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Papers of the family of Don Wauchope of Edmonstone

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-708
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of bonds of provision, discharges and statements, bonds of corroboration, discharges of interest, dispositions and assignations, bonds of relief, calculations of interest, notes of mines and seams at Edmonstone and Wolmote, lists of bonds due, and states of bonds due.

Dates: 1708-1836
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Ferretti Family of Ancona

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1014
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of some 121 unpublished manuscript documents - in Latin and Italian - relating to the Papal States and the House of Ferretti. The collection also contains many supporting photocopied items (articles etc), and some colour photographs of Palazzo Ferretti in Ancona. There is a large envelope containing city plans of Ancona.This material offers a detailed account of the private lives of the minor nobles in the Papal States after the Sack of Rome in 1527 and...
Dates: 1574-1746
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Harman family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1906
Scope and Contents

Sketchbooks, photographs and papers relating to the Harman family and their travel around Europe, including Ireland and Italy.

Dates: 1890s-1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Howden family of Lawhead and Traprain Farms, East Lothian

 Fonds — Container: Gen.1956
Identifier: Coll-2901
Scope and Contents These papers are composed of: correspondence, papers and domestic and farm accounts of Andrew and William Howden, farmers of Lawhead and Traprain Farms, East Lothian covering a period roughly 1810-1843. There are bills and accounts for clothing and agricultural implements, plans of buildings, deeds, materials relating to stock shows, and a price list from Peter Lawson & Son, Edinburgh, seed merchants, and a prospectus for the services of an agricultural chemist. The correspondence...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1780-1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Rev. Will Freshwater and A. (Nancy) Freshwater

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1059
Scope and Contents The collection - E2005.13 - is composed of typescript and manuscript material in the form of off-prints, articles, reports, notebooks, letters, postcards, and diary. There are also photographs.Within the typescript material and collection of letters, there is: correspondence with users of the collection covering period 1980-1985; a copy of Manners and customs of the Ba-Bemba, collected by W. Freshwater, Mbereshi, 1906; manuscript postcard notes,...
Dates: 1901-1985
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Rt. Rev. Stanley Booth-Clibborn (1924-1996)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 44
Scope and Contents

The collection consists mainly of material relating to the Booth-Clibborns' visit to Kenya to monitor the 1992 elections with reports, briefings, press releases and cuttings and correspondence (1992-1993); also includes other press cuttings and articles about Kenya (1972-1993); and some material on the Africa Christian Press.

Dates: 1972-1993
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Scott family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2076
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of the family papers of the Scott Family, whose lineage can be traced back to Walter Scott, who served as a Burgess of Edinburgh around 1521. The material comprises genealogical research notes, correspondence, historical charters (including one dated 1663, with a wax seal), official records (both originals and copies), photographs (including what appears to be daguerreotypes or ambrotypes), as well as a badge and a medal from the Argyll and Sutherland...
Dates: 1663-1993
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Thomas Aitken Dollar

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-726
Scope and Contents

The papers are composed of: an Edinburgh Veterinary College document, being a 'Statement on behalf of ... petitioners for a Veterinary College for Scotland', dated November 1867; a copy of the Pharmacy Act (1868) Amendment; miscellaneous letters to Aitken from 1866 to 1889; newspaper cutting; and, photograph.

Dates: 1866-1889
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Thomas Colvin (1925-2000)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 39
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three main sections (1) personal items and early mission history; (2) Colvins in Malawi 1954-1958; and (3) Colvins in Malawi 1964-1974. Section (1) includes: personal items on Colvin such as his c.v.; and material on early mission and church history including publications and early accounts and photographs (1890s-1976). Section (2) includes: mission and church reports and papers (1950s); letters to the Colvins around the time that they were excluded from Malawi,...
Dates: [ca. 1890]-2001
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Thomas Hartley Cromek

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-177
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the correspondence of artists and others with Hartley and his daughter Mary, 1835-1871. The letters are bound and pasted, and there is a complete list of correspondents on the first fly-leaf.

Dates: 1835-1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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University of Edinburgh Library -- Legacy shelfmark sequence: Da-Dp 134
Correspondence 107
Photographs 79
Student lecture notes 78
University of Edinburgh -- student lecture notes 73
Missionaries 68
Missions 51
Students 49
University of Edinburgh -- Students 43
Lectures and Lecturing 39
Diaries 35
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 32
India 25
Poetry 25
China 24
Commonplace-books 23
Edinburgh -- Scotland 23
English literature | 20th century 23
Law (Scotland) 23
Medicine 23
Family papers 22
Music 22
Student notes 22
University of Edinburgh -- Societies and Clubs 22
Anatomy 20
Philosophy 20
University of Edinburgh -- Alumni and alumnae 20
Medals 19
Medical students 19
Student activities | Edinburgh (Scotland) 18
Theatre 18
University of Edinburgh -- staff 18
Law 17
Mathematics 16
Panoramas 16
Travel writing 16
Women students 16
Chemistry 15
Medicine | Study and teaching | Edinburgh (Scotland) | 15
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Scottish literature | 20th century 15
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Linguistics 14
Malawi 14
Natural History 14
Poets 14
Portraits 14
Sketchbooks & albums 14
Societies and Clubs 14
Botany 13
Historians 13
Materia medica 13
Publishers and Publishing 13
sketches 13
Geology 12
Manchuria (China) 12
Medical students | Scotland 12
Physicians 12
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Poets, Scottish 12
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Animal Genetics 11
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University of Edinburgh -- Principals 10
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women artists 9
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Names
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 137
Hall, Edward, b 1898 (Bookseller) 18
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 12
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 9
Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 8
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 8
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 8
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 7
Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard, 1841-1920 (Knight ; Professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 7
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 7
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 7
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 7
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774-1856 (Artist) 6
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 6
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 6
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 5
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 5
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 5
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 5
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 5
Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 5
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Roslin Institute 5
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 5
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 5
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 5
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 5
Victor Gollancz Ltd 5
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 4
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 4
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 4
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 4
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 4
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 4
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 4
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
University of Aberdeen (1495-:) 4
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 4
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet, professor of Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3
Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 3
Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 3
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 3
Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh ) 3
Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 3
Church of Scotland 3
Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist) 3
Cowan House (student hall of residence) 3
Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 3
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (the elder | British physician | Professor at University of Edinburgh) 3
East India Company (1600-1874) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (Scottish historian and philosopher) 3
Grant, John, fl 1955 (Bookseller) 3
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 3
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (Folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
London Missionary Society 3
MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (mathematician) 3
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 3
Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (poet, novelist and translator) 3
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 (novelist, essayist and translator) 3
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 3
Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 3
Stevens, William Victor, 1900-1987 (President of the University of Edinburgh Graduates' Association) 3
Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900 (Physician, President of the BMA) 3
Tragara Pressnn 3
Adlard and Son (1766-) 2
Ambler, Richard Penry, 1933-: (professor of protein chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 2
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922 (professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh) 2
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 2
Beattie, James, 1735-1803 (Scottish poet, professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic) 2
Bell, George Joseph, 1770-1843 (advocate, Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh) 2