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Crash guitar course and letters of Donald Francis Tovey

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Identifier: Coll-1610
Scope and Contents 1 x envelope postmarked 22 September 1937, addressed to Mrs. Bruce Dickins / Sir Herbert Grierson / 12 Regent Terrace / Edinburgh, containing: 1 x letter dated 20 September 1937, headed Hedenham Lodge, Bungay, Suffolk, to 'Dear Molly', signed 'Donald Francis Tovey, lamenting the 'shadow that is over you' and recommending that the 'guitar [...] is a delightful instrument'. the letter is in effect a crash...
Dates: 1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Crayon Sketches of Scottish Landscapes

 Fonds — Box: Dk.8.2-4
Identifier: Coll-2244
Scope and Contents

Five crayon sketches of Scottish landscapes, viz. Campeltown harbour (2), Erins, Lochnagar, Tam-o-shanter's Brigg. 1857-59.

Dates: 1857-1859
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Cunningham Family Correspondence

 Fonds — Box: Dk.7.46
Identifier: Coll-2226
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and Papers (154 items) of the Cunningham family of Glenwood Flour Mills, Belfast, 1785-1875, including letters (34) of Thomas Cunningham M.D. (Edinburgh) which contain some account of his medical career in Edinburgh and of his association with professor J. Y. Simpson, 1840-1858.

Dates: 1785-1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Cuthbert, Jessie

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Identifier: GD1-13
Scope and Contents

Midwifery lecture notes 1910; record of domiciliary maternity cases attended by Nurse Cuthbert 1910; midwifery examination questions 1910; Edinburgh Lying-in Institute certificate for Principles and Practice of Midwifery course 1910; 'A Handbook for Midwives and Maternity Nurses' by Comyns Berkeley 1909

Dates: 1909-1910
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

David Gow, bio-engineer

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Identifier: GD1-150
Scope and Contents

Two oral history interviews recorded with bio-engineer David Gow between 2018 and 2019. Way-marked catalogues are available for both interviews, and a transcription is available for GD1/150/2.

Dates: 2018-2019
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

David Taylor, Lothian Regional Council Co-ordinator for HIV/AIDS

 Fonds
Identifier: GD35
Scope and Contents

Role-related papers, correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes.

Dates: 1986-1994
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

"De Microcosmi signatura doctor" by Ioannes Martinus Hispanus Salmanticensis

 Collection — Box: CLX-A-1704
Identifier: Coll-2021
Content Description This is an anthology of manuscript texts relating to astrology and divination, entitled "De microcosmi signatura doctor ioannes martinus hispanus salmanticensis" and dating from 1630. The author could be "doctore ioanne martino hispano salamanticense" as many writings bear the name. This is possibly Juan Martínez Silíceo (1486-1557), who taught at the University of Salamanca, although he is not the scribe of the present volume, which dates from several decades after his death.The...
Dates: 1630
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Deaconess Hospital

 Fonds
Identifier: LHB12
Scope and Contents

Management 1910-1948; administration 1894-1964; finance 1903-1948; Publications and photographs 1894-1948; staff 1926-1948; nursing 1894-1967; patients (bound and unbound records) 1894-1967

Dates: 1894-1963
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

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

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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

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