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Sender: Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry
Recipient: Brundrett, Frederick
Letters: 5
Date(s): 15 Jan 1958 - 13 May 1958
Location: SC MS 742/329, 333, 336, 347, 354
Note: 1) Proposed lunch to meet B.N. Wallis. TS. carbon. 2) Lunch with B.N. Wallis early in February. TS. carbon. 3) Lunch meeting. TS. carbon. 4) Offers further discussion if required. TS. carbon. 5) In reply to item 742/353. TS. carbon.
Sender: Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron
Recipient: Murray, John
Letters: 3
Date(s): 28 May 1821 - 31 Mar 1822
Location: BC MS 19c Byron
Note: 1) 1p. 4to. The most interesting feature of this letter is the signature, a quaint monogram devised by Byron from his initial "B." Only very few of Byron's letters are signed with this monogram. The letter mentions the progress of Byron's tragedy "Sardanapalus", and also refers to the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, Byron's friend and trustee.
2) 4pp. folio, signed "Byron". An unusually long letter, contains very definite instructions to John Murrary regarding the books Byron wishes to have sent. Byron also threatens to write a new "English Bards".
3) 1p. 4to. Attached is Byron's black seal, unbroken. This letter is signed "N.B." a signature of which Bryon was amusingly proud. Until the death of his mother-in-law, Byron's signature had to be either "Byron" or a single B, but when Lady Noel died, Byron had to take her family name under the terms of the marriage settlement. Hence the N.B. Byron used frequently to boast that only two persons of note were able to use these initials - Napoleon Bonaparte and himself.
Sender: Bone, William Arthur
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 3
Date(s): 15 Oct 1894 - 30 Sep 1901
Location: SC MS 416/82, 83, 163
Note: 1) Seeks advice on draft paper for "J. Chemical Soc." MS. 2 ff. 2) Discusses AS's criticisms of his draft paper. MS. 4 ff. 3) Decomposition of hydrocarbons at high temperature; considers V.B. Lewes to be in error. MS. 2 ff.
Sender: Drummond-Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish
Recipient: Russell, Ronald Stanley
Letters: 5
Date(s): 15 March 1953 - 16 Sep 1969
Location: SC 709/659, 682, 786, 787, 788
Note: 1) Economic and foreign policy. 2 ff. 2) Reform of tariff
structures. MS. 2 ff. 3) Criticises the Board of Trade's response to "The Commonwealth" (786a-b other copies) 4) Criticises Lord Chalfont's views on international trade. 3 ff. 5) Ireland and the Commonwealth. MS.
Sender: Montrose, Martin
Recipient: Brown, Maurice J.E.
Letters: 20
Date(s): 22 Apr 1972 - 23 Aug 1975
Location: Schubert
Note: 1) 5 undated items, 4 of which are postcards loose in the book: Klein, R: "Schubert Statten", Vienna, 1972. 2) Postcard dated 8 Dec 197[4] is in envelope addressed to
Maurice Brown and marked "Schubert birthplace". Includes another (blank) postcard.
3) Letter 26 Jun 1973 is loose in blue hard-backed commercial exercise book at division Y. Two undated postcards are also filed here at divisions B and G. 4) Postcard dated 23 Aug 1975 is loose in blue hard-backed exercise book labelled "Schubert in the 19th Century...".
Sender: Hartley, Walter Noel
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 7
Date(s): 3 Jul 1896 - 15 Feb 1897
Location: SC MS 391/25-29, 32-33
Note: 1) Flame spectra; comment on V B Lewes. 2) Sending offprints; proposed paper on C2N2 spectrum. 3) Theories on flame spectra. 4) Sending a note on CO spectrum. 5) Further about the CO flame spectrum. 6) His experiments on CO spectra. 2 ff. 7) Experiments and experimental methods on flame spectra. 2 ff.
Sender: Scattergood, Bernard Page
Recipient: Thompson, Herbert
Letters: 4
Date(s): 12 Dec 1931 - 15 Feb 1932
Location: SC MS 361/378-381
Note: 1) Sends a copy of his "Short History of Leeds Musical Soirees"
(1931). 2) Further points about publicity and binding of his
book. 3) Acknowledges criticism of his book; proposed printing
of a corrigenda and addenda. 4) Encloses a sheet of addenda
and corrigenda. All formerly inserted in Thompson's copy of B P Scattergood, "Short History of Leeds Musical Soirees" (1931).
Sender: Gott, William
Recipient: Teale, Thomas Pridgin
Letters: 18
Date(s): 10 Jul 1847 - 6 Aug [1863]
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/6/2-18, 20
Note: 1) Says he will take their sons sightseeing in London. 1 p. 2) On choosing an architect for the Infirmary (at Leeds), and enclosing a letter (not present) from W.B. Denison on the subject. 4 pp. 3) On choosing an architect for the Infirmary. 2 pp. 4) On the possibility of Scott (i.e. Sir George Gilbert Scott) being the architect. 2 pp. 5) On the objections to Scott. 3 pp. 6) Reporting Mr Hayward's recommendation of Street (i.e. George Edmund Street) as an architect. 3 pp. 7) On Street's work. 3 pp. 8) On architects. 3 pp. 9) On the choice of an architect and other
matters concerning the Infirmary. 4 pp. 10) Regrets that he is not well enough to meet Owen at Teale's house. 1 p. 11) On applying to James Marshall and James Brown for subcriptions towards the Philosophical Hall, and on matters concerning the Infirmary. 4 pp. 12) On the Infirmary. 4 pp. 13) On raising Henry Denny's salary for his post (curator) at the Philosophical Hall, and other matters. 3 pp. 14) About a circular asking for subscriptions towards the Philosophical Hall. 4 pp. 15) Describing local celebrations. 3 pp. 16) On printing Scott's lecture, and other matters concerning the Infirmary. 4 pp. 17) About the Infirmary. 4 pp. 18) On the Secretary's accusations against the porter (at the Philosophical Hall).
Sender: Woodward, Gwendolen
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 6
Date(s): 5 Nov 1936 - 20 Mar 1939
Location: SC 622/117, 118, 119, 130, 134, 158
Note: 1) Seeks information on Joseph Sturge for a post-graduate student; her own work; visit to Mrs P.S. Allen. 2) Thanks for information on Sturge; queries from library readers. 3) Reimbursment of postage. 4) The full name of Dorothy Mackenzie Hoare; Mrs B.K. Gott supplying information to E.L. Woodward for his volume in the Oxford History of England; FB and the Leeds Library; library at Newnham. 5) Same subject. 6) Death of her father.
Sender: Berger, Walter
Recipient: Brown, Maurice J.E.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 May 1969 - 15 Mar 1973;
Location: Schubert
Note: 1) Letters written on 3rd and 9th May are in black ring binder marked inside: "Beethoven's songs and vocal pieces". 2) Letter dated 14 Jun 1969 is loose in blue hard-backed commercial exercise book at division B. 3) Letter dated 15 Mar 1973 loose in book, Klein, R. "Schubert Statten", Vienna, 1972. 4) Letter dated 10 Mar 1973 is in blue hard-backed commercial exercise book at division W.
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Stevens, Greta
Letters: 58
Date(s): 17 Mar 1952 - c.1965
Location: BC MS 20c Masefield
Note: The letters, many discussing the work of W. B. Yeats and a Yeats commemorative event in 1964, are part of a collection including: (1) Four signed photographs of Masefield; photograph of a painting 'Pilot come ashore' by Jack B. Yeats; photographs of various ships; (2) Christmas cards; postcards; poetry cards by Masefield, including 'A Merry Christmas'; (3) A watercolour sketch of a ship by Masefield, inscribed 'The Greta'; (4) Four printed books by Masefield: 'With the living voice', 1925; 'The Conway', 1933; 'In the mill', 1941; 'New chum', 1944, all inscribed 'For Greta from John'; a fifth printed book by Masefield, 'Dauber and Reynard the Fox', 1962, inscribed 'For Jonathan Lee from John'; (5) Newspaper cuttings of Masefield's obituaries, 1967.
Horovitz, Michael to Hamburger, Michael
Horovitz, Michael
17 n.d.
Includes: Envelope 1: (i) In letter of 9 Sept. 1972: (a) invitation to poetry reading by Horovitz. (b) newscuttings about Horovitz (1 from "Trinity Times", 17 Nov. 1971). (c) poems by Frances Hor...