Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Wood, thanking him for his letter and saying he is "sorry you will be obliged to omit some of the poems you selected, but of course there's no help for it. May one of the others be substituted for Bunches of Grapes which has already been over-used? Have you written to Longman's? I'm afraid they will want a fee - but please tell them you have made arrangements with me. The poems from Peacock Pie I have Complete Control - as far as anthologies etc are concerned...

Scope and Contents An interesting letter giving an insight into the relationship between Murray and the political economist John Ramsay McCulloch (1789'-1864), who imbued him with 'a taste for political economy' (ODNB). In his letter Murray explains that his friends had recently presented him with a piece of plate in thanks for a course of lectures at Edinburgh on history and political economy ('the science of which you are the ornament'). Murray is sure that McCulloch 'would have been delighted to learn that...

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from David Oliphant to David Covingtrie of Newark (Orkney), from Charles Town (nowadays Charleston, South Carolina), dated June 27th 1748.This relic of colonial America links two Scottish Jacobites across the ocean. David Oliphant, a medical man, made some impact on South Caroline society, and was tutor to Charles Pinckney - 37th Governor of South Carolina. The addressee was a member of a family of lairds and merchants in Orkney, who, in their opposition...

Scope and Contents Visitor book containing about 200 autographs, principally of eminent pre-war surgeons from all over the world reflecting the status of the University's famous medical school. For example, Clovis Vincent, the French Neurosurgeon, who operated on Ravel, regrettably without success, signs in July 1938.The first signature in the book is of distinguished Edinburgh University Alumnus, J. M. Barrie, author of "Peter Pan" and University Chancellor from 1930 until his death in...

Scope and Contents

One photograph of the Dowden Memorial, modelled by Louis R. Deuchars and designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. It is now in St Mary's Cathedral.

Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume containing notes on law, with annotations in pencil in a different hand. This is the volume 2, starting on p. 293. Volume 1 is missing.

The volume is signed by 'William Thomson', in the same hand as the pencil annotations. The volume is likely to have belonged to him at one point.

Scope and Contents

Two volumes containing student lecture notes from The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies entitled 'Materia Medica - Fraser - vol. I' and 'vol. II'. The lectures were given by Prof. Fraser on 'Materia Medica'; there is no information on the identity of the student. The first lecture is dated 13 October 1896 and the last one, 19 March 1897. Some loose notes are enclosed in the second volume.

Scope and Contents Photocopy of a compiled work entitled Gutachten des hochsten Gericht[s]hofes Schottlands nebst anderen Documenten, welche sich auf die Errichtung der Professur der Musik bei der Universitat von Edinburgh beziehen (Edinburgh, 1853), edited and with an introduction by John Donaldson, Reid Professor of the Theory of Music at the University of Edinburgh. The English title is 'Judgement of the court session of Scotland with other documents relating to the...

Scope and Contents

Two issues of 'The Centaur', the 'Magazine of The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies University of Edinburgh' (December 1954 and March 1955). it contains advertisements and articles relating to student activities and veterinary practice.

Scope and Contents

Black-and-white photograph with no provenance information representing the Arc in Prospect PArk, New York, and a car.