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67 letters mainly of Sir David Brewster to James Veitch of Inchbonny.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13080
Dates:
1797-1832.
Correspondence including letters of Sir David Brewster, Francis Jeffrey and Hugh Walpole.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.7369
Dates:
1832-1945 and undated.
Letter of Sir David Brewster.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11965
Scope and Contents
Discusses the validity of René Prudent Dagion`s patent concerning the development of microscopic photography.
Dates:
1862.
Letter of Sir David Brewster probably to Russell Gurney.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10644
Scope and Contents
Concerns the "lighthouse controversy".
Dates:
1867
Letter of Sir David Brewster to Alexis Bouvard.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8227
Scope and Contents
Concerning scientific and literary matters.
Dates:
1828.
Letter of Sir David Brewster to Davies Gilbert discussing his "Life of Newton" and his own work on optics.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12404
Dates:
1831.
Letter of Sir David Brewster to Thomas Cadell, the Younger.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11678
Scope and Contents
Concerns projected works on the lives of James Watt and Galileo, and histories of the steam engine and the telecope.
Dates:
1831.
Letters to and concerning the Rev Dr David Aitken, Minister of Minto, with testimonials in his favour.
File
Identifier: Acc.13035
Scope and Contents
Writers of testmonials include Thomas Chalmers and Sir David Brewster.
Dates:
1827-1867.
Nine letters of Sir David Brewster, six to Thomas Cadell.
File
Identifier: Acc.8615
Scope and Contents
With drafts of Cadell`s replies.
Dates:
1827-1833, 1865.
Two letters of Sir David Brewster.
File
Identifier: Acc.10440
Scope and Contents
One concerns the salmon and Tweedside affairs, the other Brewster`s curriculum vitae.
Dates:
1832-1865.