Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1343 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Henry Holland to Dr George Gregory, 10 April 1821
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/2
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Autograph Letter Signed ('H Holland') from Sir Henry Holland, physician to William IV and Victoria, to Dr George Gregory, pressing the claims of William Pulteney Alison to succeed Dr James Gregory as Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh. Mount street, 10 April 1821.
Dates:
10 April 1821
Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Leonard Rogers to a "young Duchess", 1 May 1903
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0060/2
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This an original letter written and signed by Sir Leonard Rogers, sent to a "young Duchess", Plymouth, 1 May 1903. The letter discusses his recent holiday to Newquay, Bodmin Moor, and other areas of interest. Part of the letter discusses his treating of Malaria at the hospital in Plymouth and some of his findings.
Dates:
1 May 1903
Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Robert Christison to John Eddowes Bowman, 11 April 1846
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/4
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Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Robert Christison to Dr. Bowman [John Eddowes Bowman Jnr], correcting a statement regarding the subject of the Nitrate of Iron as a remedy for chronic diarrhoea. Edinburgh, 11 April 1846.Christison begins the letter by referring to a previous communication received from the South of England on the subject of the Nitrate of Iron as a remedy for chronic diarrhoea. He assumes that Dr Graves took his information from some old pupil of his, who,...
Dates:
11 April 1846
Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Robert Christison to R. Herbert Story, 9 January 1854
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/5
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Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Robert Christison to Robert Herbert Story (future Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, then student at the University of Edinburgh), 9 January 1854. The subject of the letter is the novelist and Whig MP Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873): Christison writes that if he is not "prevented by professional occupations, which are apt to be rather pressing at this season", it will give him great pleasure "to attend on the occasion of the...
Dates:
9 January 1854
Autograph Letter Signed from Sophia Jex-Blake to an unnamed correspondent, late 19th century-early 20th century
Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0039
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Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent returning "the original lists from Lyons & Montpelier, & also a list of all the women we know of from books who are not in any official list. I think among these latter you will find one or more students at each University mentioned in the Record ... ", with a note in another hand at the head saying "Here is a whole letter from your friend. P.F.", 2 sides 8vo., no place, 16th July, no year.
Dates:
late 19th century-early 20th century
Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Babington Macaulay to Principal John Lee, 18 August 1845
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0060/5
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This is an autograph letter signed sent by Thomas Babington Macaulay to John Lee, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, London, 18 August 1845. It reads: "The approbation of the distinguished body over which you preside is most gratifying to me. I am sincerely desirous to guard the rights and to promote the prosperity of your University. I heartily wish that this were always as easy a task as it was on the occasion to which you refer. The injustice then meditated was so monstrous that...
Dates:
18 August 1845
Autograph letter signed from Thomas Murray to John Ramsay McCulloch, 12 March 1834
Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0237
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An interesting letter giving an insight into the relationship between Murray and the political economist John Ramsay McCulloch (1789'-1864), who imbued him with 'a taste for political economy' (ODNB). In his letter Murray explains that his friends had recently presented him with a piece of plate in thanks for a course of lectures at Edinburgh on history and political economy ('the science of which you are the ornament'). Murray is sure that McCulloch 'would have been delighted to learn that...
Dates:
12 March 1834
Autograph letter signed from Walter de la Mare to Mr Wood, 20 September 1920
Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0236
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Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Wood, thanking him for his letter and saying he is "sorry you will be obliged to omit some of the poems you selected, but of course there's no help for it. May one of the others be substituted for Bunches of Grapes which has already been over-used? Have you written to Longman's? I'm afraid they will want a fee - but please tell them you have made arrangements with me. The poems from Peacock Pie I have Complete Control - as far as anthologies etc are concerned...
Dates:
20 September 1920
Autograph Letter Signed to William Pulteney Alison from William Benjamin Carpenter, 8 November 1837
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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/1
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Autograph Letter Signed from William B. Carpenter to Professor William Alison of Edinburgh University, addressing amongst other things an accusation of plagiarism laid against him by fellow-student John Hughes Bennett. Bristol, 8 November 1837.Carpenter begins by apologising to Alison for asking his opinion "on a subject on which I am anxious to obtain the best information I can from those most qualified to judge". The question Carpenter asks is: "Do you think that there is any...
Dates:
8 November 1837
Autograph signed letter from Charles Hotham to Sir Roderick Murchison
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Identifier: Coll-1731
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Addressed from Port Philip Heads, Melbourne, 10 July 1855, the autograph letter signed by Sir Charles Hotham (then lieutenant governor of
the Australian colony of Victoria) is to the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871).The letter begins with Hotham assuring Murchison that with regard to the
'pretensions' of 'Mr. Clarke' (meaning the geologist William Branwhite Clarke, 1798-1878), in claiming to
have made the first discovery of gold in Australia, he is 'delighted' that...
Dates:
10 July 1855