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Papers of the Coghill family
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-360
Identifier: Coll-1858
Content Description
This collection is composed of the papers of Agnes Irene Sinclair Coghill, medical student at the University of Edinburgh in the 1890s, and of a bound selection of articles published by her father John George Sinclair Coghill in The Lancet in 1859.1. The papers of Agnes Coghill include her degree certificate signed by the Vice-Chancellor, the Dean of the Faculty and the Senate's Secretary. She was awarded a Master in Surgery ("Gradum Magistri in Chirurgia") in 1897. Also included...
Dates:
1859-1904
Papers of the Doctrinal Discussion Group chaired by Kenneth Warner, Bishop of Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: MS 5005
Scope and Contents
File of the Doctrinal Discussion Group established by Bishop Kenneth Warner. It contains correspondence, papers for discussion, printed items and newspaper cuttings. The letter of invitation states 'As the result of consultations which I have had with Professors J.H.S. Burleigh and T.F. Torrance of the Church of Scotland, it is planned to hold informal and unofficial discussion of doctrinal matters between members of the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Episcopal Church,...
Dates:
1951-1961
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of the family of Don Wauchope of Edmonstone
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-708
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of bonds of provision, discharges and statements, bonds of corroboration, discharges of interest, dispositions and assignations, bonds of relief, calculations of interest, notes of mines and seams at Edmonstone and Wolmote, lists of bonds due, and states of bonds due.
Dates:
1708-1836
Papers of the Ferretti Family of Ancona
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1014
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of some 121 unpublished manuscript documents - in Latin and Italian - relating to the Papal States and the House of Ferretti. The collection also contains many supporting photocopied items (articles etc), and some colour photographs of Palazzo Ferretti in Ancona. There is a large envelope containing city plans of Ancona.This material offers a detailed account of the private lives of the minor nobles in the Papal States after the Sack of Rome in 1527 and...
Dates:
1574-1746
Papers of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Library (1718 -1876)
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 24.6
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1718-1876
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of the Harman family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1906
Scope and Contents
Sketchbooks, photographs and papers relating to the Harman family and their travel around Europe, including Ireland and Italy.
Dates:
1890s-1935
Papers of the Howden family of Lawhead and Traprain Farms, East Lothian
Fonds — Container: Gen.1956
Identifier: Coll-2901
Scope and Contents
These papers are composed of: correspondence, papers and domestic and farm accounts of Andrew and William Howden, farmers of Lawhead and Traprain Farms, East Lothian covering a period roughly 1810-1843. There are bills and accounts for clothing and agricultural implements, plans of buildings, deeds, materials relating to stock shows, and a price list from Peter Lawson & Son, Edinburgh, seed merchants, and a prospectus for the services of an agricultural chemist. The correspondence...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780-1843
Papers of the Rev. Charles Watson (1794-1866)
Fonds
Identifier: GD36
Scope and Contents
The papers consist largely of letters from the Rev. Charles Watson to David Watson and to Mrs. Isabella Watson. There is also a letter from Elizabeth R. MacGillivray to David Watson, and letters from David Watson to Charles Watson.
Dates:
1840-1854
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of the Rev. David Colville Lusk (1881-1960)
Fonds
Identifier: GD17
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: letters from various correspondents to Lusk in connection with proposal to establish a congregation of the Presbyterian Church of England at Oxford, 1929; other letters and material relating to proposal for forming a permanent congregation at St. Columba's, Oxford, for Presbyterians coming to live and work in Oxford; letters from Lady Dorothy Haig, 1921-1929; various printed materials on St. Columba's, Oxford, including historical outline, history of the Chapel...
Dates:
1896-1959
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of the Rev. Dr. Andrew Landale Drummond (1902-1966)
Fonds
Identifier: GD25
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: architectural plans and drawings of non-ecclesiastical buildings mainly in the British Isles, but also in France, Germany and the Netherlands; a volume of cuttings and book reviews of Drummond's works; a notebook of Scottish history; a number of off-prints, 1935-1952, on various subjects including church architecture, Henry Bazely, Father Ignatius, and Pugin; correspondence, 1969-1980, addressed to Mrs. A. L. Drummond in connection with A. L. Drummond's books...
Dates:
1934-1980
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections