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Collection relating to James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1270
Scope and Contents
At E2010.22 is an archive of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize retained by its first judge, Herbert Grierson, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University, comprising letters from prizewinners including D.H. Lawrence, Arnold Bennett, Lytton Strachey and Robert Graves. While most of the letters in the collection are solicitor's typed carbon letters (letters to the administrating solicitor Robert Welsh of Ayr), five are original letters to Herbert Grierson from winners: Henry...
Dates:
1920-1935
Collection relating to Winifred Rushforth
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1260
Scope and Contents
The Rushforth collection is composed of: In E2010.10:
- material relating to the Davidson Clinic, being Minute Book 1938-1946, bank guarantee 1960, bank statements 1959-1961, Annual Reports of the Davidson Clinic 1942-1968; Davidson Clinic Bulletin 1946-1967, pamphlets and programmes of the clinic 1940s and 1950s, newspaper clippings, talks and papers, off-prints of articles, and journals...
Dates:
1855-1984
Collections of posters of student events at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds — Container: CLX-D-66
Identifier: Coll-1867
Scope and Contents
Bundle of about 20 posters of events at the University around 1971, mostly relating to student activities. The events advertised include dances/balls/concerts; special lectures and symposium; Church and carol services; and Student Representative Council Elections. The posters are arranged in bundles by types of events, as follows:
Poster of the Corries, and poster advertising a folk concert in...
Dates:
1970-1972
Collector's box and teaching cabinet of Catherine Mary Stirling
Collection
Identifier: Coll-1893
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one Victorian wooden box, used for collecting and teaching, that belonged to Catherine Mary of Stirling, from Kippenross House, near Dunblane. It is still complete and fitted with 5 removable trays containing specimens of:
Animal & Vegetable Substances (such as nut galls, Portuguese cork, a piece of tortoise shell, timber specimens, pearls, etc.)
...
Dates:
1847
Coloured Panorama of Edinburgh
Fonds — Frame: Barker Panorama
Identifier: Coll-1709
Scope and Contents
This small, watercolour version of Barker's first full Panorama is dated 1792. Its purpose is unclear, but it is related to a set of engravings published two years earlier.
Dates:
1792
Colquhoun catalogue of prints and pictures at Rossdhu, Luss
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1521
Scope and Contents
The catalogue is dated 18 May 1871 and signed 'Sir J. Colquhoun'. There is a bookplate, 'Sir James Colquhoun, Bart.'. The list is headed 'Prints [...] at Rossdhu - Luss', and includes listings of items in 'Family bed room', in 'Best Bed Room No.6', in 'Best Bed Room Dressing Room No.7', a listing of 'Round miniature portraits', listing of 'Second Best Bedroom No.8', in 'Blue Room No.9', in the 'Old Nursery No.4', the paintings or 'Pictures in Small Sitting Room', listing for the 'Entrance...
Dates:
1871
Coltness Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-17
Scope and Contents
The collection of Coltness Papers contains letters, family documents, commonplace books, accounts, historical and bioraphical manuscripts, and certificates dating mainly from the 17th-19th centuries, and relating to the Steuart family. See the box list fore more details.
Dates:
1623-1994
Commemorating the University of Munich 500th Anniversary
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-724
Scope and Contents
The collection of commemorative material includes: the correspondence between Furness, Edinburgh University, and organisers of the University of Munich commemoration; list of international guests; postcards of the University of Munich; menus; miscellaneous ephemera from theatres and concert halls; formal programme of events taking place between 25 June and 1 July 1972; formal invitation to Professor N. A. Furness; programme for celebration concert (Orff's 'Carmina Burana') in the...
Dates:
1971-1972
Commentary on 'De Sphaera'
Fonds — Volume: Dk.7.29
Identifier: Coll-1947
Scope and Contents
Volume entitled Buchananus De Sphaera: George Buchanan, with commentary by Adam King, covering key aspects of mathematical, natural philosophical, and astronomical knowledge from antiquity to the early modern period, from the Christian West and the Islamicate and pre-Islamic East, and from Copernicus to Galileo and Kepler. Bound with this is a second manuscript containing poetry by King.
Dates:
c1616
Common-place book of Harriet Holmes, 1818
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1415
Scope and Contents
No place of origin recorded. 1818-1820 4to., 98 pages (approx. 14,000 words) pen and ink drawings, entirely Holograph neat sloping hand, in contemp. red straight grain morocco, marbled paper sides, light wear. This Commonplace Book commenced at the very end of 1818 and continued only for a few months gives an interesting indication of the interests of a young woman in her early twenties. The subjects are mostly copied and mostly on topical subjects. They include articles on a...
Dates:
1818-1820