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Life-mask of J. W von Goethe, and correspondence relating to Weisser the maker of the mask
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1322
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
This is one of only two examples of Goethe's life-mask. It had been sent to Thomas Carlyle by J. P. Eckermann and hung in Carlyle's home for many years. On Carlyle's death it was presented to David Masson, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh, and on his death was given by the Masson family to Professor Hume Brown who in turn bequeathed it to Edinburgh...
Dates:
1807-1920
Lindsay, Janet Cranston
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-47
Scope and Contents
Certificates 1924-1929; letters regarding certification 1951; badges
Dates:
1924-1951
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Lindsay, M. G.
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-48
Scope and Contents
Manuscript copies of Preliminary State Examination papers 1935-1945
Dates:
1935-1945
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
'Linton Parish Poet', by Reverend Samuel McLintock, minister of West Linton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1928
Scope and Contents
Manuscript entitled 'Linton Parish Poets', probably by the Rev. Samuel McLintock, minister of West Linton from 1871 to 1922. West Linton is a Scottish village in the Borders.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century (before 1922)
List of phrenological heads available from Guy Aîné, Musée phrénologique, Paris, with an invoice
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2939
Scope and Contents
This is a promotional broadside for the Paris Phrenological Museum, with the models supplied by naturalist and model maker Guy Aîné. There is also an invoice on a preprinted invoice form is for one phrenological head, dated 1843.Content warning: this collection contains racist and outdated language and concepts.The list of heads is divided in fur categories:
- "Crânes de différentes races humaines"...
Dates:
1840-1843
List of students leaving United Presbyterian Theological College
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 35.6
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1881-1885
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
List of Subscribers to a testimonial presented to Richard James Arthur Berry
Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.22
Identifier: Coll-2155
Scope and Contents
List of subscribers to testimonial presented to Richard James Arthur Berry, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., on his departure from Edinburgh to take up his duties as Professor of Anatomy at Melbourne University. December 1905.Also contains a letter noting Berry's career from Sir Edward Appleton, with a photograph of the Anatomy Department of the School of Medicine of the Royal College, Edinburgh as it was after DR R. J. A. Berry had taken it over from Dr. James Musgrove, in an envelope at the...
Dates:
1905
List of subscribers to the Scottish Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina
Collection
Identifier: MS BOX 3.4
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
March 1757
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Lists of pre-Reformation clergy
Fonds
Identifier: MS PRE
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
nd
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Literary Papers of Hugh MacDiarmid collected by Kulgin D. Duval
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2124
Scope and Contents
Collection of literary papers of Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve), collected by bookseller and book collector Kulgin D. Duval. They include:
Correspondence with other important figures of the Scottish Renaissance such as Helen Cruickshank and Francis G. Scott, as well as Scottish politician Roland E. Muirhead;
Manuscripts of individual poems by Hugh...
Dates:
1922-1964