Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1354 Collections and/or Records:
Letterbook of Dr James Arthur
Fonds — Volume Dk.5.20
Identifier: Coll-2196
Scope and Contents
Letterbook of Dr James Arthur, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, containing copies and drafts of letters about his nephew William John MacKnight Craufurd of Cartsburn, Sir James McGrigor, private legal business, etc. Also satirical verses on Cardinal Wiseman. 1850.
Dates:
1850
Letterbook of Hugh Miller (1802-1856), geologist and editor of ‘The Witness’
Fonds
Identifier: MS MIL1
Scope and Contents
MS MIL 1.1Volume containing handwritten holograph copies of 232 letters between Hugh Miller and a number of correspondents from 1825 to 1839. Correspondents include William Ross, John Swanson, George Anderson, Robert Carruthers, Mrs. Dunbar of Boath, the Duke of Wellington, Thomas Dick Lauder, the Very Reverend Principal Baird, and others. There are also a number of poems and a few drawings throughout. Two letters in an envelope to Dr. Mitchell Hunter from Henry...
Dates:
1825-1839; 1995
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters, November 1903-18 February 1914
File
Scope and Contents
Letters.
Letter from [Rev.] John MacNeill, Eriskay, 22 October 1907, words of ‘Gur millis Morag’ and ‘Nighean dubh’ appended.
Note from Charles [Kennedy], [November 1903], on reverse of ‘Mrs Kennedy Fraser’s Song Lectures [...] Schubert Programme’, 1903-1904.
Letter from Katherine W. Grant, Tarbert, Loch Fyne, 22 July 1908.
Stencilled...
Dates:
November 1903-18 February 1914
Letters and documents donated by Lord Lindsay Barker, 1696-1715
Item — Box Dk.1.1.1
Identifier: Coll-2249/1
Scope and Contents
Letters and documents relating to Principal William Carstares, dating 1696-1715, 47 items.
Dates:
1696-1715
Letters from and to Shepperson about Booth and sources relating to Booth and Chilembwe, 1937; 1950-1982
File
Identifier: Coll-210/2/2
Scope and Contents
Letters from and to Shepperson about Booth and sources relating to Booth and Chilembwe, includes correspondence with: Walter Main of the Zambesi Mission in London; Walter Cockerill a Seventh Day Baptist missionary about Booth and Baptist records with transcriptions of Booth letters and other material; Mary Moore, wife of N. O. Moore who was sent by the Seventh Day Baptists to investigate Booth, with copies of some items held at the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society in Plainfield,...
Dates:
1937; 1950-1982
Letters from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2116
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of six letters sent from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk from 1987 to 1992, as well as two postcards. The letters still have their original envelopes, and were sent from Auerbach's home in Grange Loan, Edinburgh to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The correspondence is mostly about exchanging news and small talk, in Auerbach's "old age".There is also a typed letter from Prof. Geoffrey Beale to "all old friends of Lotte", dated 16 August 1994...
Dates:
1987-1994
Letters from Edwin and Willa Muir to Morley and Flora Jamieson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2061
Content Description
This fonds consists of friendly letters and cards from Edwin and Willa Muir to their wartime lodgers Morley and Flora Jamieson: an autograph letter signed from Edwin and Willa to Flora, two autograph letters signed from Willa to Morley and Flora, a carbon-copy typed letter from Edwin to Morley and Flora, a Christmas autograph correspondence card signed from Willa to the Jamiesons' dog Jinty, and a Christmas autograph picture postcard signed from Willa. The letters were sent from Edinburgh,...
Dates:
1944-1963
Letters from Esther and Edward Gilbert to Emily Booth Langworthy, 1904-1915
File
Identifier: Coll-210/1/12
Scope and Contents
Letters from Esther and Edward Gilbert ("Mater and Pater") at Lavender Hill London, to Emily Booth Langworthy giving family news. Emily Booth had stayed with the Gilberts for some time in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1904-1915
Letters from George Mackay Brown to Lawrence Millman
Fonds — Box CLX-A-373, Folder: Coll-1878: Letters from George Mackay Brown to Lawrence Millman.
Identifier: Coll-1878
Content Description
This fonds comprises 81 manuscript letters sent by George Mackay Brown to American writer and ethnographer Lawrence Millman, who was George M. Brown's only regular North American correspondent. Brown and Millman met in Stromness in 1977, and were friends for fifteen years. In his letters, Brown talks about his personal life and his writing, and refers to Millman's irish book Our Like Will Not Be There Again, as well as his prose poems. They corresponded...
Dates:
22 July 1977-12 February 1987
Letters from Hastings K. Banda to the Rev H. M. Phiri, 1932-c 1957
File — Box CLX-A-19: Series Coll-490/12; Series Coll-490/13
Identifier: Coll-490/12/8B
Scope and Contents
Letters from Hastings K. Banda to the Rev H. M. Phiri, his uncle, in Nyasaland., 1932-c 1957.1. Banda expresses surprise that money he sent has not been acknowledged. He sends his uncle the news that Bishop Vernon and his wife, the organisers of the Nyasaland Foundation, have been accused of the misuse of church funds, and consequently the Bishop is suspended. Banda has found that the bishops in the General Office use all the mission money while the Ministers in the Field go...
Dates:
1932-c 1957