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Letters from Dr. R.H.Thouless to Dr. D.J.Bruce
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1114
Scope and Contents
The small collection is composed of three Australian overseas aerogramme letters (one manuscript, and two typescript) written while on his lecturing trips to Australia. The letters are each addressed to Dr. D. J. Bruce at Department of Education, Brookside, Cambridge, or at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The sender's addresses were in/at: Cremorne, Sydney NSW; Adelaide University SA; and Ocean Beach, Manly NSW. The letters are dated between 12 May 1962 and 26 December 1966....
Dates:
1962-1966
Letters from Edwin and Willa Muir to Morley and Flora Jamieson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2061
Content Description
This fonds consists of friendly letters and cards from Edwin and Willa Muir to their wartime lodgers Morley and Flora Jamieson: an autograph letter signed from Edwin and Willa to Flora, two autograph letters signed from Willa to Morley and Flora, a carbon-copy typed letter from Edwin to Morley and Flora, a Christmas autograph correspondence card signed from Willa to the Jamiesons' dog Jinty, and a Christmas autograph picture postcard signed from Willa. The letters were sent from Edinburgh,...
Dates:
1944-1963
Letters from George Mackay Brown to Lawrence Millman
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-373, Folder: Coll-1878: Letters from George Mackay Brown to Lawrence Millman.
Identifier: Coll-1878
Content Description
This fonds comprises 81 manuscript letters sent by George Mackay Brown to American writer and ethnographer Lawrence Millman, who was George M. Brown's only regular North American correspondent. Brown and Millman met in Stromness in 1977, and were friends for fifteen years. In his letters, Brown talks about his personal life and his writing, and refers to Millman's irish book Our Like Will Not Be There Again, as well as his prose poems. They corresponded...
Dates:
22 July 1977-12 February 1987
Letters from James Hogg to Robert Cadell
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-480
Identifier: Coll-2104
Content Description
Three letters from James Hogg (1770-1835) to publisher Robert Cadell (1788-1849), dated 6th March, [before 10th] July, and 17th October 1822.The letters relate to the multi-volume anthology of James Hogg's works, that he had seeked to publish in 1822 to boost both his income and his literary reputation. He had first suggested it to the Edinburgh publisher Archibald Constable, who gave the task to his business partner and son-in-law Robert Cadell. The publication appeared on the...
Dates:
6 March, [before 10] July, 17 October 1822
Letters from James Renwick, Lady Janet Gordon, Robert Hamilton, George Hill, Michael Shields and Sir Alexander Gordon of Earlston and criticism of M Jameson's Cyprianus Istimus
Collection
Identifier: MS BOX 1.9
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1683-1705
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters from John Gwynn to John Pinkerton
Fonds — Box: Dk.3.37
Identifier: Coll-2174
Scope and Contents
Two letters from John Gwynne to Rev. John Pinkerton, and notes on Syriac, 1915.
Dates:
1915
Letters from Kenneth Leighton to Neil Mackie
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-760
Identifier: Coll-2078
Content Description
This fonds contains three letters (two originals, one copy) sent from Kenneth Leighton to Scottish tenor Neil Mackie in 1986 and 1987, relating to Leighton's composition "Earth, Sweet Earth" performed the first time by Neil Mackie in 1987.
Letter dated 25 June 1986, in which Leighton informs Mackie that ""Earth Sweet Earth" is now finished" and that "[he is] sending [him] a copy of the text". He goes on...
Dates:
1986-1987
Letters from Mary Florence Jamieson; Edward Bannerman Ramsay; Archibald Campbell Tait, Archibishop of Canterbury; and James Brown M.P.
Collection
Identifier: MS BOX 3.7
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1872, 1930-1937
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters from Patrick Geddes to R. E. Muirhead
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1159
Scope and Contents
Two of the letters are Geddes' autograph, one dated 23 November 1928, the other 4 December (1928), and both are written on headed notepaper: College des Ecossais, Plan des Quatre Seigneurs, Montpellier, France. The third is a typescript which forms a postscript to the second letter. At the time of writing, Geddes was living in his old age at Montpellier. As ever, Geddes is urging change and new perspectives. The letters are from Geddes to R. E. Muirhead, chairman of the National...
Dates:
1928
Letters from Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1692
Identifier: Coll-2020
Content Description
This collection consists of typescript letters sent by Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt D Litt., arranged in chronological order, dating from 1895 to 1932. The subjects of these letters are diverse, from family and personal matters, to literature and political discussions.
First lot: "Letters Christmas Eve 1895 to Dec. 1917. Autograph letters and typescript copies of these letters have...
Dates:
1895-1932