Letters
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 60 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
James Cunningham Autograph Collection
Fonds
Identifier: MS CM MS CM2 and MS CMA
Scope and Contents
Collection of autographs compiled by James Cunningham.
Dates:
nd
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letter Books, 1859 - 1946
Series
Identifier: LHB5/3
Scope and Contents
Letter books of Messrs Henry and Scott, Honorary Secretaries to the Hospital.
Indexed.
Dates:
1859 - 1946
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
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