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Family photographs and postcards, c1890-c1935

 Series
Identifier: BAI 14
Scope and Contents

Family photographs consist of:


  1. photographs of family members (John Baillie, snr., John Baillie, Florence Jewel Baillie and Ian Fowler Baillie)
  2. photographs and postcards of family-related locations (Gairloch, Edinburgh, Cupar and Bervie)
Dates: c1890-c1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected mostly in An Apainn/Appin and Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. A large proportion of the stories and biographical information about Appin was collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, who was known as Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair. Amongst the material collected from Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair are proverbs, sayings, customs, stories about local figures and families and historic anecdotes. The other main...
Dates: 1883 to 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Journal account of departure of Eoghan Carmichael's departure for Africa, 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/1
Scope and Contents

Journal account written by Alexander Carmichael of the departure of his son Eoghan for Africa describing seeing him off at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, noting who met him in London and that he set sail on the 'SS Scot' from London, England for Chinde, East Africa [Mozambique]. Of his departure, Carmichael writes 'Poor darling boy! We shall not see him at the soonest for five years - perhaps never. God alone knows. This is the first break in the family.'

Dates: 6 May 1893 to 13 May 1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Joseph Black to his father, 01 June 1754

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/1-2
Scope and Contents

Letter from Joseph Black to his father, John Black, expressing a wish to stay longer in Edinburgh.

Dates: 01 June 1754
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Edward Joseph Dent from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 14 November 1937

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L60
Scope and Contents

Letter, 14 November 1937, Edinburgh, Sir Donald Francis Tovey to Edward Joseph Dent. Request that Dent should visit Tovey's son John. Typescript copy.

Dates: 14 November 1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from William Taylor, c1933

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1761
Scope and Contents

Letter, [1933], Edinburgh, William Taylor to Donald Tovey. Discussing Tovey's sister-in-law's health. Holograph signed, incomplete.

Dates: c1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 01 October 1920

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L648
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1 October 1920, Edinburgh, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. News of Tovey's wife and son and hopes for the future. Holograph signed, written on University of Edinburgh headed notepaper.

Dates: 01 October 1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1921

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L659
Scope and Contents

Letter, [January 1921], Edinburgh, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. News of Tovey's wife and son, hopes for the New Year. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about Miss Cameron and Mrs Cameron née Macnicol, c1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/102
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Miss Cameron da[ugh]t[er] of Mrs Cameron née Macnicol, 16 Haymarket, Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann].'

Dates: c1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note and stories relating to Flora MacDonald's family, 12 April 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/77
Scope and Contents Note and stories collected from Mrs MacLellan, Ormacleit [Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] relating to Flora MacDonald's family, including the relationship between Mrs MacLellan's own family and Flora's family, Mrs MacLellan being the grand-daughter of Flora's younger brother Angus. Angus had a very large family of ten sons and four daughters. Her family connections with other well known MacDonald families are also noted. The story of how Flora's eldest brother Ranald died in a gun...
Dates: 12 April 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 1875-1940 (Reid Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 4
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 2
Weisse, Sophie, 1852-1945 (Scottish music teacher) 2
Baillie, Florence Jewel, 1893-1969 (married to John Baillie) 1
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Black, John, fl1728-1766 (father of Joseph Black) 1
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 1
Cameron, Miss, c1892 (Haymarket | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1
Campbell (of Argyll) 1
Campbell (of Barcaldine) 1
Campbell, Colin, 1708-1752 ('Cailean Ruadh' | 'Cailean Uaine' | 'The Red Fox' | Cailean Ghlinn Iubhair | Glenure | Argyllshire) 1
Carmichael, Eon Kenneth, 1872-1926 ([Eoghan] | son of Alexander Carmichael folklorist and antiquarian) 1
Carmichael, Mary Frances, c1843-1928 1
Carmichael, Mary, c1812-1889 (Druimavuic | Glencreran | Argyllshire) 1
Clann 'ic Ghille Ruitich ('The Reds' | 'Na Ruitich' | Argyllshire) 1
Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 1
Cyril, Saint (Curalan) 1
Dent, Edward Joseph 1876-1957, 1876-1957 (musicologist) 1
Johnson-Marshall, Percy, 1915-1993 (professor of urban design and regional planning, University of Edinburgh) 1
Livingston, Ann, c1800- (crofter | Airds Bay | Taynuilt | Argyllshire) 1
Livingston, John, 1810-1895 1
Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 1
MacColl, Donald, 1793-1886 (foxhunter | Glencreran | Argyllshire) 1
MacDonald (Milton | South Uist) 1
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MacDonald (of Clanranald) 1
MacDonald (of Largie | Kintyre | Argyllshire) 1
MacDonald (of Sleat) 1
MacDonald, Alexander, Colonel, c1750-1818 (or Sandy | of Boisdale | 71st Regiment) 1
MacDonald, Alexander, c1610-1647 (Alasdair mac Colla | military leader | Taigh an Trithinn | Argyllshire) 1
MacDonald, Angus, Captain, -c1808 (of Milton | South Uist | Inverness-shire) 1
MacDonald, Angus, Rev, -1724 1
MacDonald, Angus, c1700 (of Balfinlay | Benbecula | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
MacDonald, Angus, c1724-1792 (of Milton | brother of Flora MacDonald | Milton | South Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
MacDonald, Colin, c1725-1798 (2nd of Boisdale | 1st of Ulva) 1
MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 1
MacDonald, Hugh, Captain, c1750 (of Armadale | Isle of Skye | Inverness-shire) 1
MacDonald, James, Major, c1760 (of Askernish | South Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
MacDonald, Marion, c1745 1
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MacDonald, Ranald, 1692-1766 (17th of Clanranald | Nunton | Benbecula | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
MacDonald, Ranald, c1720-c1745 (brother of Flora MacDonald | Milton | South Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland) 1
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MacLauchlan, Thomas, Dr, 1815-1856 (editor of the Book of the Dean of Lismore | Edinburgh) 1
MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 1
MacPhail, Donald, fl1884 (grocer | Quay | Oban | Argyllshire) 1
Mandyczewski, Eusebius, 1857-1929 (Russian musicologist) 1
Murdoch, John, 1818-1903 (journalist and customs and excise official) 1
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Stewart, Donald, c1500 1
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 ('Bonnie Prince Charlie' | 'The Young Pretender') 1
Taylor, William, 1857-1934 (publisher and Honorary Secretary of the Reid Orchestra) 1
Tovey, John Wellcome (adopted son of Sir Donald Francis Tovey) 1
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