Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1373 Collections and/or Records:
Emmer, M., 1981-1983
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.50
Scope and Contents
The material consists of correspondence between Martin Rivers Pollock and M. Emmer in response to requests for prospective speakers, participants and funders, 1981-1983.
Dates:
1981-1983
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock
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SECTION G: VISITS AND CONFERENCES
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Conference on Common Denominators in Art and Science, University of Edinburgh, 11-12 November 1981
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Correspondence with prospective speakers, participants and funders
En-Ep, 1951-1967
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.104
Scope and Contents
The material consists of correspondence between Martin Rivers Pollock and correspondents whose surnames start En-Ep, dated 1951-1967.
Dates:
1951-1967
Erdl, Michael, 27 October 1840
File — Box Coll-2106 - Box 1
Identifier: Coll-2106/39
Scope and Contents
Michael Erdl (1815-1848), physician and Middle Eastern traveller, Autograph Letter Signed. 27 October 1840. Erdl describes a journey to Himalaya and India that a mutual friend is undertaking.
Notes by Alfred Stumpff: Short biographical information, purchase information.
Transcription included in the file? No.
Dates:
27 October 1840
Ewald, Heinrich, 1838-1852
File — Box Coll-2106 - Box 1
Identifier: Coll-2106/40
Scope and Contents
Heinrich Ewald (1803-1875), orientalist, 2 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Autograph Note Signed.1 card, 3 letters.- Card: 15 April 1852. Note about office hours.- Letter 1: 08 May 1838, typed. Letter of thanks for kindness shown to him during a journey to England.- Letter 2: undated. Ewald refers to laying down his job and passing on the responsibility to a colleague.- Letter 3: 8 May 1838. This letter is the same as letter 1, but handwritten and in...
Dates:
1838-1852
Extract of a diary written by Alexander Carmichael including part of a journey from Uibhist/Uist [to Edinburgh], 6 January 1872 to 10 January 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/93
Scope and Contents
Extract of a diary written by Alexander Carmichael including part of a journey from Uibhist/Uist towards Edinburgh. In it, Carmichael is pining for his pregnant wife Mary, who is in Edinburgh and is anxious about her health. It is clear that there has been a lack of correspondence between them causing each of them distress 'No letter no watch. God grant that she is well. Oh Mary Mary if you knew my suffer[in]g you would not thus treat me...God grant y[ou]r safe arriv[al] home my darling wife...
Dates:
6 January 1872 to 10 January 1872
F, 1980-1981
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.52
Scope and Contents
The material consists of correspondence between Martin Rivers Pollock with prospective speakers, participants and funders, F in alphabetical sequence, 1980-1981.
Dates:
1980-1981
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
/
Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock
/
SECTION G: VISITS AND CONFERENCES
/
Conference on Common Denominators in Art and Science, University of Edinburgh, 11-12 November 1981
/
Correspondence with prospective speakers, participants and funders
F. L. Hadfield, 1955
File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/23/RC(Hadfield)
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between R. L. Hadfield and George Shepperson.
Returns the questionnaire concerning G. H. Hollis (the original questionnaire sent by Shepperson can be found in the previous bundle relating to G. H. Hollis). Includes a sketch of Joseph Booth. Promises some photographs. August 1955.
George Shepperson acknowledges the above. Looks forward to the photographs. 21 September...
Dates:
1955
Fa-Fe, 1965, 1968
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.105
Scope and Contents
The material consists of correspondence between Martin Rivers Pollock and correspondents whose surnames start Fa-Fe, dated 1965 and 1968.
Dates:
1965, 1968
Fairbairn, William, 2 May 1856
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/20
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from William Fairbairn to Miss Susan Horner, Athenaeum Club, 2 May 1856: “Your anxiety for the public safety induces me to reply in writing on the subject of the Bridge you were so kind as to submit to my consideration. It is a very pretty sketch, not unlike the Bridge of Sighs, and the only danger is that it might actually become one of that description if traversed by the delicate, the aged, and the infirm. I strongly suspect that there would be some puffing to get...
Dates:
2 May 1856
Family Correspondence of Archibald and Andrew Dalzel
Fonds — Box Dk.7.52
Identifier: Coll-2230
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence (110 letters), 1762-1807. Letters mainly about Prof. Andrew Dalzel [also known as Dalzell, or Dalziel] and Archibald Dalzel.
96 letters of Archibald Dalzel to his brother Andrew Dalzel;
2 letters Archibald Dalzel to his brother William Dalzel;
1 letter Archibald Dalzel to his sister Elizabeth;
3 letters Archibald Dalzel to Sir...
Dates:
1762-1807