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Papers of Arthur Koestler
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-146
Scope and Contents
Consists of inscribed and annotated books from Koestler's library, along with English-language editions and translations of his work into many languages; and Koestler's manuscripts and papers from 1940 to March 1983. Also contains correspondence with or about members of Koestler's family; personal material including diaries, address books, medical files and other personal documents; literary manuscripts including interviews, broadcasts and speeches; correspondence with specific people;...
Dates:
1939-1993
Papers of Arthur Melville Clark
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-65
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Arthur Melville Clark contain lecture notes; lectures and articles on Sir Walter Scott; material on Shakespeare; Edinburgh University examinations material; some work on rhyme; material on heraldry and genealogy, and on the Order of St. Lazarus; correspondence, personal material and some photographs; speeches; reviews; and, books and a notebook containing poems with some inserted letters....
Dates:
circa 1920
Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-208
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version;...
Dates:
1903-1965
Papers of Benjamin Leigh Smith
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-283
Scope and Contents
The papers in the collection consist of a journal, in typescript, of Smith's voyage to the Arctic in the schooner 'Samson', May-October 1871, and an account in typescript of his explorations in the seas around Svalbard (Spitzbergen), 1871-1873, by a member of the expedition.
Dates:
1871
Papers of Betty D. Gibson (1889-1973)
Fonds
Identifier: GD5
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters (1928-1938) from Gibson to her family written while on missionary business in Europe, Palestine, Africa, and India; notes made by Gibson on African missions visited, on their activities, histories and records, and on meetings about missions (1933-1944) and on continental missions (ca. 1937-1948 including financial status); circulars and printed reports by the International Missionary Council and the Conference of Missionary Societies, and on Nyasaland and...
Dates:
1907-1969
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Catherine R. Borland
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-241
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 7 notebooks and a file of correspondence relating to Borland's work on the catalogue of western medieval manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library, 1911-1916 (catalogue available online (external link)).
Dates:
1911-1916
Papers of Catriona McPherson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2898
Scope and Contents
This small fonds consists of a collection of articles, annotated proofs, and artwork connected to the crime novels After the Armistice Ball (2005) and The Burry Man's Day (2006). Includes six typed, signed and annotated proof drafts for the prologue of the book, a long-handwritten quote from the book in the authors hand, two signed artworks for the book cover by the author and artist. Also includes two invitations to the release of her...
Dates:
2005-2006
Papers of Cecil Polhill (1860-1938) and Arthur Polhill (1863-1935)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 10
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a copy of a draft manuscript Two Etonians in China 1885-1925 by Cecil and Arthur Polhill. The manuscript includes sections written by both brothers and a short, abridged section of Evangelisation of the World by Benjamin Broomhall. The manuscript covers the brothers' early life, conversion, and work in China and refers to the Cambridge Seven and others working in China at the...
Dates:
1903-1926
Papers of Charles Mackie
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-423
Scope and Contents
Volumes:
Index Funereus 29 Annorum, June 1727 - June 1756 (Dc.1.47)
Commonplace books containing chiefly notes and extracts on Roman and general history, 2 vols [also containing a list in vol. 2 of Mackie's students in History and Roman Antiquities] (Dc.5.24)
Annotationes in ontologiam Gerrardi de Vries, 1703 (Dc.7.79)
Commonplace book containing...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1703-1756
Papers of Charles Randalls
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1024
Scope and Contents
The boxes contain 17 Andrew Baxendine softback University notebooks, 9 hardback notebooks and 3 folders. The folders hold examination papers, class certificates, and geography notes all covering the period 1933-1936. The notebooks contain Spanish, French, English, Geography, Philosophy, Psychology, and Science notes of the period. There is also a press cutting about Malcolm K. Macmillan MP, the (then) youngest elected Labour MP at 22, who had been a Law student at Edinburgh University.
Dates:
1933-1936