Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 12/1/6
Title
Correspondence relating to Edinburgh University, 1935-1939
Date(s)
- 1935 Oct 5 - 1939 Oct 8 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Correspondence relating to Edinburgh University, including with FM Edmund (Henry Hynman) Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, regarding Allenby's election to the rectorship of Edinburgh University; edition of Allenby's Own, published by the Allenby Rectorial Committee, supporting Allenby's candidacy for the rectorship, Oct 1935; obituary for Allenby by Hamilton from The Daily Sketch, 18 May 1936 and typescript obituary of Allenby for The Student, May 1936; draft of Hamilton's poem dedicated to students who waved him goodbye on his departure for the last time as Lord Rector. 1 file