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Papers of The Very Rev Prof James Whyte (1920-2005)

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Identifier: AA5
Scope and Contents Sermons and addresses, 1948-1996; lectures, 1949-1982; class notes and lecture notes, 1949-1982; correspondence, 1988-1989 and 1964-1970; newspaper cuttings, 1988-1989 and 1964-1969; publications and articles, 1902-1970; church magazines, 1929-1993; conference papers, 1978; moderatorial papers, 1988-1989; University Christian Consultative Group papers, 1970-1972; Church of Scotland and the Congregational Union of Scotland papers, 1959-1967; personal papers, 1848-1983; photographs 1911 and...
Dates: 1848-1993
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of the Very Rev. Professor Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1835-1908)

 Fonds
Identifier: GD31
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises: lectures on Galatians, session 1885-1886; lecture book, prophecy in the Old testament, 1896-1897; a volume of newspaper cuttings and obituary notices, and including an address by Dr. I. Mitford Mitchell at the dedication of the Charteris Memorial Church in Edinburgh, 1912; and, Canonicity, a collection of early testimonies to the canonical books of the New Testament, with notes by Charteris.

Dates: 1880-1912
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of the Very Rev. Professor William P. Paterson (1860-1939)

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Identifier: MS PAT 1
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of: lectures, toasts, orations given by Paterson on e.g. John Knox and Sir Walter Scott; essays and sermons; notes and summaries; material in a tour of France; off-prints; orders of service; visiting cards; and, assorted photographs of Paterson.

Dates: 1898-1934
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of the Very Rev. William White Anderson (1888-1956)

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Identifier: GD55
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of: sermon notebooks; lectures, mainly on Scottish subjects; prayers for public worship; miscellaneous poems, quotations from prose works, newspaper cuttings, and author and subject index, Anderson's Gleanings; a collection of anecdotes; and, memorabilia from the Moderatorial year, 1951-1952. See External Documents (below).

Dates: 1930-1952
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of Thomas Aitken Dollar

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-726
Scope and Contents

The papers are composed of: an Edinburgh Veterinary College document, being a 'Statement on behalf of ... petitioners for a Veterinary College for Scotland', dated November 1867; a copy of the Pharmacy Act (1868) Amendment; miscellaneous letters to Aitken from 1866 to 1889; newspaper cutting; and, photograph.

Dates: 1866-1889
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Thomas Boston (1676-1732)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS BOS
Scope and Contents

1. 'A general account of my life.' 1730. pp. 315.

2. 'Passages of my life.' nd. pp. 370 (wanting pp. 366-67).

3. Essay on the first 20 chapters of Genesis transcribed by the schoolmaster of Ettrick. 1726? pp. 274. On p. 1 verso, 'Memorial concerning this Essay' by the author.

4. [Tractatus stigmologicus, Hebraeco-Biblicus]. Essay on the Hebrew accent. pp. 145. First draft in English. Completed Sept. 1723. Printed in Latin in Amsterdam, 1738.

Dates: c.1726-1738
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of Thomas Colvin (1925-2000)

 Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 39
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three main sections (1) personal items and early mission history; (2) Colvins in Malawi 1954-1958; and (3) Colvins in Malawi 1964-1974. Section (1) includes: personal items on Colvin such as his c.v.; and material on early mission and church history including publications and early accounts and photographs (1890s-1976). Section (2) includes: mission and church reports and papers (1950s); letters to the Colvins around the time that they were excluded from Malawi,...
Dates: [ca. 1890]-2001
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Thomas Forrester (c.1635-1706), Principal of St Mary’s College, St Andrews

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Identifier: MS FOR 2
Scope and Contents

Folio book containing the letters and papers of Thomas Forrester (c.1635-1706), Principal of St Mary’s College, St Andrews.

The majority of text is in a very neat italic hand showing secretary features. Both the front and back fly leaves have ownership marks and pen trials, as well as former shelfmark L.S.I-3-9. A letter regarding the volume's donation to the Church of Scotland Library on the 30 June 1842 is loosely inserted between the front flyleaves.

Dates: 1673-1678; Event: 1842-06-30
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of Thomas Gillespie (1708-1774)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 7.1
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

Dates: 1741-1743
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Papers of Thomas Hartley Cromek

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Identifier: Coll-177
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the correspondence of artists and others with Hartley and his daughter Mary, 1835-1871. The letters are bound and pasted, and there is a complete list of correspondents on the first fly-leaf.

Dates: 1835-1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 142
Hall, Edward, b 1898 (Bookseller) 19
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 14
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 11
Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 10
Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 9
Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 9
Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 8
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 8
Moray House College of Education (1959-1991) 8
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774-1856 (Artist) 7
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 7
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 7
Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard, 1841-1920 (Knight ; Professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 7
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 7
Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 7
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 7
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 7
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 7
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 6
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 6
Koestler, Arthur, CBE, 1905-1983 (Hungarian-British author and journalist) 6
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 6
Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 6
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 5
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 5
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 5
Church of Scotland 5
Erskine, Ralph, Rev, 1685-1752 (minister and poet) 5
Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 5
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 5
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 5
Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 5
Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 5
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (Professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 5
Roslin Institute 5
Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 5
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 (author and Traveller) 5
University of Edinburgh. Library 5
Victor Gollancz Ltd 5
Animal Breeding Research Organisation. ABRO (1945 - 1986) 4
Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 4
Blaikie, William Garden, 1820-1899 (Minister of Pilrig and Temperance Reformer) 4
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 4
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist) 4
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (Scottish historian and philosopher) 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 4
Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 4
Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 4
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1811-1870 (Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 4
Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 4
University of Aberdeen (1495-:) 4
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 4
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet, professor of Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh) 3
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 3
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 3
Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 3
Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958 (Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University) 3
Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 3
Buchanan, George, 1506-1582 (Scottish expatriate, historian and scholar, anti-absolutist and satyrist of clerical vice) 3
Chiene, John, 1843-1923 (Scottish surgeon, Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh ) 3
Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 3
Church Missionary Society 3
Church of Scotland (1560-) 3
Combe, George, 1788-1858 (Phrenologist) 3
Cowan House (student hall of residence) 3
Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 (English military and political leader) 3
Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 3
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (the elder | British physician | Professor at University of Edinburgh) 3
East India Company (1600-1874) 3
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
Grant, John, fl 1955 (Bookseller) 3
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (Folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 3
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa, 1840-1912 (medical practitioner, reformer and suffragette) 3
Kendall, Sheena Lilian Grant, 1883-1974 (composer) 3
Knox, John, c 1513-1572 (Scottish preacher) 3
Laws, Robert, 1851-1934 (Scottish missionary) 3
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988 (Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh) 3
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
London Missionary Society 3
Love , John, Rev Dr, 1757-1825 (Church of Scotland minister ) 3
MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746 (mathematician) 3