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Correspondence

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Found in 1343 Collections and/or Records:

Letters relating to the life of Clements Kadalie, 1958-1971

 File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/23/CK(C)
Scope and Contents Correspondence relating to Kadalie's autobiography and Phiri's Life:1. Anthony Sampson, The Observer, London, to George Shepperson, Edinburgh. Mr Sampson is interested to hear that the recipient is thinking of writing a book on Kadalie. Sends Mrs Kadalie's address. 8 November 1958.2. George Shepperson introduces himself to Mrs Kadalie. He is considering writing a book about...
Dates: 1958-1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 23 / Clements Kadalie and the ICU [Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa]

Letters relevant to the Round Table Club and referring to John Gray McKendrick, 1908

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1324
Identifier: Coll-1694
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of two letters.The first is dated Edinburgh, 27 June 1908, and is from "your old friends", the "other surviving members" of the Round Table Club, to "Dear McKendrick". It goes on: "thank you very heartily for your labour of love. You bring back very vividly those happy times, and make us young again. We are especially grateful to you for what you say of those who have got [sic] before us, and we again see and hear their friends faces and their songs and...
Dates: 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters, speeches, articles and reports relating to the career of Julius Nyerere, the Independence of Tanganyika, and the United Republic of Tanzania, 1959-1988

 File — Box CLX-A-16: Series Coll-490/6; Series Coll-490/7; Series Coll-490/8
Identifier: Coll-490/8/4
Scope and Contents Letters, speeches, articles and reports relating to the career of Julius Nyerere, the Independence of Tanganyika, and the United Republic of Tanzania. Julius Nyerere: Biography [early years] by George Dunheved. June 1959. Nyerere's period at the University of Edinburgh. Request for information. 1960. Gazette: University of Edinburgh, October 1960. Article by George Shepperson 'University of Edinburgh's First Prime...
Dates: 1959-1988
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 8: Material relating to Julius Nyerere

Letters to Dr Robert Laws, 1885-1953

 Series — Box CLX-A-25: Series Coll-490/24; Series Coll-490/25
Identifier: Coll-490/24/RL
Scope and Contents Letters to Dr Robert Laws with matters arising.1. Letter from David Scott, Blantyre, to Dr Laws. He asks Dr Law not to send copies of his translation. The Writer intends to 'feel hisown way into Manganja and cannot impose upon the community a mode of language with which he is not in full accord'. 21 January 1885. [David Clement Scott published his Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language in 1892].2. Letter from David Scott, Blantyre, to Dr Laws. In order to...
Dates: 1885-1953
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 24

Letters to Emily ("Dot") Booth Langworthy from her family, 1904-1933

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Identifier: Coll-210/1/13
Scope and Contents

Letters to Emily (‘Dot’) Booth Langworthy from her family, including letters from her father Joseph Booth, her step-mother, Annie Booth, her step-sister, Mary ("Babs") Booth, and her aunt, Alice Sharp. The letters describe the Booth’s life and activities in some detail and often refer to Booth’s beliefs, particularly regarding pacifism and observation of the Sabbath.

Dates: 1904-1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers relating to Joseph Booth and family / Material related to the Booth family

Letters to Mr and Mrs Burt, 16 July 1935 ; 2 January 1951

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Identifier: Coll-2124/1/4
Scope and Contents

One letter from "Chris" [Hugh MacDiarmid], Whalsay, to "My dear Burt", on poems, criticism, publications and getting back to Scots, 16 July 1939. Manuscript. 2pp.


One letter from "C. M. Grieve" [Hugh MacDiarmid], Dungavel, to "Dear Mrs Burt", on seeing the "In Memoriam" notice in the Scotsman, 2 January 1951. Manuscript. 1p.

Dates: 16 July 1935 ; 2 January 1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Literary Papers of Hugh MacDiarmid collected by Kulgin D. Duval / Correspondence

Letters to the press drawing attention to the protest, 1976

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Identifier: Coll-1586/J/2/J.61
Scope and Contents

The material consists of letters to the press drawing attention to the protest, appealling to the Argentinean government not to return academic refugees to the Chilean authorities, dated 1976.

Dates: 1976
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION J: POLITICS / HUMAN RIGHTS / Chile / Correspondence regarding the arrest of Chilean refugee academics in Argentina

Leveson-Gower, Granville, 24 April 1853; 26 June 1864; no date

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Identifier: Coll-1989/39
Scope and Contents Three autograph letters sign from George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, to Sir Charles Lyell. From Bruton Street and Harley Street, London.1. Letter dated 24 April 1853: "It would give Lord Ellesmere [Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere] great pleasure to see you, & I think it desirable that you should do so. I hope he is well again, but he has been laid up for two or three days [...]".2. Letter dated 26 June 1864: "Her Majesty has most graciously consented...
Dates: 24 April 1853; 26 June 1864; no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Levinthal, C., 1962

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Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.220
Scope and Content

The material consists of correspondence between Cyrus Levinthal and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1962. It relates to work on penicillinase production after treatment with actinomycin. Levinthal was at the Department of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Dates: 1962
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION L: CORRESPONDENCE

Librarian's correspondence (Nicholson and Sharp), 1931-1952

 Series
Identifier: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/COR
Scope and Contents

Incoming correspondence received by the University Librarian. The series covers the end of the period of office of Franck Carr Nicholson and most of that of Lauriston William Sharp.

Dates: 1931-1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Administration and Support Services / Library