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Correspondence and papers of Prof Christopher T Harvie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11239
Dates:
circa 1968-1992.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
Microfilm of correspondence, 1726-1800, lecture notes, 1787, and an early manuscript draft, [?1767], of ‘Case for the respondents', which concerns the Douglas Cause.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.763
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Correspondence, 1726-1800, of and collected by the Very Reverend John Lee (MS.3431, folios 225-226);
Early manuscript draft, [?1767], of the ‘Case for the respondents', in which the full Hamilton case in the Douglas Cause was set out in detail, written by Professor Hugh Blair (MS.5356, folios 59-122);
Notes, 1787, of a series of lectures on rhetoric (MS.9974).
Dates:
1726-1800.
Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.7201-7515
Scope and Contents
George Combe was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, where he studied law; he became a Writer to the Signet in 1812. At this time he began to study the phrenological works of Franz Josef Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, and soon became a fervent advocate of that science. In 1837 he gave up his legal practice to devote himself to spreading the causes of phrenology, secular education, and criminal and prison reform, travelling widely in Europe and America. His views...
Dates:
1804-1872, undated.
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.