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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3631 Collections and/or Records:

Copies of letters of Sir Robert Liston from the period when he was British Representative at Stockholm., 1789-1792.

 File
Identifier: MS.5566
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) An incomplete series of copies of official letters, 1789-1792, of Robert Liston (folio 1);

(ii) Copies of letters, 1789-1792, of Robert Liston to his mother and personal friends (folio 58).

Dates: 1789-1792.

Copies of letters of William Davidson, the phrenologist and father of Thomas (1817-1885), the palaeontologist, to his grandson, William, 'Written at Heidelberg, and other places on the Rhine'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10498-10499
Scope and Contents

In the first volume the letters discuss mainly religious and philosophical topics while the second volume is more autobiographical.

Dates: 1861, 1864, undated.

Copies of letters of William Porteous to James Linn.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7461
Scope and Contents

Mostly on personal matters.

Dates: 1860-1863.

Copies of letters, on paper watermarked 1840, of William Carstares to the Earl of Melville, written partly in cipher, dated from London and from various places on the Continent whither Carstares accompanied King William III., 1694-1700.

 File
Identifier: MS.3471
Scope and Contents

The letters give political and military news, and refer to some scheme for the Earl of Melville's advancement. At the beginning of the volume is a synopsis of the contents of the letters, and on folio ii is a receipt signed by George Hill.

Dates: 1694-1700.

Copies of letters to John Burdon-Sanderson and of papers and speeches given by him to learned societies and on other occasions., [?1854-before 1906.]

 File
Identifier: MS.20032
Scope and Contents

The papers were apparently intended for use in ‘Sir John Burdon Sanderson a memoir’, which was begun by Lady Burdon-Sanderson after his death in 1905 and completed and edited after her death in 1909 by their niece and nephew Elizabeth S Haldane (in whose hand many of the copies are written, most of the rest being in typescript) and John S Haldane, in 1911.

Dates: [?1854-before 1906.]

Copies of letters to John Kirk, 1867-1903, from various individuals; and a typescript list of letters to Kirk which were sent to Sotheby's, 1965., 1867-1903, undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9942/18
Scope and Contents Typescript copy of a letter from Samuel Baker to Kirk, 7 March 1867.Typescript copies of 2 letters from Sir Richard Burton to Kirk, 26 January 1872 and 12 October 1876.Photostat of a letter from J. Chamberlain to Kirk, 1897.Photostats of 3 letters from Emin Pasha to Kirk, 20 August 1887, 3 September 1887, 2 November 1887.Typescript copy of a letter from F. Fowell-Buxton to Kirk, 4 February 1869.Typescript copies of 2 letters from...
Dates: 1867-1903, undated.