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Letters from Charles Kingsley to Archibald Geikie about the effects of ice
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-837
Identifier: Coll-1164
Scope and Contents
Letter from Kingsley to Archibald Geikie: Eversley 30 November 1868: giving a detailed account of his observations of the effect of ice on the geology of Deeside, Scotland.
Dates:
30 November 1868
Letters from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2116
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of six letters sent from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk from 1987 to 1992, as well as two postcards. The letters still have their original envelopes, and were sent from Auerbach's home in Grange Loan, Edinburgh to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The correspondence is mostly about exchanging news and small talk, in Auerbach's "old age".There is also a typed letter from Prof. Geoffrey Beale to "all old friends of Lotte", dated 16 August 1994...
Dates:
1987-1994
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 — Box: CLX-A-388
Identifier: Coll-2061
Scope and Contents
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
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1872, 1930-1937
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections