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Letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs. Morrow, 23 November 1913

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Identifier: Coll-1464
Scope and Contents This letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs. Morrow [Hove], written 23 November 1913, from 11 avenue de la Grande Armee, Paris, discusses fund raising efforts and the appalling condition suffered by imprisoned suffragettes: 'This collection gives to all WSPU members and friends an opportunity to make a united demonstration of the kind which will impress the Government and the public and will prove the utter futility of torture [...] The prisoners are doing their part. It is for the rest of...
Dates: 1913-1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from E. Gordon Duff to Mr. Johnston, and fragment

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Identifier: Coll-1280
Scope and Contents The letter from E. Gordon Duff is dated Tuesday 7 January 1913, on paper embossed with the arms of the Athenaeum, Liverpool. It is written to 'Dear Mr Johnston' . The letter refers to 'the two books in the Laing portraits'. Apparently the book 'on the table in the sitting portrait was a copy of some Scottish Acts'. The book had been 'sold in the final Laing sale'. When Duff had seen it a couple of months before writing the letter 'it was in the hands of a London firm of...
Dates: 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from George Selwyn to father William Selwyn describing tour of Pacific islands, with sketches, 1848

 Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 80
Dates: 1848
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from H. G. Aldis to Mr. Johnston

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Identifier: Coll-1279
Scope and Contents The letter from H. G. A. (Harry Gidney Aldis) is dated 2 February 1913, Candlemas day, on paper embossed with Grennan, Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge. It is written to 'My dear Johnston' . The letter refers to no further word 'heard from the Astronomer Royal about the incunabula which he is so yearning to send to Cambridge for possible identification'. The letter also talks about illness in the library and about how work offers 'much arrears to mop up before we can venture to start on...
Dates: 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Hedges to Lord Lt. of Ireland

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Identifier: Coll-1138
Scope and Contents

The letter dated Whitehall 6 November 1706 written and signed by Hedges conveys the news to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland that the army is marching north and that the Queen (Anne) has asked for troops from Ireland to join them.

Dates: 1706
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to Dr. Mary Ringsleben, 30 August 1958

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Identifier: Coll-1384
Scope and Contents The letter was written by Hugh MacDiarmid on 30 August 1958 from 'Brownsbank', Candymill, Biggar, Lanarkshire. It is addressed to Dr. Ringsleben - Mary Ringsleben having been awarded her Ph.D. two years earlier in 1956 (Aberdeen). MacDiarmid apologises for having 'retained your thesis so long'. He refers to having seen Dr. David Murison (deputy editor of the Scottish National Dictionary) in Edinburgh and that he had 'just missed you'. He describes the Ringsleben thesis as 'an...
Dates: fl. 1956-1968
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from J. Middleton Murry 10 February 1933

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Identifier: Coll-1470
Scope and Contents This autograph letter signed is dated 10 February 1933, and was written from The Old Rectory, Larling, nr. Norwich. The letter is not addressed to anyone by name and Murry begins by stating that he is 'not perfectly certain of your name even'. It continues by referring to an 'issue between Mrs Carswell and me' which 'is at once simple, and not simple'. Murry states that he does 'not doubt, for one moment, that her original impulse was one of good faith'. He writes, 'She felt it her duty to...
Dates: 1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from J. R. R. Tolkien to Professor Campbell after receiving an Honorary Degree

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Identifier: Coll-1729
Scope and Contents The letter from Professor J. R. R. Tolkien is dated 28 July 1973, and is written at Merton College, Oxford. It is a letter of thanks for the honour bestowed on him in Edinburgh. The letter is addressed to 'Dear Professor Campbell', being Professor Ian M. Campbell, at the then Faculty of Arts (Latin, Humanity).The letter was written some two weeks after the event (award of Honorary Degree), and 'after some further travelling'. Tolkien expresses his thanks to Campbell for his 'part...
Dates: 28 July 1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from James Geikie to Professor Dunn, 28 February 1887

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Identifier: Coll-1485
Scope and Contents The letter is dated 28 February 1887, at 10 Bright['s] Crescent, presumably in Edinburgh. It appears to begin, 'Dear Prof. Dunn'. Geikie regrets that he 'shall be unable to attend the Council meeting for t. night - I am not allowed to go out in the evening'. He remarks how it is 'a terrible loss to the Society in the death of our dear friend Mr. Gray!' It finishes with autograph signature, James Geikie. There is also a printed outline map of Scotland showing principal directions of...
Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Johannes Warneck to David Smith Cairns about commission IV report of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference

 Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 83
Dates: 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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