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Bound volume of manuscript materials by and about Scottish poet Thomas Brown

Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1593

Identifier: Coll-1986

Content Description Ths is a bound volume of manuscript material, correspondence and verse, by and about Thomas Brown, Scottish poet and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1810 until the end of his life in 1820. The collection was almost certainly put together by his friend and colleague William Erskine, to whom the vast majority of the manuscripts are addressed.Contents: ...

Dates: 1797-1835

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of letters of Thomas Chalmers, mostly to Rebecca Bell

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-2083

Scope and Contents Collection of 15 signed autograph letters from Thomas Chalmers, Edinburgh and Burntisland, 1832-1842. All but one are addressed to Miss Rebecca Bell of Woodhouse Lee, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire (the remaining letter to George Bell of Leith), discussing the state of the Church of Scotland during the campaign that culminated in the Disruption and the establishment of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. He also offers spiritual advice, and discusses Miss Bell's proposed foundation of a new...

Dates: 1832-1842

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Thomas Chalmers to various correspondents

Fonds — Box: CLX-A-360

Identifier: Coll-1856

Scope and Contents A group of thirteen letters from Thomas Chalmers to various correspondents, 1820-1846. Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent, 16 February 1820: ('One reason for calling 1 upon you this evening was earnestly to solicit the hastening forward of our school estimates. Another was to speak to you of Mr McLeod in his capacity as a candidate for the reading school belonging to the Highland...

Dates: 1820-1846

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters of Rev. Alexander Lockhart Simpson (1785-1861)

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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