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Papers of Frederick Couper and family
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-372
Identifier: Coll-1870
Scope and Contents
Correspondence
Frederick Couper's testimonials
Notes and documents relating to genealogy and family history
Legal documents
Photographs of Frederick Couper
Bookkeeping notebook
A substantial archive of original manuscript correspondence, documents, photographs and printed material relating to...
Dates:
1530-1935
Papers of George Low
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-251
Scope and Contents
The material consists of Low's Orkney manuscripts dating from circa 1773 in 3 volumes, from History of Orkney parts 1-8, History of Orkney parts 9-19, to Description and chronology parts 20-25, at Dc.6.102/1-3. There is also a typed transcript of the same. At Dc.6.103 there is work on Orkney flora and fauna, and at Dc.6.104 a course of microscopical observations from 1771-1772. There is a...
Dates:
1766-1773
Papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-78
Scope and Contents
The papers of Professor Gordon Donaldson within Gen. 1627-1645 consist of general and individual correspondence and correspondence with institutions and publishers. There is material and notes on churches, about crofters, emigration, genealogy, and the Northern Isles. There are lectures and notes; personal and family papers; photographs; and, press cuttings. There is manuscript material, typescript material, and proofs. These all cover the period 1935-1993.The collection also...
Dates:
1549-1993
Papers of the Anderson, Urquhart and Graham Families
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1835
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, legal documents, inventories, student notes, sermons, and business accounts relating to the members of the Anderson, Urquhart, and Graham families (all related). The material covers the 18th and 19th centuries and relates to subjects as varied as ironmongery, sea travel, study of humanities in the 1820s, preaching and sermons, school teaching, etc. This collection provides an excellent insight into the daily life in Edinburgh in the late 1700s and in the 1800s.
Dates:
1761-1979
Papers of the Christison Family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1817
Content Description
This fonds contains the papers of:
Professor Alexander Christison FRSE (1751-1820), Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh from 1806 to his death in 1820, father of Sir Robert Christison.
Sir Robert Christison, 1st Baronet, FRSE FRCSE FRCPE (1797-1882), toxicologist and physician, father of Sir Alexander Christison (1828-1918).
John Christison (1789-1862),...
Dates:
1785-1904; 1979
Papers of the Cochrane Family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1837
Content Description
Collection of six ornately decorated 18th-century manuscript documents relating to the Cochrane family of Scotland, including two marriage documents and four burgess tickets:
Two documents relating to the marriage of William Cochrane and Agnes Carse, both dated 19 July 1706, Edinburgh: a marriage contract, listing over 400 points on which they pledged agreement, measuring 30 cm x 274 cm ; and a marriage...
Dates:
1706-1789
Papers of The Very Rev Prof James Whyte (1920-2005)
Fonds
Identifier: AA5
Scope and Contents
Sermons and addresses, 1948-1996; lectures, 1949-1982; class notes and lecture notes, 1949-1982; correspondence, 1988-1989 and 1964-1970; newspaper cuttings, 1988-1989 and 1964-1969; publications and articles, 1902-1970; church magazines, 1929-1993; conference papers, 1978; moderatorial papers, 1988-1989; University Christian Consultative Group papers, 1970-1972; Church of Scotland and the Congregational Union of Scotland papers, 1959-1967; personal papers, 1848-1983; photographs 1911 and...
Dates:
1848-1993
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers relating to Robert Baillie (1599-1662)
Fonds
Identifier: GD52
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: a conference by letters with a Canterburian Minister anent the Arminian tenet of the Saint's apostasie; Duorum studiosorum de geniculatione ... collatio; A peaceable consideration of a paper against kneeling; Commentariolus de praecipius Pontificorum armoribus; Tractatus de forma et causa justificationis; Oratio in Academia Glasguensis comitiis habita a R.B. anno 1627; Oratio in laudem linguae Hebraeae in Academia comitiis ... 1629; and, My brothers books ....
Dates:
1627-1710
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers relating to Scottish Staple and Campvere
Fonds
Identifier: MS CAMP3
Scope and Contents
Compsite volume of papers relating to Scottish Staple and Campvere with newspaper clippings from 1894 and 1967 pasted in front cover.
Dates:
1674-1799; Publication: 1894-1967
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Records of the Wernerian Natural History Society
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-206
Scope and Contents
The records of the Wernerian Natural History Society consist of:
- 2 volumes of Minute Books (January 1808-April 1858)
Dates:
1808-1858