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Unbound manuscripts with three texts entitled 'Memorial concerning the proposed Navigation between the Murray Firth and the Sound of Mull', together with 'Farbers Navigation, Loch Ness Navigation', and a single sheet entitled 'Wood'.

Scope and Contents A large bound manuscript volume entitled 'Sect. 7. Cattle, Green Crops'. Given the title, this text, whilst complete in itself, must be part of a multivolume set. 'The Soil & Climate of the Highlands' 'The State of the Highland Cattle during Winter' 'The grasses and green Crops proper to be cultivated in the Highlands' 'Crops for dry Provender: 1....

Content Description Three bound theses on subjects related to Malawi, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, and one handbook to learn Hausa (a Chadic language spoken mostly in southern Niger and northern Nigeria). Teaching Yourself Hausa, by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene and Charles H. Kraft, 1966 (uncorrected draft). Annotation: "Presented by the author to the General Linguistics Library, June...

Content Description This fonds includes seven letters of Anders Naessil: five from Arthur Koestler to A. Naessil, one from A. Naessil to Newsweek magazine, and one from Marie Whiteside, Editor of Newsweek to A. Naessil. Letter from Koestler to Naessil replying to a previous letter, mentioning Naessil's book on Hemingway, Sartre, and a Nobel banquet that Koestler attended. Dated 21 June 1980. Letter from...

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Two Kodak slides showing the Nelson firm's factory in South Edinburgh (at Parkside, just below Arthur' seat) before it was demolished in 1968.