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Correspondence of Rev. Canon Andrew John Young

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-702

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of letters and postcards to close friends John Freeman and John Arlott, as well as analyses of religious questions in poetry. There are circa 20 autograph letters and 10 signed letters to Freeman, 1922-1927, and circa 100 autograph letters to Arlott from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection also includes BBC typescript broadcasts on The search for flowers, Some rare flowers of the west, ...

Dates: 1920-1971

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Rev. John Snaith

Fonds — Box: Dk.2.6

Identifier: Coll-2141

Scope and Contents

Correspondence of John Snaith, 1891-1915. Correspondents include James Hutchison Stirling, Amelia Hutchison Stirling, Rev. R. M. Spence, William Hal White ('Mark Rutherford'), and Sir William Robertson Nicoll. 153 letters.

Dates: 1891-1915

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Robert Dick

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-195

Scope and Contents

The correspondence in the collection consists entirely of letters to Charles William Peach about the plants and fossils of Caithness. Some comments too against Darwin's theory of evolution. There are also obituaries, press-cuttings and letters about Robert Dick.

Dates: 1800-1866

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-625

Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists of autographed letters from Koteliansky to Sir Sidney Philip Waterlow referring to much in the literature of the period including reference to D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, and Aldous Huxley.

Dates: 1929-1933

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of the Oswald family of Auchincruive

Fonds — Box: Dk.1.30

Identifier: Coll-521

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of correspondence to Richard Oswald (1705-1784) and the correspondence of Richard Alexander Oswald, M.P. (1771-1841), his cousin James Oswald, M.P., and the latter's nephew Alexander Oswald, M.P., all of whom had succeeded in turn to the Auchincruive estates. More specifically there is: a batch of letters to Richard Oswald of Auchincruive from various correspondents in Scotland relating to the management of his Scottish estates and to business transactions,...

Dates: 1764-1846

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence, papers, photographs of William Charles Chapman-Mortimer, which include letters to his wife, illustrated stories and poems

Fonds — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Coll-1789

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of letters between Mortimer and his first wife Frances, dating from 1940 to 1945. These are often illustrated with pen and ink illustrations. Among the letters from Mortimer are a few manuscript poems and stories including a hand-sewn typescript booklet, The Poet and the Hippopotamus. And Other Works. There are also letters to R. M. Rice, 1960s.There are 4 x bound manuscripts, news-clippings extracted from an...

Dates: 1940-1945

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence relating to Copper Mining in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1960-1962

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-688

Scope and Contents

This material is incoming correspondence relating to Coleman's research into Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) copper mining. There are also 4 photographs, three of which are copies of an image of Nchanga incline shaft in 1927, and one of Nchanga football team.

Dates: 1960-1962

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections