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Emigrants

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Emigrant Letters of John Ronaldson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-893
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from John Ronaldson to family in Fife, Scotland, both during his journey to North America and from East Braintree in Massachusetts USA, and from Skagticoke (Schaghticoke). The material is in the form of typescript copies and photostat copies of manuscript letters.

Dates: 1852-1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Everitt Young

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1071
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of letters to Ivory Buchan (Margaret Ivory Ritchie Buchan) and includes: Edinburgh letters, 1931-1938, beginning on a regular basis in 1934, with comments on teacher training, and setting up a private school in Blackhall; South Africa letters, 1938-1951, going abroad for health reasons, early difficulties in South Africa, and about work in Benoni and Johannesburg.

Dates: 1931-1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections