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Astley Ainslie Hospital

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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

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autobiographical Fragments of James Eadie Todd

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.17
Identifier: Coll-2150
Scope and Contents

Todd, James Eadie. Autobiographical fragments in typescript.

Dates: c 1910-1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autobiography of Richard James Arthur Berry entitled "Chance and Circumstance"

 Fonds — Volume: Dk.2.36
Identifier: Coll-2157
Scope and Contents

Autobiography of Richard James Arthur Berry, entitled "Chance and Circumstance", followed by "There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. A true story of what befell a man who took it, told by R. J. A. Berry, M.D. F.R.C.S., F.R.S.E. A Former Lecturer in the School of Medicine of the Royal College, Edinburgh; and later Professor of Anatomy in the University of Melbourne".

Dates: 20th century (before 1962)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autograph book of Janet Murray

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Identifier: MS MUR
Scope and Contents Autograph book belonging to Elizabeth Janet Murray (1851-1935). The volume is pre-signed on the verso pages, with lithograph prints of quotes from poets. Entries on the recto pages are manuscript autographs, either written directly on the page or cut and pasted from letters. The written autographs seem to be from those in Murray's social circle, including her sister, Mary Armstrong, who moved to Elmira, Illinois. The autographs pasted in are from further...
Dates: c.1882-1905
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Autograph letter from George Gleig, Scottish cleric, writer and editor, to Messrs Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1718
Scope and Contents

The autograph letter is dated, Stirling, Scotland, 16th March 1800.


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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autograph letter signed, Adam Ferguson, to John Home, West Lauriston, 9 October 1780

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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...
Dates: 1780
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autograph letters signed by John Stuart Blackie

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Identifier: Coll-1514
Scope and Contents The first letter on University of Edinburgh embossed notepaper, dated 3 February 1865, begins 'My Dear Sir' and sends his 'sincere thanks for the present' of a book. Blackie is sorry that he is 'too much occupied at present to allow [...] the p[leasure of reading it; but the subject is so interesting and important' that hw ill make time soon. The second letter on notepaper headed 24 Hill Street, Edinburgh, is dated 25 November [no year], and begins 'My Dear Moir'. It is a letter...
Dates: 1864-1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autograph ms from 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by James Hogg, being a leaf from the draft for 'Class IV. Dogs'

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1532
Identifier: Coll-1713
Content Description

Autograph manuscript from 'The Shepherd's Calendar', by James Hogg, 1824. It is a leaf from the draft of 'Class IV. Dogs', and is large folio size laid onto paper.


The ms has some Borders stories about dogs e.g. 'the late Mr. Steel's nephew in Peebles had a bitch [...] whose feats in taking home sheep from the neighbouring farms into the market at Peebles by herself form innumerable anecdotes in that vicinity...'.

Dates: 1824
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autograph signed letter from Charles Hotham to Sir Roderick Murchison

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Identifier: Coll-1731
Scope and Contents Addressed from Port Philip Heads, Melbourne, 10 July 1855, the autograph letter signed by Sir Charles Hotham (then lieutenant governor of the Australian colony of Victoria) is to the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871).The letter begins with Hotham assuring Murchison that with regard to the 'pretensions' of 'Mr. Clarke' (meaning the geologist William Branwhite Clarke, 1798-1878), in claiming to have made the first discovery of gold in Australia, he is 'delighted' that...
Dates: 10 July 1855
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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