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Correspondence of Alexander Lindsay of Balcarres
Fonds — Box: Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2241
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of eight letters of Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, afterwards 23rd Earl of Grawford, 5 to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville and 3 to Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. 1788-1812. All letters are signed "Balcarres". Letters 4 and 5 are written from Jamaica, the others from Edinburgh, Balcarres, and Haigh Hall. Letter 1 is a draft or copy by the Earl of the last part of a letter only, about his brother "Mr Lindsay". With letter 5 is a duplicate also...
Dates:
1788-1812
Correspondence of Andrew A Bonar (1810-1892) and Elizabeth Somerville
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 32.9
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1835-1891
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Correspondence of Armand Leslie
Fonds — Box: Dk.2.15
Identifier: Coll-2148
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers relating to Armand Leslie, M.R.C.S., surgeon and Chief Medical Officer who died in Sudan under the command of Charles George Baker. This collection includes many letters to him, some from his sister Jane Young Elvira Leslie and his brother John Leslie, as well as further correspondence after his death between Elvira, John Leslie, and others.Some material (newspaper cuttings, parts of a rough diary, and correspondence, including two letters from...
Dates:
1824-1900
Correspondence of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-509
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection includes: a pedigree showing the descent of Charles Stuart from David I, King of Scotland, and William the Conqueror; letter on public health matters; letter to Comte Langles relating to the behaviour of his staff; letter to the French Ministry of the Interior asking for intervention in the case of Lady C. Parnell, and letters to the Interior Ministry on other matters; letter relating to letter of credence; letter relating to a survey of Ireland; letter...
Dates:
19th century
Correspondence of James Sime, Lord Francis Jeffrey and William Sharp
Fonds — Box: Dk.6.23
Identifier: Coll-2211
Scope and Contents
Letters (24) of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey to Dr George Wilson, afterwards Professor of Technology at Edinburgh University about articles in The Edinburgh University Review on Watt and Cavendish, January 1848, and the electric telegraph, Oct. 1849. 1847-49, n.d.
A letter of James Patrick Muirhead to Wilson with an extract from a letter of...
Dates:
1847-1890
Correspondence of John Erskine D.D.
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-624
Scope and Contents
The material consists of Erskine's correspondence with the Rev. Dr. J. Ryland.
Dates:
1779-1802
Correspondence of John Phimister Mitchell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-439
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of letters from J. P. Mitchell, from Ethiopia and the Sudan, mainly to his mother.
Dates:
1921-1923
Correspondence of Mary Moore
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-715
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of personal letters to Robert Moore from Mary Moore while at school in Edinburgh, including an account of a ballooning ascent by Vincenzo Lunardi in 1786. There is also a bill for making a pair of satin slippers, 1788.
Dates:
1786-1790
Correspondence of Prof. Alexander Robertson MacEwen (1851-1916)
Fonds
Identifier: GD43
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is composed of, in large part, letters to MacEwen from: Henry Calderwood, James S. Candlish, Archibald Henderson, Thomas Kennedy, James Orr, and Walter Ross Taylor
Dates:
1894-1898
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Correspondence of Professor Allan Menzies
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1109
Scope and Contents
Contained in the bound volume forming the collection are:
- brief notes on a building in Lanark
- loose letter dated 1816, to 'My dear Mother' from Menzies
- offprintThe image of clay that the screw-maker set up, George Stephens, Denmark, 1885
- various letters 1855-1856, largely to Menzies' widow commiserating on his death, and including a letter from...
Dates:
1816-1885