Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1341 Collections and/or Records:
Booklet entitled "Paraphrases des Psaumes I-II-XVI-XXXVI-CXXIX par André Melvin", 1906-1907
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/Df.7.42
Scope and Contents
This is a booklet entitled "Paraphrases des Psaumes I-II-XVI-XXXVI-CXXIX par André Melvin", which contains reproductions of manuscript psalms and two enclosed manuscript letters addressed to Sir William Turner from Paul Mellon, Association Franco-Écossaise, Sorbonne, 1907. The booklet is dedicated to William Turner: "Offert à Monsieur William Turner Recteur de l'Université d'Edimbourg et au Conseil Académique par M. P. Mellon, Secrétaire Général du Comité de Patronage des Étudiants Étrangers...
Dates:
1906-1907
Booth correspondence, 1896-1914
File — Box CLX-A-22: Series Coll-490/18; Series Coll-490/19
Identifier: Coll-490/19/2
Scope and Contents
Booth correspondence (copies and transcripts):A1 – A40: Letters to Joseph Booth from various writers, 1911–1912. Notes: no. 1 to Mrs Booth; nos. 17* and 32 from Charles Domingo (no. 17 Includes a note on Libelezi Sabbath Conference, 26 August 1911); no. 21 from John Chilembwe.B1 – B5: Letters from Joseph Booth, 1906–1912: to Simon Muhango; Naoroji; Pastor Timon Achriwa; Joint Committee.C1 – C3:...
Dates:
1896-1914
Booth Family Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1780
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of:
Letters from Joseph Booth, Annie Booth, Lillian Booth, and Emily Booth Langworthy to Mary ("Babs") Booth (later Sales). The letters describe the Booths’ deportation from Basutholand, their struggle to find work in England during the war, and Booth’s illness during the 1920s. The final letters in the group are addressed to "Dot" (Emily). 2 files, 1914-1927.
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Dates:
1895-1927
Bound typescript entitled "Letters of Charles Domingo", 1910-1914 (dates of originals)
File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/22/COR2
Scope and Contents
Bound typescript, "Sources for the Study of Religion in Malawi". Edited by H. W. Langworthy. The majority of the letters were written by Charles Vincente Domingo (ca. 1875 – late 1950s) to Joseph Booth in Capetown, and then sent on with reports by Booth to the Seventh Day Baptist officials in Plainfield, New Jersey.
With a handwritten dedication from Langworthy to Shepperson: "To Sam from Harry. Something more to put on the map one whose reputation you started to revive".
Dates:
1910-1914 (dates of originals)
Bound volume containing French currency, letters, and a poem
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1932
Scope and Contents
Gathering of loose French currency (assignats), letters, offprints, and a manuscript poem bound in a volume. The reasons behind the gathering of these items are unclear.- Assignats are a short-lived type of French 'fiat money' used during the time of the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars, which resemble bank notes. There are four assignats in this volume, each of...
Dates:
1792-1862
Bound volume of manuscript materials by and about Scottish poet Thomas Brown
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-1986
Content Description
Ths is a bound volume of manuscript material, correspondence and verse, by and about Thomas Brown, Scottish poet and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1810 until the end of his life in 1820. The collection was almost certainly put together by his friend and colleague William Erskine, to whom the vast majority of the manuscripts are addressed.Contents:
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Dates:
1797-1835
Bowring, John, 16 June 1868
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/5
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from John Bowring to Fanny Horner Byrne (1789-1876), wife of the Irish revolutionary Myles Byrne, dated 16 june 1868, [London]: "Thanks for your letter & the trouble you have taken. If I can carry my Co-Trustees with me, we will make a Grant to the Institution whose cause you so ably plead".
Dates:
16 June 1868
Boxall, William, 31 January 1867; 13 January 1877
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/6
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter of excuse from William Boxall to Katharine Murray Lyell following an invitation (dated 31 January 1867): "I have been in bed two days with one of my bad attacks in the throat. I hoped till this moment that I might have had the pleasure of dining with you on Saturday but I am so unwell that I feel that it will be impossible for me to leave the house. – I am most grateful to you and to Col. Lyell and to Sir Charles and your sister for unremitting kindness and I cannot help...
Dates:
31 January 1867; 13 January 1877
Br, 1980-1981
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/G/2/G.45
Scope and Contents
The material consists of correspondence between Martin Rivers Pollock with prospective speakers, participants and funders, Br in alphabetical sequence, 1980-1981.
Dates:
1980-1981
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
Brachet, J., 1960-1970
File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.33
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:
1960-1970