Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1373 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence: George Shepperson with Orton and Vera Chirwa, 1952-1971
File — Box CLX-A-23: Series Coll-490/20; Series Coll-490/21
Identifier: Coll-490/21/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence: George Shepperson with Orton and Vera Chirwa.
Letter from Orton Chirwa to George Shepperson. He thanks Mr Shepperson for the monograph on John Chilembwe and assures him that he is doing his best to gather more material. Names some who may help their research and complete the picture from the African viewpoint. Gives an unfavourable description of the European settler of 1910. Chirwa...
Dates:
1952-1971
Correspondence: George Shepperson with Rolf Gardiner, and others, 1971-1983
File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/23/RG(B)
Scope and Contents
Concerns Rolf Gardiner's account of his work in Malawi, his conservation experiments, schemes that were lost, and his writings.10. Rolf Gardiner has had his records of work, and impressions of Central Africa in particular from 1947, put together and excerpts of the more interesting, descriptive and historical passages typed. Describes his frustration over constructive plans for land use and landscape treatment of the region between Chileka and Blantyre. 13 January...
Dates:
1971-1983
Correspondence: Higher Education, 1962-1964
File — Box CLX-A-19: Series Coll-490/12; Series Coll-490/13
Identifier: Coll-490/12/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondents: Professor George Shepperson; Dr H. Kamuzu Banda; The Hon M. W. K. Chiume; Richard H. Pear; Dr W. D. Lamont; Professor D. B. Horn; Professor Denys Hay; Christopher Fyfe; Betty Whitelaw; Sir Charles Morris; Charles H. Stewart; Sir Christopher Cox; Vaughn DeLong; Tom Creighton; Marjorie S. Belcher; F. P. Dunhill; I. C. M. Maxwell; Roy Prideaux; Frank Untermyer; Andrew Ross; The Principal of Edinburgh University.Topics: Proposed university at Livingstonia; Commission...
Dates:
1962-1964
Correspondence, including letters from E. Chargaff and S.D. Elliott, February 1970-June 1970
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/1/F.68
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Martin Rivers Pollock, including letters from E. Chargaff regarding DNA and S.D. Elliott regarding Frederick Griffith, dated Febrary 1970-June 1970.
Dates:
February 1970-June 1970
Correspondence, including with J. Lederberg, 1973
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/F/1/F.72
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Martin Rivers Pollock including with J. Lederberg. It is regarding the work of F. Griffith, R. Olby and P.B. Medawar.
Dates:
1973
Correspondence, J.C Watson, 1938-1941
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW578
Scope and Contents
Items of correspondence, concerning scholarly matters, between James Carmichael Watson and Rudolf Thurneysen and James Carmichael Watson and Thomas F. O'Rahilly. Also an invoive for Togail Bruidne Da Derga edited by Eleanor Knott (Dublin, 1936).
Dates:
1938-1941
Correspondence: Julius K. Nyerere, George Shepperson and others, 1946-1990
File — Box CLX-A-16: Series Coll-490/6; Series Coll-490/7; Series Coll-490/8
Identifier: Coll-490/8/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Julius K. Nyerere (JKN), George Shepperson (GS) and others. 1946-1990.
1946
JKN to the Editors, Makerere. Gift of education must be shared.
1955
JKN to GS. Recommendation of a date for Independence.
1960
GS to JKN. Asks JKN about the benefits he received from his time at Edinburgh University; JKN TO GS. Reply to the above; GS to JKN. Covering letter for article; Jean W. Wilson (Mrs)...
Dates:
1946-1990
Correspondence, Matthew Black to J.C. Watson, 17 August 1937
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW413
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Matthew Black (1908-94), biblical scholar, to James Carmichael Watson (1910-42). Black is writing from Bonn to inform Watson that he (Black) has been appointed Assistant in Semitic Languages at Manchester University.
Dates:
17 August 1937
Correspondence of Armand Leslie
Fonds — Box Dk.2.15
Identifier: Coll-2148
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers relating to Armand Leslie, M.R.C.S., surgeon and Chief Medical Officer who died in Sudan under the command of Charles George Baker. This collection includes many letters to him, some from his sister Jane Young Elvira Leslie and his brother John Leslie, as well as further correspondence after his death between Elvira, John Leslie, and others.Some material (newspaper cuttings, parts of a rough diary, and correspondence, including two letters from...
Dates:
1824-1900
Correspondence of Dr Banda mostly relating to his gifts to the University of Edinburgh and the Infirmary, and his meeting with Professor and Mrs Shepperson, 1975-1977
File — Box CLX-A-19: Series Coll-490/12; Series Coll-490/13
Identifier: Coll-490/12/8F
Scope and Contents
Correspondence – most of it relating to Dr Banda's generous gifts to the University of Edinburgh and the Infirmary, and his meeting with Professor and Mrs Shepperson at Gleneagles Hotel. [24 items + enclosures]1. Letter from Dr H Kamazu Banda, President of Malawi, to the Rev Hamish Smith, University Chaplaincy Centre, Edinburgh. The number of needy students in Malawi makes it difficult to respond to calls from outside the country.
He, however, enclosed a cheque for £100 and asks...
Dates:
1975-1977