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Letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs. Morrow, 23 November 1913
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1464
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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
Letter from E. Gordon Duff to Mr. Johnston, and fragment
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1280
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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
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
Letter from George Shaw Stewart, 48, Comiston Drive, Edinburgh to W. R. Forrester
Fonds
Identifier: MS 5007
Scope and Contents
Letter from Rev George Shaw Stewart, 48, Comiston Drive, Edinburgh to W. R. Forrester stating that he would not enter into the United Church, his reasons for not doing so, and his desire that this would not cause an end to their friendship.
Dates:
27 May 1929
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letter from H. G. Aldis to Mr. Johnston
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1279
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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
Letter from Hector MacPherson to Rev Dr D. S. Hopkirk
Fonds
Identifier: MS 5008
Scope and Contents
Letter from Rev Dr Hector MacPherson, 7 Wardie Crescent, Edinburgh to Rev Dr Dudley Stuart Hopkirk, 18 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh telling of his recent holiday to Holland to visit a Dutch minister friend. He states his amazement 'at the recovery Holland has made' following the occupation of the country and tells how his friend had been imprisoned for befriending a Jewish refugee.
Dates:
18 May 1948
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letter from Hedges to Lord Lt. of Ireland
Fonds
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
Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to Dr. Mary Ringsleben, 30 August 1958
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1384
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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
Letter from J. Middleton Murry 10 February 1933
Fonds
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
Letter from J. R. R. Tolkien to Professor Campbell after receiving an Honorary Degree
Item
Identifier: Coll-1729
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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