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Peepshow depicting a library, by Martin Engelbrecht

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-2048
Content Description This is an eighteenth-century perspective view (also called "peepshow", or in the original German Guckkastendioramen) produced by German engraver and publisher Martin Engelbrecht. Printed on thin paper, from etched copper plates, and coloured in watercolour, it depicts a miniature contemporary library, complete with library users reading, discoursing, or simply admiring the shelves.Martin Engelbrecht of Augsburg, Germany started creating...
Dates: 18th century

Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Carlyle to H. Grant, September 1935

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0027
Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Carlyle, Regent Street, to H. Grant, Gray's Inn, Friday, dated in another hand September 1835.The letter reads: "I was this far on my road to the J. H. [?] but find now it will not do. Unluckily we are all engaged tonight. I should like much to see Garnier again (whom I did not suspect to be in town at present), could he not contrive to call on me, any day - before Sunday, which indeed I grieve to see is but one solitary...
Dates: September 1935

Two Autograph Letters Signed from James Halliwell to Sir William Tite, giving his professional advice on books relating to Shakespeare, 20 May 1865; 1 January 1866

 File — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0029
Scope and Contents Two Autograph Letters Signed from James Halliwell (later Halliwell-Phillipps) to Sir William Tite (1798-1873, architect). Both sent from 6 St Mary's Place, West Brampton, London, 20th May 1865 and 1st January 1866.In the first letter dated 20 May 1865, Halliwell gives his professional advice on a copy of a book with an "interesting connexion to Shakespeare" that Tite is interested in for his collection. He also advises on how much the book would fetch at a sale, and how much to...
Dates: 20 May 1865; 1 January 1866

Notice for a meeting of the Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society, 3 November 1841

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0035
Scope and Contents A rare notice announcing the resuming of meetings of the Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society. It advertises the lectures of Dr. Lonsdale, Dr. Bates (on epilepsy) and Dr. Mackay (on dystentery) at a meeting of the 1841 Edinburgh Hunterian Medical Society, held at Societies' Hall at Edinburgh University on the 3rd of November 1841.The handbill reads as follows: "This society will resume its meetings on Wednesday by the 10th November 1841. After an address from the President, an...
Dates: 3 November 1841

Autograph Letter Signed from John Murry to "Dear Eddie", early/mid-20th century

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0037
Scope and Contents Affectionate Autograph Letter Signed from John Murry to "Dear Eddie", asking his correspondent to "do what you can with these two books? The Vigo anthology was edited by W.W.G. I shall probably be up again on Friday. Shall we see each other? I think that Ihlee is extraordinary good - now that I have seen more of his work." Ructon Cottage, near Chichester, Wednesday, no year. Signed with Murry's nickname "Jack Tiger"."Ihlee" is Rudolph Ihlee (1883-1968), an artist who was a member...
Dates: early/mid-20th century

Autograph Letter Signed from Andrew Lang to Walter Leaf, late 19th-early 20th century (before 1912)

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0038
Scope and Contents Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Leaf' (Walter Leaf, 1852-1927, Businessman & Banker), in which he "accept[s] and shall injest, the 'belief in' emendation, and the French Republic in your review. But do you think your society does know a lot of the historical matter? They keep their science pretty dark. I own I think that the coincidence of stories does point to sort of facts, either genuine, hallucination, or conjuring, for where conditions very so much as between Australian, New...
Dates: late 19th-early 20th century (before 1912)

Autograph Letter Signed from Sophia Jex-Blake to an unnamed correspondent, late 19th century-early 20th century

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0039
Scope and Contents

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent returning "the original lists from Lyons & Montpelier, & also a list of all the women we know of from books who are not in any official list. I think among these latter you will find one or more students at each University mentioned in the Record ... ", with a note in another hand at the head saying "Here is a whole letter from your friend. P.F.", 2 sides 8vo., no place, 16th July, no year.

Dates: late 19th century-early 20th century

Letter Signed from Joseph Lister to S. L. Booth, 2 October 1875

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0041
Scope and Contents

Clerk written Letter Signed by Joseph Lister, sent to S. L. Booth telling him that the "address to which you refer will be published in due time in the British Medical Journal. Meantime I beg you to accept a copy of a paper written two years ago, which has reference to the same subject. I may add that the methods of procedure have been since much simplified ... ", 2 sides 8vo., 9 Charlotte Square Edinburgh headed paper, 2 October 1875.

Dates: 2 October 1875

Autograph letter signed from William Dickinson to his mother, reporting on his experiences of student life at Edinburgh, 28 November 1765

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0043
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from William Dickinson (1745-1806) to his mother, reporting on his experiences of student life at Edinburgh, dated 28 November 1765, Edinburgh. Dickinson starts his letter by stating he is happy to hear about the recovery of his father; he then mentions "the two Gentlemen from Oxford" that came to his house. He is "very well pleased" with being at the University, "for Mr Ferguson (the Moral Philosophy Professor) is very clever and refin'd". He adds that he has had...
Dates: 28 November 1765

Manuscript notebook entitled "Private Memorials of Helen Late Mrs Stewart of Physgill", by Catherine Sinclair, 1845, 1863 (enclosed letter), 1946 (newspaper clippings)

 Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0023
Scope and Contents This is a small manuscript notebook with a metal clasp, written by Scottish novelist Catherine Sinclair in 1845. It relates the last moments of her sister Helen, as indiciated on the title page: "Private Memorials of Helen Late Mrs Stewart of Physgill - Written for her children at the request of Mary Stewart by her Sister Catherine Sinclair".The notebook opens with the following words from Catherine Sinclair: "Having attended my sister Helen through the last two months of her...
Dates: 1845; 1863 (enclosed letter); 1946 (newspaper clippings)