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Lecture notes and student memorabilia of Magnus Grimond
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1891
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of miscellaneous undergraduate materials from 1978-82 belonging to Magnus Grimond, relating to his studies in law and history. Grimond studied at Edinburgh University between 1978 and 1982, although 1980/81 was spent at the University of Pennsylvania.
Scots Law 1, 1978-79: course summary, reading and lecture notes and essays.
Scottish Legal System, 1978-79, &...
Dates:
1978-1982
Papers of Dr. E. W. M. Balfour-Melville
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-88
Scope and Contents
The papers of Evan Whyte Melville Balfour-Melville reflect his academic, public, and private interests. There are many bundles of notes both in manuscript and typescript; notebooks; and, correspondence. There are Edinburgh University examination papers; Heriot-Watt Minutes from the 1960s; and, Edinburgh Corporation Education Committee Minutes from the 1960s. The papers also include census material; records of persons placed on probation; material relating to the Historical Association of...
Dates:
circa 1910-1962
Papers of Dr. John Walker
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-205
Scope and Contents
[to be completed]
Dates:
1731-1803
Papers of Joseph Black and family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-16
Scope and Contents
5 boxes of correspondence between himself and a variety of individuals (including James Watt, Prince Paul Dashkov, John Robison) and on a variety of subjects: linen bleaching, use of lime water, assays of ores, civic water supply, mineralogical specimens, absorption of heat etc
1 box of family letters between Black, his father and his brothers Samuel, George and Thomas
...
Dates:
1746-1799
Papers of Reverend Robert Rainy (1826-1906)
Fonds
Identifier: GD8
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of: an exercise book and loose exercise book pages of church history and class lectures in church history, 1862-1899; manuscript and typescript of a projected Life of St. Augustine; notes for further work; an illuminated address of the Edinburgh Presbytery of the United Free Church of Scotland to Rainy, 1901, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his ordination; and bound volume of newspaper cuttings, obituaries, tributes on the occasion...
Dates:
1862-1906
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Volume of lecture notes taken by John P Mackintosh at lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville, 1947-48. With enclosures
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1323
Scope and Contents
The material is composed of:
- 1 x notebook of lectures in Constitutional History given by Dr. Balfour-Melville
- insertions (from notebook), being Examination for Vans Dunlop Scholarship in History, 1949, Edinburgh University; three printed examination papers, Edinburgh University - British History (Ordinary) December 1946, British History (Honours) January 1948, British History (Degree of MA...
Dates:
1947-48
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