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Collection of James O. Halliwell-Phillipps
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-103
Scope and Contents
The Halliwell-Phillipps Collection includes 16th-century works by Italian, French and Spanish authors. Its strength lies in English books however, especially English drama of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Collection also includes more than 600 plays including works by Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, and William Wycherley. Several are playhouse copies with contemporary stage directions added in manuscript....
Dates:
16th century-19th century
Collection of James S.K. Elmslie, Veterinary Surgeon
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1105
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
- c.100 photographic negatives showing animals and farmyard themes
- undated news clipping about the death of Principal O. Charnock Bradley, head of the then Royal (Dick) Veterinary College
- report of the visit to Kenya undetaken by Elmslie and Brennan in 1960
- memorandum from the Colonial Office, 1930, relating to...
Dates:
1930-1970
Collection of John Hector (1845-1934)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 4
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three volumes which seem to date from after Hector's return from India but contain extracts from lectures given and hymns, songs and verses collected while he was there: (1) volume, similar to a commonplace book, with hymns, songs and verses noted by Hector, some translated by him from Bengali or French, and some other notes and newspaper articles (various dates); (2) extracts from Hector's lectures to his students in Calcutta (extracts written by Hector at a later...
Dates:
19th century-20th century
Collection of Joseph Ross (1890-1969)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 3
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of letters from and articles about missionaries who knew Ross, who were connected with the Boy Scout Association or who were associated with Aberdeen. Much of the material was collected by Ross for use in his Sunday school classes, but some is more personal, many of the articles are cutting from Life and Work or other missionary publications, and there are some photographs. There is only a small amount on each...
Dates:
1920-1962
Collection of letters in Arabic serving as passports or requests for safe conduct in the Caucasus
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1258
Scope and Contents
The 'passport' letters written in Arabic are numbered in pencil and have been identified tentatively (in 1987, by a member of the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) as follows:
- Letter 1: Open letter addressed to a local notable and headman requesting them to afford the bearer every assistance in the course of the journey. Signed by a Russian official, and bearing a Russian seal-stamp.
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Dates:
1888
Collection of letters of Thomas Chalmers, mostly to Rebecca Bell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2083
Scope and Contents
Collection of 15 signed autograph letters from Thomas Chalmers, Edinburgh and Burntisland, 1832-1842. All but one are addressed to Miss Rebecca Bell of Woodhouse Lee, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire (the remaining letter to George Bell of Leith), discussing the state of the Church of Scotland during the campaign that culminated in the Disruption and the establishment of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. He also offers spiritual advice, and discusses Miss Bell's proposed foundation of a new...
Dates:
1832-1842
Collection of letters relating to Nova Scotia
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-335
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: a descriptive sketch of Nova Scotia, dated 1783 on the spine of the item; and, letters relating to Nova Scotia including some from the politician Henry Dundas (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville, on the defence of the province in the event of war with America.
Dates:
1783-1813
Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1705
Identifier: Coll-1989
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of 108 autograph letters sent from various scientists, politicians, economists, artists etc. to members of the Lyell and Horner families. Also includes 41 portraits (photographs, etchings, and engravings).
Byrne, Fanny Horner (1789-1876), sister of Leonard Horner;
Horner, Anna Susanna (1786-1862), married to Leornard Horner;
Horner, Frances Joanna...
Dates:
1791-1903
Collection of Library slips relating to Edinburgh University theses, 1844
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1288
Scope and Contents
The 5 x slips (fragments) were discovered by cataloguing staff inside earlier Edinburgh University theses. They are handwritten in ink. The fragments are:
- a note of page references with some remarks relating to a medical text
- a list of theses sent either by or to Prof. Christison, Edinburgh College, 26 July 1844 - with the names Vass, Anderson, Chepmell, Etherington, Fleming,...
Dates:
1844
Collection of Manuscript Poems by Richard Gall and Related Materials
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2908
Scope and Contents
This is an archive of late eighteenth-century Scots poetry composed of over 40 poems in the hand of Scottish poet Richard Gall (1776-1801), together with 36 poems sent to Gall by writers in his circle, and materials relating to the posthumous publication of Gall's Poems and Songs in 1819.1. Forty-seven poems by Gall (of which some unpublished), nearly all with corrections and variant readings, some present in several different copies, two in apparently...
Dates:
c 1790-1819