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Correspondence

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Found in 1373 Collections and/or Records:

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
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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
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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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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