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Collection
Identifier: Coll-1147
Scope and Contents
This is an artificial collection containing letters and papers relating to Sir Walter Scott, acquired by the University as individual items and thus too small to constitute a collection on their own. See the description of each item for more details.
Dates:
19th century
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1141
Identifier: Coll-1936
Content Description
This fonds includes seven letters of Anders Naessil: five from Arthur Koestler to A. Naessil, one from A. Naessil to Newsweek magazine, and one from Marie Whiteside, Editor of Newsweek to A. Naessil.
Letter from Koestler to Naessil replying to a previous letter, mentioning Naessil's book on Hemingway, Sartre, and a Nobel banquet that Koestler attended. Dated 21 June 1980.
Letter from...
Dates:
1980-1983
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-373
Identifier: Coll-1877
Scope and Contents
Collection of 17 autograph letters signed (ALS), from Samuel Smiles (Scottish author and government reformer) to various correspondents, discussing literary and publishing matters, his works and lectures, and various business and financial matters.
29 November 1852: letter to Thomas Nunneley, one page, 4to., relating to 'the amount of compensation which was to be offered to...
Dates:
1852-1896
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1928
Scope and Contents
Manuscript entitled 'Linton Parish Poets', probably by the Rev. Samuel McLintock, minister of West Linton from 1871 to 1922. West Linton is a Scottish village in the Borders.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century (before 1922)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1922
Scope and Contents
Manuscript bibliography of Robert Burns by the Scottish poet and author Thomas Nicoll Hepburn, under the pseudonym Gabriel Setoun. Inscription on fly-leaf: "To my friend Dr Cattanach with all good and kind wishes. Gabriel Setoun. 23rd Jan. 1901." 232 x 172 mm, 264 pp.
Dates:
1901
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1926
Scope and Contents
Manuscript volume entitled 'Catalogue of double stars, clusters and nebulae' by an unknown author. A substantial part appears to have been copied from William Henry Smyth's work Cycle of Celestial Objects. The volume contains:- Descriptions of the positions of stars, constellations, and celestial bodies (Auqarius, Andromeda, Antinous, Auroga etc.) during various nights in 1868 and 1869, not in chronological order (pp. 1-34).- An...
Dates:
1868-1869
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1981
Content Description
This is a manuscript on medicine and drugs written by Robert Abraham in 1825 in Carlisle and London.This manuscript comprises three sections, each including an index:
Part First. "An Essay on the Nature, Value, and Utility of Theory", starting a few pages before p. 1;
Part Second. "An Enquiry &c.' into the nature of narcotics, hypnotics, sleep, coma, mania, &...
Dates:
c 1825
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1704
Identifier: Coll-2024
Content Description
Manuscript notebook of Dr Thomas Charles Hope recording medical case histories. The constellation of Dr Hope, Dr Duncan, and Dr Rutherford together with the mention of patients being admitted "into the Infirmary" lead to the ascription of this being notes from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The Dr Duncan mentioned several times in the text is presumably Andrew Duncan (1773-1832), who founded the hospital.
Dates:
ca 1796
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2075
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four volumes (numbered 1, 2, 5 and 6) with spine-labels reading "Hume's Lectures on the Scots Law". Topics include marriage, contracts, teinds, tack, adjudication, and succession in heritage. There are near-contemporary ownership inscriptions (Alex Orrock, Newton of Wemyss) to front pastedown of each volume.Vol. 1 and vol. 6 have numerous additional pages of later notes on agriculture and chemistry at the rear, and extracts from A. W. Kinglake's novel...
Dates:
1790
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2119
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of 18 volumes of manuscript notes taken at medical lectures at the University of Edinburgh between 1873 and 1874. At the front of each volume the subject of the lecture and the name of the lecturer is provided.The subjects covered are:
Pathology (Vols. I-IV);
Materia Medica (Vols. I-II);
Midwifery (Vols. I-IV);
Surgery (Vols I, II, and V only);
Clinical Surgery (Vols. I-II);
Practice of Physic...
Dates:
1873-1874