Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 63 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
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 Katherine Mary 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
Autograph letter from George Gleig, Scottish cleric, writer and editor, to Messrs Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1718
Scope and Contents
The autograph letter is dated, Stirling, Scotland, 16th March 1800.
Addressing his letter to Messrs Bell & Bradfute, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Gleig asks that, with respect to the Anti Jacobin Review the: "Gentlemen [...] give to John Macfarquhar esq. the first four volumes of that work [...] and state them against the proprietor...".
Dates:
1800
Autograph signed letter from Charles Hotham to Sir Roderick Murchison
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1731
Scope and Contents
Addressed from Port Philip Heads, Melbourne, 10 July 1855, the autograph letter signed by Sir Charles Hotham (then lieutenant governor of
the Australian colony of Victoria) is to the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871).The letter begins with Hotham assuring Murchison that with regard to the
'pretensions' of 'Mr. Clarke' (meaning the geologist William Branwhite Clarke, 1798-1878), in claiming to
have made the first discovery of gold in Australia, he is 'delighted' that...
Dates:
10 July 1855
Bound volume containing French currency, letters, and a poem
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1932
Scope and Contents
Gathering of loose French currency (assignats), letters, offprints, and a manuscript poem bound in a volume. The reasons behind the gathering of these items are unclear.- Assignats are a short-lived type of French 'fiat money' used during the time of the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars, which resemble bank notes. There are four assignats in this volume, each of...
Dates:
1792-1862
Bound volume of manuscript materials by and about Scottish poet Thomas Brown
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-1986
Content Description
Ths is a bound volume of manuscript material, correspondence and verse, by and about Thomas Brown, Scottish poet and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1810 until the end of his life in 1820. The collection was almost certainly put together by his friend and colleague William Erskine, to whom the vast majority of the manuscripts are addressed.Contents:
...
Dates:
1797-1835
"Collectanea Scotica" by G. E. Kinloch
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1130
Scope and Contents
This bound volume contains copies of letters, these being:
copy of letter by Sir George McKenzie to the Lord Balcarres, 1684
copy letter from Sir George Mackenzie to the Earls of Moray and Middleton
copy letter John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1680
copy letter Elizabeth, Countess of Dysart, after Duchess of Lauderdale
copy letters Field...
Dates:
1820-1829
Collection of 19th-century autograph letters assembled by the Rev. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2103
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of c. 200 letters acquired by the Rev. John Walker (1855-1941), a Scottish-Australian autograph collector. The main fields of interest represented are geology, botany, theology, literature, academia, and politics. Names that feature particularly prominently include Walker's uncle John Stuart Blackie, Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh; William Garden Blaikie, Professor of Divinity at New College, Edinburgh; James Geikie, Professor of Geology at the...
Dates:
1792-1913
Collection of letters of Thomas Chalmers, mostly to Rebecca Bell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2083
Scope and Contents
Collection of 15 signed autograph letters from Thomas Chalmers, Edinburgh and Burntisland, 1832-1842. All but one are addressed to Miss Rebecca Bell of Woodhouse Lee, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire (the remaining letter to George Bell of Leith), discussing the state of the Church of Scotland during the campaign that culminated in the Disruption and the establishment of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. He also offers spiritual advice, and discusses Miss Bell's proposed foundation of a new...
Dates:
1832-1842
Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families
Collection — Box CLX-A-1705
Identifier: Coll-1989
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of 108 autograph letters sent from various scientists, politicians, economists, artists etc. to members of the Lyell and Horner families. Also includes 41 portraits (photographs, etchings, and engravings).
Byrne, Fanny Horner (1789-1876), sister of Leonard Horner;
Horner, Anna Susanna (1786-1862), married to Leornard Horner;
Horner, Frances Joanna...
Dates:
1791-1903