Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 24 September 1860
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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/33
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan telling him that Jessie Aitken Wilson's biography of her brother George Wilson has already gone to press. He urges Sir Archibald Geikie to proceed with sending the initial chapters of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' to press and arrange an engraver for the illustrations. He also encloses some material from Joseph Beete Jukes and tells him he has forwarded a parcel from Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen.
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- 24 September 1860
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English
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1 letter
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From the Fonds: 2 metres
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1 letter
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Sarah Higgins 18 December 2000
- Biography
- Book Proposals
- Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854)
- Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh)
- Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society)
- Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland)
- MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher)
- Wilson, George, 1818-1859 (regius professor of technology, University of Edinburgh)
- Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime)
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