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Book Proposals

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Draft letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Sir Archibald Geikie, 05 June 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/52
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Draft letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Sir Archibald Geikie apologising for any distress caused by the publication of sensitive material from his private letters in 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' and explaining why he was not given the opportunity to view the proofs before the book went to press.

Dates: 05 June 1861

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 03 June 1861

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/51
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay complaining that the proofs of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' obviously arrived too late for him to make any meaningful comment and that the sensitive information about the School of Mines contained in personal letters, which he had lent to George Wilson, had been published without his input or consent.

Dates: 03 June 1861