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Treatise of the Materia Medica
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1127
Scope and Contents
The bound manuscript volume begins: ' A treatise of the Materia Medica in which the Virtues of all the Simples of the three Kingdoms are truly described and they have been fully demonstrated by the accurate Observations of many truly celebrated Authors and particularly of the learned Dr. Charles Alston Professor of the Materia Medica and Botany in the University of Edinburgh and Reg. Prof. Botan'. The text in the manuscript volume is organised into the following...
Dates:
1745-1747
Treatises by Dr. John Pordage
Fonds — Volume: Dc.4.1
Identifier: Coll-2127
Scope and Contents
Treatises on Pordage's religious/mystical visions. It is not known whether this is in Pordage's or another's hand.
Dates:
Before 1680
Ts copy of a speech by Dr Shelton H Short III on Patrick Henry and Dr William Robertson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1576
Scope and Contents
A copy of typescript, 'On the British ancestral background of Patrick Henry - and a Scottish orator, his cousin, Dr. William Robertson, Principal of Edinburgh University', being a speech delivered by Dr. Shelton H. Short III, at the Parents and Friends Lounge, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, USA, on 20 February 1974. The collection also contains a clipping from the Virginia title, Herald Progress, Thursday 11 April 1974, entitled 'Henry's heritage...
Dates:
1974
Ts letter with ms addition to Donald Weeks from Alan Anderson 2 September 1983
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1579
Scope and Contents
The typescript letter, with ms additions, is from Alan Anderson to Donald Weeks about O'Sullivan connections, with 137 Warrender Park Road letter-heading, and dated 2 September 1983. The letter provides details of where copyright copies of the 'little book' are to be sent and on how the British National Bibliography organises itself. It then discusses how 'there are/were a fair number of O'Sullivans in New York, and I'm afraid we have reached an impasse over that fifth brother,...
Dates:
1983
Ts translation by W. H. Auden (1907-1973) of 'The Knights of the Round Table', a play by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1670
Scope and Contents
Ts, 114pp, quarto. A final leaf of blue paper carries the printed mark of 'Mrs Marshall's', 28 Southampton Street, WC.2 (Play typists since 1884) and is stamped by the firm at 23 April 1957 [or 1951]. An embossed print bearing the same information is on the first page.
Dates:
1951-1957
Tss of poetry by Deric Bolton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1621
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of:
1 x ms letter from Deric Bolton to Tessa Ranford, editor of 'Lines Review', dated 30 November 1992, in which he writes, 'I submit 6 poems for you to consider' for the Review
6 x ts poems, being: 'Old Tweed Bridge'; 'The die is cast'; 'Lydia Aurigny 1960'; 'I am so happy'; 'The pearls and the stars'; and, 'The summer parting'
1 x ms letter from...
Dates:
1992-1996
Twenty-one comic visiting cards caricaturing the photographic carte-de-visite, by Rock Co., London, and J.S. Co., London, c. 1850-1870
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1262
Identifier: Coll-1679
Scope and Contents
Each card measures about 5.75 x 9 cm., engraved image on the recto with ‘Rock & Co., London’ in the image, on 19 cards, two cards have J. S & Co., London, below the image. Verso blank. Many of the 21 cards have a printed series number, the highest being 101, the other number no higher than 48. Three cards have no number. The cards by J.S have the numbers 4 and 5, so they may have been part of a smaller series. 'J. S.' are the initials of J. Simmons.Among the group four...
Dates:
1850-1870
Two common-place books of Ellen Caroline Warter, and around the Brontes
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1559
Scope and Contents
2 manuscript volumes. Oblong 8vo, one being 106 x 175 mm with 288pp, and the other 94 x 148 mm with 212pp. Many pages of both the larger and smaller commonplace book have Ellen Warter's embossed monogram (with a bee). The larger begins with 'The Home of the Brontes'. Well over 300 of the pages of the commonplace books, including the whole of the larger one, are devoted to the Brontes, beginning with extended transcripts from J. H. Turner's Haworth past and...
Dates:
1885
Two personal diaries, possibly of Ms Pearson
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2270
Scope and Contents
Two personal diaries, possibly by a woman with the surname "Pearson". One covering 1915 (January, July-November), the other one covering the year 1932 (January to December), with a note dated February 1934. In them, the author talks of her daily life (a record of social engagements, domestic events and the weather), and mentions sending parcels for British soliders during the First World War.
Dates:
1915; 1932-1934
Two photograph albums, of older Spain and Portugal, and of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe... one of them collected by William Horn, Edinburgh
Collection — Volume: Coll-1807 / SC-Acc-2016-0196
Identifier: Coll-1807
Scope and Contents
One album, with photographs of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe, has ms description on fore-page: "Photographs Collection of William Horn [address], Edinburgh. On tour of 1872." Some of the photographs are signed, 'A. Beats'. Many of the photographs of Classical Europe have Italian scenes around Florence, Naples and Pompei, and Milan, and there are photographs of Alpine scenes and Vienna too.The other album is entitled on the front board: "Photographs of Spain &...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1872-1890