St Andrews (Scotland)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Janet Young, c1920
Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2653
Scope and Contents
Letter, [n.d], Fife, Janet Young to Donald Tovey. Paying Tovey a small sum for appearing in the Madras College, Classical Chamber Concerts. Holograph signed.
Dates:
c1920
Letter to Thomson from D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson regarding Thomson's Galton lecture, The Trend of National Intelligence, 8 Jun 1946
Item
Identifier: Coll-1310/1/1/13
Scope and Contents
Thompson states the paper is an interesting one, and makes reference to his students' decreasing intelligence.
Dates:
8 Jun 1946
Letters and telegrams between Thomson, the War Office, and the Scottish Education Department, 1 Oct 1944-4 Oct 1944
File
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
Postcard to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Unknown, 08 August 1952
Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2740
Scope and Contents
Postcard, 8 August 1952, Fife, Unknown to Mary Grierson. Praising Brahms No. 2 in Bb, describing the second movement as a work of genius. Holograph.
Dates:
08 August 1952
Toast. Excavations of the cathedral. St. Andrews, [1823-1825]
Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/23/74
Dates:
[1823-1825]
Un-numbered copy of a letter from Ledermann to Thomson regarding Ledermann's DSc, 21 Oct 1938
Item
Identifier: Coll-1064/72
Scope and Contents
Ledermann expresses his disappointment at the decision by the faculty to refuse his DSc on the basis that he is leaving Edinburgh one term before his period of research has expired. He asks for Thomson's advice on the matter. He also informs Thomson that his paper on sampling distribution is likely to be printed in Biometrika; and that an article he wrote titled The Orthogonal Transformation of a Factorial...
Dates:
21 Oct 1938