Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1833 - 1885
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13744/1-6
Scope and Contents
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Dates:
1885-1914, undated.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Jelf to Jenkins, J., 1845-1925.
File
Identifier: MS.40613
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Jelf, Ernest Arthur.Letters, postcard and letter card, 1895-1903 and 1910, of Sir Ernest Arthur Jelf to John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 1-74.Folios 6-11. Notes, 1895, of Sir Ernest Arthur Jelf to Katherine Evelyn Murray addressing points raised regarding his work ‘Eileen’s Journey’.Folios 15-16. Drafts, 1896, for announcements to...
Dates:
1845-1925.
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