Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 24 January 1860
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/55
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson concerning the ownership of letters which her late brother George Wilson had borrowed as background material for the 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'. She suggests writing to the owners to let them know that she has transferred them to Sir Archibald Geikie, and writes a detailed action list. She discusses the health of Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay and her dislike of Emily M Yelverton.
Dates
- Creation: 24 January 1860
Creator
- Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
1 letter
Extent
From the Fonds: 2 metres
Physical Description
1 letter
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None
Processing Information
Sarah Higgins 20 December 2000
Creator
- Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) (Person)
Subject
- Beche, Sir Henry Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist) (Person)
- Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) (Person)
- Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) (Person)
- Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
- Godwin-Austen, Robert Alfred Cloyne, 1808-1884 (foreign secretary of the Geological Society) (Person)
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) (Person)
- Paterson, Robert, 1802-1872 (president, Natural History Society of Belfast) (Person)
- Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) (Person)
- Thompson, William, 1805-1852 (naturalist) (Person)
- Voorst, John Van, fl1863 (publisher) (Person)
- Wilson, George, 1818-1859 (regius professor of technology, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
- Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) (Person)
- Yelverton, Emily M, fl1860 (widow of Edward Forbes) (Person)
Repository Details
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University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk