Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 141
2 letter-books of an unidentified Scottish law firm
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1531, Volume: data_value_missing_044bad0cd209d0fc001ac418e9779b16, Volume: Coll-1699 / SC-Acc-2016-0001
Identifier: Coll-1699
Content Description
The correspondence suggests that this was an Edinburgh-based law practice, with the majority of letters emanating from city addresses.There are 2 volumes with information on the spines showing:
Letter Book No. 3 - 18th May 1956 - 21st Aug. 1956
Letter Book No. 5 - 9th Dec. 1956 - 31st Mar. 1957
The volumes came from The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society Ltd., Hope Street, Glasgow. They hold reference numbers: No.5354 Date.1956...
Dates:
1956-1957
5 x documents: notarial instruments relating to lands in Nether Carlowrie, west of Edinburgh, and in Invertiel, 1528-1566. Marks of 16th century Scottish notaries
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1747
Scope and Contents
5 x documents - notarial instruments - being:
Invertiel, 13 November 1528
Nether Carlowrie, 23 January 1529
Nether Carlowrie, 22 June 1535
Nether Carlowrie, 23 February 1540
Nether Carlowrie, 19 April 1566At the foot, each document bears a fine penned mark of a 16th century Scottish notary. Old folds, contemporary endorsements.
Dates:
1528-1566
12 stereo views of Scotland, 1891, B. W. Kilburn, Littleton NH
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1554
Scope and Contents
The views are of:
6322 Oban, its harbour, and Mull, Scotland
6310 Loch Katrine Boat Landing, Highlands, Scotland
6303 Birthplace of Robert Burns, Ayr, Scotland
6297 The Bonnie Doon, Burns' Lullaby, Ayr, Scotland
6292 Melrose Abbey, Scotland
6280 Sir William Wallace's Prison, Dumbarton Castle, Scotland
6238 John...
Dates:
1880-1910
18th century and 19th century legal documents some in favour of Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-622
Identifier: Coll-1553
Scope and Contents
The collection of legal documents is composed of:
1 x Discharge by William Pirie in favour of Dr. Sophia Jex Blake, 15 May 1890. Of a Bond and Disposition in Security of £400 over subjects in Grove Street, Edinburgh. Andrew Urquhart SSC Edinburgh
1 x Disposition by Thomas Fairweather Weir with consent, In favour of Sophia Jex Blake MD. 1884. Subject 6 Grove Street, Edinburgh. Andrew Urquhart...
Dates:
1786-1890
A collection of papers and correspondence relating to the publication of Whither Scotland?, edited by Duncan Glen
Collection — Box: CLX-A-1594
Identifier: Coll-2027
Content Description
A collection of papers and correspondence relating to the publication history of Whither Scotland?, edited by Duncan Glen, from the archives of its publisher Victor Gollancz. A small quantity of typed and holograph contracts, correspondence and associated materials, between and concerning Duncan Glen, his publisher, and other interested parties. Includes 23 ALS and Typed Letters Signed (TLS) from Duncan Glen, and TLS from Tony Benn, Jo Grimond and contributor...
Dates:
1970-1977
Account of a trip to the Western Isles and St. Kilda
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1430
Scope and Contents
Manuscript account of a 'Pedestrian tour round the west coast of Scotland in 1849', in August of that year, followed by an account of a 'Trip aboard the Free Kirk Breadalbane yacht with 3 ministers to St. Kilda, Staffa, and back' in 1850.
The volume has inserted a monochromatically tinted sketch of St. Kilda
The volume has inserted a monochromatically tinted sketch of St. Kilda
Dates:
1849-1850
Album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2019
Content Description
This is an album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), comprising approximately 420 sketches. A talented amateur artist, James Skene of Rubislaw was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott who accompanied him on riding excursions to localities that Scott planned to feature in his novels and poems. There, at Scott’s suggestion, Skene made sketches of landscapes and buildings that Scott then used as an inspiration and aide-memoire for his own work. Many of the sketches in this album can...
Dates:
c 1804-c 1830
Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1581
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: an archive of productions of 'Varsity Vanities', 1946-48, and various dramatic groups including Edinburgh University Dramatic Society, SRC Charities Week Office, Attic Theatre Co., Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group, and others.
The material is placed in two photograph albums and a "document store", which contain photographs, programmes, cuttings, posters and correspondence.
The material is placed in two photograph albums and a "document store", which contain photographs, programmes, cuttings, posters and correspondence.
Dates:
1946-1951
Autograph ms from 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by James Hogg, being a leaf from the draft for 'Class IV. Dogs'
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1713
Content Description
Autograph ms 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...'.
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
Book, medals, and printed ephemera relating to Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy Fraser
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1978
Content Description
This collection includes a printed book with two enclosures, printed ephemera, and two medals related to harpist Helen Patuffa Hood and her mother Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish musician and folk-song collector.
The printed book is a signed copy of The Road to the Isles (Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1927) by Kenneth Macleod given by the author himself to Patuffa as...
Dates:
1889; 1925-1928; 1946
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 22
- Law (Scotland) 21
- University of Edinburgh -- students 14
- Student lecture notes 12
- University of Edinburgh -- student lecture notes 12
- Scotland 10
- Student activities | Edinburgh (Scotland) 9
- Law 8
- Scotland -- History 7
- Students 7
- Family papers 6
- History, 19th century (Scotland) 6
- Legal Documents 5
- Scotland | History | 17th century 5
- Authors and Publishers 4
- Correspondence 4
- Geology 4
- History, 17th Century (Scotland) 4
- History, 18th century (Scotland) 4
- Latin Language 4
- Lectures and Lecturing 4
- Medical students | Scotland | 4
- Photographs 4
- Poetry 4
- Psychology 4
- Publishers and Publishing 4
- Scots language 4
- Societies and Clubs 4
- Agriculture 3
- Animal Genetics 3
- Architecture | Scotland | 3
- Chemistry 3
- Commonplace-books 3
- Family History 3
- Folk music -- Scotland 3
- Genealogy 3
- Mathematics 3
- Medicine | History | 3
- Midwifery | Scotland | Edinburgh | 3
- Orkney Scotland 3
- Programmes 3
- Theatre 3
- University of Edinburgh -- Alumni and alumnae 3
- Women students 3
- Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2
- Animal Breeding Research 2
- Animal embryology 2
- Archaeology 2
- Biology 2
- Botany 2
- Charters 2
- Collectors 2
- Deposition and Sedimentation 2
- Diaries 2
- Education 2
- Education research 2
- England 2
- English literature | 20th century 2
- Erosion 2
- Examination Papers 2
- Folk songs 2
- Folk songs, Scots 2
- Formations (Geology) 2
- Forth Bridge (South Queensferry, Scotland : Railroad bridge) 2
- Forth, Firth of (Scotland) 2
- Geology, Stratigraphic Pleistocene 2
- Great Britain | History | 2
- Greek Language 2
- Intelligence 2
- Intelligence tests 2
- Legal documents | Scotland | 2
- Letter books 2
- London (England) 2
- Maps 2
- Medical students 2
- Midwifery 2
- Mineralogy 2
- Minerals 2
- Natural History 2
- Posters 2
- Poultry Research 2
- Scotland | Social conditions | 20th century 2
- Scottish Gaelic language 2
- Scottish literature 2
- Sketchbooks & albums 2
- Societies, Natural History 2
- Statistics 2
- Stromness (Scotland) 2
- Student notes 2
- Zoology 2
- certificate 2
- sketches 2
- women artists 2
- women musicians 2
- Abbotsford (Scotland) 1
- Accounts 1
- Advertising 1
- Ajmer (India) 1
- Albums 1
- Algebra 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 85
- English 47
- Multiple languages 5
- French 3
- Latin 3
- Names
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 21
- Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 6
- Victor Gollancz Ltd 4
- Geikie, Archibald, Sir (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 3
- Royal Society (c1645-:) (scientific society) 3
- Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 3
- Black, Joseph, 1728-1799 (professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 2
- Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 2
- Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 2
- Geological Society of London (1807-:) 2
- Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 2
- Lawley, Derrick, 1915-2012 (statistician) 2
- Macleod, Kenneth, 1871-1955 (Church of Scotland minister and folklorist) 2
- Martin, John N T, b 1940 (University of Edinburgh alumnus) 2
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 2
- Naismith, Robert James, 1916-2004 (Scottish architect) 2
- Playfair, William Henry, 1790-1857 (architect) 2
- Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir, 1881-1955 (psychologist and Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Abercrombie, Sir Patrick, 1879-1957 (professor of town planning) 1
- Aberdeen University Celtic Society (1853-:) 1
- Agricultural Research Council, Unit of Animal Genetics. Unit of Animal Genetics (1957-1980) 1
- Agriculture Society of Edinburgh 1
- Anderson (Edinburgh) 1
- Armstrong College (University of Durham). Durham College of Science (1871 -) 1
- Association of Building Technicians (1942-1970) 1
- Baikie, Hugh Edward, 1906-1981 (Church of Scotland missionary to India) 1
- Barker, Robert, 1739-1806 (Irish artist) 1
- Bartlett, Maurice Stevenson, 1910-2002 (statistician) 1
- Beaton, Janet, 1922-2018 (teacher and writer) 1
- Beatty, Richard Alan, 1915-2005 (reproductive biologist) 1
- Bell, George Joseph, 1770-1843 (advocate, Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh) 1
- Bell, George, fl 1832-1842 (of Leith, Edinburgh | acquaintance of Thomas Chalmers) 1
- Benn, Tony, 1925-2014 (British politician, writer and diarist) 1
- Boughton, Alice, 1866-1943 (Photographer) 1
- British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831-:) 1
- Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 (Watson-Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Brown, Kenneth R, fl 1880s (medical student, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921 (polar explorer and oceanographer) 1
- Brunner, Hugo, b. 1935 (publisher) 1
- Buckland, William, 1784-1856 (English theologian, geologist) 1
- Bulfield, Grahame, 1941-: (geneticist, formerly director and chief executive, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh and vice-principal, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Burns, Margaret, fl 1890s (Edinburgh University student) 1
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 1
- Burt, Cyril Lodowic, Sir, 1883-1971 (educational psychologist) 1
- Butcher, Samuel Henry, 1850-1910 (classicist, politician and professor of greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde KG, KT, James, 1665-1745 (Irish statesman; Soldier) 1
- Cairns, David Smith, 1862-1946 (principal of the United Free Church College, Aberdeen) 1
- Cameron, Rev Alexander, 1827-1888 (Free Church Minister) 1
- Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 1
- Carnall, Geoffrey D., 1927-2015 (Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University) 1
- Carse, Agnes, fl 1706 (wife of William Cochrane, Edinburgh) 1
- Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 1
- Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 1
- Cochrane, James, fl 1700-1799 (Edinburgh printer) 1
- Cochrane, William, d before 1718 (Edinburgh writer ) 1
- Coghill, Agnes Irene Sinclair, c 1875-1904 (medical student; University of Edinburgh) 1
- Coghill, John George Sinclair, 1834-1919 (Physician) 1
- College of New Jersey (1746-1896) 1
- Collinson, Francis Montgomery, 1895-1985 1
- Colquhoun, James, Sir, 1804-1873 (28th Chief (4th Baronet)) 1
- Commonwealth Human Ecology Council 1
- Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne. Mars Group 1
- Couper, Frederick, fl 1870s-1920s (Scottish marine engineer) 1
- Coventry City Council, Coventry City Architect 's Department. Coventry City Architect's Department 1
- Craw, Barbara M, fl 1900s (Edinburgh University student) 1
- Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik, 1722-1765 (Swedish chemist) 1
- Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 1
- Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 1
- Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
- Davidson, Roger, b 1942 (Professor Emeritus in Social History, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1712-1780 (3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and 7th Baronet of Coltness | economist | husband of Lady Frances Steuart (1722-1789)) 1
- Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1744-1839 (4th baronet of Goodtrees and 8th baronet of Coltness | British Army Officer) 1
- Dickson, George, fl 1860s (Edinburgh University student) 1
- Duff, James Fitzjames, Sir, 1898?1970 (educationist and academic administrator) 1
- Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (the elder | British physician | Professor at University of Edinburgh) 1
- Edinburgh Celtic Union (20th century) 1
- Edinburgh College of Art (1907-:) 1
- Edinburgh Mechanics' Subscription Library 1
- Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 1
- Edinburgh University Boat Club 1
- Edinburgh University Union (1889-1973) 1
- Ellis, Peter Berresford, b 1943 (British historian and author) 1
- Emmett, William B, fl mid 20th century (psychologist) 1
- Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, 1890-1962 (English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and eugenicist) 1
- Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 1
- Forster, John, Sir, circa 1515-1602 (English administrator, Scottish borders; deputy warden, English middle march) 1
- Fraser, Thomas Richard, Sir, 1841-1920 (physician and pharmacologist, professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 1
- Fraser, William, Sir, 1816-1898 (solicitor, historian, palaeographer, and genealogist) 1
- Gaelic Society of Inverness (1871-:) (cultural society) 1
- Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner) 1
- Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Gemmell, Alice Caroline Anne, 1879-1951 (daughter of Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun) 1
- Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 1
- Gibson, Sir Donald Evelyn Edward, 1908-1991 (architect and town planner) 1
- Glasgow University Ossianic Society (1831-:) 1
- Glen, Duncan, 1933-2008 (Scottish poet and literary editor) 1
- Glenbuck Ironworks (1795-1813) (Glenbuck, East Ayrshire) 1
- Goodhart, Harry Chester, 1858-1895 (English footballer and Professor of Humanity, University of Edinburgh) 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
∨ more