Annual report and course of study in the High School of Edinburgh, during the session ending August ...
Royal High School (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Schmitz, Leonhard, ǂd 1807-1890,associated name.StEdNL: 6.1507(1)
[Edinburgh : The School,
"With a list of prizes awarded at the annual examination, and exercises"; subtitle varies slightly.
Description based on: 1846.
Tipped in after page 30 is a letter of 1863 from the school's rector, Leonhard Schmitz, to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. This letter accompanies a printed letter also dated 1863 signed by Schmitz to the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh as patrons of the school. The manuscript letter reads: " My dear Lord Provost, I beg to solicit your favorable considerations of the enclosed letter, of which a copy has been sent to all the magistrates and councillors. What we ask in that letter is, I think very moderate, and can be granted without any difficulty whatever. I have considered the matter with my Colleagues most carefully, and we are perfectly convinced that what we ask is for the good of the High School and the public as well as for ourselves. I am, My dear Lord Provost, Yours most sincerely L. Schmitz".
Royal High School (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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