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Letters of Henry Holiday to Helen Patuffa Hood
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1558
Scope and Contents
All three letters are on the letterhead of 'Wansfell', 18 Chesterfield Gardens, Hampstead NW 3, and dated 17 January 1921, 8 February 1921, and 17 February 1922. Each open with the salutation, 'My dear Patuffa'. The letter of 17 January 1921 begins, 'I have just found, to my much delight, Mrs Kennedy Fraser's invitation to your wedding, wh. reached me at Betty-Fold, our house at the Lakes'. Holiday had hoped to attend, 'but when I unpacked the invitation had disappeared'. He...
Dates:
1921-1922
Letters of John Donaldson, Professor of Music
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1237
Scope and Contents
This undated letter from John Donaldson to H. H. Dibdin, and written from Marchfield, discusses the adjustment and tuning of an organ, and denies that Sir George Clerk had advocated 'the absurd perfect third system' stating, 'Until the valves were equally opened it was quite impossible to know, precisely, what kind of temperament Mr. Hill had adopted for the Music Hall organ. When I tried it with Sir G. Clerk we found one stop in tolerable tune - I say tolerable, but even in that stop many...
Dates:
1850-1865
Letters of John M. Leggate (c.1904-1985)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 12
Scope and Contents
The collection is a transcription of letters written by Leggate from Manchuria between 1946 and 1949. The letters are mainly to his wife in Scotland but some are to his children and possibly to others. The transcriptions do not include the names of the recipients of the letters and are extracts from the letters only, all personal references having been removed. Leggate describes re-establishing the missionary work in Manchuria, in particular his medical work and the medical college at...
Dates:
1946-1949
Letters of John Wilson ("Christopher North"), Andrew Wilson, and Alexander Blair
Fonds — Volume: Dk.3.48
Identifier: Coll-2179
Scope and Contents
Three letters of John Wilson ("Christopher North") to Robert Findlay, also a letter of Andrew Wilson, his brother, and six letters of Alexander Blair to Findlay, about J. Wilson's life at Oxford, etc. 1804-1807.
Dates:
1804-1807
Letters of Lawrence and Caroline Hogg
Fonds
Identifier: GD7
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twenty-six microfiche copies of letters. The first three (1910-1920) are letters written by Lawrence Hogg in Scotland before he went to India and the last two (1921-1923) are letters of Caroline M. Dixon before she married. The remaining letters record the Hoggs' many encounters with missionaries and Indian Church leaders, Hogg's views on independence, the contacts the Hoggs had with relatives in India and Upper Egypt, and offer a portrait of Christian work in...
Dates:
1910-1964
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters of Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson
Fonds — Box: Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2240
Scope and Contents
This collections consists of 17 letters from Dr Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson M.D. 1869, 1884-1892. Sixteen letters are to aunts (two or more), one of whom ("Aunt Garrie") was Mrs Wansbrough of Shrewton, Wiltshire. The first, dated Edinburgh 23 October 1869, speaks of her early medical studies and mentions Sophia Jex-Blake; the other fifteen letters (dated 1884-1892) were mostly written in India and touch on life and work in that country. One of these is a copy. One letter is to her sister...
Dates:
1869-1892
Letters of Ralph Erskine
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1267
Scope and Contents
The letter (E2010.18), placed and dated as Dunfermline 10 April 1741, refers to a letter from Whitefield written on the 'Minerva' 17 February. It refers too to Mr. Wilson 'in Perth who teacheth as our professor of divinity'. The letter lists previous communication between Erskine and Whitefield one of which (from Bohemia in Maryland) Erskine has 'received not'. The others mentioned are: a letter from Whitefield from Philadelphia on 8 November; and, one from Savannah on 16 January 1740....
Dates:
1741
Letters of Rev. Alexander Lockhart Simpson (1785-1861)
Fonds
Identifier: GD46
Scope and Contents
The letters are largely those to Simpson from Thomas Chalmers, and Sir George Sinclair. There are also letters from the Earl of Morton and Lady Morton, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Rosebery, Lord Stanley, Baron Torphichen, and the Marquis of Tweeddale.
Dates:
1835-1854
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters of Rev. Dr. William Steven (1796-1857)
Fonds
Identifier: GD45
Scope and Contents
The letters are from Steven to Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis. There are also anonymous notes in Dutch, possibly by Nijenhuis.
Dates:
1836-1837
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters of Samuel Smiles
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1877
Scope and Contents
Collection of 17 autograph letters signed (ALS), from Samuel Smiles (Scottish author and government reformer) to various correspondents, discussing literary and publishing matters, his works and lectures, and various business and financial matters.
29 November 1852: letter to Thomas Nunneley, one page, 4to., relating to 'the amount of compensation which was to be offered to...
Dates:
1852-1896