Essays.
Found in 566 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and essay on Homer sent to Magnusson by Graham Binns., 1984.
Correspondence, and notes on William Wallace for 'Scotland: The Story of a Nation'., 1999.
Notes are on the Wallace Oak and the Wallace Sword along with an essay by Christopher Smout on the Wallace Oak.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence and papers relating to the academic career of John Mackintosh, including school and undergraduate papers., 1944-1978.
Correspondence and photocopied essay on Scandinavian emigration to the Americas., 1980.
Correspondence, articles, essays of James Thin, bookseller, also containing material on the Net Book Agreement., 1984-1998.
Correspondence concerning works of Mollie Hunter., 1960-1993.
Correspondence, essays, cuttings and other papers of Alexander MacDonald., 1886-1962, undated.
Correspondence of Elizabeth Mure., Circa 1817, 1822, undated.
Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.
Correspondence of Patrick Geddes with Lewis Mumford., 1915-1932, undated.
Included are several letters of Lewis Mumford to Frank Mears and Victor Branford. The correspondence deals principally with Mumford's early work, particularly between the years 1922 and 1929. Enclosed with a letter of 1922 (folio 29) is an outline of his book ‘The story of utopias. There is also a typescript of an essay entitled 'Graphics' (folio 68). In later letters he discusses his books ‘Sticks and stones’ and ‘Herman Melville’.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Correspondence, photocopied essays, and notes on Walter Scott’s construction of Abbotsford., 1999.
Correspondence, photographs and papers relating to the Clyde Workers` Committee.
Correspondence, photographs and papers, 1913-c 1920s, relating to John W. Muir (1879-1931), trade unionist and Labour MP for Glasgow Maryhill, and his involvement in the Clyde Workers’ Committee (CWC). Some of the papers also relate to his wife Catherine Fraser and to other prominent members of the CWC.
Correspondence, speeches, conference proceedings, pamphlets, and photocopied essays on Highland Cattle., 1989-1995.
For SNH.
Correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, and photocopied essays produced by the SNH Designations Taskforce set up to investigate policy relating to historic landscapes in Scotland., 1993-1998.
Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, 1647-1678, reported, late 17th century, by Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall., 1647-1678.
Description of the parish of Liberton, possibly by John Dundas.
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh.
Diary of John Forfar, schoolmaster in Edinburgh, containing an essay on music., March-April 1834.
Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.