'Correspondence Book of the Academy of Physics, Edinburgh': two volumes, numbered 14 and 15, containing copies of letters from February 1798 to December 1799, in the autograph of Henry Brougham, Francis Horner, and William Erskine, the Orientalist, as Secretaries.
Series
Identifier: MSS.755-756
Dates
- Creation: 1798-1799.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
2 Volumes ; Folio.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Other Finding Aids
Each volume contains a list of the contents at the end.
Custodial History
The correspondence was bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid if the Reid Fund.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, 8 August 1932.
Bibliography
For an account of this society and extracts from the Minutes, 1797-1798, see David Welsh, ‘Account of the life and writings of Thomas Brown’ (Edinburgh, 1825), pages 77-79, 498-506.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk