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Material relating to Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh, and including 4 x letters from W. H. Playfair
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1732
Scope and Contents
The material gathered together by the foreman plumber working on the renovations to Donaldson's Hospital in the late-1950s and early-1960s is composed of...:
4 x letters from W. H. Playfair to John Irving, written Edinburgh, 28 November 1942, 24 May 1844, 27 May 1847, and 1 December 1848
1 x printed item, being candidacy of Ann Robertson for 'situation of 'Under Female Teacher in...
Dates:
1842-1853
Material relating to Dr. James Griffiths Macaskie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1248
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
a set of surgical instruments (incomplete) in a presentation case with inscription: Edinburgh School of Medicine / Surgery 1877-78 / John Chiene, Lecturer / J. Griffith Macaskie
a Bronze Medal, School of Medicine, Edinburgh, awarded to James G. Macaskie 1874-75, Second Prize, Institutes of Medicine or Physiology, Dr. J. Bell Pettigrew, Lecturer
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Dates:
1874-1888
Material relating to Duncan Forbes of Culloden
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-911
Identifier: Coll-1275
Scope and Contents
This manuscript document is The dying advice of a great man, Duncan Forbes of Culloden esq., late Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland. The document is neither placed nor dated, but circa 1750. It purports to be the last words of the judge and politician Duncan Forbes (1685-1747), who rose to be Lord President of the Court of Session and a leading figure in the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion. The religious advice in this manuscript is...
Dates:
1748-1752
Material relating to Helen Millar Lowe
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1247
Scope and Contents
The material is composed mainly of business letters but there are some private letters too, to cousins, as well as letters and class certificates relating to earlier studies and work. The business and private letters are dated from 7 November 1928 to 12 December 1930. They include various communications with, for example, stockbrokers relating to purchase and sale of shares (including Imperial Tobacco, Arizona Copper, Vipond Consolidated Mines, B'wana M'Kuba, Dunlop Rubber, Tigon...
Dates:
1919-1930
Material relating to Henry Wilson Ord
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1306
Scope and Contents
The material relating mainly to Malawi from the 1960s and 1970s was drawn together in January 1978 and placed in a bulky file after the death of Ord. The unsorted and uncollated file contains largely typescript copies of papers, data sheets, and correspondence during his period as economic advisor (African matters). The collection includes material on the shadow price for foreign exchange and labour in Malawi, crop estimates, crop and agriculture policy, district maize projections, GDP and...
Dates:
1960-1985
Material relating to Hugh Marwick
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1272
Scope and Contents
At E2010.24 there is an autograph letter signed from Marwick to Professor Bruce Dickins, placed and dated as Alton (Kirkwall), 26 January 1965. The letter was written around 3-4 months before his death and is autobiographical. The content is largely reminiscenses about his time at Edinburgh University. He writes, 'There are now so few of my old-time friends surviving that I feel very lonely [and] to hear from any of them is a rare pleasure. Do you know – of my friends of my Univ. days I...
Dates:
1959-1965
Material relating to Iain Coutts MacWilliam, brewing scientist and Edinburgh University graduate
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1620
Scope and Contents
Box 1:
Material created from Primary and Secondary School studies - Certificates of Merit, Chapelton School, Co. of Renfrew, 1932-1935; Church of Scotland, Sunday School, Proficiency in Religious Knowledge, 1935; Certificates of Merit, Trinity Academy, 1937-1941; British Red Cross Society, Certificate, First Aid, 1942; and, news clipping about Leith schoolboy foresters [July-August 1942] with Trinity...
Dates:
1943-2013
Material relating to James S. Robson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1293
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection is composed of: a list of candidates selected for Rockefeller Medical Studentships, 1942; a letter dated 3 June 1942 from the Universities Bureau of the British Empire indicating that travel arrangements had been made for passage to the USA; a typescript copy of the thesis entitled Fluid retention in patients with chronic liver disease by James S. Robson, M.B., Ch.B. (Hons), and with tables and figures to the thesis; and, a summary of...
Dates:
1945-1950
Material relating to Jay L. Lush, being 'The genetics of populations'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1239
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of a paper ( a 'mimeo' copy) on The genetics of populations. The paper consists of 364-pages, numbered. It contains chapters on general or static populations, forces which change gene frequency, mating systems, and appropriate breeding plans. On the title page is handwritten in ink: H. P. Donald (presumably of the Animal Breeding Research Organisation, Edinburgh, of which he became Director in 1951), August 1949. There...
Dates:
1948
Material relating to John Dover Wilson, Regius Professor of English Literature
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1519
Scope and Contents
Collection contains:
1 x recipe book
1 x notebook: 'Ye monthly Brer', from January 1894
1 x bundle assorted postcards (11) send from John Dover Wilson to Dorothy Baldwin before their marriage in 1906, being illustrations of: Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen (2), Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Professor Huxley, John Burns, G. F. Watts, and cartoon...
Dates:
1905-1964