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Album of watercolour drawings, plants, etc., with corresponding bible verses in a juvenile hand
Add. MS a/722 · Item · c. 1867
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Includes a loose letter, a loose drawing, and 2 loose plant leaves. There is also a painting missing from page 8.

Page one is illuminated by Samuel Stanesby and entitled 'Album'. Page two contains a dedication 'For dear Elsie with very much love from her Godmama, Eliza Brightwen', dated 10 August 1867. Pages 3 to 21 contain small watercolour paintings pasted onto each page with accompanying verses from the bible written in a juvenile hand around the paintings. Pages 22 and 23 are illustrations painted directly into the book without any bible verses. Pages 24 to 30 contain different samples; a peacock feather; a still life painting pasted on to the page; an impression of a 'Palestine Clay Seal'; a specimen of 'Palestine Wheat'; samples of gold and silver; a specimen of an 'Olive' branch; and a crest displaying an anchor. Between page 32 and 33 there is a specimen of a leaf entitled 'Vine', and between page 33 and 34 there is a specimen of a leaf entitled 'Fig'. Pages 35 to 60 are left blank.

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Letter from Eliza Brightwen to Elizabeth [Elsie] Barker
Add. MS a/722/No. 1 · Parte · 14 July 1904
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Eliza has been too ill to write a reply to Elsie's letter. Update on the state of her health and description of the doctor's orders to stay in bed and take 'milk and invalid slops'. She felt well enough to give an address for 80 mothers. Percy, Charlotte, and Edith Shelley are coming to visit for a dinner event. She enclosed the book making a few additions at the end for Alice's benefit [Elsie's daughter]. Sends her love to Elsie, Alice and Rowland [Elsie's husband]. Signs name as 'Aunt Lizzie'.
Copy letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Copy letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/91 · Item · 9 Sept. 1856
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Glenlair. Has been at Aberdeen, is now on holiday with friends, invites Litchfield, mentions friends Robert Henry Pomeroy and Wilfred Lucas Heeley, discusses different ways of summing up the personalities of friends.

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/90 · Item · 5 March 1858
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129 Union Street, Aberdeen. Is pleased with the position at Aberdeen; reflects on his marriage [to Katherine Mary Dewar]; answers Litchfield’s questions with what he describes as a "metaphysical screed;" he gives his opinion on Catholics; a section apparently about marriage has been cut out; sends a paper set for his class and reflects on the quality of answers to the questions.

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/89 · Item · 7 Feb. 1858
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129 Union Street, Aberdeen. Describes his work in Aberdeen, has found better textbooks by Galbraith & Haughton; has got up a model to show the motions of the rings of satellites; shares what he has been reading; comments on the Senior Wranglers and Smith’s prize men, has a student that he hopes will stay out of a small college “where boating billiards beer &c are more immediate paths to distinction that the pursuit of wisdom either mathematical, classical or social.”

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/88 · Item · 15 Oct. 1857
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Glenlair. His aunt Mrs Wedderburn has learned of the murders of her cousin John Wedderburn and his wife and child in the Indian rebellion, and her son John and his wife in Moultan have had to disarm troops and dismiss others; is glad to have read the letter [Robert Henry Pomeroy’s last?]; reflects on Good and Evil; has almost finished with his work on Saturn’s Rings; illness continues in the house of the little girl who died.

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/87 · Item · 23 Sept. 1856
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Glenlair – Reacts to news of Robert Henry Pomeroy’s death in the Indian rebellion and reflects at length on memory and grief; a little girl in one of his men’s houses has died; is at home for a month with his aunt Mrs [Isabella] Wedderburn.

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/86 · Item · 27 May 1857
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Gleinlair, Springholm, Dumfries. Describes a quiet life at Glenlair, and that he has not had a mathematical thought for a fortnight but is likely working subconsciously, shares news of friends and asks for more, notes how different his different his society is in Aberdeen.

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/85 · Item · 18 August 1856
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18 India Street, Edinburgh. Describes his travels, including coming to the rescue of a woman afraid of some Wolverhampton revellers on the journey there, visits to family, mentions he was photographed four times at Peniciuk because of the light levels; J. F. MacLennan has been getting on with his “Law.”

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/83 · Item · 4 July 1856
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Glenlair. Talks of plans and the amount of work to do at Glenlair, is fitting up a colour weaving machine fit for transportation, his top for doing dynamics; is studying the problem of Saturn’s Rings.

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/82 · Item · 4 June 1856
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Trinity. Discusses plans to visit London; is looking through papers for some things not to be burnt, notes some are soft and good for packing; will take the Northwestern route to the north, notes that “the transition state from a man into a Don must come at last and it must be painful.”

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/81 · Item · 28 Nov. 1855
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Trin. Coll. Gives a report of Robert Henry Pomeroy’s illness; is busy with questionists regularly now, is about to get out some optical things to show them; has heard nothing from Cheltenham, Moderator [William Henry] Besant is recovering the use of one side of his face.

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/80 · Item · 6 June 1855
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Trin. Coll. [Robert Henry] Pomeroy has formed a swimming club at Cambridge; has been busy with electrical reading this term and is working to come up with appropriate ideas, has been ‘sifting’ the theory of light and making everything stand upon experiments and definite assumptions, describes the difference between dogs eyes and human eyes.

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Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Add. MS c/1/78 · Item · 23 Aug. 1853
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Bank ground, Coniston, Ambleside. At Coniston reading and resting; discusses the well-regulated family of Charles Benjamin Tayler and their scheme of education; thinks studying the “dark sciences” will repay investigation.

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Letter from William Blackwood and Sons
Letter from William Blackwood and Sons
Add. MS a/201/36 · Item · 8 May 1846
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Edinburgh - After receiving WW's paper upon English Hexameters, WB and Sons mentioned his name to the translator of the two books of the Iliad, who in return gave 'his authority to convey you his name' - Mr Lockhart.
Letter from K. Simonides to J. E. Hodgkin
Letter from K. Simonides to J. E. Hodgkin
Add. MS a/40/93 · Item · 23 Jan. 1863
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On notepaper with monogram, not Simonides'. Date given in both Julian and Gregorian calendars. Hodgkin's address given (in English) as Hayman's Green, West Derby, Liverpool. Re. price of newspapers sent; note (in Hodgkin's hand?) at bottom records payment.