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Correspondence

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Found in 1354 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Walter de la Mare to John Atkins, 2 April 1948

 Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0117/2
Scope and Contents Long autograph letter signed, from Walter de la Mare to John Atkins, dated 2 April 1948, The Old Park. The letter says that "Alas, I didn't deserve one word of your reference to the R.L.F [Royal Literary Fund]. I wish it were otherwise. Illness as you know prevented my attending the Meeting of the Committee. ... I was very glad to hear that a grant has been awarded... . All that you said concerning the writing of books keenly interested me. There are outstanding exceptions, of course, but,...
Dates: 2 April 1948
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Letter from Walter de la Mare to Nancy Bowden, 5 May 1947

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Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0189
Scope and Contents This is a typed signed letter (two lines in holograph) from Walter de la Mare to Nancy Bowden, dated The Old Park, Penn, 5 May 1947. De la Mare writes to Bowden of his "particular pleasure" in receiving her previous letter in which she wrote how she "discovered and with so much delight and interest Charlotte Mew's poems". De la Mare offers a few lines about Mew's life and poetry: "As Mr Masefield says, it is possible that her two Collections were not reprinted because she did not wish them...
Dates: 5 May 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Letter of Fred Urquhart to Dominic Hibberd, 11 January 1993

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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0020
Scope and Contents Letter from Fred Urquhart to Dominic Hibberd, biographer of the poet Harold Monro, in which Urquhart reminisces about his relationship with Monro’s son, Nigel, and his subsequent decades-long relationship with Peter Wyndham Allen, before going on to give news of his work. He also encloses an offprint of his short story "The Rabbit, the Pheasant and the Marmalade Cat" published in Aberdeen University Review, no. 188 (autumn 1992). Letter dated 11 January...
Dates: 11 January 1993
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Letter of Sir James Matthew Barrie to Sir Edwin Lutyens, 6 August 1919, 10 March 1970

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Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0028
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Signed autograph letter from Sir James Matthew Barrie to his friend and creative collaborator the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, praising Lutyens' design for the Cenotaph, London.


There is an accompanying letter from Nicholas Taylor of the Lutyens Trust, dated 10 March 1970, thanking the then owner Ben Sonnenberg Jr for letting him see a copy of the letter.

Dates: 6 August 1919; 10 March 1970
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Letter of Sir William Muir to Mrs Lessel, 14 March 1870

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Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0147
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This is a manuscript letter on Government House, Allahabad letter-headed paper written and signed by Sir William Muir and dated 14 March 1870. Muir writes in his capacity as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces of British India. The addressee is probably Isabella Ramsay, second wife of missionary Thomas L. Lessel. The letter concerns arrangements for the Lessels' return to Great Britain in 1870.

Dates: 14 March 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Letter Signed from Joseph Lister to S. L. Booth, 2 October 1875

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0041
Scope and Contents

Clerk written Letter Signed by Joseph Lister, sent to S. L. Booth telling him that the "address to which you refer will be published in due time in the British Medical Journal. Meantime I beg you to accept a copy of a paper written two years ago, which has reference to the same subject. I may add that the methods of procedure have been since much simplified ... ", 2 sides 8vo., 9 Charlotte Square Edinburgh headed paper, 2 October 1875.

Dates: 2 October 1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Letter to [Hubert James Foss] from Arthur Melville Clark, 12 July 1942

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2306
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Letter, 12 July 1942, Edinburgh, Arthur Melville Clark to [Hubert Foss]. Enclosing correspondence between Tovey and Arthur Melville Clark in connection with the publication ' Seventeenth Century studies: Presented to Sir Herbert Grierson, 1938'. Holograph signed.

Dates: 12 July 1942
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Robert Trevelyan from Loudoun Shepherd, 8 February 1932

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2454
Scope and Contents

Letter to Trevelyan from Loudoun Shepherd, dated 8 February 1932, sent from 2 Craigcrook Place, Blackhall, Edinburgh.

Dates: 8 February 1932
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to The Times on 'The Beethoven fallacy', 1977

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Identifier: Coll-1586/E/1/E.42
Scope and Content

The material consists of a letter from Martin RIvers Pollock to The Times, dated 18 October 1977. There is no evidence of its publication, however.

Dates: 1977
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION E: DRAFTS AND PUBLICATIONS / DRAFTS

Letterbook, 1829-1830

 Item — Volume Dk.2.37
Identifier: Coll-2253/1
Scope and Contents

Letterbook of Sir John Macdonald Kinneir, containing transcriptions of letters dating from 1829-1830. Two Dutch maps of area pertaining to the Middle East are enclosed in the volume.

Dates: 1829-1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir John Macdonald Kinneir