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Letters of John Wilson ("Christopher North"), Andrew Wilson, and Alexander Blair
Fonds — Volume: Dk.3.48
Identifier: Coll-2179
Scope and Contents
Three letters of John Wilson ("Christopher North") to Robert Findlay, also a letter of Andrew Wilson, his brother, and six letters of Alexander Blair to Findlay, about J. Wilson's life at Oxford, etc. 1804-1807.
Dates:
1804-1807
Letters of Ralph Erskine
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1267
Scope and Contents
The letter (E2010.18), placed and dated as Dunfermline 10 April 1741, refers to a letter from Whitefield written on the 'Minerva' 17 February. It refers too to Mr. Wilson 'in Perth who teacheth as our professor of divinity'. The letter lists previous communication between Erskine and Whitefield one of which (from Bohemia in Maryland) Erskine has 'received not'. The others mentioned are: a letter from Whitefield from Philadelphia on 8 November; and, one from Savannah on 16 January 1740....
Dates:
1741
Letters of Samuel Smiles
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1877
Scope and Contents
Collection of 17 autograph letters signed (ALS), from Samuel Smiles (Scottish author and government reformer) to various correspondents, discussing literary and publishing matters, his works and lectures, and various business and financial matters.
29 November 1852: letter to Thomas Nunneley, one page, 4to., relating to 'the amount of compensation which was to be offered to...
Dates:
1852-1896
Letters of the Rev. Ralph Wardlaw (1778-1853) and other items
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1674
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 9 letters, being:
1 x ms letter - 2 December 1844 - to 'Dear fallen Brothers', from Ralph Wardlaw - also noted as 'Dr. W. to John Lucy '
1 x ms letter - 23 June 1847 - to 'Beloved Brethren', from Ralph Wardlaw
1 x ms letter - 17 March 1848 - to 'My Dear Brother', from Ralph Wardlaw - with envelope noted 'Thomas Cochran / Blank envelope re- /...
Dates:
1844-1853
Letters of W. S. Morrison to his brother, D. J. Morrison
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-794
Identifier: Coll-1142
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of circa 100 items of correspondence between William Shepherd Morrison (1893-1961) and his brother Dr. Donald John Morrison, referred to in the letters as ‘Pwe’. The laters are dated from 1915 to 1961and include (as a point of illustration of the type of content) the following:
- letter dated 11 June 1915, from the Western Front with the prospect of a German attack on Calais -...
Dates:
1915-1961
Letters of Walter Scott, to Walter Dickson, and to Rev. Anthony Dow, which make reference to Helen Walker
Fonds — Box: CLX-D-29, Folder: Coll-1703 / SC-Acc-2016-0006
Identifier: Coll-1703
Content Description
Autograph letter signed, Abbotsford, 27 October 1827. Black wax seal. Addressed to Walter Dickson Esq.
Transcript of the above letter.
Autograph letter signed, Edinburgh, 5 March 1830. Red wax seal, degraded. Three postal handstamps, with one 'Dumfries'. Addressed to Rev. Dr. Dow, Kirkpatrick-Irongray, Dumfriesshire.
Dates:
1827-1830
Letters, programmes and minute book of the Edinburgh Amateur Orchestral Society
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1569
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of notes and memoranda about purchases and gifts of parts, correspondence, and Sketch Programmes for the Society's Jubilee Year of 1921-1922, seasons 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27, and 1935-36.Subsequent addition: the minute book of Edinburgh Amateur Orchestral Society, with minutes of meetings from 1872 to 1955 (some hand written, some typed). The book also includes annual reports, correspondence, accounts, notices, handwritten notes with...
Dates:
1872-1955; 1987
Letters relevant to the Round Table Club and referring to John Gray McKendrick, 1908
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1324
Identifier: Coll-1694
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of two letters.The first is dated Edinburgh, 27 June 1908, and is from "your old friends", the "other surviving members" of the Round Table Club, to "Dear McKendrick". It goes on: "thank you very heartily for your labour of love. You bring back very vividly those happy times, and make us young again. We are especially grateful to you for what you say of those who have got [sic] before us, and we again see and hear their friends faces and their songs and...
Dates:
1908
Letters to J. L. Levison from Combe and others
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1243
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 20 non-chronologically numbered items, letters and fragments, as follows:
1 - Letter to Levison written from Grafton Place, London. 3 July 1827
2 - Fragment, Mr. Fletcher, Bookseller, Southampton, 15 February 1821 [postmark]
3 - Folded paper or envelope with black edge and black wax seal, addressed to Levison, from Sir G. S. Mackenzie,...
Dates:
1821-1848
Life-mask of J. W von Goethe, and correspondence relating to Weisser the maker of the mask
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1322
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
This is one of only two examples of Goethe's life-mask. It had been sent to Thomas Carlyle by J. P. Eckermann and hung in Carlyle's home for many years. On Carlyle's death it was presented to David Masson, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh, and on his death was given by the Masson family to Professor Hume Brown who in turn bequeathed it to Edinburgh...
Dates:
1807-1920