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Papers of Professor Sir Thomas Broun Smith
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1250
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of (in many cases simply copies of) cases, reports, drafts, memoranda, off-prints, articles, notes, correspondence, lectures and addresses, news-clippings and other material relating to:
Defective consent
Illegality of obligations / Illegality and morailty / Illegal contracts
Contract code / Contract code - Minors
Unjustified...
Dates:
1960-1985
Papers of Professor Walter Ledermann
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-667
Identifier: Coll-1064
Scope and Contents
The collection largely consists of letters from Godfrey Thomson to Ledermann. Many are highly mathematical in content, containing formulae and mathematical notation, though they also regard social events and contain enquiries from Thomson with regards to the safety of Ledermann's family throughout the war.
Dates:
1937-1954
Papers of Rev. Professor Oliver Shaw Rankin (1885-1954)
Fonds
Identifier: GD12
Scope and Contents
The material in the collection is composed of: lecture and sermon notes in manuscript and typescript, including Rankin's Jewish religious polemic: a study of documents here rendered in English which was published posthumously in 1956; diary of a visit to Sicily and Crete, 1908; circa 33 exercise books of lecture notes while at Berlin University, 1909-1910; notes on the festival of Hannukah; notes and material on the Pentateuch, Samuel, Judges, and preparatory to...
Dates:
1908-1956
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Reverend Robert Rainy (1826-1906)
Fonds
Identifier: GD8
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of: an exercise book and loose exercise book pages of church history and class lectures in church history, 1862-1899; manuscript and typescript of a projected Life of St. Augustine; notes for further work; an illuminated address of the Edinburgh Presbytery of the United Free Church of Scotland to Rainy, 1901, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his ordination; and bound volume of newspaper cuttings, obituaries, tributes on the...
Dates:
1862-1906
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Richard Alan Beatty
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1364
Scope and Contents
Contains:
Coll-1364/1: papers relating to scientific research (1949-1982);
Coll-1364/2: papers relating to grants from the Ford Foundation (1960-1983);
Coll-1364/3: papers relating to lectures given by R.A Beatty (1948-1978);
Coll-1364/4: papers relating to conferences and other events (1955-1982);
Coll-1364/5: papers relating to reports...
Dates:
1937-1993
Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-74
Scope and Contents
The papers Sir Archibald Geikie consist of:
personal, organisational and scientific correspondence
geological notebooks with field sketches and water-colours
reprints of his work
miscellaneous lecture notes
student's lecture notes
lecture notes and printed maps relating to a visit to Boston
proofs for...
Dates:
1851-1921
Papers of Sir David Smith, Principal of Edinburgh University, 1987-1994
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1085
Scope and Contents
The boxes contain 39 files and 3 scrapbooks. The files cover a variety of subjects, from: appointment as Principal; financial crisis; recovery plan; restructuring; graduation addresses; talks and speeches; anglicisation; new University logo; and, the installation of Muriel Gray as rector. The scrapbooks contain cuttings or copies of cuttings on: the closure of the Dental School; the anglicisation of Edinburgh University; attacks on the University as inefficient; league tables; cuttings...
Dates:
1986-2006
Papers of Sir William Kennedy Reid
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1826
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mostly of William Kennedy Reid's student records when he was studying Classics at the University of Edinburgh: correspondence, certificates, graduation booklets and leaflets, matriculation cards, two photographs, and three medals in their cases.
Pass certificates and matriculation cards from the University of Edinburgh in Classics: Ancient History, Greek, Latin, Classical...
Dates:
1947-1994
Papers of the Very Rev. Professor Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1835-1908)
Fonds
Identifier: GD31
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises: lectures on Galatians, session 1885-1886; lecture book, prophecy in the Old testament, 1896-1897; a volume of newspaper cuttings and obituary notices, and including an address by Dr. I. Mitford Mitchell at the dedication of the Charteris Memorial Church in Edinburgh, 1912; and, Canonicity, a collection of early testimonies to the canonical books of the New Testament, with notes by Charteris.
Dates:
1880-1912
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of William V. Stevens relating to a possible Oppenheim Bequest, Edinburgh University
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1806 / SC-Acc-2017-0038
Identifier: Coll-1806
Content Description
Papers - correspondence and copies of circulars - relating to a possible Oppenheim Bequest, Edinburgh University, covering the period from March 1984 to December 1986.The initial correspondence talks of the creation of 'a Memorial' to the 'close connection' of Oppenheim 'with the University and the City of Edinburgh', and how best this might be achieved. His widow - Mrs. Enid Oppenheim - 'had expressed a wish' that the Memorial could be identified with 'the training of business...
Dates:
1984-1986