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Handmade magazine The Cavalier, double Xmas no 1916 Vol. IV, together with a photograph album of the Smythe family
Collection — Box: CLX-A-375
Identifier: Coll-1880
Scope and Contents
One handmade 'magazine' constructed by Scottish ladies forming a group called 'The Cavalier Club', composed of Barbara E. Smythe (editor), Susy F. Lumsden (treasurer), Jean Drummond, Victoria A. Drummond, Frances A. Drummond, Doreen Arbuthnot, and Susan Newdegate. The magazine is entitled The Calavier and was to be borrowed by a select group of recipients, to help raise funds for the war effort. This is the Double Xmas no. 1916, vol IV. It includes short...
Dates:
1916-1930
Mathematical archive of Professor Alexander Craig Aitken
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1529
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of mathematical mansucripts and the corrected manuscript, and correspondence around, the publication Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman. It also contains off-prints and publications by Aitken, papers and correspondence relating to Aitken's work at Edinburgh University and letters to and from academics, family and friends, as well as letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Aitken. There is also a quantity of...
Dates:
1910-1995
Munition Work Record of the Falkirk Iron Coy, Ltd.
Item
Identifier: Coll-2118
Scope and Contents
This is a photograph album recording the First World War work of the Falkirk Iron Company, a cast iron goods manufacturer that switched to the production of munitions in 1915. The photographer is not named. As a "Government Controlled Establishment", the Falkirk Iron Company produced 10,000 tons of munitions, many of these delivered by women, who feature prominently in the photographs. A printed note to the front paste down of the album gives a detailed breakdown of the munitions produced,...
Dates:
1915-1918
Papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2066
Content Description
This fonds consists of the papers of Colonel Cecil Charles Murison, physician and surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. It contains:
Certificates earned when he was studying in Edinburgh and in Liverpool, and in the Indian Military Service (1891-1930);
Published medical articles by Col. Murison and some related correspondence (1901-1926);
Small portrait photograph...
Dates:
1891-1942
Papers of James Robert Stott
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-390
Identifier: Coll-2041
Content Description
This small fonds consists of the papers, portrait, and medals of Dr James Robert Stott, OBE, World War I Captain and graduate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. It includes:
Four First World War medals in a "Ernest Jones" box: The British Military Medal, The Victory Medal (Great Britain), an OBE Officer Badge, Military Division, and a tripartite medal with smaller versions of the three...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914-1919; 1954
Scrapbooks of Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter and Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2080
Content Description
These two scrapboosk were compiled by Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter (a.k.a. Mrs Burnley-Campbell of Ormidale (1857-1938)) and her daughter Daisy
Helen Burnley-Campbell (later Warrand (1891-1973)). Dealing with both public and private life, they contain a substantial quantity of material relating to Margaret’s participation in the Gaelic movement, including events devoted to Gaelic language, Highland culture, games and music. They also record her involvement in the suffragette movement,...
Dates:
1909-1919
William Burton-Stewart bound Game books
Collection — Box: CLX-D-72
Identifier: Coll-1887
Scope and Contents
Two 'game books' which belonged to Major William Burton-Stewart, containing score tables recording his session of game birds shooting and black-and-white photographs of social events, hunting, and people. It also includes sketches and handwritten biographical and travelling accounts by Burton-Stewart himself. Places mentioned in the game books include Ratho Park, Conaglen, Stroud, Darleith, Lothians and the Borders, Venice, India, Ontario (Canada), etc.Highlights in the first...
Dates:
1889-1935