Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 30 January 1860
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/57
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson enclosing a letter from Emily M Yelverton (not attached) which places obstacles in the way of the completion of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes'. A discussion follows concerning the intellectual ownership of personal letters which are to be used as source material and possible methods of pacifying Emily M Yelverton.
Dates
- Creation: 30 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
Processing Information
None
Processing Information
Sarah Higgins 21 December 2000
Creator
- Wilson, Jessie Aitken, fl.1860 (fiction writer, sister of George Wilson, wife of James Sime) (Person)
Subject
- Balfour, John Hutton, 1808-1884 (professor of botany, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh) (Person)
- Campbell, Peter Colin, 1810-1876 (first principal, University of Aberdeen) (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)
- Jukes, 1811-1869 (director of the Geological Survey of Ireland) (Person)
- MacMillan, Alexander, 1815-1896 (publisher) (Person)
- Paterson, Robert, 1802-1872 (president, Natural History Society of Belfast) (Person)
- Voorst, John Van, fl1863 (publisher) (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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