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Treatises by Dr. John Pordage
Fonds — Volume: Dc.4.1
Identifier: Coll-2127
Scope and Contents
Treatises on Pordage's religious/mystical visions. It is not known whether this is in Pordage's or another's hand.
Dates:
Before 1680
Tributes to William Muir MacKean (1848-1913), Provost of Paisley
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCK 1
Scope and Contents
Binder containing obituary notes and tributes to William Muir MacKean (1848-1913). Clippings are mostly from "Paisley Daily Express" and "Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette", as well as an Order of Service from Paisley Abbey, 9 June 1913.
Dates:
1913
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Ts copy of a speech by Dr Shelton H Short III on Patrick Henry and Dr William Robertson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1576
Scope and Contents
A copy of typescript, 'On the British ancestral background of Patrick Henry - and a Scottish orator, his cousin, Dr. William Robertson, Principal of Edinburgh University', being a speech delivered by Dr. Shelton H. Short III, at the Parents and Friends Lounge, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, USA, on 20 February 1974. The collection also contains a clipping from the Virginia title, Herald Progress, Thursday 11 April 1974, entitled 'Henry's heritage...
Dates:
1974
Ts letter with ms addition to Donald Weeks from Alan Anderson 2 September 1983
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1579
Scope and Contents
The typescript letter, with ms additions, is from Alan Anderson to Donald Weeks about O'Sullivan connections, with 137 Warrender Park Road letter-heading, and dated 2 September 1983. The letter provides details of where copyright copies of the 'little book' are to be sent and on how the British National Bibliography organises itself. It then discusses how 'there are/were a fair number of O'Sullivans in New York, and I'm afraid we have reached an impasse over that fifth brother,...
Dates:
1983
Ts translation by W. H. Auden (1907-1973) of 'The Knights of the Round Table', a play by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1670
Scope and Contents
Ts, 114pp, quarto. A final leaf of blue paper carries the printed mark of 'Mrs Marshall's', 28 Southampton Street, WC.2 (Play typists since 1884) and is stamped by the firm at 23 April 1957 [or 1951]. An embossed print bearing the same information is on the first page.
Dates:
1951-1957
Tss of poetry by Deric Bolton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1621
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of:
1 x ms letter from Deric Bolton to Tessa Ranford, editor of 'Lines Review', dated 30 November 1992, in which he writes, 'I submit 6 poems for you to consider' for the Review
6 x ts poems, being: 'Old Tweed Bridge'; 'The die is cast'; 'Lydia Aurigny 1960'; 'I am so happy'; 'The pearls and the stars'; and, 'The summer parting'
1 x ms letter from...
Dates:
1992-1996
Twenty-one comic visiting cards caricaturing the photographic carte-de-visite, by Rock Co., London, and J.S. Co., London, c. 1850-1870
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1262
Identifier: Coll-1679
Scope and Contents
Each card measures about 5.75 x 9 cm., engraved image on the recto with ‘Rock & Co., London’ in the image, on 19 cards, two cards have J. S & Co., London, below the image. Verso blank. Many of the 21 cards have a printed series number, the highest being 101, the other number no higher than 48. Three cards have no number. The cards by J.S have the numbers 4 and 5, so they may have been part of a smaller series. 'J. S.' are the initials of J. Simmons.Among the group four...
Dates:
1850-1870
Two common-place books of Ellen Caroline Warter, and around the Brontes
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1559
Scope and Contents
2 manuscript volumes. Oblong 8vo, one being 106 x 175 mm with 288pp, and the other 94 x 148 mm with 212pp. Many pages of both the larger and smaller commonplace book have Ellen Warter's embossed monogram (with a bee). The larger begins with 'The Home of the Brontes'. Well over 300 of the pages of the commonplace books, including the whole of the larger one, are devoted to the Brontes, beginning with extended transcripts from J. H. Turner's Haworth past and...
Dates:
1885
Two photograph albums, of older Spain and Portugal, and of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe... one of them collected by William Horn, Edinburgh
Collection — Volume: Coll-1807 / SC-Acc-2016-0196
Identifier: Coll-1807
Scope and Contents
One album, with photographs of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe, has ms description on fore-page: "Photographs Collection of William Horn [address], Edinburgh. On tour of 1872." Some of the photographs are signed, 'A. Beats'. Many of the photographs of Classical Europe have Italian scenes around Florence, Naples and Pompei, and Milan, and there are photographs of Alpine scenes and Vienna too.The other album is entitled on the front board: "Photographs of Spain &...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1872-1890
Two photograph albums of views from Shantung and Shanghai, and from Jehol and Beijing, to Yunnan
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1879
Content Description
Two albums containing black and white photographs of landscapes in a variety of locations, as well as portraits and street scenes, each with accompanying text. The first album is entitled '"China 1920-1930 - From Shantung and Shanghai to Yunan [sic]" (119 pages), and the second album is entitled "China 1920-1930 - From Jehol and Peking to Yunnan" (136 pages). Many of the photos are grouped into sets of up to ten images on a particular province or theme, such as: Futoshan/Putuoshan, near...
Dates:
late 1920s- early 1930s