SAS 319 letters.

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551 249/2/1

Description SAS 319 letters.

Date 1849 to 1872

Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number 551 249/2/1

Category All Other

Administrative History 119 letters to Petrie from various authors on both archaeological subjects and on Petrie's efforts to become Sheriff-Clerk of Orkney.

Accession Number 1975/12

External Reference SAS 319

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1246156

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Category	Catalogue Number	Title	Date	Level
All Other	MS 28/319/21	Letters from William F Skene.	16/10/1868	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/2	Letters from Ralph Carr.	22/5/1866	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/12	Letters from John M Mitchell.	10/1/1855	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/3	Letters from Joseph Barnard Davis.	20/9/1855	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/4	Letters from Dr Edward Charlton.	28/7/1862	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/6	Letters from John Stuart.	4/7/1851	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/7	Petrie's bid to become Sheriff Clerk of Orkney.	1868	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/13	Letters from J A Smith.	24/8/1854	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/10	Letters from Daniel Wilson. 2. 27 Nov 1849. Thanks Petrie for his replies to the above queries. Hopes to visit Orkney. Sees little hope of the Society extending its excavations to Orkney. 3. 27 December 1849. Has received Petrie's communication on Orkney Antiquities and is interested to hear of Petrie's contributions to the John o'Groat Journal. Asks whether Petrie's 'extracts relating to the Meetings of District Courts at the Standing Stones' were published in the now defunct Scottish Journal. Mentions Lieut. Thomas's careful drawings and the Marquess of Breadalbane's donations to the Society's museum. Requests permission to engrave Petrie's drawings of Wideford Hill for his own book. 4. 21 Feb 1850. Petrie's paper on Wideford Hill is to be read to the Society in March. Encloses cutting about recent discovery at Dunfermline Abbey. 5. 28 Aug 1850. Encloses proof of engraving of Wideford Hill for Petrie's approval, and an abstract of a paper by Wilson read to the British Association. Asks for information about human skulls from Orkney mounds. In pencil in Petrie's hand is a note about the eagle carving from Oxstrow broch. 6. 19 April 1851. Requests information about provenance of skull and stone implements excavated by Petrie near the Stones of Stenness. 7. Tuesday (no date), from Elm Cottage, Whitehouse Loan. Suggesting a meeting while Petrie is in Edinburgh, and giving him Captain F W L Thomas's address. Part of unwritten sheet has been cut out and a pencil list of household goods and costs has been added in pencil. 8. 13 April 1853. Requests Petrie to assist the bearer Dr John Beddoe (Fellow of Ethnol Soc London, Resident Physician Edinburgh Royal Infirmary). 9. Frag	6/10/1849	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/14	Letters from Robert Matheson.	16/2/1849	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/15	Letters from James Farrer.	24/11/1868	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/16	Letters from David Balfour.	31/10/1868	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/5	Letters from Neville Thomson.	28/7/1861	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/17	Letters from John Lubbock.	17/10/1868	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/18	Letters from Arthur Mitchell.	27/1/1866	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/19	Letters from E A Percival.	28/11/1868	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/9	Letters from F W L Thomas.	1849	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/20	Letters from John Thurnam.	11/4/1863	Batch Level
All Other	551 28/319/22	Miscellaneous letters.	1854	Batch Level
All Other	MS 28/319/1	Letters from R F Burton.	21/9/1872	Batch Level

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