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Sender: Watts, Alaric Alexander
Recipient: Crabbe, Revd George
Letters: 2
Date(s): 21 Oct 1825 - 18 Jul 1827
Location: BC MS 19c Crabbe 1. In "Extra illustrated life of Crabbe", vol.5, pp.54, 57
Sender: James, E.
Recipient: Hayter, Louis Henry
Letters: 5
Date(s): 8 Oct 1894 - 17 Apr 1895
Location: SC MS 406/42, 44, 47, 49, 54
Note: 1) Lord Onslow agrees to see Hayter about a meeting in connection with Westminster elections. 2) Lord Onslow would be willing to join a Parliamentry committee but would be unable to devote much time to it. 3) Acknowledges receipt of letter and information. 4) Arrangements for a meeting. 5) Lord Onslow seeks information on government properties in the area of the L.C.C. and the rating thereof.
Gawsworth, John to Gardiner, Charles Wrey
Gawsworth, John
19 December 1961 - 29 January 1967, 2 n.d.
15 letters, 14 of which are extant in two versions, the corresponding letters being held in 'The Reluctant Landlord' 1-3 (a large collection of letters between Gawsworth and Gardiner, with other mater...
Sender: Maude, Aylmer
Recipient: Literary Agency of London
Letters: 8
Date(s): 24 Jan 1904 - 21 Sep 1911
Location: SC MS 553/54, 110, 114, 118, 125, 129, 146, 161
Note: 1) Acknowledges receipt of a letter and its enclosure; the Resurrection Fund and P.A. Sergyeenko. 2) Offering to review Tolstoy's "Meaning of the Russian Revolution" and Jane Addam's "Newer Ideals of Peace"; postscript on the "Political Encyclopaedia", Professor P. Vinogradoff and J.A. Hobson. MS & TS. 3) Enclosing his version of "The Meaning of the Russian Revolution". TS. 4) Acknowledges a cheque; correction of an address; his two-volume life of Tolstoy. TS & MS. 5) Enquiries about the letter from Tolstoy. Postcard; MS. 6) Seeks return of the specimen chapter of his "Life of Tolstoy". Postcard; MS. 7) Repayment of the cost of a cablegram. MS. 8) Agreement with Constable, made in 1908. TS.
Sender: Boone, William
Recipient: Gott, William
Letters: 25
Date(s): 14 Feb 1860 - 20 Dec 1860
Location: SC Gott Papers: MS 194/6/28-29, 31-34, 37, 39-54, 60-62
Note: 1) Enclosing a copy (3 pages) of part of the preface to a translation of the works of the Persian poet Firdausi. 1 p. 2) On books. 1 p. 3) Enclosing his report on the books in Ferguson's sale. 5 pp. 4) Describes the condition of lot 206 (Scottish prayer-book) in Ferguson's sale. 3 pp. 5) Informing him of the purchase of books for him from the sale. 3 pp. 6) Offering for sale a volume of the Surtees Society (Dugdale's "Visitation of the County of Yorke"), and Whewell's "On the Philosophy of Discovery". 2 pp. 7) List of lots purchased on Gott's behalf at Sotheby's sale. 2 pp. 8) About books offered for sale. 2 pp. 9) On Bibles in a sale. 2 pp. 10) More on the Bibles. 2 pp. 11) On the Bibles in the sale. 1 p. 12) Reporting on the Bibles in the sale. 3pp. 13) Reporting on lot 1801 in the sale. 14) Reporting on books in various sales. 3 pp. 15) Reporting on books in a sale. 4 pp. 16) Report of a sale. 2 pp. 17) Describes some books he has for sale.
3 pp. 18) Informing him that he has not bought the folio "Spectator". 1 p. 19) On the purchase of the Bible. 1 p. 20) About books bought for Gott. 3 pp. 21) On a
manuscript Franciscan service-book, and others. 4 pp. 22) On
books. 2 pp. 23) On Bibles. 3 pp. 24) Describing books in a sale. 3 pp. 25) List of lots purchased at a sale. 3 pp. 26) Noting prices of books in a sale. 1 p. Sender is of of T. and W. Boone, booksellers.
Sender: Roscoe, Henry Enfield
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 10
Date(s): 20 Apr 1884
Location: SC MS 416/19, 20, 54, 57, 65, 67, 81, 129, 181, 194
Note: 1) Asks AS to look after students until his return. MS. 2 ff. 2) Illness of AS; arrangements at Manchester during his absence. MS. 2 ff. 3) Has recommended AS as a lecturer to the Royal Institution; statue of J.P. Joule; is entertaining J. A. Le Bel. MS. 4) Recommends Julius Cohen for a position at Leeds. MS. 2 ff. 5) Congratulates AS on his papers on flames; Bunsen's technique; abortive Gresham University. MS. 2 ff. 6) Congratulates AS on his contribution at Edinburgh meeting of British Association; AS ought to have remuneration for his work on Schorlemmer's book. MS. 2 ff. 7) Revision of Schorlemmer's book for 2nd edition; opposition to Schorlemmer being given a chair; Lord Salisbury and proposed University of Leeds; British Association. MS. 2 ff. 8) Acknowledges receipt of paper by AS, H.M. Dawson and H.A. Wilson ("Electrical conductivity and luminosity of flames containing vaporised salts") for Royal Society. 9) Health of H.D. Dakin; Roscoe's
reminiscences. MS. 2 ff. 10) Congratulates AS on being chosen as president of Section B of British Association; personal news; work on vol. II of Roscoe and Harden "Inorganic Chemistry". MS. 2 ff.
Sender: Woledge, Geoffrey
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 17
Date(s): 10 Dec 1931 - 14 Dec 1932
Location: SC 622/24, 29, 34, 35, 36, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 54,
57, 58
Note: 1) His work in the library; Remarks about "The Gryphon" and other Leeds matters; Birmingham Archaeological Society. 2 ff. 2) A census of library stock; catalogue headings. TS with MS postcript on verso. 3) Catalogue headings; comments on articles by FB; Leeds Anglo-French Collection. TS with MS postscript on verso. 4) Comments on "The Gryphon". 5) "The Gryphon" and Old Students Association; a post at Southampton. 2 ff. 6) Reference to Arundell Esdaile. Postcard. 7) Dr. Samuel William Carruthers and Civil War pamphlets. TS with MS post-script. 8) The Brotherton Collection; Old Students' Association; former colleagues at Leeds; booksellers' catalogues. 2 ff. TS. 9) Bibliographical matters; Leeds and Birmingham compared 3 ff. 10) Query about cataloguing episcopal registers. Postcard. 11) Same subject. Postcard. 12) Bibliographical references; "The Times" and Lord Brotherton. Postcard. 13) Cataloguing; staff; gossip about personalities. 3 ff. Partly in pencil. 14) Dorothy Una
Ratcliffe; notes on books. 15) Latest issue of "The Gryphon"; suggestions for future issues. 16) FB's application for a post at Glasgow; mutual acquaintances; domestic news. 17) FB's application to Glasgow; domestic news.