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Manuscripts

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

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1383
Scope and Contents The material represents Ian R. Grant's seller's stock. The widely varied content of the collection includes legal documents on vellum, oaths of burgesses, inventories, correspondence and letter books, printed material such as adverts, magazines and religious pamphlets, songs and poems, family history documents, etc. It also includes a collection of c. 30 Burmese palm leaf manuscripts dating from the 19th century.Because there was no discernible original order, the material was...
Dates: 1544-1986

Draft manuscript of 'New Patterns of Genetics and Development', with handwritten notes and corrections., c.1962

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/2/1/7
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is accompanied by a letter to Waddington from Columbia University Press concerning the return of the manuscript, dated 01 August 1963, with copy of the reply from Waddington's secretary.

Dates: c.1962

Draft manuscript of 'Principles Of Development And Differentiation', c.1966

 Item
Identifier: Coll-41/2/1/12
Scope and Contents

The typescript appears to start on page 5, entitled 'Chapter 1. The Problems of Development', with the first four pages wanting. Contains handwritten corrections and notes, possibly in the editor's hand.

Dates: c.1966

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from George Stewart McManus, 03 March 1952

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2290
Scope and Contents

Letter, 3 March 1952, Connecticut, George McManus to Mary Grierson. Stating that McManus's copy of Kunst der Fugue and his Tovey ms. should be left to the Reid Music Library. Holograph signed, with stamped envelope.

Dates: 03 March 1952

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from R. M. Young, 26 May 1953

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2656
Scope and Contents

Letter, 26 May 1953, Oxford, R. M. Young to Mary Grierson. Arranging to come and see a pianoforte score in Edinburgh. Holograph signed.

Dates: 26 May 1953

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 26 October 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/112
Scope and Contents

Ridgeway apologises for losing Ewart's manuscript. He reports on his visits to potential funders in Ireland and describes 'a young Mendelian' called Lock who has just been elected a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,

Dates: 26 October 1904

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from LL Belinfante, 24 February 1898

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/8/36
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from LL Belinfante telling Geikie that he has gained the necessary permission to pass the James Hutton manuscript to him, and that it does not need to be brought before the council of the Geological Society of London as work is to be commenced as soon as possible. Receipt of the manuscript is acknowledged in a different hand.

Dates: 24 February 1898

List of persons and institutions [in receipt of Scottish Gaelic manuscripts catalogue], Late 19th or early 20th century

 File
Identifier: Coll-98/5/19
Scope and Contents

This is a list of persons and institutions to which copies of the catalogue of Scottish Gaelic manuscripts were to be sent from the University of Edinburgh. The list contains some very prestigious persons and institutions, including the Marquis of Bute, the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the University of Cambridge.

Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century

Manuscript titled 'Sources for the Man Made Future' by C.H. Waddington, c.1970

 Item — Box CLX-A-1233: Series Coll-1461/2, Box: data_value_missing_6b3076a4918e0de68512688a43634cae, Box: data_value_missing_9ee99a5d9e8e050165fce7b6c4a64ef5
Identifier: Coll-1461/2/4

Note from Alexander Monro to Joseph Black and extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters, 04 June 1782

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/122-123
Scope and Contents

Note from Alexander Monro asking Joseph Black to correct a manuscript (with extracts of Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell's letters about chemicals by Black).

Dates: 04 June 1782