Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1373 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph letter from Herbert Stanley Oakeley to Thérèse Tietjens, 21 March 1868
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0058
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Autograph letter from Herbert Stanley Oakeley, Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh from 1865 to 1891, to the soprano Thérèse Tietjens. He writes to thank Tietjens for her "photogram", is looking forward to a performance of Fidelio that evening for which he has procured tickets for some of his students: he admires her performance greatly and writes "I wish you could see your own expression of defiance, fury & triumph, when you are following Pizarro with...
Dates:
21 March 1868
Autograph Letter from Robert Knox to Mr Neill, undated [before 1862]
Piece
Identifier: Coll-1073/4/40v
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Autograph letter signed by Edinburgh surgeon Robert Knox to "Mr Neill", undated. It reads: "My Dear Sir, Many thanks for your kindness in not forgetting us: I do not think it likely that anything would be allowed to die for want of victuals with you. Yours very truly, R. Knox".
Dates:
undated [before 1862]
Autograph letter from William Steven to J. Leslie, 11 November 1836
Item — Box CLX-A-353
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0168
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Autograph letter from William Steven, author of 'The history of the Scottish church in Holland', to the bookseller J. Leslie, discussing the library at the Scots international church, proposals to create a printed catalogue and requesting additional books.
Dates:
11 November 1836
Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin containing a detailed correction of an earlier mathematical demonstration, 20 May 1738
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Identifier: Coll-2911/10
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Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Leadhills", dated 20 May 1738, a detailed correction of an earlier mathematical demonstration, presumably that given in the previous letter ("When I spoke of concentric surfaces infinitely near I restricted only that I might distinguish the parts more properly into such as were convex and concave towards the particle"), referring to Cotes's theorems, encouraging Stirling's work on the figure of the earth ("I wish...
Dates:
20 May 1738
Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin on the dispute with George Campbell, 6 November 1729
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Identifier: Coll-2911/5
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Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated 6 november 1729, on the dispute with Campbell ("I wonder I had no message by a good hand from Mr Campbell before he printed these silly reports … He has misrepresented my paper much and found things in it I never asserted").
Dates:
6 November 1729
Autograph Letter Signed from Alexander Campbell Fraser to an unidentified recipient, 23 October 1865
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/17
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Autograph Letter Signed from Alexander Campbell Fraser to an unidentified recipient, University of Edinburgh, 23 October 1865. The letter refers to his forthcoming edition of Bishop Berkeley [Collected Edition of the Works of Bishop Berkeley with Annotations, etc. (1871; enlarged 1901).], and two recent reviews by him: The letter reads: "As yet my productions have been occasional & fragmentary, but I am now engaged in a larger work - an edition of...
Dates:
23 October 1865
Autograph Letter Signed from Andrew Duncan Senior to an unnamed member of the British Cabinet, 4 June 1827
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/16
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Autograph Letter Signed from Andrew Duncan Senior to an unnamed member of the British Cabinet, recommending Patrick Neill as Professor of Horticulture at Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 4 June 1827.The recipient is not named, and the letter begins: "Although I have already often interrupted important business of State, yet I trust you will once more, forgive an Octogenarian, when he can plead, that his principal temptation, to transgression, is an earnest desire to promote the publick good...
Dates:
4 June 1827
Autograph Letter Signed from Andrew Duncan Senior to Samuel Parkes, 29 August 1825
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/15
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Autograph Letter Signed from Andrew Duncan Senior to Samuel Parkes, Edinburgh, 29 August 2025. Duncan writes that he has "searched, but in vain, for a printed copy of the discourse which I delivered to the Horticultural Society when their gold medal was awarded to you". [Parkes's essay on the advantages of employing common salt in gardening obtained the annual Gold Medal of the Horticultural Society of Scotland in 1819.] He would however "fain hope, that Mr Neil, upon further search, may yet...
Dates:
29 August 1825
Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin announcing his intention to write A Treatise of Fluxions, 16 November 1734
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Identifier: Coll-2911/6
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Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Mr Watt's Academy in the little Tower Street, London", dated 16 November 1734, announcing his intention to write
A Treatise of Fluxions ("Upon more consideration I did not think it best to write an answer to Dean Berkeley but to write a treatise of fluxions which might answer the purpose and be useful to my scholars. I intend that it shall be laid before you as soon I shall...
Dates:
16 November 1734
Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin discusses the French expedition to Peru, 6 December 1740
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Identifier: Coll-2911/11
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Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Leadhills", dated 6 December 1740, discussing the French expedition to Peru ("Mr Short writes that an unlucky accident has happened to the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems they were shewing some French gallantry to the natives’ wives, who have murdered their servants, destroyed their instruments and burn’t their papers"), and Short's observation of the satellite of Venus before summarising "all that I have...
Dates:
6 December 1740