Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
Material relating to British magician Oswald Rae
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1556
Identifier: Coll-1749
Content Description
The collection is composed of manuscript and typescript material: letters; descriptions of tricks with diagrams; material for The Budget Journal; talk; pamphlets and writings; certificate; and a photograph. In more detail:1. Printed matter:
1 x copy of Mind Waves, a master mental mystery devised by Leo Tree.
1 x copy Budget No.1. February 1930....
Dates:
1928-1962
Material relating to John Dover Wilson, Regius Professor of English Literature
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1519
Scope and Contents
Collection contains:
1 x recipe book
1 x notebook: 'Ye monthly Brer', from January 1894
1 x bundle assorted postcards (11) send from John Dover Wilson to Dorothy Baldwin before their marriage in 1906, being illustrations of: Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen (2), Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Professor Huxley, John Burns, G. F. Watts, and cartoon...
Dates:
1905-1964
Material relating to research into plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1324, Folder: Coll-1813 / SC-Acc-2017-0062
Identifier: Coll-1813
Content Description
This small collection consists of the material collected by Dr Tom Barron, for his research into the plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and the British community there. Having not found any surviving records when he visited Ceylon (Sri Lanka), he decided to search for private papers, including by publishing a call in the Quaterly Bulletin no. 151 of the Ceylon Association in London, for personal papers and experiences relating to planting and business ventures in Ceylon in the 19th...
Dates:
1969-1972
Material relating to Sorley MacLean
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1271
Scope and Contents
At E2010.23 there is an autograph letter signed as 'S. MacLean' to Mr Stephen (probably Meic Stephens), placed and dated Plockton, 5 August 1969. The brief letter is about the Taliesin Congress and how Maclean will 'accept your invitation to attend the Taliesin Congress'. Meic Stephens (born 1938) was then Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council.Three later additions:
1) autograph letter signed to David Morrison (poet and editor) referring to a previously unpublished...
Dates:
1969-1987
Mathematical archive of Professor Alexander Craig Aitken
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1529
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of mathematical mansucripts and the corrected manuscript, and correspondence around, the publication Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman. It also contains off-prints and publications by Aitken, papers and correspondence relating to Aitken's work at Edinburgh University and letters to and from academics, family and friends, as well as letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Aitken. There is also a quantity of...
Dates:
1910-1995
Papers and letters of Sir John Dalrymple, on the subject of fish soap
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1917
Scope and Contents
Papers and letters of Sir John Dalrymple, on the subject of "fish soap from herrings", 1798-1799.
Dates:
1798-1799
Papers of Andrew Graham Grieve
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1725
Scope and Contents
The archive is composed of correspondence, family papers, printed matter and newspaper cuttings, literary works, and diary.
Dates:
1883-1965
Papers of Andrew Monro Lang
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1697
Scope and Contents
File - Correspondence, general
File - DNB entries - Craufurd, and Dempster
File - Agriculture
Folder - Correspondence, Dempster permissions from various institutions
File - Banking, Fisheries, Roads
File - Boswell and Burke
...
Dates:
1990-1998
Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-208
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version;...
Dates:
1903-1965
Papers of Dr. Asta Winifred Russell Moller
Fonds — Box CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1832
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the personal papers of Dr. Asta Moller, B Litt and D Phil (University of Oxford), MA (University of Edinburgh), who made a substantial contribution to knowledge by her researches into the history of the coal industry. The collection contains:
Examination papers in Arts and Science - Danish 1 and 2, March 1916
Honours' class examination paper in Political...
Dates:
1916-1981