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Autobiography of Richard James Arthur Berry

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

Berry, Richard James Arthur. 'Chance and Circumstance. An autobiography. Typescript. There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads in 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.'

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

 Fonds
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

Autographs of clergymen

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Identifier: MS AUT
Scope and Contents

Autographs of clergymen collected by Mrs Macnealy, Wester Auchinloch by Lenzie. Mainly Church of Scotland, Free Church of Scotland, and United Free Church of Scotland ministers.

Dates: 1864-1921
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Autographs of the Pan-Presbyterian Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches

 Fonds
Identifier: MS PAN
Scope and Contents An album containing the autographs of the members of the Pan-Presbyterian Council (1877), also known as the Presbyterian Alliance and later The World Alliance of Reformed Churches.Autographs include Kenneth Macleay Phin (1816–1888), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1877, Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff (1809-1883), John Tulloch (1823-1886), Rev. Prof. Robert Flint (1838-1910), and many names from all over the world.Album bound in green...
Dates: 1877
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Bangour General Hospital

 Fonds
Identifier: LHB40
Scope and Contents

Patients (bound records) 1959-1988; patients (unbound records) 1939-1948; buildings 1953-1954

Dates: 1939-1988
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

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