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GB 249 OA/2/1 · File · 1750, 1853
Part of John Anderson papers

MS letter, with transcript; covering MS letter with transcript and MS sheet.

Conveys the thanks of the Considerable Club for sending Lang's essay on miracles. Lists members of the Club and mentions that Anderson's sister is being married the next day.

Covering letter from Thomas Lang [grandson of the Reverend Gilbert Lang] at Kilmarnock to James A. Anderson of Carlung [1785-1863, nephew of John Anderson], 24 May 1853, enclosing this and Anderson's 1755 letter to Gilbert Lang, and a sample page from Lang's sermon book, to explain the reference to the size of his handwriting.

GB 249 OA/2/7 · Item · late 18th century
Part of John Anderson papers

MS letter in Hebrew, with translation. Pinto greets his "master and teacher, learned in the Torah. Rabbi Anderson" and promises to do service both by day and night". Translation by Professor Noah Morris, 1938.

Treatise on natural history
GB 249 OA/3/2 · Item · [1774 - 1798]
Part of John Anderson papers

Another copy of the text of Anderson's Discourses of natural and artificial systems in natural history delivered to the Literary Society in Glasgow College, 1774, without the initial details about the Society but prefaced by several comments dated 1797 and 1798 on the importance of the work and its possible publication as a memorial to Professor Anderson, who died in 1796.

John Anderson papers
GB 249 OA · Collection · 1721 - 1798

Personal items; letters; writings on scientific, military, antiquarian and other topics; material relating to Anderson's involvement with the University of Glasgow.

Anderson, John, 1726-1796, natural philosopher
GB 249 OA/3/6 · Item · 1761 - 1795
Part of John Anderson papers

Rainfall records for Glasgow, 1761-1795, taken by John Anderson from rain gauges in the College garden and on the top of Professor Anderson's house.

Military sketches
GB 249 OA/4/5 · Item · 1780s
Part of John Anderson papers

Contents: I. Of war as a scientific art; II. Of the improvement of artillery. The latter title is not actually present in the volume.

GB 249 OA/1/4 · File · 1759 - 1789
Part of John Anderson papers

Detailed accounts for shoemaker's work by Macintosh and Murdoch, 1769; list of books bound and repaired by Robert Gemmill, 1773, and bottles of port and Madeira; a promissory note for £1 from William Ross, 1767; receipt for £11-13/- paid to Jean Baine on behalf of Anderson's brother in Boston, 1759.