Picture postcards
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph letter from Herbert Stanley Oakeley to Thérèse Tietjens, 21 March 1868
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0058
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter from Herbert Stanley Oakeley, Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh from 1865 to 1891, to the soprano Thérèse Tietjens. He writes to thank Tietjens for her "photogram", is looking forward to a performance of Fidelio that evening for which he has procured tickets for some of his students: he admires her performance greatly and writes "I wish you could see your own expression of defiance, fury & triumph, when you are following Pizarro with...
Dates:
21 March 1868
Correspondence between Dick Leith and Hamish Henderson
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1143
Identifier: Coll-1971
Content Description
This contains notes, a postcard, and letters sent between Hamish Henderson and Dick Leith in the 1990s:
Postcard showing Castle Tioram sent from Dick Leith to Hamish Henderson, dated 10th June [1994];
Photocopy of text by Andrew Morrison on 'The Green Man of Knowledge', undated. 'The Green Man of Knowledge' was a folktale recorded from Geordie Stewart by Hamish Henderson in August...
Dates:
1995-1999
Postcards sent to Marjorie Rackstraw, mostly 1960s
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-705/5/7
Scope and Contents
This sub-series includes postcards sent to Marjorie Rackstraw from all over the world, by various people.
Dates:
mostly 1960s