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Typescripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Typewritten documents.

Found in 3709 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of J B S Haldane., 1907-1964, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20534-20546
Scope and Contents Most of the correspondence belongs to the last seven years of J B S Haldane’s life, following his retirement from his position as Professor of Biometry at London University, which he spent at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta (1957-1961), the Genetics and Research Unit of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1961-1962), and the Genetics and Biometry Laboratory, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.The correspondence consists chiefly of incoming letters with manuscript...
Dates: 1907-1964, undated.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence of Patrick Geddes and Marcel Hardy, the French botanist and geographer., 1901-1931.

 File
Identifier: MS.10570
Scope and Contents Marcel Hardy's letters cover various aspects of his career. He bought an estate in Mexico and describes his progress and schemes for colonisation of the area. There are notes and a typescript (folio 47) on the Tezonapa Valley Colonisation Lands, giving a description of the area, climate and soil types, revenues, etc. The typescript does not correspond with the manuscript notes. Later letters concern world problems and Hardy's attempts to make a career in Europe. A letter from Patrick Geddes...
Dates: 1901-1931.

Correspondence of Patrick Geddes with Lewis Mumford., 1915-1932, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10575
Scope and Contents

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’.

Dates: 1915-1932, undated.

Correspondence of Patrick Geddes with Sir Raymond Unwin, the architect, and Joseph Fels, the American soap millionaire., 1904-1932, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.10571
Scope and Contents

Raymond Unwin's letters concern the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition and its possible visit to America. There is a typescript of an agreement between Joseph Fels, John Willis Slaughter and Marcel Hardy of 1912 (folio 190), by which Slaughter and Hardy were to become agents for Fels in the purchase of land for cultivation in Paraguay. A letter of Patrick Geddes to Mrs Fels, 1920 (folio 146), is published in part by Philip Mairet in ‘Pioneer of Sociology’, page 186.

Dates: 1904-1932, undated.

Correspondence of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson with various literary figures., 1904-1955.

 File
Identifier: MS.9332
Scope and Contents Among the more important letters are those from Sir Walter Raleigh, 1906, 1910-1911, 1920, concerning Grierson's work on Elizabethan literature; from Robert Bridges, undated, chiefly concerning the Society for Pure English tracts, and also expressing his dislike of Donne's poetry, and from C M Grieve ('Hugh MacDiarmid'), 1925, concerning his own poetry, his aims for Scottish literature in general, and the revival of the Scots vernacular.A typescript of Grieve's poem, 'I heard...
Dates: 1904-1955.