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Archives of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 33
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material relating to the mission in general and to the work in Congo, Peru, India, Nepal, and Kalimantan and Irian Jaya and includes: (1) minutes and reports produced in the mission offices in London and in the fields; (2) correspondence with missionaries in the field, with regional and national councils, with other missions operating in the same areas, and with other evangelical agencies; (3) publications and printed material including issues of the mission's journal...
Dates:
[ca. 1872-1991]
Article entitled ‘Our Psalms and Hymns’
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 19.4
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
nd
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Arts Ephemera collected by Joanna Marie Drew
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-774
Identifier: Coll-1121
Scope and Contents
The ephemera - largely printed and graphic - includes art subjects from all ages, and artists ranging in stature and in their international reknown: Francis Bacon, David Bomberg, Braque, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cezanne, Otto Dix, Robert Doisneau, Maggi Hambling, Katarzyna Kobro, El Lissitzky, Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton, Magritte, Andrea Mantegna, Matisse, Andre Breton Matta, Miro, Monet, Henry Moore, Picasso, Bridget Riley, and Richard Wentworth. It covers painting, sculpture, architecture,...
Dates:
1960-1990
Artwork of Marianne (Marian) Mahler
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-730
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of artwork done for Penguin Books in the 1940s: Balloons, British shells, and Fashions.
Dates:
1940-1945
Association of Master Printers of Scotland
Fonds
Identifier: GD7
Scope and Contents
Examinations and applications 1930-1973; administration 1930-1973
Dates:
1927-1973
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Astley Ainslie Hospital
Fonds
Identifier: LHB35
Scope and Contents
Management and administration 1876-1974; patients (bound records) 1931-1975
Dates:
1876-1975
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Astronomy notes circa 1804
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1543
Scope and Contents
The bound manuscript volume contains notes on 'Astronomy' and 'Spherical Trigon[ometry]'. There are a number of sketches within the notes.
Dates:
1800-1806
Autograph book of Janet Murray
Fonds
Identifier: MS MUR
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
c.1887-1900
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Autograph letter from George Gleig, Scottish cleric, writer and editor, to Messrs Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1718
Scope and Contents
The autograph letter is dated, Stirling, Scotland, March 16th 1800. It is a single sheet, 195mm x 205mm.
Addressing his letter to Messrs Bell & Bradfute, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Gleig asks that, with respect to the Anti Jacobin Review the: 'Gentlemen [...] give to John Macfarquhar esq. the first four volumes of that work [...] and state them against the proprietor...'.
Addressing his letter to Messrs Bell & Bradfute, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Gleig asks that, with respect to the Anti Jacobin Review the: 'Gentlemen [...] give to John Macfarquhar esq. the first four volumes of that work [...] and state them against the proprietor...'.
Dates:
1800
Autograph letter signed, Adam Ferguson, to John Home, West Lauriston, 9 October 1780
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1682
Scope and Contents
This is a letter from Ferguson to Home discussing the attempt by their mutual friend George Johnstone to find a seat in the general election of September 1780. Ferguson mentions a letter addressed to Home that had arrived at Edinburgh in Home's absence, and writes of a meeting on Saturday, 'most of the Day', with the letter's author, 'Our Friend', a political figure aspiring to office who had been overlooked. 'Our Friend' may be George Johnstone, who is mentioned by name later. Ferguson hopes...
Dates:
1780
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