Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 646 Collections and/or Records:
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:
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Dates:
1797-1835
Bowring, John, 16 June 1868
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/5
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from John Bowring to Fanny Horner Byrne (1789-1876), wife of the Irish revolutionary Myles Byrne, dated 16 june 1868, [London]: "Thanks for your letter & the trouble you have taken. If I can carry my Co-Trustees with me, we will make a Grant to the Institution whose cause you so ably plead".
Dates:
16 June 1868
Boxall, William, 31 January 1867; 13 January 1877
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/6
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter of excuse from William Boxall to Katharine Murray Lyell following an invitation (dated 31 January 1867): "I have been in bed two days with one of my bad attacks in the throat. I hoped till this moment that I might have had the pleasure of dining with you on Saturday but I am so unwell that I feel that it will be impossible for me to leave the house. – I am most grateful to you and to Col. Lyell and to Sir Charles and your sister for unremitting kindness and I cannot help...
Dates:
31 January 1867; 13 January 1877
Br, 1980-1981
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.45
Dates:
1980-1981
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock
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SECTION G: VISITS AND CONFERENCES
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Conference on Common Denominators in Art and Science, University of Edinburgh, 11-12 November 1981
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Correspondence with prospective speakers, participants and funders
British Journal of Experimental Pathology, 1949-1954
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/E/2/E.68
Scope and Content
The material consists of editorial correspondence relating to Martin Rivers Pollock's work at the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, chiefly papers submitted by Pollock, 1949-1954.
Dates:
1949-1954
British Medical Bulletin, 1953-1965
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/E/2/E.69
Scope and Content
The material consists of editorial correspondence relating to Martin Rivers Pollock's work at the British Medical Bulletin, including book reviews etc., 1953-1965.
Dates:
1953-1965
Bruce, Henry, 1st Baron Aberdare, 15 February [?] 1856; 23 February [?] 1877
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/7
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter signed from Henry Bruce to "Mrs Lyell", dated 15 February [?] 1856: "Lina has forwarded me your kind invitation for the 24th – Alas! I am engaged on that day to see old friend Mrs Drummond – I read with such pleasure your account of Sir Charles – Pray remember me to him & Lady Bunbury very affectionates [...]".2. Autograph letter signed from Henry Bruce to Frances Joanna Horner, Lady Bunbury, dated 23 February [?] 1877: "I have much pleasure in inlaying...
Dates:
15 February [?] 1856; 23 February [?] 1877
Bryson, N., 1980-1981
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.46
Dates:
1980-1981
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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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
Bu. and first name only, 1980-1981
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.47
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