Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1353 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Norman Macleod
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-426
Scope and Contents
The material consists of the papers and correspondence of Norman MacLeod, including an unpublished book on the Admiralty and correspondence on this, material on shipwrights in Naval dockyards, material on Holbrook Naval School and Greenwich Hospital, lectures on the historical development of the Admiralty, articles and notes on Royal dockyards, and reports on Royal dockyards in Singapore, Palestine and Malta.
Dates:
20th century
Papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-78
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson within Gen. 1627-1645 consist of general and individual correspondence and correspondence with institutions and publishers. There is material and notes on churches, about crofters, emigration, genealogy, and the Northern Isles. There are lectures and notes; personal and family papers; photographs; and, press cuttings. There is manuscript material, typescript material, and proofs. These all cover the period 1935-1993.The collection also...
Dates:
1549-1993
Papers of Professor Sidney T. M. Newman
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1032
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: in Box 1, concertos of C. P. E. Bach (son of Johann Sebastian Bach), an opera The admiral's daughter by Dr. H. F. Henniker (1930) and a symphony in three movements, music and libretto to David Rizzio, and various pieces of music; in Box 2, assorted pieces of music and song, the Fantasia No.1 Mozart with music for violin I and II, viola, v.cello, c.bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, corno,...
Dates:
1920-1968
Papers of Professor William T. Baxter
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1160
Scope and Contents
Professor Kenneth E. Boulding had kept in touch with Professor William T. Baxter throughout his career, and the collection of Baxter papers here at Edinburgh is composed largely of American-style circular letters distributed to friends at Christmas and describing family life, visits, events during the year past, and ambitions for the coming year. There are letters from: 1967; 1968; 1969; 1971; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1984; 1985; 1986; and 1990. The collection is also composed...
Dates:
1963-1993
Papers of Reginald Davies
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-191
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of correspondence about the Sudan between 1901 and 1961, and include photograph albums, loose photographs and slides, verses, addresses, articles, and biographical information. Contained within is correspondence with Freya Stark (1893-1993). There is also diary-based material covering 1920 to 1934. The material is both in manuscript and typescript form.
Dates:
1901-1961
Papers of Rev. Earle Monteith Macphail
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-91
Scope and Contents
The papers at shelfmark Gen. 2044-2073 consist of notebooks of notes from lectures at Edinburgh University and in India, 1878-1890.At MSS 2592-2593 there are personal papers including correspondence, a school notebook of handwriting dated 1875, and a school fees receipt dated 1869; photographs; notes of Natural Philosophy classes, 1879; and, essays, 1879. There is material marking celebrations of Edinburgh University Tercentenary; material of the Dialectic Society and the...
Dates:
circa 1869-1930
Papers of Richard Bright and James Franck Bright
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-344
Scope and Contents
The papers are composed of an accumulation of manuscript letters to both Richard Bright and his son James Franck Bright and letters between other correspondents. The letters collected by the daughters of the Bright family include those from Roget, Lord Salisbury, Oscar Wilde, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Fry, and Robert Browning and many other nineteenth century notables. The collection includes a manuscript fragment - or leaf - from the Origin of the...
Dates:
19th century - 20th century
Papers of Robert Anderson (1769-1850), 1793-1847
Sub-Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: coll-1835/5
Scope and Contents
This subfonds contains:Folder 1:
Memorandum by Robert Anderson on his first-born son William Anderson (1795-1811), 1811
Love letter from Robert Anderson to Anne Lothian, 1793
Letter to Robert Anderson re his son James, 1820s
Accounts slips for expenses concerning his son James Anderson, 1831
Letter to Robert Anderson from his...
Dates:
1793-1847
Papers of Sir George Ballingall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-53
Scope and Contents
The Sir George Ballingall material is composed of correspondence and papers, 1801-1855. In March 1995, when researching in Edinburgh University Library, Dr. Roger Cooter of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, in Manchester, dictated the papers onto tape and produced transcripts of about 70 per cent of the documents, following the order in which they had been placed in the original boxes. The transcripts, produced in haste, and which may not be accurate in detail, have been placed...
Dates:
1801-1855
Papers of Sir William Kennedy Reid
Fonds — Box CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1826
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mostly of William Kennedy Reid's student records when he was studying Classics at the University of Edinburgh: correspondence, certificates, graduation booklets and leaflets, matriculation cards, two photographs, and three medals in their cases.
Pass certificates and matriculation cards from the University of Edinburgh in Classics: Ancient History, Greek, Latin, Classical...
Dates:
1947-1994