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Scott Morton Ltd: photographs
Fonds — Box: Phot.Ill.149
Identifier: Coll-1639
Scope and Contents
Formerly in 8 albums, these are photographs of furniture, interiors and similar.
Dates:
20th century
Scottish Eastern Association, Medical Women's Federation
Fonds
Identifier: GD51
Scope and Contents
Minutes, publications (such as annual reports), correspondence, campaigning papers, and ephemera.
Dates:
1915-2012
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Scottish Historical Studies, student notes of Arnott T. Wilson
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1538
Scope and Contents
The lecture notes on Scottish Historical Studies were taken down between the years 1972 and 1976, and are composed of:
Notes and study material - Scottish History 1
Notes and study material - Scottish History 2
Notes and study material - Scottish History 3
Essay (2nd term, Scottish History 2) on the 'Parish of Largo'
Final year work,...
Dates:
1972-1976
Scottish tradition of the House of Napier
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1412
Scope and Contents
The volume is dated 1902 and entitled on the front board: 'A Scottish tradition of the House of Napier / Hon'ble Mrs. James Napier. On a facing page to the inside of the front-board it states: 'This Legend of Her Name was illustrated for The Bride / The Artist employed / was Mr. J. Jenks[?] / Schoolmaster / Kilmore [?] / by Oban. The volume contains a tale about the origin of the name 'Napier' and features a fine water-colour of two knights in 'Arts and Crafts' or 'Art Nouveau' style and...
Dates:
1902
Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, including two manuscript poems by Walter de la Mare
Item — Box: CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1834
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook album compiled by Violet de la Mare, sister-in-law of poet Walter de la Mare. It contains numerous newspaper clippings, some relating to de la Mare's fiction and articles by him; and two unpublished poems by Walter to his nephew James Roy Delamare.
Dates:
1884-1950
Scrapbook containing letters from John Masefield to Elizabeth Talbot Rice
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-360
Identifier: Coll-1844
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook containing approx. 30 signed letters and Christmas cards from John Masefield to Elizabeth Talbot Rice. Some of them are illustrated, some others contain unpublished poems written specifically for Elizabeth. Also includes a signed photograph of John Masefield with his cat, and an envelope with three wax seals.Some of the most interesting letters include:
Letter on p. 1 containing a...
Dates:
1930s-1960s (before 1967)
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