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Sender: M-A, A
Recipient: Riley, Mrs
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Egerton Leigh: Military, Naval and Legal Autographs, p.18
Sender: Riley, A.
Recipient: [unknown]
Letters: 1
Date(s): [c. 1886]
Location: BC Ratcliffe correspondence, in Brontë envelope.
Note: MS account of cradle allegedly used by Charlotte Brontë. With covering letter by Duke Fox to Mrs Edwin Mailin, 29 June 1886.
Sender: Riley, W.
Recipient: Wood, Butler
Letters: 4
Date(s): 18 Aug 1922 - 19 Jan 1932
Location: BC Wood correspondence
Note: With a receipt and a printed appeal for a Gaskell memorial. Wedding invitation?
Sender: Riley, William
Recipient: Taylor, Frank James
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Jun 1926
Location: SC MS 585/23
Note: His dialect writing. Typescript.
Sender: Riley, James Whitcomb
Recipient: Stoker, Bram
Letters: 5
Date(s): 3 Jul 1891 - 1 Aug 1891; 4 Nov [n.y.]; 1 n.d.
Location: BC MS 19c Stoker
Note: Letter of 3 July 1891 encloses an autograph copy of his Irish dialect poem "Chairley Burke". Sender is known as the "Hoosier" poet.
Sender: Scottish Provident Institution, Leeds
Recipient: Riley, A.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Feb 1906
Location: SC Leeds Phil. & Lit. Soc.: MS Dep 1975/1: Box 15 no. 275 (i)
Note: Concerning a life assurance policy for Walter Parsons.
Sender: Riley, John & Longville, Tim
Recipient: Hamburger, Michael
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 May 1963
Location: BC Hamburger
Sender: Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer
Recipient: Riley, R
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Aug 1822
Location: BC MS 19c Crabbe 1. In "Extra illustrated life of Crabbe", vol.3, p.3
Sender: Law Union & Crown Insurance Co., Leeds
Recipient: Riley, A.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 21 Feb 1906
Location: SC Leeds Phil. & Lit. Soc.: MS Dep 1975/1: Box 15 no. 275 (ii)
Note: Concerning a life assurance policy for Walter Parsons.
Sender: Fox, Duke
Recipient: Martin, Edwin, Mrs
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 Jun 1886
Location: BC Ratcliffe correspondence
Note: With A Riley's MS account of "Brontë Cradle". In Brontë envelope.
Sender: Brauner, Bohuslav
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 14
Date(s): 13 Aug 1888 - 11 Jul 1930; 1 n.d.
Location: SC MS 416/29, 36, 233, 243, 292, 324, 333-337, 339, 350, 406
Note: 1) Not attending British Association at Bath; visit of Professor
Carrington Bolton to him at Prague; work of F.W. Ostwald, D.I.
Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer; physics and chemistry; his own work and holiday in Bohemia. MS. 4 ff. 2) Regrets that AS did not attend his lecture at Chemical Society in London; encourages AS in his work. MS. 2 ff. 3) Personal; German and English education; possibility of meeting at St Andrew's; research on flame; nature of elements. MS. 2 ff. 4) Seeks AS's criticism of a communication he sent to the Editor of "Nature"; requests advice on a suitable text for lectures on physical chemistry. MS. 2 ff. 5) Cost of postage and reflections on late war; work on isotopes and two letters to "Nature"; personal and family affairs. MS. 2 ff. 6) Appreciation of T.E. Thorpe; personal news. MS. Post-script dated 23 March 1925. 7) Personal news; encloses an article for "Nature", criticising H.B. Baker and H.T. Riley on the atomic weight of Ag [cf. "Trans. Chem. Soc." (1926), p.2510], and asks AS to commend it to the Editor. MS. 8) Agrees to AS correcting the English of his paper
(cf. 333) and returning it for approval. MS. 2 ff. 9) Thanks AS for his corrections; has sent the paper to "Nature" with a suitable flattering letter. MS. 10) AS has been
understamping letters; begs AS to commend his paper to "Nature". MS. 11) Problem of atomic weights; recent advances in physics (A. Einstein and M. Planck); the Church and evolution; astronomy; his foreign friends. MS. 4 ff. 12) Encloses a note for "Nature"; requests AS to examine it and forward it. MS. 13) Reviews his work on atomic weights and valency; opinions of F.A. Kekule, A.W.H. Kolbe and E. Frankland; exchange of views with Sir Oliver Lodge in "Nature"; encloses two papers, one on D.I. Mendeleev. MS. 2 ff. 14) His journey to Russia to meet D.I. Mendeleev. MS. 2 ff. Latter part of letter; dated after 20 Sep 1883.