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Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:

Letters from Florence Jewel Baillie, 1917-1959

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/19/2
Scope and Contents

Letters to John Baillie from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie

Dates: 1917-1959

Letters from Florence Jewel Baillie (from general filing), 1919-1934

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/19/2/1
Scope and Contents

Letters to John Baillie from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie originally filed as discrete bundles with in early general filing & correspondence files (Auburn, Toronto and New York files).

Dates: 1919-1934

Louisiana Purchase, the Thirteen Original States, and Europe, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2944
Scope and Contents

Map of the United States of America showing the area of the Louisiana Purchase and the thirteen orignal states next to a map of Europe. Figures of the land area and population statistics are noted beneath the images.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Newspaper cutting entitled 'Claim to a Baronetcy: Curious Narrative', c1908

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/44
Scope and Contents

Newspaper cutting entitled 'Claim to a Baronetcy: Curious Narrative' about the claim made by John Ford, musical instrument repairer, Philadelphia, United States of America, to the baronetcy of Sir James Robert Carmichael.

Dates: c1908

Oldham. Miscellaneous Papers, 20th century

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Identifier: GD2/4
Scope and Contents

This section contains twelve separate folders within which are photographs, journals and reports on visits abroad and documents relating to various other topics. There is material relating to India, China, Japan, USA, Germany, and Africa, as well as the World Council of Churches and British Council of Churches. There are also assorted minutes and memoranda.

Dates: 20th century

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-203
Scope and Contents
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 1820-1874

Pulszky, Ferenc, 1 July 1851 - 23 July 1875

 File
Identifier: Coll-1989/57
Scope and Contents This file consists of five autograph letters signed from Ferenc Pulszky to Lady Mary Lyell and her husband Sir Charles Lyell, sent from Bayswater and Highgate (London), Turin, Budapest, and dated 1 July 1851, 23 June 1857, 18 March 1861, 19 February 1863 and 23 July 1875. Also includes an oval photographic portrait on a larger carrier.1. Letter from Ferenc Pulszky to Charles Lyell, dated 1 July 1851: "I enclose a letter of Mr Mazzini [i. e. the Italian politician and freedom...
Dates: 1 July 1851 - 23 July 1875

Quotation from a poem by Whittier under the title 'Rune', c1892

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/103
Scope and Contents

Quotation from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier under the title 'Rune' beginning 'You find but common bloom and green, The rippling rivers rune'.

Dates: c1892

Racing Mishap. Sensational Tumble, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3058
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a horse racing mishap showing a 'sensational tumble' a horse took at an American steeplechase event throwing its jocky many feet away in 1919.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Song beginning 'Ailein Duinn shiulain leat' and accompanying story, 7 August 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/5
Scope and Contents Song collected from 'Ceit wife [of] Don[ald] MacKin[n]on nee Urqhuart', Tarasaigh/Taransay beginning 'Ailein Dhuinn shiulainn leat, M iar[rtas] eir Ri[gh nan] aingeaol'. The song was composed by Ana ni Dhonil ic Iain oig Chaimbeul [Anna Campbell] who was engaged to Allan Morrison of Crossobost, Lews [Crosbost, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis], who drowned. She was said to have died soon after of a broken heart and was to be buried at Rodail [Rodel] and ended up being buried at sea, near to her...
Dates: 7 August 1870