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Tragara Press archive
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1571
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 14 letters from Alan Anderson to Donald Weeks about his Corvine pamphlets (published by the Tragara Press) - 10 manuscript and 4 typescript, some with 72 Dundas Street letter-heading, some with 137 Warrender Park Road. The letters are dated: 23 August 1974, Wednesday 10 September, 1 October 1979, 29 July 1980, 17 August 1981, 7 November 1983, 14 November 1983, 23 July 1983, 15 December 1983, 18 January 1985, 21 February 1985, 23 May 1985, Tuesday,...
Dates:
1974-1985
Transcript of "Remarques astronomiques sur le livre de Daniel" by Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux
Fonds — Box: Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2242
Scope and Contents
Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux. "Remarques astronomiques sur le livre de Daniel". Transcript, 1831.
Dates:
c 1831
Travel ephemera from a journey on Canadian Pacific Steamships - Empress of Britain - 1961
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1403
Scope and Contents
Travel ephemera relating to the journey made by Verna Isaac includes:
1 x Canadian Pacific passenger list relevant to the sailing from Liverpool, Tuesday 22 August 1961
1 x Canadian Pacific westbound ocean ticket in favour of Miss Verna Isaac, on 'Empress of Britain', Liverpool to Montreal, 22 August 1961
1 x ticket document pouch (without tickets) - Trans-Canada Air...
Dates:
1960-1961
Treatise of the Materia Medica
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1127
Scope and Contents
The bound manuscript volume begins: ' A treatise of the Materia Medica in which the Virtues of all the Simples of the three Kingdoms are truly described and they have been fully demonstrated by the accurate Observations of many truly celebrated Authors and particularly of the learned Dr. Charles Alston Professor of the Materia Medica and Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Reg. Prof. Botan'. The text in the manuscript volume is organised into the following...
Dates:
1745-1747
Treatises by Dr. John Pordage
Fonds — Volume: Dc.4.1
Identifier: Coll-2127
Scope and Contents
Treatises on Pordage's religious/mystical visions. It is not known whether this is in Pordage's or another's hand.
Dates:
Before 1680
Ts copy of a speech by Dr Shelton H Short III on Patrick Henry and Dr William Robertson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1576
Scope and Contents
A copy of typescript, 'On the British ancestral background of Patrick Henry - and a Scottish orator, his cousin, Dr. William Robertson, Principal of Edinburgh University', being a speech delivered by Dr. Shelton H. Short III, at the Parents and Friends Lounge, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, USA, on 20 February 1974. The collection also contains a clipping from the Virginia title, Herald Progress, Thursday 11 April 1974, entitled 'Henry's heritage...
Dates:
1974
Ts letter with ms addition to Donald Weeks from Alan Anderson 2 September 1983
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1579
Scope and Contents
The typescript letter, with ms additions, is from Alan Anderson to Donald Weeks about O'Sullivan connections, with 137 Warrender Park Road letter-heading, and dated 2 September 1983. The letter provides details of where copyright copies of the 'little book' are to be sent and on how the British National Bibliography organises itself. It then discusses how 'there are/were a fair number of O'Sullivans in New York, and I'm afraid we have reached an impasse over that fifth brother,...
Dates:
1983
Ts translation by W. H. Auden (1907-1973) of 'The Knights of the Round Table', a play by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1670
Scope and Contents
Ts, 114pp, quarto. A final leaf of blue paper carries the printed mark of 'Mrs Marshall's', 28 Southampton Street, WC.2 (Play typists since 1884) and is stamped by the firm at 23 April 1957 [or 1951]. An embossed print bearing the same information is on the first page.
Dates:
1951-1957
Tss of poetry by Deric Bolton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1621
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of:
1 x ms letter from Deric Bolton to Tessa Ranford, editor of 'Lines Review', dated 30 November 1992, in which he writes, 'I submit 6 poems for you to consider' for the Review
6 x ts poems, being: 'Old Tweed Bridge'; 'The die is cast'; 'Lydia Aurigny 1960'; 'I am so happy'; 'The pearls and the stars'; and, 'The summer parting'
1 x ms letter from...
Dates:
1992-1996
Twenty-one comic visiting cards caricaturing the photographic carte-de-visite, by Rock Co., London, and J.S. Co., London, c. 1850-1870
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1262
Identifier: Coll-1679
Scope and Contents
Each card measures about 5.75 x 9 cm., engraved image on the recto with ‘Rock & Co., London’ in the image, on 19 cards, two cards have J. S & Co., London, below the image. Verso blank. Many of the 21 cards have a printed series number, the highest being 101, the other number no higher than 48. Three cards have no number. The cards by J.S have the numbers 4 and 5, so they may have been part of a smaller series. 'J. S.' are the initials of J. Simmons.Among the group four...
Dates:
1850-1870