Church of Scotland

Church of Scotland papers, 1937-1957

Series

Identifier: BAI 1/11

Scope and Contents

notes, texts of speeches, papers & reports

Dates: 1937-1957

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie

Confession of Faith and Covenant of the Church of Scotland

Fonds — Box Coll-1075

Identifier: Coll-1075

Scope and Contents

"The Confession of Faith and Covenant of the Kirk of Scotland as it was upon the supplication of the General Assembly to His Majesties Honourable Privie Counsell subscribed againe in the yeare 1639."

Written by John Laurie, Writer in Edinburgh. Accompanied by another copy, 1638.

Dates: 1638-1639

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence on the 1929 Church Union exhibition, 1929-1930

Item

Identifier: AA2/1/104a

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains the institutional records of New College Library, Edinburgh University Theological Library, Church of Scotland General Assembly Library, Church of Scotland Lending Library and Longforgan Free Church Ministers' Library.

Dates: 1929-1930

Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / New College Library

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to

Series

Identifier: Coll-97/CW114

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, noted as being 'Bought at St Columb, Cornwall, 30 Nov[ember] 1864 pr[ice] 2/3'. The back inside cover contains a note probably collected as part of excise duties which reads 'Rod[erick] MacPhie Mast of boat 21.8 [-] 1.2½ [-]'. The notebook contains one insertion. The majority of the notebook contains lore relating to Miùlaigh/Mingulay mostly collected from Roderick MacNeil, crofter, aged 88, known as Ruairidh an Rùma. Roderick MacNeil also...

Dates: 1864 to

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

General: 1944, 1944

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/17

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, itineraries, press cuttings and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Mona Anderson, Henry Sloane Coffin, William Temple (the Archbishop of Canterbury), Violet Markham, John H Duncan, George Freeland Barbour and Cyril Forster Garbett (the Archbishop of York). Subjects include John Baillie's BBC broadcasts and Church of Scotland and YMCA matters.

Dates: 1944

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: early 1943, 1943

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/15

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, press cuttings and related items, including letters from Reinhold Niebuhr, David Smith Cairns William Temple (the Archbishop of Canterbury), the Duke of Montrose and various publishers. Much of the correspondence relates to Church of Scotland business, including John Baillie's appointment as Moderator Designate of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and as Corresponding Member of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

Dates: 1943

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: early 1956, 1956

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/39

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from John Keith Benton, Hachiro Yuasa, Reinhold Niebuhr. Includes material relating to John Baillie's retiral, a visit to Hungary, student lists and documents relating to the establishment of closer links between the Church of Scotland, Church of England, Episcopal Church of Scotland and Presbyterian Church of England.

Dates: 1956

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: late 1943, 1943

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/16

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, itineraries, press cuttings and related items, including letters from his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie, Mona Anderson, the Duke of Montrose, William Temple (the Archbishop of Canterbury), George Simpson Duncan, Lewis Legertwood Legg Cameron and Sir Neil John Kennedy Cochran-Patrick. Much of the correspondence relates to Church of Scotland business, particularly visits to churches and congregations as Moderator as well as to John Baillie's BBC radio broadcasts.

Dates: 1943

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

General: later 1955, 1955

Sub-Series

Identifier: BAI 1/17/38

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and related items, including letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, Matthew Black and Ian W Fraser. Includes material relating to the World Council of Churches, a visit to Argentina and documents relating to the establishment of closer links between the Church of Scotland, Church of England, Episcopal Church of Scotland and Presbyterian Church of England.

Dates: 1955

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Journal account of a trip to the Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis including archaeological notes, January 1866

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/4

Scope and Contents Journal account of a trip to the Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis including a description of the standing stones at Callanish [Calanais], telling how local people call them 'Na Tursachain' and 'na Fir bhreige' adding 'They make out that they cannot be counted'. He also describes another stone circle nearby at Gearradh na h-abhine [Gearraidh na h-Aibhne/Garynahine] as 'a circle within a circle' and names some of the island's other stone circles: Taigh nan Druiean at Grimartaidh and Gleann...

Dates: January 1866

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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