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University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections 338

Lothian Health Services Archive 6

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Correspondence 318

Physics 192

Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence from 13

Radio Broadcasting 13

De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956 -- Correspondence 9

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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Autographs 9

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 -- Correspondence 9

Libraries 6

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Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 3

Advertising 2

Canada 2

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 -- Correspondence 2

Chile 2

DNA 2

English poetry -- 20th century 2

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Body temperature--Regulation 1

Booksellers and bookselling 1

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City of London (England) 1

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England -- Newcastle Upon Tyne 1

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Georgia (United States) 1

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Italy 1

Italy -- History -- 19th century 1

Jacobites 1

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LGBTQ+ action campaigns 1

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Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 -- Correspondence 1

Leith (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1

London (England) 1

Magnetic Storms 1

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Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 -- Correspondence 1

New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854 : New York, N.Y.) 1

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Robertson, William, 1721-1793 -- Correspondence 1

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Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 188

Pollock, Martin Rivers, 1914-1999 (professor of biology, University of Edinburgh) 80

Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 16

Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 10

Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 9

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Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 6

British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-:) (radio and television broadcasters) 4

Erskine, John Francis Erskine Goodeve, 1836-1930 (27th Earl of Mar, Senior representative Peer for Scotland) 3

Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 3

Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard, 1913-2012 (English radio astronomer, pioneer of radar and radio telescopes) 3

Marshall, George William, fl 1870s (acquaintance of John F. Goodeve Erskine, Earl of Mar) 3

Ballantyne, James, 1772-1883 (solicitor, editor and publisher of Sir Walter Scott and the Novelist's Library) 2

Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 2

Bowden, Nancy, fl 1940s 2

Bruce, Charles Edward Rhodes, 1902-1979, Astronomer and Physicist 2

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) 2

Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 2

Hayes, William, 1913-1994 (professor of molecular genetics, University of Edinburgh) 2

Jinks, John Leonard, 1929-1987 (geneticist, dean of the faculty of science and engineering, Birmingham University) 2

Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 2

Sisson, Rosemary Anne, 1923-2017 (English television dramatist and novelist) 2

Agassiz, Jean Louis, 1807-1873 (Swiss-American naturalist and professor of natural history) 1

Anderton, Howard Orsmond, 1861-1934 (Composer) 1

Atkins, John, 1916-2009 (British writer) 1

Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 1

Bantock, Helen Francesca Maude, ?1868-1961 (Lady Bantock | poet and artist) 1

Bantock, Sir Granville, 1868-1946 1

Barrie, James Mathew, Sir, 1860-1937 (novelist and playwright) 1

Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 (British Egyptologist and antiquarian) 1

Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1

Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971 (physicist) 1

British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831-:) 1

Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) 1

Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 1

Byrne, Fanny Horner, 1789-1876 (Married to Irish revolutionary Myles Byrne) 1

Campbell, Helen, c 1854-1941 (née Kennedy | Singer | Elder sister of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser) 1

Charlesworth, Edward, 1813-1893 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 1

Covingtrie, David, fl 1740s (student, University of Edinburgh) 1

Daiches, David, 1912-2005 (Scottish writer and literary scholar) 1

Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 1

Filippi, Pauline Vaneri, c 1833-1916 (Soprano singer) 1

Fleming, Alexander, 1881-1955 (Scottish physician and microbiologist, discovered use of Penicillin as an antibiotic) 1

Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 1807 - June 1882 (Italian General, Patriot, Revolutionary and Republican) 1

Geological Society of London (1807-:) 1

Gibson, John, 1796‐1877 (lawyer) 1

Gower, Granville George Leveson-, 1815-1891 (2nd Earl Granville | British Liberal statesman and diplomat) 1

Grant, H, fl 1935 (acquaintance of Thomas Carlyle) 1

Hawkins, John , fl 1832 1

Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley, 1898-1975 (chemist) 1

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 1

Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 1

Kemble, Frances Anne "Fanny", 1809-1893 (British actress) 1

Kennedy, James, c 1855-1881 (Baritone singer | Elder brother of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser) 1

Kennedy, Robert, c 1846-1912 (Singer | Elder brother of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser) 1

Lamigeon, Marie, fl 1940s (secretary of Walter de la Mare) 1

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (Scholar Folklorist Poet Historian) 1

Leaf, Walter, 1852-1927 (Businessman, banker and classical scholar) 1

Lederberg, Joshua, 1925-2008 (molecular biologist) 1

Lockhart, J G (John Gibson), 1794-1854 1

Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer, 1869-1944 (knight | English architect) 1

Lwoff, André Michel, 1902-1994 (microbiologist) 1

MacMurray, John, 1891-1976 (chair of moral philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1

Mackay, Isobel, d 1977 (married to David Daiches) 1

Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 (English obstetrician, geologist, paleontologist) 1

Martin, David Christie, Sir, 1914-1976 (Scientific Administrator) 1

Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872 (Italian politician, journalist) 1

McCulloch, J R (John Ramsay), 1789-1864 (political economist) 1

McIntosh, D H, fl 1953-1959 (Physicist and meteorologist ) 1

Medawar, Peter Brian, 1915-1987 (biologist) 1

Mellon, Paul, fl 1906-1907 (General Secretary of the Alliance Franco-Écossaise) 1

Mew, Charlotte, 1869-1928 (English poet) 1

Moore, John Carrick, 1805–1898 (Geologist and Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Wigtown) 1

Muir, Sir William, 1819-1905 (Knight; Scottish Orientalist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1

Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 1

Murray, Thomas, 1792-1873 (printer and author) 1

Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 1

Needham, (Noel) Joseph Terence Montgomery, 1900-1995 (British scientist, historian and sinologist) 1

Oliphant, David, 1720-1804 (Scottish physician and Jacobite) 1

Penner, Jonathan, b 1940 (American fiction writer) 1

Pulszky, Ferenc, 1814-1897 (Hungarian politician, writer and nobleman) 1

Rackstraw, Marjorie, 1888-1981 (educationalist and social worker) 1

Roberts, Joyce, fl 1930s (nee How) 1

Robertson, William, 1721-1793 (historian, principal of the University of Edinburgh) 1

Rushworth, R, fl 1820s 1

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 (art and social critic | London | England) 1

Russell, John, 1st Earl Russell, 1792-1878 (British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) 1

Ryan, Edward, 1793-1875 (English lawyer and judge) 1

Scott, Anne, 1803-1833 (daughter of Sir Walter Scott) 1

Scott, Elizabeth Anne, 1803-1873 (distant cousin of Walter Scott) 1

Scott, John, fl 1708 (brother of Walter Scott, great-grandfather of Sir Walter Scott) 1

Scott, Walter, 1653-1729 (merchant in Kelso, great-grandfather of Sir Walter Scott) 1

Simpson, Sir James Young, 1811-1870 (Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 1

Sonnenberg, Benjamin "Ben", 1936-2010 (American publisher) 1

Stephens, George, 1813-1895 (Philologist) 1

Strutt, Robert John, 1875-1947 (4th Baron Rayleigh | British peer and physicist) 1

The Illustrated London News (1842-2003) (Newspaper) 1

The Lutyens Trust (British charity) 1

Turner, Sir William, 1832-1916 (anatomist, professor of anatomy and principal, University of Edinburgh) 1

Verity, Enid, b 1916 1

Verity, Terence, 1913-1967 (British Art director and architect) 1

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