Guide to the Collections held by the Glasgow University Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1808-1961

Summary

Collection number:

M2798

Creator:

Glasgow University Library

Extent:

117 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: Thomas Raffles Autograph Collection, Feb 1816-Jun 1880, University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections. Eng.MS.342 (AJCP ref: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-771813686/findingaid#nla-obj-807053061).

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Correspondence 1861-1902 of physicist Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. Subjects include India-Australia cable connection.

Papers 1928-61 of James Laver of Albert Museum. Includes Laver's letters to Horace Brodzky and letters of Daryl Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, A.W. Wheen and David Low.

Correspondence 1894-1946 of art critic Dugald MacColl, including correspondence with Charles and Stella Conder; draft of MacColl's article 'Two Summers with Conder'; history of the MacColl Family including Senator James MacColl; and letters of John Rothenstein and William Rothenstein concerning Conder.

Correspondence 1885-1903 of James McNeill Whistler, including correspondence with Mortimer Menpes about his book on Whistler, letters of Anna Whistler concerning Harry Haden of Queensland, and copies of Whistler's letters concerning Peter Arthur Studd's visit to the South Seas.

Papers 1927-45 of art historian Harold Wright, including an article on Lionel Lindsay's etchings and exhibitions of watercolours in Sydney.

Account of Archibald Campbell's voyages to Japan, Aleutian Islands and Sandwich Islands 1806-12, edited by James Smith.

Correspondence 1911-13 of Alexander MacCallum Scott referring to racial discrimination in the civil services of Singapore, Federated Malay States and Hong Kong.

William Hunter's Museum Ethnographical Collection 1886-1941. Correspondence dealing with dispatch of birds of paradise and Maori mat from Waimate; Aboriginal weapons from North West Australia and Queensland; Aboriginal skulls; Tasmanian Aboriginal artefacts; and the Cook Collection in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2327315] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

University of Glasgow. Glasgow, Scotland.

For further information see Glasgow University. Archives and Special Collections (https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/archivespecialcollections/)

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the

. For more information contact the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections. [https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/archives/collections/].

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: Thomas Raffles Autograph Collection, Feb 1816-Jun 1880, University of Glasgow. Archives and Special Collections. Eng.MS.342 (AJCP ref: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-771813686/findingaid#nla-obj-807053061).

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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