Box CLX-A-1591

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents This is a dust jacket artwork for Arthur Koestler's Arrow in the Blue, an autobiography which was published in 1952 by Collins with Hamish Hamilton Ltd. The artwork is by Joseph Gross. There are manuscript instructions and dimensions written around the image. On the verso there are two labels: the artist's label "Joseph Gross 146, Evening Rd, London N 16", and the publisher Collins's label stamped "3 June 1952" with further information...

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This is a commemorative certificate in vellum presented to Dr William Macleod at the 1937 Medical Graduates Golden Jubilee that took place in 1987, to thank him for organising alumni reunions over the years. It is accompanied by a booklet listing said graduates.

Scope and Contents A manuscript document written in 1828 declaring the religious Innocence of a Japanese family comprised of eleven people (six women and five men). Christianity was banned in Japan in 1612 by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the ban was only lifted in 1873 under the government of Emperor Meiji, who had gained power following the opening of Japan to trade by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854. Until the lift of the ban, Japanese citizens were required to register annually at their local temple as...

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This is a graduation photograph of the Honours Greek Class of the University of Edinburgh, dated 30 June 1932. The class is composed of two professors, two women and nine men, including the Scottish poet Norman MacCaig. Photo by E. R. Yerbury & Sons.

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Leaflet entitled 'Pittori Toscani' on an exhibition on Florentine painters held at the Edinburgh College of Art in October 1958. The leaflet contains a list of exposed paintings, from the following artists: Baroni, Dino Caponi, Fernando Farulli, Marcello Guasti, Silvio Loffredo, Mario Marcucci, Rodolfo Margheri, Adriana Pincherle Enzo Pregno, and Ottone Rosai.

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Sir James Young Simpson to Dr Barham, Edinburgh, 3 January 1866, on the subject of Dr Barham's antique tin marked with a symbol that Simpson is trying to decipher.In the letter, Simpson tells Barham that "Professor Stephens of Copenhagen is here at pressent, & has told us at the Antiquarian Society that your jug of tin ... has upon it this mark X which he reads as a rune in old English meaning ST which he believes to mean Stan or Stone - the name...

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed by Thomas Carlyle to an unnamed correspondent. Chelsea, 9 January 1845. In it, Carlyle thanks them "for your Copies and List - if you went to the Museum today you would find that I had been at the Ayscough ... yesterday. I got the letter (first letter) to the Mayor of Waterford copied from it, but as yet nothing more. If you have been so obliging as to copy me anything more from that or other quarters, could you send me word about it (the briefest word) tomorrow...

Scope and Contents Two essays on Jean-Baptiste Philippe and St. Luce Philip, medical students from Trinidad who studied at the University of Edinburgh in the 1810s and 1820s respectively.These essays form part of the body of a work in progress, tentatively titled: 'The Lions Roar' - a genealogical, historical, Caribbean and beyond study. Joanne Haynes is the great, great grand niece of Michel Maxwell Philip, Trinidad's first Mayor of color and relative of Jean-Baptiste and St. Luce. This work began...