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Material relating to R. Macgregor, being 'The domestic buffalo'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1238
Scope and Contents
This paper on The domestic buffalo in Malaysia consists of 71-pages, numbered, together with a loose covering letter at rear addressed to Professor Francis Albert Eley Crew (1886-1973), Professor of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh University, and supporting the content of the paper. It contains chapters on zoological classification, anatomy and physiology, buffalo farming, and diseases. There are c.23 black and white photographs pasted in. The...
Dates:
1938
Material relating to research into plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1324, Folder: Coll-1813 / SC-Acc-2017-0062
Identifier: Coll-1813
Content Description
This small collection consists of the material collected by Dr Tom Barron, for his research into the plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and the British community there. Having not found any surviving records when he visited Ceylon (Sri Lanka), he decided to search for private papers, including by publishing a call in the Quaterly Bulletin no. 151 of the Ceylon Association in London, for personal papers and experiences relating to planting and business ventures in Ceylon in the 19th...
Dates:
1969-1972
Material relating to Robert Garioch Sutherland
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1604
Scope and Contents
The ephemeral manuscript and typescript material is composed of:
1 x prisoner-of-war postcard (Poste Italiane. Cartolina Postale. Per Prigionieri di Guerra). From Sutherland, Robert G. Signalman 2372691, to [his father] Mr. Robert G. Sutherland, Bellevue Road, Edinburgh. He writes about 'boredom, and there are worse things'. He is 'out of isolation now, and that is a good thing'. He is smoking his pipe...
Dates:
1942-1958
Material relating to Sir David Wilkie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1274
Scope and Contents
Within the collection there is an autograph letter signed to James Nairne, on the death of Lord Eldin, placed and dated as Kensington, London, 12 June 1832. The letter refers to 'The Edinburgh Society of the Sons of the Clergy' and how they 'have done me [mu]ch honor'. Also, at a meeting in London, James Nairne’s health was drunk, and his brother 'Capt Nairne' made 'an appropriate reply'. Nairne’s announcement of the death of 'our antient friend Lord Eldin' recalls for David Wilkie 'a volume...
Dates:
1832
Material relating to Sir Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1276
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of two bound volumes of the work Origins and background of the law of succession to arms and dignities in Scotland with Volume 1 focussing on 'Heirs before Scots law', and Volume 2 focussing on 'Heirs by Scots law'. Volume 1 is inscribed ' For Professor Croft Dickinson, to whom this thesis was due, with very many thanks, from Iain Moncrieffe of that Ilk. Unicorn'. Volume 2 is inscribed ' For Professor Croft Dickinson, with every...
Dates:
1958
Material relating to Sir Thomas Hope, of Craighall, and Sir Thomas Hope, junior, of Kerse
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1523
Scope and Contents
Manuscript book. [Major Practicks]. The 'Practiques and decisiones of the Lords of sessions, with sev[er]all Collectiones out of the booke of the Majestie, Burrow Lawes, Acts of Parlia[men]t and bookes of Sederunt Collected (as is supposed) by Sir Thomas Hope elder whose the Observationes of the practiques are when he was Kings advocat putt in order and addit unto, by his sonne Sir Thomas Hope Junior of Carse'. The book bears the arms or book plate of Dundas of Arniston, front cover, and on...
Dates:
1630-1640
Material relating to Sorley MacLean
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1271
Scope and Contents
At E2010.23 there is an autograph letter signed as 'S. MacLean' to Mr Stephen (probably Meic Stephens), placed and dated Plockton, 5 August 1969. The brief letter is about the Taliesin Congress and how Maclean will 'accept your invitation to attend the Taliesin Congress'. Meic Stephens (born 1938) was then Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council.Three later additions:
1) autograph letter signed to David Morrison (poet and editor) referring to a previously unpublished...
Dates:
1969-1987
Material relating to Sylvia Daiches Raphael
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-388
Identifier: Coll-2060
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of correspondence, records, and typed notes relating to translator and academic Sylvia Daiches Raphael, in particular to her addition to the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women at the proposal of Eric Dickson. Most of the correspondence is between Sylvia's husband, David Raphael, and Eric Dickson, who was commissioned to write the piece for the dictionary. Also included is an official copy of the death certificate of Sylvia Raphael;...
Dates:
1997-2007; Majority of material found within 2005-2007
Material relating to Tessa Ransford
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1727
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the following materials:
1 x spiral bound copy of Granny's Guest 1902-1945, by Torfrida, which is an account of Ransford family life from the birth of Torfrida, her mother, in 1902, until Tessa and her family returned to Britain in the 1940s, pp.73
1 x bundle correspondence from Walter to Tessa, Duncan [Glen] to Tessa, and...
Dates:
1975-2010
Material relating to the career of Peter McIntyre, Editor of the Edinburgh University Calendar, and former Clerk to the University Senate
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1318
Scope and Contents
The material relating to Peter McIntyre's work with Edinburgh University is composed of the following:
a) 3 x letters from Laurence Olivier: 16 June 1964; 5 July 1964; 29 July 1965
b) Pamphlet entitled 'The Robes' by Peter McIntyre
c) Pamphlet entitled 'The Old College' by Peter McIntyre
d) Notes for a pamphlet on the Old College Statuette (Sir Cowasji...
Dates:
1954-1982