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Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings and diplomas relating to Professor James Syme
Fonds — Volume: Df.3.41
Identifier: Coll-2891
Scope and Contents
This is a scrapbook entitled "Literary Scraps: Cuttings from Newspapers, Extracts, Miscellanea, etc.", containing newspapers clippings, diplomas, and correspondence relating to Scottish surgeon Professor James Syme.
Clipping: report of a meeting to found the "Syme Testimonial", 11 November 1869.
Diploma of Honorary Member of the "Society for purchasing Books at Leadhills", 2 May...
Dates:
1838-1957
Scrapbook containing printed engravings from Dr Southwell's New Book of Martyrs
Collection
Identifier: MS 2025
Scope and Contents
Twenty-nine printed engravings from Dr Southwell's New Book of Martyrs pasted into a late 20th century scrapbook. Each item has the heading 'Engraved for The Rev Dr Southwell's New book of Martys' and carries a caption beneath.
Dates:
c.1780
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Scrapbook of James Finlay Weir Johnston (1796-1855), chemist of Agricultural Society of Scotland
Fonds
Identifier: MS JOH
Scope and Contents
Volume of newspaper clippings, letters, and printed pamphlets. The subjects covered change with the orientation of the book:From the front, the subject is the Irish Potato Famine, and contains materials dated 1845-1846. Interleaved throughout the newspaper clippings are letters and notes, as well as pamphlets about potato disease, many of which are written by Johnston. Other sources for the pamphlets include the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, reports by John F. Hodges, the...
Dates:
1845-1851
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, largely relating to the books of Sir James Purves-Stewart and his views on Euthanasia
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1117
Scope and Contents
The volume - a scrapbook - contains newspaper cuttings in small part consisting of reviews of Purves-Stewart's notable published workDiagnosis of nervous diseases(1906). There are reviews from theBMJ, theAthenaeum(8 Dec. 1906);The Lancet(8 May 1909),La Clinique(12 Aout 1910), and theBulletin Medical de l'Algerie(Alger, 25 Aout 1910), but in large part consisting of controversial articles in the 1930s about Purves-Stewart's views on voluntary euthanasia and about the administration of...
Dates:
1906-1939
Scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings about mission in Livingstonia, Malawi, 1874-1887
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 2
Identifier: CSWC 90
Scrapbooks of Iain Moffatt-Pender
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1140
Identifier: Coll-1896
Scope and Contents
Two personal scrapbooks of writer and Gaelic revivalist Iain Moffatt-Pender, comprising mostly clippings, photographs, and correspondence which together throw an interesting light on the social milieu of Scottish Gaelic revivalism in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, including links with Irish artists and academics.The first album contains several black-and-white family photographs dating from the beginning and middle of the 20th century, a letter from John Macmillan...
Dates:
1950s-1960s
Scrapbooks of Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter and Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2080
Content Description
These two scrapbooks were compiled by Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter (a.k.a. Mrs Burnley-Campbell of Ormidale (1857-1938)) and her daughter Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell (later Warrand (1891-1973)). Dealing with both public and private life, they contain a substantial quantity of material relating to Margaret’s participation in the Gaelic movement, including events devoted to Gaelic language, Highland culture, games and music. They also record her involvement in the suffragette movement,...
Dates:
1909-1919
Second Scottish General Hospital Craigleith
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-82
Scope and Contents
"Craigleith Hospital Chronicle" 1915-1916 (incomplete run of issues)
Dates:
1915-1916
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Series of newspaper articles on Rev Lawrence Wells (c.1720-1786), Shotts, by James A. Reid
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 22.5
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1915
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Sermon as component of A proclamation for a public thanksgiving, 1814
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1463
Scope and Contents
Folio. Broadside. Uncut, with some loss to edges. Folded, with some marking and marginal tears. Inscribed at head in 19th century hand, 'Thanksgiving Peace 1814 July' and at foot 'Public worship on Thursday will begin at the usual hour...'.
On verso, the broadside bears a lengthy manuscript copy of a contemporary sermon on 'the great and public blessing of peace' beginning with the 126th Psalm and occupying the entire verso in four columns.
Dates:
1814