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Ms engineering journal of James Pugh Kirkwood, relating to Pensacola docks in Florida, and projects elsewhere

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1795 / SC-Acc-2017-0006
Identifier: Coll-1795
Content Description This manuscript engineering journal is in two parts, spanning the period of Kirkwood's career associated with the Pensacola docks in Florida, 1845-1847, but also covering the period 1871-1877 providing a wealth of information on the occupation of the USA's most important civil engineers.The content is: copy letters which offer a detailed account of the exigencies of the task at Pensacola; and, diary or journal entries.The volume also has - at the end - a combination...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1845-1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ms lecture notes and research notes of Professor William Croft Dickinson

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Identifier: Coll-1607
Scope and Contents

The lecture notes are composed of four groupings:


  1. Honours 1
  2. Untitled
  3. Honours IV
  4. Honours V

Dickinson's research notes are contained in a 2-drawer (wooden) card-index file.

Dates: 1944-1963
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ms lecture notes on the 'Plant and its Food' by Stevenson Macadam (1829-1901), Lecturer Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh

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Identifier: Coll-1669
Scope and Contents

Ms botanical lecture notes with diagram entitled The plant and its food by Stevenson Macadam. octo, 7pp. 'Britannia' watermarks.

Dates: 1855-1859
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

MS letter (autograph signed) by Violet Jacob

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Identifier: Coll-1462
Scope and Contents This MS letter, addressed to 'Dear Sir', was written by Violet Jacob at Domaine de la Congue, Vence, in the Alpes Maritimes, France, on 6 April [no year] and presumably in 1936, given the reference in the letter to 'the honour done'. 1936 was the year in which she received the LL.D. from Edinburgh University. Domaine de la Congue is the location of a French 'Maison de retraite', a sanatorium for veterans today. The letter tells of how the letter reached her 'after various adventures' and...
Dates: 1915-1917
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ms letter from Thomas Carlyle to Peter Millar Cunningham, 4 December 1843

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1318
Identifier: Coll-1740
Content Description Ms letter from Thomas Carlyle, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, to Peter Millar Cunningham, Surgeon Royal Navy, 4 December 1843.The letter reads: I have received your little Essay on Compass Variations, and read it over with great satisfaction. It is a most ingenious little speculation, or rather big speculation in little bulk; and had it even otherwise, it would have pleasantly brought you to our new embrace, and been very welcome in this hour. You never come to us now; it is...
Dates: 4 December 1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ms notes from a Logic class given by James Frederick Ferrier at Edinburgh University, 1844-1845, and taken down by a person unknown

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Identifier: Coll-1738
Content Description Collection of 'written out notes on Lectures in Logic class session 1844-45', apparently taken during the classes given by J. F. Ferrier during his only year as philosophy lecturer at Edinburgh University. The notebook is divided into 14 lectures on e.g. consciousness, knowledge, and feeling. There are frequent references to the work of Reid and Hamilton, and less common references to Brown, Descartes, Kant, Locke, Plato and Stewart. It is not known who wrote down the notes.8vo,...
Dates: 1844-1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

MS precept of seisin signed by George Durie commendator of Dunfermline Abbey 1544

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Identifier: Coll-1595
Scope and Contents This Latin manuscript in ink - a 'precept of seisin' - on a single sheet of vellum is signed by George Durie and twenty-one monks, being: John Baxter, James Murcheston, Thomas Burne, James Re[?], William Burne, James Thomson, Alexander Hunman, John Spendluff, James Crethorne, John Boswell, Patrick Masoun, James Dundass, Thomas Jamesson, John Tresam, David Dundas, John Murray, Robert Hogh, Andrew Brown, Alexander Mow, Alexander Alkyn, and Thomas Lytilione There is an early...
Dates: 1544
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ms tale of an elopement from Keswick to Gretna Green 1835

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Identifier: Coll-1560
Scope and Contents

Manuscript, octo, 13pp, at approximately 3300 words, and written neatly.

The account of the story of hardship was written in the form of an interview by someone called 'Banns' or 'Barns' with Sally responding in Cumbrian dialect, and at Keswick, 25 February 1835.

Dates: 1798
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ms thesis Ecological Notes on Machair-land, K. J. F. Park

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Identifier: Coll-1602
Scope and Contents The work Ecological notes on Machair-land, circa 1952, may have been the basis Kenneth J. F. Park's intended Ph.D. It comprises c. 200 pages of manuscript text, including numerous figures, graphs, illustrations, and maps. There are 9 large sepia photographs (laid on card). The text discusses climatic factors, geological and edaphic factors (influenced by soil), agriculture, distribution of Machair-land, the South Harris and Ensay Machairs, Manish Machair...
Dates: 1952
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Ms volume of genealogies of Scottish families, drawn up by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1568, Volume: Coll-1802 / SC-Acc-2017-0034
Identifier: Coll-1802
Content Description

This genealogical manuscript volume relating to Scottish families, by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, bears the bookplate of Robert Graham, a literary patron of Robert Burns.


The title-page is noted as...: "A collection of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland, drawn from their own charters [...] By Sir George Mackenzie".


264 manuscript leaves, contemporary quarter calf over boards.

Dates: c 1636-1691
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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