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Correspondence

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 646 Collections and/or Records:

Medical Research Council Colloquium on Bacterial Genetics, 14-16 December 1954, 1954

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Identifier: Coll-1586/G/1/G.3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The material in this subseries covers some of Martin Rivers Pollock's visits and attendance at conferences from 1947. The bulk of the material, however, relates to a 1981 Conference on the Common Denominators in Art and Science, University of Edinburgh that Pollock helped organise. This includes an extensive sequence of correspondence with prospective speakers, participants and funding bodies. At Coll-1586/G/1/G.82 are a number of invitations to visit declined by Pollock or for which there...
Dates: 1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION G: VISITS AND CONFERENCES / Visits and conferences 1947-1983

Merivale, Herman, 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1989/46
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Autograph letter signed from Herman Merivale to the conchologist and botanist Mary Horner Lyell, London (“Colonial Office At 14”), no date: “It will give me very much pleasure to dine with you tomorrow (Tuesday) and the more in family the better as far as I am concerned. Your note did not reach me till today, as I went down on Saturday to pass two nights at my brothers’ in Essex. I will be with you at half past six, unless you should send me a note here to put me off [...]”.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Mermoz, G., 1980-1982

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Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.70
Dates: 1980-1982
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

Michaelis, A.R., 1980-1982

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Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.71
Dates: 1980-1982
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

MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT, 1951-1963

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Identifier: Coll-1586/H/11/H.21
Dates: 1951-1963
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION H: SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS

Miscellaneous items, Part 1, 2, & 3, 1891-1928

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Scope and Contents Miscellaneous items, Part 1, 2, & 3. ‘General’, bundle of miscellaneous notes, wrapped in ‘Songs of the Hebrides (Ancient Scots Minstrelsie). From the Western Isles of Scotland’, Music Hall, Edinburgh, 21 January 1913, recital programme, containing various lecture notes, notes, excerpts, etc., in no particular order, manuscripts. & typescripts, texts often on reverses of...
Dates: 1891-1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser / Box list / Box Gen. 284

Miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1965-1975

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Identifier: Coll-1586/A/A.7
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The material consists of personal correspondence of Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1965-1975.

Dates: 1965-1975
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION A: BIOGRAPHICAL

Miscellaneous shorter Medical Research Council correspondence, 1956-1963

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Identifier: Coll-1586/B/B.15
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The material consists of miscellaneous shorter Medical Research Council correspondence with Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1956-1963.

Dates: 1956-1963
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION B: MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

Montefiore, Claude, 16 December 1897

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Identifier: Coll-1989/47
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Claude Montefiore to either to Katharine Murray Lyell or her daughter Mary, Portman Square [London], 16 December 1897: “Thank you so much for the book. You call it quite simple, but it seems to me to be very learned and full of knowledge. I will show it to a few friends. I am glad you are really getting better properly. It was a pity you could not come [...] Saturday & today. The girls looked so nice in their fancy dresses & the children today did their...
Dates: 16 December 1897
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Morley, John, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 26 May 1881

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Identifier: Coll-1989/48
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Autograph letter signed to Katharine Murray Lyell, [London], 26 May 1881: “I find that I cannot manage to come to you on the day that you were kind enough to give me. I am really very sorry; my driving powers are awfully limited [...]”.

Dates: 26 May 1881
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

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