Gold
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence: from Duncan M Irvine to Alfred John Jukes-Browne, 1865-1899
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/7
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence: from Duncan M Irvine to Alfred John Jukes-Browne sub-series consists of:
- 44 letters, alphabetically arranged (1865-1899)
Dates:
1865-1899
Correspondence: John Phillips to Frederick William Rudler, 1845-1901
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/18
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence: John Phillips to Frederick William Rudler sub-series consists of:
- 40 letters, alphabetically arranged (1845-1901)
Dates:
1845-1901
Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1827-1871
Series
Identifier: Coll-74/10
Scope and Contents
The Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison series consists of:
letters from Murchison to his wife, 1854 and 1857
miscellaneous correspondence and notes (including letters to Sir Archibald Geikie) 1831-1871
correspondence relating to Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick regarding Silurian classification 1838 and 1852-1866
assorted correspondence,...
Dates:
1827-1871
Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, 1772
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/43-44
Scope and Contents
Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun about gold at Leadhills.
Dates:
1772
Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, 01 April 1773
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/57
Scope and Contents
Draft letter from Joseph Black to 3rd Earl of Hopetoun about gold sand.
Dates:
01 April 1773
Ghost story about a woman and newborn child, 20 January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/144
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Hector MacLeod, aged 85, at Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Lionacleit/Linaclate, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, about a man in Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist who encountered a woman outside his home with a crying child. She told him that the King of France sent her to the Eilean an Iar [Western Isles] but on her arrival at South Uist she did not like it so she decided to go to North Uist [Uibhist a Tuath]. While crossing the ford she went into labour at Heastamal Isle...
Dates:
20 January 1871
Letter from 3rd Earl of Hopetoun to Joseph Black, 27 January 1772
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/41-42
Scope and Contents
Letter from 3rd Earl of Hopetoun to Joseph Black regarding gold soil.
Dates:
27 January 1772
Letter from 3rd Earl of Hopetoun to Joseph Black, 12 February 1773
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/51-52
Scope and Contents
Letter from 3rd Earl of Hopetoun to Joseph Black regarding gold soil.
Dates:
12 February 1773
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron, 15 August 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/22
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron giving Geikie a precis of the geological structure of the island of Madagascar, where he is a missionary. He asks Geikie if he would be able to identify some rock samples for him if he sent them to London, and offers to send fossils and specimens in return. He reports that gold has recently been found on the island.
Dates:
15 August 1884
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron, 24 June 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/23
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Richard Baron in which he reminds Geikie that he had offered to make thin sections to identify rock samples which he had sent him. He expresses concern that he has had no response to the paper and rock specimens which he sent, especially as he has had a response concerning some plant specimens which he sent to Kew at the same time. He reports that a Swiss government geologist will shortly arrive in Madagascar and that gold has been found in 8 or 9 localities...
Dates:
24 June 1886