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[John G.McKendrick] to [James] Dewar
"How can ultra-violet rays, at the low temp., just do what is necessary to destroy the molecular phenomena of life?" Cannot think of a physical explanation.
- Held by
- Royal Institution of Great Britain
- Date
- 10 July 1909
- Reference
- DEWAR/DIIC/4
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[James Timmins] Chance to Michael Faraday
1 3/4pp, MS Has just overcome practical difficulties in carrying out the plan of adjusting the different members of a fixed light refractor in the Smalls Light.
- Held by
- Royal Institution of Great Britain
- Date
- 2 January 1861
- Reference
- F1n/4/34
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E.R. Laithwaite to Lawrence Bragg
Imagines Bragg's book is just the sort of thing to add weight to his proposals for the physics syllabus. Would be pleased to talk to Bragg about this.
- Held by
- Royal Institution of Great Britain
- Date
- 15 April 1969
- Reference
- W.L. BRAGG/35B/4
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[Lawrence] Bragg to C.F. Powell
2/3 page, typescript Has just seen the letter from the Royal Society about the committee of enquiry into the organisation of civil science [Trend Committee].
- Held by
- Royal Institution of Great Britain
- Date
- 2 Oct. 1962
- Reference
- W.L. BRAGG/34C/4
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Kathleen Lonsdale to Lawrence Bragg
Royal Institution, London 12/3 pages, M Miss [W.E.] Deighton asked her to send the list of corrections for the re-issue of the International Tables. Most were sent by Carl Hermann.
- Held by
- Royal Institution of Great Britain
- Date
- 30 July 1943
- Reference
- W.L. BRAGG/47B/4
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Photographs taken after a recital in Ghent, Belgium
Elizabeth is depicted on stage, having just finished her recital; and posing with members of the audiences after the recital.
- Held by
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Date
- 1970s
- Reference
- EH/7/4/15
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Autograph letter from Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky to Lev Abramovich Kupernik, with...
Tchaikovsky has just discovered in a letter from his publisher Jurgenson that Brodsky has played his concerto in Vienna. The concerto has been written for 4 years and considered by various expert Russian violinists to be unplayable.
- Held by
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Date
- [1881]
- Reference
- AB/662
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Autograph letter signed from Adolph Brodsky to Edvard Grieg
The Brodskys accompanied by two pupils, Anton Maaskoff and Alfred Barker, and Anna's niece, Nina, have just visited Edvard and Nina Grieg at Troldhaugen.
- Held by
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Date
- [20th cent]
- Reference
- AB/907
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Interior of the Lees hall (?)
Stamped on back Kennedy Studios, Kemsley House, Manchester 4.
- Held by
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Date
- c.1930
- Reference
- RMCM/E/11/2
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The donor (right) and with her, her schoolfriend Winnie Wilson, on holiday on the...
Negative Sheet Number 1/R27/27
- Held by
- Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)
- Date
- c1920s
- Reference
- 1669/29
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Programmes
Programmes of "Just Like Judy", 12 & 13 Feb.; "The Man from Toronto", 21 & 22 Oct.; "The Colleen Bawn", 4 & 5 Nov.
- Held by
- Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
- Date
- 1924
- Reference
- NU\BL 4/5/4
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Josephine Butler to 'My dear Friend' [Mrs Tanner]
Just had a visit from her son Charles, his wife and little Rosalind, now three years and 4 months. Their cottage in Devonshire is seven miles from anything like a town so they are making use of the shops at Cheltenham for winter clothes.
- Held by
- London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
- Date
- 8 Dec [1901]
- Reference
- 3JBL/45/34
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Letter from W.R. O'Keeffe to Dear Fr Glancey
Michael Francis] Glancey; sends collection for the Poor Mission Fund; comments on how the Nonconformists prevented him from serving on the Education Committee by just one vote; discusses purchasing a site close to Wyrley station for a Chapel of Ease …
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- Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives
- Date
- 13 Dec 1904
- Reference
- Z0001/2/8/3/265/15
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Letter from Ernest V. Wilks to Dear Canon Glancey
Canon [Michael Francis] Glancey; seeks help from the Poor Mission Fund as he cannot pay his bills; the annual expense of the School is about £40 for which he has received just over a pound; the chief loss to the Mission is the annual grant of £25 fro…
- Held by
- Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives
- Date
- 10 Jan 1912
- Reference
- Z0001/2/8/3/382/5
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Three letters from Harold Wilson
Re Henderson's work ("I tried, without success, to get the Fabian Society to invite your agreement to publish your longer memorandum as a Fabian tract, but I am afraid that that body (of which I have just become Vice-Chairman) is too much dominated
- Held by
- Norfolk Record Office
- Date
- 1952-1954
- Reference
- MC 4/HEN 15/19, 383 x 7
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Letter from H(an.) S(hrive) to her nephew, the Revd. James Snowdon, at Merton College,...
Description available at other catalogue level
- Held by
- Northumberland Archives
- Date
- 3 Oct 1745
- Reference
- ZBK/C/1/A/1/4
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Tippett to Rainier
I'm just on a song to a guitar...".
- Held by
- Royal Academy of Music Library
- Date
- 19 May, 1960
- Reference
- IPR/3/84/2/4
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Grant
For an annual payment of 32d, payable as specified, and for the defence ('defensio') of 8 acres as John fol enfant defends just as many of his acres in the same vill ('villa').
- Held by
- Canterbury Cathedral Archives
- Date
- nd [mid 13th century]
- Reference
- CCA-DCc-ChAnt/S/163
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Composite register
[1 comb = 4 bushels, or 252 lbs.] At end of volume: Shudy Camps charity lands renewal of trust 14 February 1783.
- Held by
- Cambridgeshire Archives
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- 1768-1812
- Reference
- P35/1/3
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Ashton Moss, Bill Hulmes
Bill then drove down the track, got out of his car by the sheds, and began unlocking them, 3 large dogs came charging out, it was the first time I'd seen them, but they seemed friendly enough.
- Held by
- Greater Manchester County Record Office (with Manchester Archives)
- Date
- 27 August 1989
- Reference
- c7/1/29