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Postcard to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 12 May 1895
Item
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
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, tides, and...
Dates:
c1680-c1708
Queries to My Lord Tarbat from Mr Lloyd of Oxon, after 1690
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [38.2]
Scope and Contents
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
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
Telegram to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Marga Denecke et al., c1920
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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2672
Scope and Contents
Telegram, [n.d] Oxford, Marga Deneke et al. to Donald Tovey. ' Variations great performance great reception large audience'. Transcript.
Dates:
c1920
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
Undergrad's Remarkable Spill, 1870s-1930s
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Identifier: Coll-1434/1990
Scope and Contents
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