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Letter from James Geikie to Professor Dunn, 28 February 1887
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1485
Scope and Contents
The letter is dated 28 February 1887, at 10 Bright['s] Crescent, presumably in Edinburgh. It appears to begin, 'Dear Prof. Dunn'. Geikie regrets that he 'shall be unable to attend the Council meeting for t. night - I am not allowed to go out in the evening'. He remarks how it is 'a terrible loss to the Society in the death of our dear friend Mr. Gray!' It finishes with autograph signature, James Geikie. There is also a printed outline map of Scotland showing principal directions of...
Dates:
1887
Letter from Johannes Warneck to David Smith Cairns about commission IV report of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 83
Letter from John Buchan to Herbert Grierson, relating to his work on the Marquis of Montrose
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1555, Folder: Coll-1788 / SC-Acc-2016-0169
Identifier: Coll-1788
Content Description
This letter from John Buchan to Professor Herbert J. C. Grierson was written from Elsfield Manor, Oxford, 7 March 1928. It is addressed to Grierson at his home on Regent Terrace, Edinburgh.The letter refers to Buchan's work on James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose. The Duke of Montrose had sent him verses 'which he believes were written by the Great Marquis'. He had gotten them from 'some old book which he cannot now identify, and in which they were so...
Dates:
7 March 1928
Letter from Mary of Guise to Lord Vigilius a Zuichem dated 1555
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1547
Scope and Contents
The document, which is a long clerk letter written in Latin 'on the Kalends of January in the year of our Salvation 1554', and signed 'The friend of your virtue Marie R', concerns itself with two Scotsmen, Robert Landis and George Kincaid, who had been imprisoned by John Vitner of Berg. One of them 'is almost destroyed by the filth of the prison' and 'the other is almost brought to extreme starvation by the delay in action and demands on his ruined fortune'. The letter goes on to say that...
Dates:
1554
Letter from Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to J. Thomson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1136
Scope and Contents
An autograph letter signed 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy', in English, Leipzig 10 September 1838, to John Thomson, eulogising the latter's compositions. The letter appears to act as a letter of testimonial.
Dates:
1838
Letter from M.F. Gartshore, Jamaica, 1944
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 69
Letter from P.A. Roeykens, Congo, to Ruth Slade, 1957
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 78
Letter from Rev. John Ross to his daughter Peggy Ross about Chinese religion, 1914
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 79
Scope and Contents
This letter was pasted into a copy of The origin of the Chinese people, by John Ross, published 1916
Dates:
1914
Letter from S. R. Crockett
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1475
Scope and Contents
The letter is dated 3 [February] 1894 and was written at Glenhead of Trool, Bargrennan, Galloway by S. R. Crockett. It begins, 'Dear Sir' and he writes that he is 'exceedingly obliged for your kind and courteous letter about Sir Uchtred'. The points noted by the correspondent 'have been put right [...] in the second edition'. The letter then continues about the Covenant and Covenanter.
Dates:
1893-1894
Letter from Sir David Brewster to the Editor, the 'Scotsman', 5 November 1867
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1454
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed to the Editor of the Scotsman newspaper, 3 pages 8vo, written at Allerly, Melrose, on writing paper of Edinburgh University, and dated 5 November 1867. The letter, which is either an autograph draft or an edited version prepared for publication, condemns the forgery by Denis Vrain-Lucas (1818-1880) of letters of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) and Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). Denis Vrain-Lucas was one of the most notorious forgers of the...
Dates:
1867