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Porter family letters. (Manuscript)
1886-1973
PTR/22
Letters
Diaries of Lady Porter, accounts of HMS DORIS, scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. (Manuscript)
1900-1932
PTR/23
Diaries of Lady Porter, accounts of HMS DORIS, scrapbook of newspaper cuttings.
Letters, certificates, photographs, ephemera and publications relating to Sir James Porter whilst Staff Surgeon. (Manuscript)
1886-1925
PTR/4
Letters, certificates, photographs, ephemera and publications relating to James Porter whilst Staff Surgeon.
Personal notebooks and diaries. (Manuscript)
1847-1929
PTR/19
Notes, ephemera, photographs, transcripts
Diary, letters, newspaper cuttings and ephemera relating to an Honourary Doctorate received by Sir James Porter. (Manuscript)
1918-1925
PTR/10/1
Diary for 1925, letters, newspaper cuttings and ephemera relating to an Honourary Doctorate received by Sir James Porter in 1919 from Aberdeen University, and other subjects.
Letters, newspapers and ephemera related to various societies and ceremonies. (Manuscript)
1920-1925
PTR/10/2
Letters, newspapers and ephemera related to various societies and ceremonies involving Sir James and Lady Porter.
Typed document on Sir James Porter's career between 1897 and 1901, with photographs and ephemera. (Manuscript)
1897-1901
PTR/13/8
Photographs of Bermuda; a portrait photograph of an elderly naval officer (Cowan?); a tourist pamphlet "Where to stay in Bermuda"; a pamphlet for the Xara Palace Hotel, Malta.
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Letters relating to Ogilvie family and other miscellaneous family letters, photographs and press cuttings. (Manuscript)
1872-1934
PTR/12/14
Note: "Porter Papers 1: Early years". Letter from Sir James Porter to Mr Martin, headed Cadets Sick Quarters, Dartmouth, 1897; letters from various correspondents including Frank G.…
Biographical notes, letters and documents regarding Sir James Porter and his immediate family. (Manuscript)
1898-1935
PTR/12/15
Subfolder marked "Early Years", containing: press cuttings, biographical notes, letters (1898-1935), a postcard from Monymusk, a portrait photograph of a couple ("Mackie" ?), and a cash account relating to property on High Street, Inverurie "belonging to Fleet Surgeon James …
Notes about Sir James Porter's early career. (Manuscript)
circa 1880
PTR/13/1
Folder labelled "Ch 2, Young Surgeon" containing notes about Sir James Porter's early career, with a picture of HM Royal Hospital: Hasler, also notes about his shipmates, the Egyptian War of 1882, and the movements of troop ship ORONTES, 1880-1881.
Letters from members of the Cowan family, and friends of the family, to Mr and Mrs Porter. (Manuscript)
1892
PTR/12/3
Letters labeled "Cowan/Porter Letters, 1892, M.W.C. at Leigh Lodge, J.P. at Bermuda".…
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter. (Manuscript)
1886
PTR/12/1
Letters to Miss Cowan (known as Lutie, later Lady Porter) from James Porter, whilst she was living in Bermuda, and James was at Devonport Dockyard, then aboard HMS IMPREGNABLE, then in Aberdeen with his ailing father, July to September 1886.…
Letters to Sir James Porter from various correspondents. (Manuscript)
1901-1902
PTR/12/10
Letters to Sir James Porter from various correspondents (1901-1902) including Vice Admiral Reginald Charles Prothero, and a long letter from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter (March 1901), and a passenger list pamphlet for the Union Castle Line Royal Mail Service between England and South Africa, 1901…
Medical notes and material relating to the Cowan family. (Manuscript)
1907-1930
PTR/12/11
Pages torn from a journal or notebook, the first titled "General Remarks, SEOUL, 90". The SEOUL was recommissioned at Malta on 29 October 1889 and Sir James Porter assumed medical charge of the vessel.…
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter and their children, from HMS DORIS. (Manuscript)
1901
PTR/12/9
Letters from Sir James Porter to Lady Porter and their daughter Dora, from HMS DORIS, January to February 1901. Also contains a couple of letters to Sir James, and one to Dora, from Admiralty correspondents.
Letters from Lady Porter. to Sir James Porter from Leigh Lodge to South Africa. (Manuscript)
1900
PTR/12/6
Letters labelled "E.L.K.P. to J.P. from Leigh Lodge to South Africa, Feb to June 1900, Letters 114 to135", and a note inside specifies "Lord Roberts Field Force".…
Letters to Sir james Porter at Lord Roberts Field Force, South Africa, from Lady Porter. (Manuscript)
1900
PTR/12/7
Letters, July-October 1900, to Sir james Porter at Lord Roberts Field Force, South Africa, from Lady Porter, numbered 136-147. In September 1900, Lady Porter is expecting Sir James to come home in three months. Included are a couple of letters from friends of the family.
Cowan/Porter letters 1893, M.W.C. at Leigh Lodge, J.P. in Bermuda. (Manuscript)
1893
PTR/12/4
Letters labelled "Cowan/Porter letters 1893, M.W.C. at Leigh Lodge, J.P. in Bermuda". Letters are between various members of the Porter and Cowan families and friends, mostly received by Lady Porter. Includes a page of drawings of furniture and an ornate fireplace.
Print of Admiral Sir John Durnford. (Manuscript)
PTR/18/12
Print of Admiral Sir John Durnford.
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. (Manuscript)
PTR/23/18
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings.
Compilation of accounts regarding HMS SCOUT. (Manuscript)
PTR/23/17
Compilation of accounts regarding HMS SCOUT.
Part of a diary, 1905. (Manuscript)
1905
PTR/23/5
Part of a diary, 1905.
Diary, 1913, with various inserts. (Manuscript)
1913
PTR/23/13
Diary, 1913, with various inserts.
Diary, 1911, with various inserts. (Manuscript)
1911
PTR/23/11
Diary, 1911, with various inserts.
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