118
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Letter from Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, Culross Abbey to Joseph Black, dated 8 April 1783. The letter is about Cochrane's tar works.

Dates: 8 April 1783

Letter from Archibald Cochrane, Lord Dundonald to Joseph Black and draft reply from Joseph Black to Archibald Cochrane, 17 February 1786 and undated

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Identifier: Coll-16/IV/29-30
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Letter from Archibald Cochrane, Lord Dundonald, Culross Abbey to Joseph Black, dated 17 February 1786 and draft reply from Joseph Black to Archibald Cochrane, undated. The first letter is about salt refining. Cochrane suggests that Black, with Adam Smith, Peter Millar and Professor John Robison might inspect his works. Black's reply makes excuses for Adam Smith, John Robison and himself.

Dates: 17 February 1786 and undated

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Black, George, fl1746-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 26
Black, John, fl1728-1766 (father of Joseph Black) 19
Black, George, fl1795-1801 (nephew of Joseph Black) 18
Wilson, Patrick, 1743-1811 (astronomer) 18
Home, Henry, Lord Kames, 1696-1782 (judge and philosopher) 11
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Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 10
Black, Thomas, fl1792-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 8
Dashkova, Princess Catherine, 1743-1810 (President of the Russian Academy) 8
Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer) 8
Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808 (physician) 7
Johnstone, James Hope-, 1741-1816 (3rd Earl of Hopetoun) 7
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist) 7
Crell, Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von, 1744-1816 (German chemist) 6
De Secondat, Charles Louis, 1689-1755 (known as Montesquieu | French philosopher) 6
Arbuthnot, Robert, fl1783 (secretary to the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland) 5
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (historian, philosopher) 5
Alexander, AJ, fl1773 (Grenada) 4
Cottrell, George (ironfounder) 4
Hope, John, 1704-1781 (2nd Earl of Hopetoun) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Wall, Martin, 1747-1824 (physician) 4
Wilson, Alexander, 1714-1786 (professor of astronomy, University of Glasgow) 4
Black, Samuel, d 1792 (Brother of Joseph Black) 3
Dempster, George, 1732-1818 (agriculturalist) 3
Ferguson, James, fl1763 (Belfast (Northern Ireland)) 3
Hermann, JF, fl1779 3
Menish, Henry, 1735-1809 (physician and geologist) 3
Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859 ("Tertius", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 3
Quin, Charles William, fl1783 3
Birkett, Dolly, fl 1792-1797 (née Black | niece of Joseph Black) 2
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2
Blaquiere, Sir John, 1732-1812 (1st Baron de Blaquiere | Chief Secretary for Ireland) 2
Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland (1726-:) 2
Caritat, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de, 1743-1794 (Marquis de Condorcet | French philosopher and mathematician) 2
Carron Company (1758-1982) 2
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 2
Dundas, Robert, fl1781 2
Ferguson, Adam, fl1799-1816 (solicitor to Joseph Black) 2
Gascoigne, Charles, 1737-1806 (director of the Carron Iron Works) 2
Lambert, Richard, fl1770 (surgeon) 2
Robertson, William, 1721-1793 (historian, principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2
Roebuck, John, 1718-1794 (inventor) 2
St George's Hospital (1733-:) 2
Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828 (Scottish philosopher and mathematician) 2
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 2
University of Glasgow (Scottish University)) 2
Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) 2
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 (architect) 1
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 1
Black, James, fl 1799 (Brother of Joseph Black) 1
Black, John, fl 1799 (nephew of Joseph Black) 1
Brand, George, fl1781 1
Burnett, George, fl 1771 (nephew of Joseph Black) 1
Cookworthy, William, 1705-1780 (porcelain manufacturer) 1
Dashkov, Pavel Mikhailovich, 1763-1807 (Russian engineer) 1
De la Rochefoucauld, Louis-Alexandre, 1743-1792 (French nobleman and politician) 1
Dobbin, Leonard, 1858-1952 (chemist) 1
Duclos, M, fl1989 1
Dundas, Robert, 1758-1819 (of Arniston | Solicitor General for Scotland; Lord Advocate) 1
Erskine, David Stewart, 1742-1829 (11th Earl of Buchan | Scottish antiquarian) 1
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (American statesman diplomat, scientist and philosopher) 1
Frederick II, 1712-1786 (King of Prussia) 1
George III, 1738-1820 (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | King of Hanover | London | England) 1
Goddard, Chris, fl1986 1
Gowdie, John, 1682-1762 (Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1
Graham, John, fl1773 (Brampton (England)) 1
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
Hall, Sir George, 1761-1862 (geologist and chemist) 1
Heath, James, fl 1788 (engraver) 1
Herschel, Sir William, 1738-1822 (astronomer) 1
Heysham, John, 1753-1834 (physician) 1
Macculloh, Ebeneezer, fl1782 1
Macintosh, George, fl1782-1783 (Glasgow (Scotland)) 1
Macpherson, Sir John, c 1745-1821 (1st Baronet | acting Governor-General of Bengal) 1
McKie, Douglas, 1896-1967 (historian of science) 1
Moir, George, 1741-1818 (minister of Peterhead (Scotland)) 1
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Nelson, Horatio, 1758-1805 (1st Viscount Nelson | Vice-Admiral of the White) 1
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Raeburn, Sir Henry, 1756-1823 (portrait painter) 1
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796 (philosopher) 1
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1723-1792 (English painter) 1
Robison, R, fl1763 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
Terray, Antoine Jean, 1750-1794 (French administrator) 1
Thenley, James, fl1763 (Belfast (Northern Ireland)) 1
University of Oxford (c1096-:) 1
Walton, W, fl1764 (Upton) 1
Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766 (professor of theory of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
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