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Social Interaction

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 1130 Collections and/or Records:

Letters received #4, 1779-1840

 File
Identifier: Coll-51/2/2/4
Scope and Contents

Over 300 letters on professional and personal matters.

Dates: 1779-1840

Letters received by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison and other documents, 1805-1871

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-51/3/3
Scope and Contents

3 bundles of around 15 letters (total) received by Sir R.I.Murchison, c.1820-1870, correpondents including his wife, his solicitor and Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay.

Documents connected with Sir R.I.Murchison, c.1805-1871. c.50 items. Includes: passport to France 1814-1815; appointment as Director-General of Geological Survey, 1855.

There are also drawings, one of which is labelled 'by Lady Murchison' one of which is available on LUNA.

Dates: 1805-1871

Letters to Alexander MacMillan, 1870-1873

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/2
Scope and Contents

The Letters to Alexander MacMillan sub-series consists of:


  1. 6 letters from a variety of contemporary literary figures (1870-1873).
Dates: 1870-1873

Life Among the Islanders of the Pacific Archipelago, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3260
Scope and Contents

Photographs depicting a Westerner's life among the Islanders of the Pacific archipelago in 1919. The top image shows a Mrs. M S Zabel dispensing justice with two native councillors on Eden Island; the bottom left image shows the famous Flower Pot Island and the bottom right image shows a group of Papuan children wearing their stitched leaf raincoats.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

New York file, 1929-1934

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/4
Scope and Contents

letters, notes, press cuttings, calendars, leaflets and related material

Dates: 1929-1934

Personal correspondence, 1911-1959

 Series
Identifier: BAI 1/19
Scope and Contents

Personal correspondence consists of:


  1. letters from Annie Baillie
  2. letters from Donald Macpherson Baillie
  3. letters from Florence Jewel Baillie
  4. letters regarding the death of Annie Baillie
Dates: 1911-1959

Photographs, 1948

 File
Identifier: BAI 2/4/10
Scope and Contents

Photographs and picture postcards primarily of New Zealand, Hawaii and Sri Lanka, including many of friends and people John and Jewel Baillie met while travelling.

Dates: 1948

Postcard to Donald Tovey from Ernest Walker, 25 February 1939

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L866
Scope and Contents

Postcard, 25 February 1939, Ernest Walker to Donald Tovey. Sending love and thanks to Tovey. Holograph signed, on postcard of the Florentine school, fragment of alter piece, stamp and right hand corner of postcard missing.

Dates: 25 February 1939

Postcard to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Clara Tovey, c1920

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2518
Scope and Contents

Postcard, [n.d], Suffolk, Clara Tovey to Mary Grierson. Requesting the dates of the Reid and Sunday Concerts. Holograph signed, with post script from Tovey .

Dates: c1920

Postcard to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Johannes Röntgen, 05 January 1928

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2439
Scope and Contents

Postcard, 5 January 1928, Prague, Johannes Rontgen to Mary Grierson. Best wishes for the New Year and news of the Rontgens'. Holograph signed, stamped, on black and white photographic reproduction.

Dates: 05 January 1928