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Journal letters from Rev William Muir (1787-1869), minister of St Stephen’s Church, Edinburgh to Anne Dirom or Muir (c.1809-1887)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MUI 2
Scope and Contents Title reads 'Extracts from journal letters addressed to Anne Dirom, now Mrs Muir'Entries are mostly handwritten transcripts of letters from William Muir to Anne Muir, with supplementary information added by an editor (presumed to be Anne). Entries begin prior to their marriage in 1844, and continue until 1864, a few years before William's death.The first entry is a short note regarding the sending of the volume from Anne Muir to Janet Lang in 1879. The envelope is...
Dates: 1835-1864
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Journal of a journey to Dresden, by an unknown author

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.3.34
Identifier: Coll-2171
Scope and Contents

Journal of a journey to Dresden from 29 August to 7 October 1820, unknown author. Contains printed material. The object of the journey was possibly legal business, vid f.16v: "proof not begun owing to a difficulty in getting the witnesses examined." The writer mentions a meeting with Sir William Hamilton and James Mackenzie at Hamburg, f. 5r, f. 14v. Harwich - Hamburg - Berlin - Potsdam - Wittenberg - Meissen - Dresden.

Dates: 1820
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Journal of a tour round the world taken by Sir John Fraser (1885-1947)

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1296
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of three bound volumes being Sir John Fraser's journal of a tour made around the world in 1935. Each volume contains many pages of black and white photographs along with pages of typescript text describing the journey. The first entry in the journal is dated Tuesday 22 January 1935 and describes the Langholm Hotel and the start of the journey to Southampton to catch the ship (RMS 'Aquitania') bound for New York. A journey across the USA by train...
Dates: 1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Journal of Archibald Menzies, M.D., F.L.S (1754-1842)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 14.6
Scope and Contents

See External Documents (below) for details.

Dates: 5 - 16 February 1764
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Journal of Benjamin Rush as a student at the University of Edinburgh (transcript)

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.18
Identifier: Coll-2151
Scope and Contents

Benjamin Rush. Journal as a student at the University of Edinburgh, commencing 31 August 1766 and finishing 23 June 1768. Typed transcript from a microfilm in the University of Edinburgh Library (Mic.M.28.) of the original manuscript in Indiana University Library.

Dates: 1766-1768
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Journal of European tour, 1889-1890, undertaken by Harry Lindsay Somerled MacDonald and Lilian Margaret Coke

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Identifier: Coll-1417
Scope and Contents The journal is in the form of a folio notebook, 69pp with additional blank pages. Original marbled wrappers. It is a diary covering two journeys abroad. The first journey began in December 1889 and took Harry Lindsay Somerled MacDonald and Lilian Margaret Coke on a trip from London to Paris, Marseilles, Corsica, Algiers, Cannes, Nice, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Palermo, again Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, over the Allps, Zurich, heidelberg, Brussels, and back to London on 2 July 1890. The second...
Dates: 1889-1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Journals of Edinburgh City Mission Ladies’ Association visits

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Identifier: MS EDI 2
Scope and Contents Journals of visits made by the Ladies' Association of Edinburgh City Mission in Districts 14 and 15 [Cannongate area]. Volume 1 includes list of names of Association members on the front flyleaf.All volumes include an extract from the Minutes of Committee, 16 December, 1834, regarding the confidentiality of the contents. All volumes also include a note regarding the logistics of a shared journal on the front flyleaf. In volumes 1 and 2 it is written directly onto the flyleaf, and...
Dates: 1840-1843
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Journals of the meeting of the Estates

 Fonds
Identifier: MS JOU
Scope and Contents

Manuscript titled, 'The Journalls of the Meeting of the Estates holden at Edinburgh the 14th day of March, 1689.'

Dates: 1689
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Judy Greenwood

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-143
Scope and Contents

Draft chapter, titled "Judy G. Reminiscences", for an unpublished book, AIDS capital of Europe. It was intended that medical professionals across Edinburgh would each contribute a chapter to this edited history of the evolution of HIV treatment and care in the city. Also includes a five-page typed report describing the amenities of the Craigmillar Day Centre, minutes of the preceeding Craigmillar Alcohol Interest Group, and one photograph.

Dates: 1979-1997
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

Julius Nyerere - film interview with student, 1961

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2031
Scope and Contents

Interview with then Prime Minister of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, by an unknown student. It runs for approximately 20 minutes. The interview itself runs for just over 7 minutes and focuses on education. The remainder comprises silent footage taken at various locations.

Dates: 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Dunfermline College of Physical Education 4
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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
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London Missionary Society 3
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Mare, Walter de la, 1873-1956 (poet and writer) 3
Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (poet, novelist and translator) 3
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Nyerere, Julius Kambarage, 1922-1999 (President of Tanzania) 3
Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
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Torrance, Thomas Forsyth, 1913-2007 (theologian, and Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh) 3
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Anderson, John, 1668-1721 (Minister of Dumbarton) 2
Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2
Baikie, Hugh Edward, 1906-1981 (Church of Scotland missionary to India) 2
Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922 (professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh) 2
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, 1825-1894 (Scottish writer) 2
Bell, George Joseph, 1770-1843 (advocate, Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh) 2