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Two photograph albums of views from Shantung and Shanghai, and from Jehol and Beijing, to Yunnan
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1879
Content Description
Two albums containing black and white photographs of landscapes in a variety of locations, as well as portraits and street scenes, each with accompanying text. The first album is entitled '"China 1920-1930 - From Shantung and Shanghai to Yunan [sic]" (119 pages), and the second album is entitled "China 1920-1930 - From Jehol and Peking to Yunnan" (136 pages). Many of the photos are grouped into sets of up to ten images on a particular province or theme, such as: Futoshan/Putuoshan, near...
Dates:
late 1920s- early 1930s
Two rolls of punched paper computer data, "Golagros and Gawane", prepared by Edinburgh Regional Computing Centre
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-623
Identifier: Coll-1573
Scope and Contents
Contained within 2 x boxes bearing the information, VU 074 / N. Hamilton-Smith / Edinburgh R.C.C. and with additional information that the boxes contain Tapes 2 and 3 with 'lines 1-712' and 'lines 713-end' respectively, two reels of punched paper computer data. The lines are of Golagros and Gawane.
Dates:
1968-1980
Two volumes entitled "Edinburgh Medical Graduates 1705-1866" and "St Andrews University. List of Graduates", annotated by William Johnston
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2807
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two volumes entitled "Edinburgh Medical Graduates 1705-1866" and "St Andrews University. List of Graduates", compiled and annotated by Colonel William Johnston (1843-1914).The Edinburgh volume contains pages of the book List of the Graduates in Medicine in the University of Edinburgh : From MDCCV to MDCCCLXVI, each page pasted separately, and annotated by the compiler Colonel William Johnson. The annotations give biographical...
Dates:
1860-1911
Two Volumes Entitled "Equity Precedents"
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2256
Scope and Contents
Two manuscript volumes entitled "Equity Precedents - 1829" and "Equity Precedents - vol. 2". These appear to be handwritten notes about legal cases in the United Kingdom, with templates and commentaries.
Dates:
1829
Two volumes of lecture notes taken down by Susan and Janet Robb
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-228
Identifier: Coll-1965
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of lecture notes taken by sisters Susan and Janet Robb, originally from Woodend, Carnwath, dating from the 1890s and early 1900s.
- Notes taken down by Susan Robb on botany lectures given by Professor S. Elliot, 17 May 1901.
- Lecture notes taken down by Janet Robb on the subject of physiography, 1890s.
Dates:
1890s-1901
Two volumes of "minutes and reports" by Lieutenant Colonel James Brunton
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2274
Scope and Contents
Minutes and reports by Lieuteuant Colonel James Brunton, Military Auditor General, as a member of the military Board. Fort St. George [Chennai, India]. Madras. Two volumes, 1801-05, 1801-06.
Dates:
1801-1806
Typescript and printed volumes on Glasgow and Edinburgh 'lodging houses'
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1566
Identifier: Coll-1816
Content Description
A collection of 2 x ts and printed volumes on Glasgow and Edinburgh 'lodging houses'. These were created by...:Louie Murray, who wrote Edinburgh Common Lodging-Houses, a study of the residents and how their needs are met by statutory and voluntary social services. Murray's work was presented as a thesis for the Diploma in Social Study, Edinburgh University... 94pp including appendices.Dr. Stuart Laidlaw, who wrote ...
Dates:
1956
Typescript by James Dick: Account of his boyhood in Scotland
Item
Identifier: Coll-1900
Scope and Contents
Typescript by Colonel James Dick (1863-1926), containing an 'account of his boyhood in Scotland'.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century (before 1926)
Typescript epistolary journal by [Alice] Maud Hitchcock
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-2000
Content Description
Extensive archive of letters, together forming a journal of seven years’ work for the Church Missionary Society in China. Addressed to ‘dear Friends’ of her church in Bermondsey, Hitchcock’s letters provide a detailed account of her journey to China and her mission there. Though evidently travelling frequently throughout south-east China, Hitchcock was stationed primarily on Haitan (Pingtan) island with Eleanor Jane Harrison, recording
efforts to teach the Gospel to the local population and...
Dates:
1901-1908
Typescript letter from Arthur Koestler to Dr. Thomas Koevari
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1804 / SC-Acc-2017-0036
Identifier: Coll-1804
Content Description
This typescript letter from Arthur Koestler was sent to Dr Thomas Kovari (Kövári Tamás) who had escaped from Hungary in 1956. The letter to 'Dear Mr. Koevari' - indirectly described by Koestler as a fan - was written from the Berghotel 'Böglerhof', Alpbach, in the Tyrol, Austria, on 2 July 1959. It is signed in Koestler's hand. Koestler thanks Mr. Koevari for the trouble he has taken to point out a passage... a 'howler'.Although the title referred to is un-named, it is ...
Dates:
2 July 1959