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Baxter Family: Correspondence
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Baxter Family: Correspondence

  • RU 212
  • Collection
  • 1964-1970
Concerning the Coat of Arms for the University, the Baxter family, and their role in the foundation of University College, Dundee. Main correspondents are Normile Baxter and A.A. Matheson, Deputy Secretary, University of Dundee. Items listed are not numbered in file.

University of Dundee

Correspondence between Normile Baxter and Matheson

Concerning Mr. Baxter's plans to gather together various family records, with particular reference to their role in the foundation of University College; and to produce a display on the subject. Correspondence broadens out into a more general discussion of the Baxter family, their properties ('Ellengowan') and endowments. From 1969, there are numerous communications from a John Baxter of Yorkshire, extermely tenacious in his search for information about his ancestors. There is also an enquiry, in 1970, from John Butchart of the Montrose Review.