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Common-place book of S. H., with poems, epitaphs etc, from various sources, c. 1809-1810

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1683
Scope and Contents Small quarto, 43pp, in the original marbled paper covered wrappers. There are pieces written by Mason, and by Thomson. Others are taken from the Edinburgh Magazine and the Morning Post. Titles include, 'A Fragment', 'To a Lady on her Birthday', 'On a Lady who died in Childbirth 1778', 'The parting Lover', 'Woe', 'An inscription on the tomb of one Margaret Sect who died at Selkirk 12 miles from Newcastle 1728', and 'On Conjugal...
Dates: 1809-1810
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace-book and other family material relating to Rev. William Henderson Begg

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1517
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: 1 x commonplace book from c.1900: autograph manuscript, 155pp, which also have enclusures (notes, ephemera). Subjects include: art, aesthetic religion, creeds, calvinism, darwinism, equality, love, missions, Puritan, personality, Rome, reason, and scepticism There are also: ...
Dates: 1900-1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace book of Charles Greig McCrie (1836-1910), minister of Ayr West Free Church

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCC 4
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book belonging to Charles Greig McCrie, (1836-1910), Minister of Ayr West Free Church.

Volume is an A-Z ledger with handwritten entries. Some entries are quotes with citations, whilst others are notes about publications classified by theme.

McCries research interests are broadly theological, but also include references to romantic literature, social history, and philosophy. Many of the pages are blank.

Dates: c.1900
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Commonplace book of Helen Littlejohn

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Identifier: MS LIT 1
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book containing newspaper clippings (1914-15), poems, and quotations. One poem is dated, 'Pretoria, December 1st 1901', and a clipping of a poem by Rumi, extracted from the Asiatic Journal, July 1839, is pasted on the inside cover.

'Miss Helen Littlejohn Feb. 1841' is written on front flyleaf.

Dates: 1841; 1901; 1914-1915
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Commonplace book of Hugh E. Baikie (1906-1981)

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Identifier: MS BAI 30
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book with later additions loosley inserted, including a newspaper clipping from 1981.

Dates: 1925-1937; Publication: 1981
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Commonplace book of John Murray Mitchell (1815-1904), missionary, India

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MIT 4
Scope and Contents Commonplace book, titled 'Adversaria de rebus indicis aliisque'. Contains entries between 1857 and 1898.Entries mainly relate to Mitchell's time in India, and include: - Comparative mythology and vernacular literature - Census information - Indian religions - Female education in India - Opium - Idolatry and demon worship - Christianity and mission in India - Sacrifice (human and animal)Dark brown leather octavo volume, with...
Dates: 1857-1897
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Commonplace book of William H. Peyton

 Item — Box: CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2058
Content Description

Commonplace book of William H. Peyton, indexed, c. 80,000 words. Copious notebook kept some of the time when the writer was visiting France and Switzerland, with references to Darwin and Huxley, and an autobiography at p. 181. Dated 1893-1898.


Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.

Dates: 1893-1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Composite volume entitled "Theses Etc." containing printed and manuscript texts

 Fonds — Volume: Df.9.138
Identifier: Coll-2889
Scope and Contents This is a composite volume containing 23 texts published or written in the 17th century, numbered from Df.9.138/1 to Df.9.138/23. All of them are printed except for Df.9.138/15. The printed texts are theses from Scottish universities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, St Andrews), and from elsewhere in Europe (London, Leiden, Deventer, Basel). The manuscript text seems to be lecture notes. Includes a handwritten list of contents at the beginning of the volume....
Dates: 1629-1684
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Concert programmes of the Orchestral Lecture-Concerts for School Children in the Usher Hall, 1924-1928

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Identifier: Coll-1557
Scope and Contents The concert programmes consist of: 4th Orchestral Lecture-Concert for School Children in the Usher Hall, Friday 22 February 1924. Education Authority for Edinburgh 5th Orchestral Lecture-Concert for School Children in the Usher Hall, Friday 29 February 1924. Education Authority for Edinburgh 6th Orchestral Lecture-Concert for School Children in the Usher Hall, Friday 7...
Dates: 1924-1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Concert programmes of the Waddell Orchestra, 1933-1984

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Identifier: Coll-1499
Scope and Contents In addition to the Concert Programmes there is a copy of a Questionnaire on Youth Orchestras sent by a researcher to the Orchestra in 1988, along with the answers prepared for the form, and associated correspondence. The collection of Concert Programmes is composed of: 1 x copy of programme for Concert by Preparatory Orchestra and Pupils at St. Cuthbert's Hall on Saturday, 9th December...
Dates: 1933-1988
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Church of Scotland 5
Erskine, Ralph, Rev, 1685-1752 (minister and poet) 5
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Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 4
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
Gregory, James, 1638-1675 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh) 4
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, 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
Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 4
Masson, David Mather, 1822-1907 (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University) 4
Monro, Alexander, 1697-1767 ("Primus", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 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
Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 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
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Church Missionary Society 3
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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
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and metalurgist) 3
Dott, Norman McOmish, 1897-1973 (Neurosurgeon) 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
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (historian, philosopher) 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
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
Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (poet, novelist and translator) 3
Muir, Willa, 1890-1970 (novelist, essayist and translator) 3
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 3
Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh) 3
Stevens, William Victor, 1900-1987 (President of the University of Edinburgh Graduates' Association) 3
Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900 (Physician, President of the BMA) 3
Syme, James, 1799-1870 (Scottish pioneering surgeon; Professor of clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh) 3
Torrance, Thomas Forsyth, 1913-2007 (theologian, and Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh) 3
Tragara Pressnn 3
University of Aberdeen (1495-:) 3
Wodrow, Robert, 1679-1734 (Church of Scotland minister, historian and antiquarian) 3
Adlard and Son (1766-) 2
Ambler, Richard Penry, 1933-: (professor of protein chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2