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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 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 workI 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...

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...