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Autograph signed letter from Charles Hotham to Sir Roderick Murchison

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1731
Scope and Contents Addressed from Port Philip Heads, Melbourne, 10 July 1855, the autograph letter signed by Sir Charles Hotham (then lieutenant governor of the Australian colony of Victoria) is to the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871).The letter begins with Hotham assuring Murchison that with regard to the 'pretensions' of 'Mr. Clarke' (meaning the geologist William Branwhite Clarke, 1798-1878), in claiming to have made the first discovery of gold in Australia, he is 'delighted' that...
Dates: 10 July 1855
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Banner, medals and badge relating to the 1986 Commonwealth Games at Edinburgh

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-2009
Content Description This collection includes objects relating to the Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh in 1986, that belonged to Colin Cruickshank. One banner celebrating the University's Quatercentenary in 1983 that had been hanged on the wall of the Sports Hall during the 1986 Commonwealth Games. The Sports Hall had been turned into the Air Weapons Range for the occasion. Two Commonwealth Games...
Dates: 1983-1986
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bloomfield collection of Auden related material

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1623
Scope and Contents The Bloomfield collection is composed of: scripts for speeches and radio and tv; off-prints and journal articles and ephemeral publications; press-cuttings; audio material; photographic material; general correspondence; letters between Bloomfield and Mendelson; and, letters on Auden bibliography: Box 1: Folders containing scripts for speeches and broadcasts, and correspondence (Auden.464-467, 469-473): ...
Dates: 1920-2000
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bohemian Protest

 Fonds — Box: Coll-1698
Identifier: Coll-1698
Scope and Contents Vellum document surrounded by the seals of the Bohemian nobility in protest at Hus’ treatment at the hands of the Council of Constance.Seals as follows:Left-hand side: Zigismundus De Mileszoniz Wenczeslaus De Ostro Bonslaus De Kozle Johannes De Onssow Theodoricus De Studeny Johannes De Studeny Alsico De Martimez Mladota De Debrawoda Milota De Bohdancze Mickziko De Hnorka Wikerz De...
Dates: 1415
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Book, medals, and printed ephemera relating to Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy Fraser

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1978
Content Description This collection includes a printed book with two enclosures, printed ephemera, and two medals related to harpist Helen Patuffa Hood and her mother Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish musician and folk-song collector. The printed book is a signed copy of The Road to the Isles (Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1927) by Kenneth Macleod given by the author himself to Patuffa...
Dates: 1889; 1925-1928; 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Book of Lismore (facsimile)

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.1.31
Identifier: Coll-1876
Scope and Contents

Handcrafted facsimile of the 15th century Irish manuscript Leabhar Leasa Mhoir.

Dates: c1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bookbinding notes

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1262
Scope and Contents

These 16-pages of manuscript notes on book-binding have been bound together in a blue heavy-card/textile cover. The notes were handwritten in pencil then written over in ink. The notes are illustrated with pencil drawings. The notes were produced in September 1941.

Dates: 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Booth Family Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1780
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of: Letters from Joseph Booth, Annie Booth, Lillian Booth, and Emily Booth Langworthy to Mary ("Babs") Booth (later Sales). The letters describe the Booths’ deportation from Basutholand, their struggle to find work in England during the war, and Booth’s illness during the 1920s. The final letters in the group are addressed to "Dot" (Emily). 2 files, 1914-1927. ...
Dates: 1895-1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bound collection of 12 watercolours of punishments in China

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1562
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of 12 very vividly water-coloured drawings (280 x 180 mm) depicting scenes of punishments and executions. They have been done on Chinese rice paper held in place by a light blue silk ribbon border. The binding is covered in contemporary decorated silk. Done probably in Canton (Guangzhou), circa 1850.

Dates: 1850
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bound collection of Regency ms designs of borders friezes and dresses - the pattern book of Charlotte Elizabeth Inglis

 Fonds — Box: CLX-D-33, Volume: Coll-1787 / SC-Acc-2016-0167
Identifier: Coll-1787
Content Description This is a volume labelled "Patern Book". Charlotte Elizabeth's designs occupy the full folio page and are drawn in ink. She got her collection from a number of aristocratic ladies, and she has noted some of their names, occasionally identifying and dating the design. Among the ladies noted are: Lady Montague, Lady Haddington, Lady Hope, Lady Queensberry, Miss Graham, Elizabeth Moore of Shenstone House, and Liss Lee of Spott House, East Lothian.Leading the collection in number of...
Dates: 1806-1817
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
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Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 4
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