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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1340 Collections and/or Records:

Tebyakina, A.E., 1960-1967

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.401
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence between A.E. Tebyakina and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1960-1967. It relates to the production of penicillinase with B. subtilis.

Dates: 1960-1967

Thatcher, D., 1977

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Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.402
Scope and Content

The material consists of correspondence bewtween D. Thatcher and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1977. It relates to a research grant proposal.

Dates: 1977

The Christian Church, 1952-1960

 File — Box CLX-A-18: Series Coll-490/10; Series Coll-490/11
Identifier: Coll-490/11/6
Scope and Contents The Christian Church: correspondence relating to the Native Rising in Nyasaland in 1915. Letters between George Shepperson, Edinburgh, to the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, in USA, Union of South Africa and London. Mr Shepperson is making 'a study of the antecedent causes and consequences of the Native Rising in Nyasaland in 1915, led by an African named John Chilembwe'. He is anxious to find out the influence of the Society's converts in Nyasaland at that time and would appreciate the...
Dates: 1952-1960

"The Kind of Poetry I Want", 1961

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Identifier: Coll-2124/2/1
Scope and Contents

1. Original manuscript of "The Kind of Poetry I Want", 49 ff., pen, no date. Also includes the correspondence dated 1961 of bookseller Kulgin D. Duval with printer Giovanni Mardersteig from the Officina Bodoni, Verona, and R. H. Boothroyd, from the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, concerning the printing of the text.


2. "The Kind of Poetry I Want", extracts, 18 ff., pen, pencil, and typescript.

Dates: 1961

"The Late Robin Black", 1963

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2124/3/7
Scope and Contents

"The Late Robin Black" [1963], manuscript, pen, 6pp, with a letter from MacDiarmid dated 20 February 1963, Brownsbank, to Tom Spence, editor of Forward Scotland, alongside which the piece was enclosed.

Dates: 1963

Thomas Price, 1951-1975

 Series — Box CLX-A-25: Series Coll-490/24; Series Coll-490/25
Identifier: Coll-490/24/TP
Scope and Contents Thomas Price: Correspondence, 1951-1975.1-13. Mostly letters to George Shepperson from Tom Price, one-time lecturer in African Studies at Glasgow University, student of African languages and co-author with George Shepperson of the book, Independent African. The problems of African travel have hindered his researches and a lack of Nyasa material in archives has disappointed. Later letters show that his interests lie in the accumulation of African...
Dates: 1951-1975

Thomson, George, 9 June 1846, 26 July 1850

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Identifier: Coll-1989/67
Scope and Contents 1. Autograph letter signed from George Thomson to Anne Power, née Horner, Leith (Edinburgh), 26 July 1850 : “The last time I ask’d a collector of rarities if he could give or sell me an autograph of Burns, his reply was, Why Sir you might as well ask me for that of Moses! I Iong ago parted with any scraps I had of the Poet, and have since been obliged to say No to an hundred applications at least; having got all his precious letters with his Songs splendidly bound, and I could not on any...
Dates: 9 June 1846, 26 July 1850

Thorne, C.B., 1965-1968

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Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.403
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence between C.B. Thorne and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1965-1968. It relates to work with B. cereus strains.

Dates: 1965-1968

Three letters from Joseph Lister to his French translator, with annotated drawings of wound-dressings

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2057
Content Description

Autograph letters from the pioneer of anti-septic surgery Joseph Lister to his French translator Dr Gustave Burginon, with annotated diagrams explaining the application of bandages and the design of a splint. Dates: 14th December 1877, 11th November 1878, 25th November 1878.

Dates: 14 December 1877; 11 November 1878; 25 November 1878

Three letters signed from Sophie Weisse to Louis Fleury, 5 June, 28 June, 13 July 1910

 File — Box CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0018
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three letters, in French, from the Scottish music teacher, Sophie Weisse (1852-1945) to the French flautist Louis Fleury (1878-1926). Composed in June-July 1910 in Northlands, Englefield Green, Surrey. The letters discuss concert plans, including a performance by Weisse’s close friend and protegé, Donald Tovey. One letter mentions Tovey’s great admiration of Fleury’s playing.

Dates: 5 June, 28 June, 13 July 1910