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Ms engineering journal of James Pugh Kirkwood, relating to Pensacola docks in Florida, and projects elsewhere
Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1795 / SC-Acc-2017-0006
Identifier: Coll-1795
Content Description
This manuscript engineering journal is in two parts, spanning the period of Kirkwood's career associated with the Pensacola docks in Florida, 1845-1847, but also covering the period 1871-1877 providing a wealth of information on the occupation of the USA's most important civil engineers.The content is: copy letters which offer a detailed account of the exigencies of the task at Pensacola; and, diary or journal entries.The volume also has - at the end - a combination...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1845-1877
Papers of Rev. Bruce Kenrick
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1363
Scope and Contents
A tranche of material acquired in 2012 is composed of diaries and journals, notebooks, notes, talks and broadcast scripts, letters, newspaper clippings, more specifically:
Box containing school reports, a copy of school newspaper, and letters: Merchant Taylors’ School (Crosby) Terminal Reports, Summer Term 1930 to Winter Term 1936; a copy of Merchant Taylors School newspaper, ‘Weekly Echo’, No.1. (ed....
Dates:
1927-1989
Papers of Sir Charles Lyell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-203
Scope and Contents
Lyell’s 'Papers' serves as a description of several series of archival records, including correspondence to and from Lyell, and other records kept by himself and his team. Lyell’s archive was purposefully created by himself and his team, to evidence his work, achievements and for prosperity. Where evident, Lyell’s own organisation has been retained, and used to structure the series. The archival papers should be seen in the context of the run of Notebooks, his specimen collection, and...
Dates:
1806-1874