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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

2 letter-books of an unidentified Scottish law firm

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1531
Identifier: Coll-1699
Content Description

The correspondence suggests that this was an Edinburgh-based law practice, with the majority of letters emanating from city addresses.


There are 2 volumes with information on the spines showing: "Letter Book No. 3 - 18th May 1956 - 21st Aug. 1956"; and "Letter Book No. 5 - 9th Dec. 1956 - 31st Mar. 1957".


The volumes came from The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society Ltd., Hope Street, Glasgow. They hold reference numbers: No.5354 Date.1956 & 4525/57

Dates: 1956-1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

17th century letter from London to Leith, 14 April 1666

 File
Identifier: Coll-1383/2/3
Scope and Contents

Letter sent to a Mr Richard Harris in Leith, signed by Francis Dashwood in London, April 14th 1666. Dashwood takes notice that Harris has received the first silk he sent from London to Leith.

Dates: 14 April 1666
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller / Business papers

A, 1980-1981

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.43
Dates: 1980-1981
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION G: VISITS AND CONFERENCES / Conference on Common Denominators in Art and Science, University of Edinburgh, 11-12 November 1981 / Correspondence with prospective speakers, participants and funders

Ad-An, 1951-1981

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.9
Dates: 1951-1981
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION L: CORRESPONDENCE

Ada, G.L., 1958-1961

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.8
Dates: 1958-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION L: CORRESPONDENCE

African Studies: papers relating to [Black people], 1896-1971

 File — Box CLX-A-23: Series Coll-490/20; Series Coll-490/21
Identifier: Coll-490/20/1
Scope and Contents File entitled "African Studies - Papers relating to [Black People]" (the original term, used until the late 1960s, is no longer appropriate to refer to people of black African origin. Outdated terms are used throughout the file).1-2. Correspondence (copies): Sir Harry Johnstone, HM Commissioner for British Central Africa, London, and Dr J. Albert Thorne, Edinburgh. Concerns a plan by Dr Thorne to establish a settlement of West Indian Negroes in Central Africa. 12 and 16 November...
Dates: 1896-1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 20

Albums containing autograph letters to Sir Charles Lyell and family, and portraits of the writers, compiled by Leonard Lyell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1997
Content Description This collection consists of two albums compiled by Leonard Lyell, nephew of Charles Lyell and son of Katharine Murray Lyell. The volumes contain letters sent by many leading scientists and scholars of the 19th century to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family, such as his wife Mary, the elder Charles Lyell, Mary’s father Leonard Horner, and his brother Francis Horner. In both albums, most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s...
Dates: 1805-1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

An, 1951-1975

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.12
Dates: 1951-1975
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION L: CORRESPONDENCE

Anker, L., 1958-1959

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.11
Scope and Content

The material consists of correspondence between L. Anker and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1958-1959. It relates to standardisation of penicillinase.

Dates: 1958-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION L: CORRESPONDENCE

April, May, June Letters, 22 April 1922-10 June 1922

 File
Identifier: Coll-705/5/2/7
Scope and Contents This file of letters covers the last three months Marjorie Rackstraw was in Russia. Letters are sent from Buzuluk, and Alexievka, and are sparse during this time because courriers could not deliver mail to flooding from the thaw. She describes the Easter festivities, the still constant threat of thieves, and she cites that looking through the data she has taken, that 1 in 4 people have died in Buzuluk since she arrived. The food trains are arriving on schedule, and some signs of autumn sown...
Dates: 22 April 1922-10 June 1922
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Correspondence / Letters Marjorie Rackstraw wrote to family members, while in Russia

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