Showing Records: 61 - 70 of 1186
Item — Box CLX-A-112
Identifier: Coll-1147/95-41
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Autograph letter, signed, from Sir Walter Scott to Rev. N Chandler
Dates:
1818
Item — Box CLX-A-505
Identifier: Coll-1147/03-22
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Autograph letter, signed, from Sir Walter Scott to Revd. James [Arkle]
Dates:
4 May 1814
Item — Box CLX-A-63
Identifier: Coll-1147/90-110
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Autograph letter, signed, from Sir Walter Scott to Sir Archibald Edmonstone.
Dates:
1828
Item — Box CLX-A-505
Identifier: Coll-1147/03-21
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Autograph letter, signed, from Sir Walter Scott to Sophia Dumergue
Dates:
6 November 1828
Item — Box CLX-A-313
Identifier: Coll-1147/01-23
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Autograph letter, signed, from Sir Walter Scott to the Duke of Northumberland
Dates:
5 December [1824]
Item — Box CLX-A-81
Identifier: Coll-1147/92-89
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Autograph letter, signed, from Sir Walter Scott to W Monck Mason
Dates:
15 November 1816
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0039
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Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent returning "the original lists from Lyons & Montpelier, & also a list of all the women we know of from books who are not in any official list. I think among these latter you will find one or more students at each University mentioned in the Record ... ", with a note in another hand at the head saying "Here is a whole letter from your friend. P.F.", 2 sides 8vo., no place, 16th July, no year.
Dates:
late 19th century-early 20th century
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0027
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Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Carlyle, Regent Street, to H. Grant, Gray's Inn, Friday, dated in another hand September 1835.The letter reads:
"I was this far on my road to the J. H. [?] but find now it will not do.
Unluckily we are all engaged tonight. I should like much to see Garnier again (whom I did not suspect to be in town at present), could he not contrive to call on me, any day - before Sunday, which indeed I grieve to see is but one solitary...
Dates:
September 1935
Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0237
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An interesting letter giving an insight into the relationship between Murray and the political economist John Ramsay McCulloch (1789'-1864), who imbued him with 'a taste for political economy' (ODNB). In his letter Murray explains that his friends had recently presented him with a piece of plate in thanks for a course of lectures at Edinburgh on history and political economy ('the science of which you are the ornament'). Murray is sure that McCulloch 'would have been delighted to learn that...
Dates:
12 March 1834
Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0236
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Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Wood, thanking him for his letter and saying he is "sorry you will be obliged to omit some of the poems you selected, but of course there's no help for it. May one of the others be substituted for Bunches of Grapes which has already been over-used? Have you written to Longman's? I'm afraid they will want a fee - but please tell them you have made arrangements with me. The poems from Peacock Pie I have Complete Control - as far as anthologies etc are concerned...
Dates:
20 September 1920
