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Letters, notes, testimonials relating to Professor John Thomson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1524
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of:
1833-1841 - mixed documents connected with Professor John Thomson
1836-1847 - series of letters between Thomas Chalmers and the Rev. Dr. Muirhead
1838 - testimonials in favour of John Thomson and in relation to the Reid Professorship
1840 - series of letters from William Chambers (Music publisher) to John Thomson
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Dates:
1836-1847
Letters of Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Lord Roberts of Kandahar
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1170
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of, at shelfmark E2009.12, an autograph letter signed 'Roberts' to 'Dear Sir', and marked 'Private'. It is a 3-page letter, headed (embossed) Royal Hospital, Dublin, and dated 18 February 1896. In it, he declines to stand as the Liberal Unionist candidate for the Lord Rectorship of Edinburgh University. He states that, 'The conclusion I have come to, and in which I have reason to believe that the military authorities concur, is that it would be undesirable for an...
Dates:
1896
Letters of John Donaldson, Professor of Music
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1237
Scope and Contents
This undated letter from John Donaldson to H. H. Dibdin, and written from Marchfield, discusses the adjustment and tuning of an organ, and denies that Sir George Clerk had advocated 'the absurd perfect third system' stating, 'Until the valves were equally opened it was quite impossible to know, precisely, what kind of temperament Mr. Hill had adopted for the Music Hall organ. When I tried it with Sir G. Clerk we found one stop in tolerable tune - I say tolerable, but even in that stop many...
Dates:
1850-1865
Manuscript account book of Scottish statistician, Major Patrick George Craigie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1456
Scope and Contents
The account notebook contains detailed and precise notes for his time at Edinburgh University, starting October 1859 with expenditure for session 1859-1860. The first page shows detail from 31 October to 24 November 1859 including ten shillings (10/-) for his train fare (from Perth), his one shilling and sixpence (1/6) cab fare from the railway station to Melville Street, and his bill of two pounds eleven shilings and twopence (£1/11/2) for lodgings and food for one week and three days. On...
Dates:
1859-1865
Material around the Edinburgh University student history of Alan Owen MA., Dip.Ed., B.Ed
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1182
Identifier: Coll-1439
Scope and Contents
The collection of material relating to life at University for Alan Owen and Anne Hyslop Gemmell is composed of:
Cowan House, Hall of Residence for Men - Owen admitted 1939 - documents relating to Cowan House residency
Inclusive Fee Regulation cards, General Council registration, and class cards for varied subjects between 1939-1948 - documents relating to both Owen and Anne Hyslop...
Dates:
1939-1948
Material collected by Elsie G. Taylor
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1446
Scope and Contents
Taylor's University of Edinburgh, B.Ed. degree graduation hood, 1948;
First Class Certificate of Merit awarded to Elsie G. Taylor for her performance in Advanced Theory and History of Education, signed by Professor Godfrey Thomson, 1948;
Sketch diagram of Room 70 showing positioning of staff and desks (collected by Professor Ian Deary during the Economic...
Dates:
1947-2007
Material collected by Marian Cooke
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1445
Scope and Contents
Twelfth International Congress of Pyschology programme, 1948;
Twelfth International Confress of Psychology notes and provisional timetable of papers, 1948;
Proceedings and papers of the Twelfth International Congress of Psychology, 1948;
Short Letter to Cooke from Thomson regarding a diagram he asked her to duplicate, with the accompanying diagrams/graphs drawn by...
Dates:
1918-1955
Material collected by Robert E. Bell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1444
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of:
- Publications, 1903-1980;
- University of Edinburgh examination papers, 1919-1920
- Thesis titles, 1949-1958;
- Correspondence, 1961-1969;
- Unpublished material, 1961-1964;
- List of Bachelors of Education, 1966-1976.
Dates:
1903-1976
Material relating to Agnes Waugh, and student outings in the 1930s
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1525
Scope and Contents
Ring-binder with notes describing the hike taken by Agnes Waugh, Winifred N. Turner, Katharine M. Martin, Minty Johnstone, Mary Craig, Grace M. Thomson, and Marion Wilson, between Thursday 22 June and Saturday 1 July [1933]. The description of the hike from Edinburgh into Kirriemuir, Angus, and Glen Clova, and then on to Ballater, Braemar, Inverernan, Tomintoul, Aviemore, Inverness, Loch-an-Eilean, and the Lairig Ghru, also contains some black and white photographs. Note-book...
Dates:
1933-1936
Material relating to Albert E. G. Pilliner
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1443
Scope and Contents
Letters relating to Pilliner's appointment, April 1949;
Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1965;
Publications authored by Pilliner, 1958-1978;
Publications collected by Pilliner, 1968-2003;
Report to UNESCO, 1961
Reports to the British Council, 1964-1983;
Material regarding the Godfrey Thomson unit,...
Dates:
1961-1983