Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1373 Collections and/or Records:
Arrivabene, Giovanni, 20 May 1866
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/3
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter in Italian from Giovanni Arrivabene to probably to Susan or Joanna Horner about his departure to Turin the next day and his regretting not being able to follow their invitation: "Il Conte Arrivabene parte domani par Torino. Non potrà quindi, con molto suo rincrescimento approffittare del grazioso invito di M Horner". After living in Switzerland, France, England and Belgium, Arrivabene returned to Italy in 1860 where he became a senator and president of the Italian National...
Dates:
20 May 1866
As-At, 1946-1965
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.15
Scope and Contents
The material consists of correspondence between Martin Rivers Pollock and correspondents whose surnames start As-At, dated 1946-1965.
Dates:
1946-1965
Ascoli, Graziado Isaia, 1866
File — Box Coll-2106 - Box 1
Identifier: Coll-2106/6
Scope and Contents
Graziado Isaia Ascoli (1829-1907), Sanskritist and Semitist, Autograph Letter Signed, 1866.1 Letter and a folio sheet. Letter: 25 April 1866. Milan. Ascoli writes to a gentleman (whom Stumpff notes is probably a colleague) about a professional dispute with linguists Canini and Lorenz Diefenbach on the subject of Theodor Benefey's criticism of a work by Wilhelm Corssen.Folio Sheet: notes about Ascoli made by a previous German owner.Notes by Alfred...
Dates:
1866
Askonas, I., 1973
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Section L, Correspondence, is by far the most substantial and comprehensive section in the collection. Pollock kept his correspondence - incoming letters and carbon copies of outgoing letters - in a single alphabetical sequence ordered by correspondent and this arrangement has been retained. It includes correspondence with some of the most distinguished biochemists, microbiologists and molecular biologists of the day, including E.P. Abraham, M. Cohn, F.H.C. Crick, E.F. Gale, W.E. van...
Dates:
1973
Assorted drafts, correspondence, etc., c 1858-1934
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW487
Scope and Contents
A varied assortment of papers, much of it ethnographic and folklore material handwritten by Alexander Carmichael. Also includes: printer's copies of letters and symbols used in the Carmina Gadelica; printers proofs of Carmichael's work 'Grazing and Agrestic Customs of the Outer Hebrides', written for the Crofting Commission report, 1884; several complaints addressed to the Sheriff of the county of Inverness; assorted newspaper cuttings; ephemera from various events, such as the Gaelic...
Dates:
c 1858-1934
'Atomic energy and its applications', c. 1949-1951
File
Identifier: Coll-37/D.41
Scope and Contents
The material consists ofdDrafts for Edward Appleton’s chapter to the book ‘Aspects of Modern Science', published in 1951, with some editorial correspondence. It is contained in its original folder, inscribed ‘Atomic Energy'.
Dates:
c. 1949-1951
Aufrecht, Theodor, undated
File — Box Coll-2106 - Box 1
Identifier: Coll-2106/7
Scope and Contents
Theodor Aufrecht (1822-1907), Sanskritist, autograph note signed.
1 small card, undated, containing an announcement of lecture topics and times.
Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short biographical information, physical description of the card, information about purchase of the card.
Transcription included in the file? Yes.
Dates:
undated
Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin comprising a secretarial copy of an English translation of a letter from Maupertuis to James Bradley, 4 February 1737 [Old Style, i.e. 1738]
Item
Identifier: Coll-2911/7
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Leadhills", dated 4 February 1737 [Old Style, i.e. 1738], comprising a secretarial copy of an English translation of a letter from Maupertuis to James Bradley, Paris 27 September 1737, announcing the return of the French expedition to Lapland, 1736-37, and describing in detail the findings of the expedition, with Maclaurin's autograph covering note to verso of conjugate leaf, with apostscript inviting Stirling to join a...
Dates:
4 February 1737 [Old Style, i.e. 1738]
Autograph letter from George Gleig, Scottish cleric, writer and editor, to Messrs Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1718
Scope and Contents
The autograph letter is dated, Stirling, Scotland, 16th March 1800.
Addressing his letter to Messrs Bell & Bradfute, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Gleig asks that, with respect to the Anti Jacobin Review the: "Gentlemen [...] give to John Macfarquhar esq. the first four volumes of that work [...] and state them against the proprietor...".
Dates:
1800
Autograph letter from Henry Aston Barker to William Stevenson, 6 September 1808
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0002
Scope and Contents
Autograph Letter Signed from Henry Aston Baker [to William Stevenson], about a small scale etching of buildings, giving the outline to the Engraver "as soon as I can prepare it for the Work", clarifying details "of the manner in which the Railing is to terminate on the Castle Hill", etc. London, 6 September 1808.The letter refers to details of the engraving of a single-sheet panoramic print of the City of Norwich, published as: TO HIS MAJESTEY'S JUSTICES of the PEACE for the...
Dates:
6 September 1808