Letters
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of material relating to the life and work of George Goudie Chisholm, drawn together by Professor T. W. Freeman
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1297
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection is composed of:
typescript biographies of and notes on Chisholm by John Macfarlane and H.J. Fleure and various
copy of typescript letter to C.J. Robertson from the IGU Commission on the History of Geographical Thought, dated 9 May 1975
copies of typescript letters to Marguerita Oughton from C.J. Robertson, 3 May 1975, 16 June 1975 and 20...
Dates:
1948-1975
Dead letters file: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1945-1947
File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/A/2
Scope and Contents
File of letters returned to Percy Johnson-Marshall as General Secretary of Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) in 1945. Also includes a personal letter to his wife April dated 11 January 1947 and a selection of posters advertising the SATO Polytechnic
Dates:
1945-1947
Draft article titled 'Hypogeum. At Valaquie, Island Uist' and other notes, c 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW465
Scope and Contents
Draft of an article by Alexander Carmichael titled 'Hypogeum. At Valaquie, Island Uist', later published in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. The collection of papers also includes a draft letter headed 'Swallows' and further notes related to Barra.
Dates:
c 1872
Edinburgh South Side District Plan: general papers, 1962-1985
Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C
Scope and Contents
Edinburgh South Side District Plan: general papers consists of:
- papers and correspondence, (1973-1980)
- reports, (1973-1980)
- photographs, (c1973)
- plans, (1973-1974)
Dates:
1962-1985
Epistles Books I and II by Horace, late 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 198/ff. 85v-124r
Contents
The final text in MS 198 is Horace's Epistles. Published in two books, Horace's epistles were perhaps inspired by his increasing age, and are more reflective than his earlier work. The epistles are letters addressed to correspondents, such as the Emperor Augustus (in Book II). Book I generally deals with contemporary issues facing the Roman empire, while Book II has a literary focus.The text of Book I begins on f. 85v, with the line ...
Dates:
late 15th century
Epistles by Pseudo-Phalaris, translated by Francesco Griffolini, 15th century
part
Identifier: MS 119/ff. 93r-141v
Contents
This section contains a version of Pseudo-Phalaris’ Epistles by Francesco Griffolini, referred to as Francisci Aretini in the manuscript. He was a 15th century humanist and translator.In this manuscript, this text is titled Francisci Aretini in Phalaridis tyranni Agrigentinorum epistolas ad illustrem principem Malatestam. Novellum de Malatestis prohemium feliciter incipit and starts on f. 93r with the words ...
Dates:
15th century
Epistola ad Raymundum de curia rei familiaris by Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, 14th or 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 194/f. 136r-v
Contents
The final folio of MS 194 contains a fragment of a letter to a soldier named Raymundus on 'de regimine domus', or management of the household, including caring for a wife, children and servants. This letter has often been attributed to the 11th-12th century monastic reformer, St Bernard of Clairvaux, although it is extremely unlikely that he was the author.The letter on f. 136r begins with Incipit epistola sancti bernardi de Regimine domus. Gracioso et...
Dates:
14th or 15th century
Epistola fixionis cinabrii et conversionis eius in lunam by Pseudo-Roman Llull and other prescriptions, 1478
part
Identifier: MS 131/ff. 116v-123v
Contents
A group of alchemic prescriptions. The first text is a letter presumably attributed to Ramon Llull (c. 1232-c. 1315), a polymath of great fame who paved to way to subsequent knowledge in many fields such as mathematics, logic, and theology. Several texts have been falsely attributed to Llull and started to circulate under his name from the 14th century; many of these texts concern alchemy. This particular letter concerns the process of fixation (in alchemy, the transformation of a volatile...
Dates:
1478
Epistola Imperatori Henrico Missa by Gualterius della Flamma, 1478
part
Identifier: MS 131/ff. 87r-88r
Contents
An alchemical letter attributed to the Dominican Gualterius della Flamma (floruit 1312 - 1313) and addressed to the Henry VII, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1312 to his death the following year.The letter begins on f. 87r and it is introduced by the rubricated words Incipit epistola missa imperatori henrico a fratre gualterio ordinis predicatorum. It starts with the words ...
Dates:
1478
Final project - Newcastle-under-Lyme planning project, 1935-1938
File
Identifier: PJM/UOL/B/3
Scope and Contents
City planning maps, plans and studies by Percy Johnson-Marshall, undertaken whilst a student studying for the Certificate in Civic Design at the University of Liverpool, for his final project entitled "Newcastle-under-Lyme planning project". This project was submitted as the Town Planning Institute final exam. There are 4 plans: one detail (48cm x 48cm), one land-use plan, overlaid on an Ordnance Survey 6 inch to 1 mile plan with accompanying legend, and a blank Ordnance Survey plan at 6...
Dates:
1935-1938