Book Proposals
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 07 December 1860
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 14 December 1860
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan concerning the layout of 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' and asking him to remind Thomas Henry Huxley that he had promised to write a forward to the book.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan, 08 January 1861
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Alexander MacMillan enclosing a letter from John Van Voorst (attached) refusing permission to use some wood cuts [in 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'], 1861, and requesting sight of Mrs. Yelverton's "things".
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson, 04 December 1860
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Jessie Aitken Wilson apologising for earlier abrupt behaviour due to a misunderstanding concerning mistakes made by the printer Thomas Constable [when printing 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'].
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 27 May 1861
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay. (continuation of Coll-74/11/3/49) reporting that he has written a title page and introduction [to his memoir of Edinburgh], and sent it to press.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 03 June 1861
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.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, 10 June 1861
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay reiterating that sensitive material from his private letters should not have been published in 'Memoirs of Edward Forbes' before he had had the opportunity to correct the proofs.
Letter to Thomas Constable the printer, from Alexander MacMillan, 29 October 1860
Letter to Thomas Constable the printer, from Alexander MacMillan telling them that Sir Archibald Geikie's book ['Memoirs of Edward Forbes'] will be larger than originally indicated and not to continue until the size is known, and requesting a sample of a small type trial.