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Declaration on Nonintrusionism by Rev William Wallace Duncan (1808-1864) and the parish of Cleish
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 10.5
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1840
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Decreet of declarator: Archibald MacAulay, minister, South Queensferry v Magistrates of South Queensferry
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCA
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume on a legal case.Title reads:"Decreet of Declarator [etc.] Mr. Archibald MacAulay Minister of the Gospel at South Queensferry against the Magistrates, heritors, [and] other inhabitants of the said burgh."Volume is dated 9 May 1767, and is signed by Alexander Pierie, Jas. Pringle [scribe] and John Callender.The case appears to concern the non-payment of the minister's stipendSeveral items are laid in, including a...
Dates:
9 May 1767; 18 February 1768; 7 May 1959
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Degree and Diploma of Jane Potter Deas Dickson (nee Stuart)
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-837
Identifier: Coll-1161
Scope and Contents
The collection includes:
- school leaving certificate, Higher Education, Beath Secondary School, Fife, dated 1934, and noting subjects of English (Higher), Mathematics (Lower), Latin (Higher), French (Higher), and Art (Lower), and noting that Dickson continued at school for a further year till 1935.
- pass certificate, English, University of Edinburgh, June 1936
- pass...
Dates:
1934-1942
Degree and Graduation portraits of Margaret Robertson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1088
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: a black and white photograph - studio portrait - of Margaret Robertson wearing academic dress during the period of her graduation in 1919; copy of a studio portrait, seated pose, during the period of graduation; and, degree certificate or parchment of Margaret Robertson, interesting for the hand-corrected script indicating 1919 rather than 1909 (and indicative of the shortage of parchment paper in the wake of the 1914-1918 war).
Dates:
1919
Description of events at Sottrum, North Germany, 1813-1814, after the French defeat in 1812
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1287
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is entitled A Clegyman's house, 50 years ago. 1813-1814. It is written in ink and consists of 42 numbered pages (folded) with each of the 4-sides filled, making 168 pages. The manuscript is incomplete. It opens with a description of the countryside around Sottrum, and during the course of the fighting it mentions historical notables and events including: General Carra St. Cyr; Prince Reuss; Frederick William Duke of Brunswick; General...
Dates:
1863-1864
Design thesis entitled, 'A centre for research and instruction in physical planning'
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1091
Identifier: Coll-1395
Scope and Contents
The title of the design thesis is A centre for research and instruction in physical planning and it relates to a proposal for Gordon Square, London W.1. The item is in typescript and has photographs inserted. The work traces the activities of the Association for Planning and Regional Reconstruction, and offers a proposal for a new building for the Association.
Dates:
1943-1947
Designs of Marie Laurencin
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1090
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 7 watercolour paintings/sketches which may be by Marie Laurencin. The paintings are undated. The signatures are underlined. Each is stamped with the Edinburgh University Reid Music Library mark, and a sign resembling upper-case letter 'L' over letter upper-case 'O'. The watercolours were in an envelope noted with 'M78 BLOW-26' in top-left, and 'P5231 G-N' in top-right. The envelope notes the titles of each watercolour, and these are listed...
Dates:
1902-1920?
Diane de Bournazel Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2046
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of ten manuscript books and one framed illustration created by Diane de Bournazel from 2015 to 2023. These handmade and unique books are filled with intricate densely-packed detail, which draw the eye and the mind into a dream-like world, in which she explores themes that include the natural world, childhood, and human relationships. Each work expresses a sweep of emotions while being imbued with a sense of the inner life. Bournazel uses drawing, painting, paper...
Dates:
2015-2025
Diaries of a Nigerian District Officer's family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-719
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: a typescript account Violet in Nigeria edited by Margaret A. Kerrich (nee Cragg) from her mother's letters covering the period 1924-1930, and about the life of a District Officer's family; 2 cassette tapes recorded on three of the four sides by Kerrich relating experiences in Nigeria 1931-1932, and based on a diary; a small number of photographs (some of a leopard, possibly 'Piccin'), drawings and miscellaneous items; and, a nameplate...
Dates:
1924-1934
Diaries of Dr. I. M. MacIntosh - Antarctica 1956-1957, 1961-1962
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1285
Scope and Contents
E2010.32 consists of typescript copies of the Diary of Dr. MacIntosh. Antarctica 1956-1957 and Dr. MacIntosh's Diary 1961-1962. South on 'Venturer'. Ashore at Leith Harbour. Home by 'Harvester''. There are also photocopies of the diaries. The diaries were discovered in 2007 through a bookshop by George R. Cummings - Chairman of the Salvesen's Ex-Whalers Club, and a whaler on the 'Southern Venturer', 1961-62, and mess-boy on...
Dates:
1956-1962