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Box CLX-A-1702

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Papers of John Augustus Bonney, and Bonney family papers

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-307
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a bundle of manuscript notes and drafts forming Bonney's history of the Tower of London, as well as miscellaneous notes on the Tower, diary kept while Bonney was in the Tower, a list of papers seized by the King's messenger at J. A. Bonney's in Percy Street on 15 May 1794, correspondence including letters 1807-1808 to Spencer Perceval the Chancellor of the Exchequer with suggestions for the regulation of taxes, documents, wills, and family portraits. There are also...
Dates: 18th century

Original PhD Thesis entitled "Geology of the Lochinver Area Sutherlandshire Scotland" by Calvin Ralph Evans, 1963

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0006
Scope and Contents

One green volume containing an original PhD Thesis entitled "Geology of the Lochinver District, Sutherland" by Calvin Ralph Evans. Typescript. Thesis submitted to the Board of Biological Sciences for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Oxford, England, June 1963.

Dates: 1963

Three letters signed from Sophie Weisse to Louis Fleury, 5 June, 28 June, 13 July 1910

 File — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0018
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three letters, in French, from the Scottish music teacher, Sophie Weisse (1852-1945) to the French flautist Louis Fleury (1878-1926). Composed in June-July 1910 in Northlands, Englefield Green, Surrey. The letters discuss concert plans, including a performance by Weisse’s close friend and protegé, Donald Tovey. One letter mentions Tovey’s great admiration of Fleury’s playing.

Dates: 5 June, 28 June, 13 July 1910

Autograph Letter Signed from Colin MacLaurin to Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, 5 February 1743

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0023
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a letter written, in French, by Colin Maclaurin, to Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan, Perpetual Secretary of the French Académie des Sciences. Maclaurin first discusses his major work, the Treatise of Fluxions (1742), a rigorous and systematic defence of Newtonian calculus. Maclaurin acknowledges that foreign readers might be surprised by his methodology but explains that he wished to meet potential scientific and philosophical...
Dates: 5 February 1743

Letter from David Daiches to Jonathan Penner, 3 March 1978

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0015
Scope and Contents

In this letter, Daiches thanks Jonathan Penner for the gift of his novel Going Blind. Daiches goes on to discuss his family and, in particular, his feelings following the death of his first wife Isobel Mackay in 1977.

Dates: 3 March 1978

Electoral Campaign leaflet for post of Rector of Edinburgh University, in favour of Sydney Goodsir-Smith , 1951

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0164
Scope and Contents

Electoral campaign leaflet for the post of Rector of the University of Edinburgh, in favour of Sydney Goodsir Smith, dated 1951.

Dates: 1951

Notebook of Angus MacIntosh containing notes on old English grammar, Second half of the 20th century

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0019
Scope and Contents

Notebook of the linguist Angus McIntosh containing notes on old English grammar.

Dates: Second half of the 20th century

Manuscript thesis entitled "On the Treatment of some Varieties of Insanity" by David Collie, 1878

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0028
Scope and Contents

Manuscript thesis entitled "On the Treatment of some Varieties of Insanity" by David Collie, M.B., C.M, 1878. Signed "David Collie M.B. C.M. Edinburgh (1878), Late Clinical Resident at St Luke's Hospital, Old Street, London E. C." This refers to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London.

Dates: 1878

Printed book So Late into the Night: Fifty Lyrics by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with proofs and enclosed newspaper clippings, 1946-1952

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0029
Scope and Contents Printed book entitled So Late into the Night: Fifty Lyrics by Sydney Goodsir Smith, containing lyrics and verses in Scots, published in 1952, London. Book dedicated to Peter Russell by Sydney Goodsir Smith. Also includes proofs and two articles from The Scots Review, one entitled "Synthetic Analysis by Sydney Goodsir Smith" dated December 1946, and one entitled "In Defence of 'Lallans'" also by Goodsir...
Dates: 1946-1952

Satirical broadside on silk entitled "Fr_E TR_N Theatre, H_LMH_D Street", 1849

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0012
Scope and Contents

Satirical broadside printed on silk advertising the trial of the Rev. James Macbeth as though it were a popular play. Macbeth, preacher in the Norfolk Street Free Church in Laurieston, Glasgow, was accused by several women of indecent treatment, though eventually, after the case was appealed all the way to the General Assembly, found not guilty by the Free Church.

Dates: 1849