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Glasgow Lanarkshire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:

Folio B, c1669-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/Folio B
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: Most of the scientific content of Folio B comes from early in Gregory's career. It includes an index of later letters of John Collins (1625-1683) to James Gregorie (1638-1675), a number of Edinburgh lectures in geometry, mechanics, and optics, and some tables and manuscript pieces of 'Elementa Catoptricae et Dioptricae', the 'Institutes of Astronomy', and the...
Dates: c1669-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

Glasgow Spring Show, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/346
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men standing with their Clydesdale horses in a field at the Glasgow Spring Show in 1932.

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

Heavy Draught Horse, Glasgow, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2154
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a heavy Draught horse standing in a show grounds wearing a harness in Glasgow at a horse show in 1937.

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

"High Life", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2175
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the champion jumper, "High Life" standing near the stables on the show grounds at the Highland and Agricultural Society Show in Glasgow on 4 July, 1905.

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

Lecture Notes of John Robison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-204
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes from the time when Robison was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. The notes embrace the sciences of mechanics, hydrodynamics, astronomy and optics, together with electricity and magnetism.

It is assumed that these are Robison's own notes but this has not been verified.

Dates: c1779-c1801
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Belle May, 25 February 1952

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2303
Scope and Contents

Letter, 25 February 1952, Glasgow, Belle May to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's accomplishment in producing the Tovey biography, memories of Grierson's mother. Holograph signed.

Dates: 25 February 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Hugh S. Robertson, 06 March 1952

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2433
Scope and Contents

Letter, 6 March 1952, Glasgow, Hugh S. Robertson to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography of Tovey. Holograph signed, with stamped envelope, Place as postmark.

Dates: 06 March 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to from Thomas Cuthbertson Leithead Pritchard, c1940

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2408
Scope and Contents

Letter, [n.d], Glasgow, T. C. L. Pritchard. Recollections of Tovey, describing his dignity and humility. Typescript.

Dates: c1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Hubert James Foss from William Giles Whittaker, 09 December 1941

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2643
Scope and Contents

Letter, 9 December 1941, Glasgow, William Giles Whittaker to Hubert Foss. Thanking Foss for returning letters, explaining Whittaker can not answer Foss's query and discussion of the handwriting analyst. Holograph signed.

Dates: 09 December 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Hubert James Foss from William Giles Whittaker, 26 November 1941

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2644
Scope and Contents

Letter, 26 November 1941, Glasgow, William Giles Whittaker to Hubert Foss. Enclosing Letters from Tovey in response to Foss's advertisement. Holograph signed.

Dates: 26 November 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

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