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Correspondence between George Mackay Brown and Hugo Brunner
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1294
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection spans a period of 22 years from 1974 to 1996, and consists of several dozens of pages. The content tells of George Mackay Brown's annual cycle and his daily life, and particularly of visits of muses and other friends, as well as referring to publishing and contract matters. Included among the many individuals mentioned or referred to in the letters are: Ernest Marwick, Edwin Muir, Andrew Motion, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Hermann Palsson, Simon Fraser, Esther...
Dates:
1974-1996
Correspondence between James Crichton-Browne and Captain P.L.Pleadwell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1489
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
Letter to 'Dear Captain Pleadwell' - signed James Crichton-Browne - 'Crindau', Dumfries - 26 December 1928 - Refers to: 'travelling and unable to send out Christmas cards this year'; and there is 'no book to send to send you and have not attempted anything beyond a few newspaper articles'; the hope that he might 'buckle too, soon'; and, he is 88, 'but am scarcely personally...
Dates:
1928-1936
Correspondence of Alexander E.R. Agassiz
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-96
Scope and Contents
The correspondence of Alexander E. R. Agassiz is mainly about coral reefs. There are letters to Sir Charles Wyville Thomson and to Sir John Murray (1841-1914). There is also material on Agassiz's life and scientific work.
Dates:
circa 1867-1910
Correspondence of Armand Leslie
Fonds — Box: Dk.2.15
Identifier: Coll-2148
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers relating to Armand Leslie, M.R.C.S., surgeon and Chief Medical Officer who died in Sudan under the command of Charles George Baker. This collection includes many letters to him, some from his sister Jane Young Elvira Leslie and his brother John Leslie, as well as further correspondence after his death between Elvira, John Leslie, and others.Some material (newspaper cuttings, parts of a rough diary, and correspondence, including two letters from...
Dates:
1824-1900
Correspondence of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-509
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection includes: a pedigree showing the descent of Charles Stuart from David I, King of Scotland, and William the Conqueror; letter on public health matters; letter to Comte Langles relating to the behaviour of his staff; letter to the French Ministry of the Interior asking for intervention in the case of Lady C. Parnell, and letters to the Interior Ministry on other matters; letter relating to letter of credence; letter relating to a survey of Ireland; letter...
Dates:
19th century
Correspondence of James Sime, Lord Francis Jeffrey and William Sharp
Fonds — Box: Dk.6.23
Identifier: Coll-2211
Scope and Contents
Letters (24) of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey to Dr George Wilson, afterwards Professor of Technology at Edinburgh University about articles in The Edinburgh University Review on Watt and Cavendish, January 1848, and the electric telegraph, Oct. 1849. 1847-49, n.d.
A letter of James Patrick Muirhead to Wilson with an extract from a letter of...
Dates:
1847-1890
Correspondence of John Erskine D.D.
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-624
Scope and Contents
The material consists of Erskine's correspondence with the Rev. Dr. J. Ryland.
Dates:
1779-1802
Correspondence of John Phimister Mitchell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-439
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of letters from J. P. Mitchell, from Ethiopia and the Sudan, mainly to his mother.
Dates:
1921-1923
Correspondence of Mary Moore
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-715
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of personal letters to Robert Moore from Mary Moore while at school in Edinburgh, including an account of a ballooning ascent by Vincenzo Lunardi in 1786. There is also a bill for making a pair of satin slippers, 1788.
Dates:
1786-1790
Correspondence of Professor Allan Menzies
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1109
Scope and Contents
Contained in the bound volume forming the collection are:
- brief notes on a building in Lanark
- loose letter dated 1816, to 'My dear Mother' from Menzies
- offprintThe image of clay that the screw-maker set up, George Stephens, Denmark, 1885
- various letters 1855-1856, largely to Menzies' widow commiserating on his death, and including a letter from...
Dates:
1816-1885