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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

General work: files - North East Group, 1957-1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.2
Scope and Contents

General work file, compiled by Percy Johnson-Marshall. This relates to the work of the North East Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The file is very mixed, with no discernible theme. It contains reports, copies of memoranda, notes of discussions and visits and conferences, correspondence and planning application statistics.

Dates: 1957-1958
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: general work

Housing diagram for the ABT, 1946-1947

 File
Identifier: PJM/ABT/B/1
Scope and Contents This file contains a folder entitled Housing diagram for the ABT containing research for the diagram: notes, mixed correspondence and Ministry of Works forms and circulars. There is a set of minutes for the Association of Building Technicians and Association of Scientific Workers Joint Committee on Housing, dated 24 January 1947 . There is also a personal letter to Sris Chandra Chatterjee in Calcutta, dated 10 August 1947, concerning...
Dates: 1946-1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Association of Building Technicians / The Association of Building Technicians: draft reports

Letter from A. Campbell to Lady Campbell, Barcaldine, 1833

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1437
Scope and Contents The letter is dated Doncaster, 26 January 1833, and addressed to Lady Campbell / Barcaldine / Bonaw / Argyleshire. It was written when the young Alexander was 13-years old, and begins, 'My dear Mamma'. The letter writes of making amends and promises to 'write much oftener than I have done previously'; of the 'nice cake' sent to him; and, of the receipt of a letter from Margaret who had said that 'Mary went to shower baths every other day'. The letter tells of how Christmas and New Year was...
Dates: 1833
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Mary of Guise to Lord Vigilius a Zuichem dated 1555

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1547
Scope and Contents The document, which is a long clerk letter written in Latin 'on the Kalends of January in the year of our Salvation 1554', and signed 'The friend of your virtue Marie R', concerns itself with two Scotsmen, Robert Landis and George Kincaid, who had been imprisoned by John Vitner of Berg. One of them 'is almost destroyed by the filth of the prison' and 'the other is almost brought to extreme starvation by the delay in action and demands on his ruined fortune'. The letter goes on to say that...
Dates: 1554
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Thomas Dick to a young reader

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1300
Scope and Contents The letter (autograph letter signed) is from Thomas Dick to a young reader of his books. It is dated 1 December 1848 and was written in Broughty Ferry (near Dundee). He writes that he he is ' gratified to find that my writings have afforded you entertainment and instruction'. The letter congratulates him on pursuing his studies and mentions that he has just had two books published by the Religious Tract Society - The solar system and The...
Dates: 1848
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Alexander Carmichael from Reverend MacPhail with poem, 1888

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW4
Scope and Contents

Letter sent to Alexander Carmichael from Reverend MacPhail dated 15 November 1888 from Kilmartin U.F. Manse, Lochgilphead. Enclosed is a poem of 15 stanzas headed 'Duan Callainn' [Hogmanay Rhyme].

Dates: 1888
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Letter to Hubert Foss from Hans Gal, c 03 January 1941

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2764
Scope and Contents

Letter, 3 January [n.y], Edinburgh, Hans Gal to Hubert Foss. Enclosing letters from Tovey, and putting the letters into context. Typescript signed.

Dates: c 03 January 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to [Hubert James Foss] from Mabel McCormick, 08 December 1941

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2284
Scope and Contents

Letter, 8 December 1941, London, M. McCormick to [Hubert Foss]. Responding to Foss's request, published in the Daily Telegraph for letters to and from Tovey. Holograph signed.

Dates: 08 December 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letters by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, late 15th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 191/ff. 1r-97v
Contents The letters by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, have been published in several collections. Piccolomini was a relatively well-known writer in the fifteenth century, and among several other works of history, and autobiography, and a piece of erotic literature, he also collected and published a collection of his own letters. The arrangement of the letters contained here in MS 191 does not appear to follow the arrangment of any of the modern published editions, but the...
Dates: late 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / MS 191: Works by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)

Letters to the General Secretary for reply: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1945

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/A/1
Scope and Contents

Mixed personal letters to Percy Johnson-Marshall, collected for him during an absence from the Service Arts and Technical Organization office. The letters include one from Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson who at this time was Coventry City Architect.

Dates: 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) / Administration files of the Service Arts and Technical Organization

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