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Letter from H. G. Aldis to Mr. Johnston
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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
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Identifier: Coll-1470
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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
Scope and Contents
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
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