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Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill, 1839-1909

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Identifier: Coll-74/12/14
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The Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill sub-series consists of:


  1. 35 letters, alphabetically arranged (1839-1909)
Dates: 1839-1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Canadian geologists, 1872-1900

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Identifier: Coll-74/13/4
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie: Canadian geologists sub-series consists of:


  1. 50 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1900)
Dates: 1872-1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1827-1871

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10
Scope and Contents The Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison series consists of: letters from Murchison to his wife, 1854 and 1857 miscellaneous correspondence and notes (including letters to Sir Archibald Geikie) 1831-1871 correspondence relating to Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick regarding Silurian classification 1838 and 1852-1866 assorted...
Dates: 1827-1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: FW Egan to John Evans, 1866-1900

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/16
Scope and Contents The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: FW Egan to John Evans sub-series consists of: 2 letters from FW Egan (1897-1900) 5 letters from Sir Philip De Malpas Grey Egerton (1871-1875) 4 letters from the Earl of Enniskillen (1884-1896) 9 letters from Robert Etheridge snr. (1869-1879) 2 letters from Robert Etheridge jnr....
Dates: 1866-1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Robert Harkness to Francis John Haverfield, 1872-1915

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/22
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: Robert Harkness to Francis John Haverfield sub-series consists of:


  1. 18 letters, alphabetically arranged (1872-1915)
Dates: 1872-1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

General: 1950-1951, 1950-1951

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/32
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Sir Zwinglius Frank Willis, Thomas Stearns Eliot and Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes material relating to the erection of a gravestone for John Baillie's cousin, Elizabeth Catherine Gallant, BBC broadcasts, biographical information on Alexander Martin, and a visit to France.

Dates: 1950-1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from John Thompson, 27 May 1952

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2515
Scope and Contents

Letter, 27 May 1952, Chicago, John Thompson to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography of Tovey, describing Thomson's attempt to set up a library devoted to all things Scottish, and his patronage of Scottish arts, requesting Grierson's opinion on the state of Scottish music. Typescript signed.

Dates: 27 May 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Ralph Vaughan Williams, 11 October 1950

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2554
Scope and Contents

Letter, 11 October 1950, Surrey, Ralph Vaughan Williams to Mary Grierson. Expressing the hope that Grierson will describe Tovey's help to Vaughan Williams. Typescript signed, with stamped envelope.

Dates: 11 October 1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Hubert James Foss from Margaret Whittaker, c 07 February 1941

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2638
Scope and Contents

Letter, 7 February [n.y], Buckinghamshire, Margaret Whittaker to Hubert Foss. Putting Foss in touch with a Miss. M. Knottley to discuss Northlands for his biography of Tovey. Holograph signed.

Dates: c 07 February 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Names
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Grierson, Mary Gardner (pianist and conductor) 2
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 2
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Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 2
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Albert, 1819-1861 (Prince Consort of Queen Victoria) 1
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 1
Baillie, Florence Jewel, 1893-1969 (married to John Baillie) 1
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 1
Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 (Director of the Geological Survey of Canada) 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-:) (radio and television broadcasters) 1
Clarke, Reverend William Branwhite, 1798-1878 (Anglican clergyman and geologist, New South Wales (Australia)) 1
Cole, William Willoughby, 1807-1886 (3rd Earl of Enniskillen | paleontologist) 1
Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901 (Canadian geologist) 1
Dawson, Sir John William, 1820-1899 (geologist) 1
Egan, FW, fl1897-1900 (member of the Geological Survey of Ireland) 1
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965 (poet) 1
Etheridge, Robert, 1819-1903 (geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Etheridge, Robert, 1846-1920 (geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) 1
Foss, Hubert James (music publisher and composer) 1
Gallant, Eizabeth Catherine, c1885-1940 (nurse) 1
Geological Survey of Canada (1842-:) 1
Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 1
Geological Survey of Ireland 1
Geological Survey of Newfoundland (1864-:) 1
Grey-Egerton, Philip De Malpas, 1806-1881 (palaeontologist) 1
Hargraves, Edward Hammond, 1816-1891 (Australian gold mining pioneer) 1
Harkness, Robert, 1816-1878 (British geologist and zoologist | Professor of Geology, Queen's College Cork) 1
Hartley, Sir Charles Augustus, 1825-1915 (civil engineer) 1
Haverfield, Francis John, 1860-1919 (archaeologist) 1
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | astronomer) 1
Holland, Sir Henry, 1788-1873 (physician) 1
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, 1769-1859 (German naturalist, geologist and explorer) 1
Hunt, Thomas Sterry, 1826-1892 (Canadian chemist) 1
Logan, Sir William Edmond, 1798-1875 (Canadian geologist | Director of Geological Survey of Canada 1842-1869) 1
Lowry, Joseph Wilson, 1803-1879 (engraver to the British Geological Survey) 1
Lubbock, Sir Joseph Wilson, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avesbury (astronomer and mathematician) 1
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 1
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 1
Maclaren, Charles, 1782-1866 (first editor of the Scotsman) 1
Mallet, Robert, 1810-1881 (civil engineer and scientific investigator) 1
Martin, Alexander, 1857-1946 (principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
McHenry, Alexander, fl1881-1894 (worked on the Geological Survey of Ireland) 1
Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874 (under secretary of state for India) 1
Murchison, Charlotte, 1788-1869 (nee Hougin, geologist, wife of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison) 1
Murchison, JH, fl1854 1
Murray, Alexander, 1810-1884 (Director General of the Geological Survey of Newfoundland) 1
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 (theologian) 1
Scotsman (1817-:) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 1
Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil, 1824-1902 (geologist and director of the geological survey of Canada) 1
Thompson, John, fl1952 1
Tyrrell, Joseph Burr, 1858-1957 (Canadian explorer and geologist) 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 (composer) 1
Whittaker, Margaret 1
Willis, Sir Zwinglius Frank, b1890 (General Secretary to the World Council of YMCAs) 1
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