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MS documents relating to Sir John Spencer Login, and proposing the use of specially constructed litters for battlefield casualties
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1396
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
MS memorandum (pp.11) titled Field conveyance for the sick and wounded signed J. S. Login, and dated 30 June 1857, Castle Menzies, Perthshire. The document outlines Login's idea and the approaches made to the War Office and the subsequent bureaucratic referrals. The War Office subsequently undertook the manufacture of a 'blessiere' to the design...
Dates:
1855-1857
Ms engineering journal of James Pugh Kirkwood, relating to Pensacola docks in Florida, and projects elsewhere
Item — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1795 / SC-Acc-2017-0006
Identifier: Coll-1795
Content Description
This manuscript engineering journal is in two parts, spanning the period of Kirkwood's career associated with the Pensacola docks in Florida, 1845-1847, but also covering the period 1871-1877 providing a wealth of information on the occupation of the USA's most important civil engineers.The content is: copy letters which offer a detailed account of the exigencies of the task at Pensacola; and, diary or journal entries.The volume also has - at the end - a combination...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1845-1877
Ms lecture notes and research notes of Professor William Croft Dickinson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1607
Scope and Contents
The lecture notes are composed of four groupings:
- Honours 1
- Untitled
- Honours IV
- Honours V
Dickinson's research notes are contained in a 2-drawer (wooden) card-index file.
Dates:
1944-1963
Ms lecture notes on the 'Plant and its Food' by Stevenson Macadam (1829-1901), Lecturer Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1669
Scope and Contents
Ms botanical lecture notes with diagram entitled The plant and its food by Stevenson Macadam. octo, 7pp. 'Britannia' watermarks.
Dates:
1855-1859
MS letter (autograph signed) by Violet Jacob
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1462
Scope and Contents
This MS letter, addressed to 'Dear Sir', was written by Violet Jacob at Domaine de la Congue, Vence, in the Alpes Maritimes, France, on 6 April [no year] and presumably in 1936, given the reference in the letter to 'the honour done'. 1936 was the year in which she received the LL.D. from Edinburgh University. Domaine de la Congue is the location of a French 'Maison de retraite', a sanatorium for veterans today. The letter tells of how the letter reached her 'after various adventures' and...
Dates:
1915-1917
Ms letter from Thomas Carlyle to Peter Millar Cunningham, 4 December 1843
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1318
Identifier: Coll-1740
Content Description
Ms letter from Thomas Carlyle, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, to Peter Millar Cunningham, Surgeon Royal Navy, 4 December 1843.The letter reads:
I have received your little Essay on Compass Variations, and read it over with great satisfaction. It is a most ingenious little speculation, or rather big speculation in little bulk; and had it even otherwise, it would have pleasantly brought you to our new embrace, and been very welcome in this hour.
You never come to us now; it is...
Dates:
4 December 1843
Ms notes from a Logic class given by James Frederick Ferrier at Edinburgh University, 1844-1845, and taken down by a person unknown
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1738
Content Description
Collection of 'written out notes on Lectures in Logic class session 1844-45', apparently taken during the classes given by J. F. Ferrier during his only year as philosophy lecturer at Edinburgh University. The notebook is divided into 14 lectures on e.g. consciousness, knowledge, and feeling. There are frequent references to the work of Reid and Hamilton, and less common references to Brown, Descartes, Kant, Locke, Plato and Stewart. It is not known who wrote down the notes.8vo,...
Dates:
1844-1845
MS precept of seisin signed by George Durie commendator of Dunfermline Abbey 1544
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1595
Scope and Contents
This Latin manuscript in ink - a 'precept of seisin' - on a single sheet of vellum is signed by George Durie and twenty-one monks, being: John Baxter, James Murcheston, Thomas Burne, James Re[?], William Burne, James Thomson, Alexander Hunman, John Spendluff, James Crethorne, John Boswell, Patrick Masoun, James Dundass, Thomas Jamesson, John Tresam, David Dundas, John Murray, Robert Hogh, Andrew Brown, Alexander Mow, Alexander Alkyn, and Thomas Lytilione There is an early...
Dates:
1544
Ms tale of an elopement from Keswick to Gretna Green 1835
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1560
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, octo, 13pp, at approximately 3300 words, and written neatly.
The account of the story of hardship was written in the form of an interview by someone called 'Banns' or 'Barns' with Sally responding in Cumbrian dialect, and at Keswick, 25 February 1835.
Dates:
1798
Ms thesis Ecological Notes on Machair-land, K. J. F. Park
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1602
Scope and Contents
The work Ecological notes on Machair-land, circa 1952, may have been the basis Kenneth J. F. Park's intended Ph.D. It comprises c. 200 pages of manuscript text, including numerous figures, graphs, illustrations, and maps. There are 9 large sepia photographs (laid on card). The text discusses climatic factors, geological and edaphic factors (influenced by soil), agriculture, distribution of Machair-land, the South Harris and Ensay Machairs, Manish Machair...
Dates:
1952