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Postcard to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 12 May 1895

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2683
Scope and Contents

Postcard, 12 May 1895, Oxford, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. Indicating the timing of several works and informing Miss. Weisse that Brahms has accepted honorary membership of the musical club. Photocopy of Holograph signed.

Dates: 12 May 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Quarto A, c1680-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of: 107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Queries to My Lord Tarbat from Mr Lloyd of Oxon, after 1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [38.2]
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An Oxford colleague's list of questions about resources for Irish studies in Scotland, probably for remanding by Gregory to his old ally in the Edinburgh Visitation troubles, "My Lord Tarbat", who was George Mackenzie, Viscount Tarbat, first Earl of Cromarty.

Dates: after 1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Quo ad D.G. spectant in Pitcarnii Probl. de inventoribus, after August 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [42]
Scope and Contents Commentary on Archibald Pitcairne's Edinburgh edition of Solutio Problematis de Historicis; seu de Inventoribus Dissertatio, (1688) of which an enlarged edition appeared at Leiden in 1693. This tract made Pitcairne's subsequent medical career on the continent for its vindication of the claims of William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood. It contains other things as well, notably the first public presentation of Gregory's second method of...
Dates: after August 1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Telegram to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Marga Denecke et al., c1920

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2672
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Telegram, [n.d] Oxford, Marga Deneke et al. to Donald Tovey. ' Variations great performance great reception large audience'. Transcript.

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

Telegram to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 21 March 1896

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2761
Scope and Contents

Telegram, 21 March 1896, Oxford, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. ' Sorry cannot come till Monday Donald'. Typescript copy.

Dates: 21 March 1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Undergrad's Remarkable Spill, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1990
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Photograph showing the horse, "Lucky Lad", and his jockey, J.A.G. Emmet taking a spill at the water jump during the steeplechase at Oxford whch was the first of the 'Oxford "grinds"'.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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