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Found in 838 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Thomson from Alexander Craig Aitken regarding Thomson's Galton lecture, The Trend of National Intelligence, 7 Jun 1946

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Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/14
Scope and Contents

Aitken discusses the problem of intelligent women negating to have families because of their occupation, with reference to one unnamed woman who works with Thomson.

Dates: 7 Jun 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson / Biographical and personal papers / Correspondence

Letter to Thomson from Derrick Lawley regarding the concept of efficiency and its uses, 13 Dec 1950

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Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/18
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes letters to and about Thomson regarding his life, work, and career from a variety of correspondents including Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, Edward Lee Thorndike, Sir James Duff, Carlos Paton Blacker, David Glass, and Derrick Lawley.

Dates: 13 Dec 1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson / Biographical and personal papers / Correspondence

Letter to Unknown from Rev David Bruce Nicol, 08 November 1920

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2673
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Letter, 8 November 1920, Edinburgh, D. Bruce Nicol to Unknown. Requesting that the recipient introduce Bruce Nicol to Tovey to advise on plans to start a musical association. Holograph signed.

Dates: 08 November 1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Unknown from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 16 March 1926

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2660
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Letter, 16 March 1926, Tovey to Unknown. Supporting the idea that a scholarship at the Northampton school of music be established in memory of Leonard Borwick. Ms. Transcript.

Dates: 16 March 1926
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to unknown from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 10 May 1917

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L681
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Letter, 10 May 1917, Edinburgh, Donald Tovey to unknown. The proposed continuation of the Kirkhope choir. Holograph signed photocopy.

Dates: 10 May 1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Unknown from Sophie Weisse, c1920

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1922
Scope and Contents

Letter, [n.d], Sophie Weisse to Unknown. Requesting that the recipient deal with Miss. Weisse's post and news of her attempt to attend to things in this ' terrible time'. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Walter Stanton from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 17 November 1935

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L193a
Scope and Contents

Letter, 17 November 1935, Edinburgh, Donald Tovey to W. K. Stanton. A discussion of Beethoven's Fidelio. Typescript.

Dates: 17 November 1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Walter Willson Cobbett from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1930

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L39
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Letter, [1930], Edinburgh, Sir Donald Francis Tovey to Walter Willson Cobbett. Informing of the commencement of a work on Brahms. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letters and telegrams between Thomson, the War Office, and the Scottish Education Department, 1 Oct 1944-4 Oct 1944

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Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/1/9
Scope and Contents

The correspondence regards a confidential post in Germany in the English Department of Education, which Thomson declined.

Drafts of Thomson's responses and his notes are written on the reverse side of draft programmes for Orpheus performed at the Moray House Training College.

Dates: 1 Oct 1944-4 Oct 1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson / Biographical and personal papers / Correspondence / Letters to Thomson compiled by Hector and titled Important letters in my Father's life relevant to his biography

List of names of birds, 24 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/140
Scope and Contents

List of names of birds collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann including 'An Golcach = Puffin'; 'Deardain = Tern' in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye; and 'uiseag na traighe = a Bhothag - lives on wilks'.

Dates: 24 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael