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Correspondence relating to the Scots Law Society
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-707
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of circa 28 letters to the Secretary of the Scots Law Society, William Lindsay, and A. Thomson Jnr.
Dates:
1842-1860
Diaries of Edwin Maybury, zoology student at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2112
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of five diaries written by Edwin Maybury of Nuneaton, Warwickshire covering the time period 1947-1951, when he was a student at the University of Edinburgh reading zoology. In his diaries, Edwin writes introspectively about himself, talks about his daily life as a student in Edinburgh, and records his experience of different lectures and practical courses. For example, in his 1947 diary he mentions on p. 291 a lecture he attended given by "Dr Auerbach", that is to say Dr...
Dates:
1947-1951
Diaries of Janet Beaton
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2049
Content Description
This collection consists of the diaries written by Janet Beaton between 1934 and 1949, and from 1962 until her death in 2018. The early diaries relate to her experience of wartime (for example, her 1939 diary includes her eye-witness account of a "Humbie Heinkel" over East Lothian. This was the first German aircraft to be brought down over mainland Britain during the Second World War.), and to her days at the University of Edinburgh. Subsequent diaries relate to her family, her many travels...
Dates:
1934-2018
Diaries of the Reids of Peasehill, Fife
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-468
Scope and Contents
The diaries contain notes by David Reid senior, of weather and farming neighbours, 1855 to 1856, and notes by David Reid junior, of school, farm and St. Andrews University, 1873 to 1883.
Dates:
1855-1883
Edinburgh College of Art Typography Collection
Collection
Identifier: ECA/TYP
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of works produced by Edinburgh College of Art students as part as their typography course during the 1930s-1970s. Many of these are illustrated booklets which contain extracts from well-known texts such Tam O’ Shanter and Homer’s Odyssey, as well as religious texts. The students also produced calendars, book covers and title pages, Christmas cards, and invitations and menus for Edinburgh College of Art events including Revels. Most of the time, although not...
Dates:
1928-2012; Majority of material found within 1928-1974
Explanation of a view of Stirling, exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2095
Content Description
Etched illustration of the panorama of Stirling which was exhibited at Barker's Panorama, Leicester Square, London, from December 1832 to June 1833. Originally issued as part of the printed guide sold to visitors to the attraction.
Dates:
Publication: 1832
Facsimiles of Scottish Charters and Letters prepared by Sir William Fraser
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1418
Scope and Contents
The facsimile charters are loose and are numbered at rear from 1 to 288. A few are missing, and these are, nos: 37, 50, 89, 110-111, 136-137, 151, 211, and 233.
Dates:
1094-1844
Firth of Forth Defences in the 20th Century
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-61
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Public Record Office references, 1879-1956; correspondence of B.A. Stenhouse and Major D. Rollo (Retired), H.Q. Royal Artillery, Woolwich, 1979-1987, relating to research on coastal defence, in addition to miscellaneous correspondence 1976-1990; material relating to batteries and forts, including Forth Artillery Defences 1880-1980; papers relating to the defence of islands; newspaper cuttings; material on attacks and disasters; aerial photographs, and camp and group...
Dates:
1879-1987
Forth Rail Bridge archive, composed of visitors' books, photographs, and other material
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1151
Scope and Contents
This collection appears to have come from the Forth Bridge Office, and the archive is composed of:
2 x visitors books, one dating from September 1883 to September 1889, and the other dating between 1894 and 1901.
Various clippings and cards (showing bridge dimensions), drawings of Forth Bridge House, printed pages from Engineering dated 30 April 1943, and a couple of newspapers from the significant dates of Monday 31 December 1900 (end of...
Dates:
1883-1953
Hope Account Book, Sir John Hope of Craighall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1149
Scope and Contents
This key research resource is an important survival, being a manuscript account book detailing transactions - debits and credits - relating to the lead-ore company at Leadhills, operated by Sir John Hope of Craighall. Many important people are mentioned in this book, including Alexander Hope of London, Archibald Hope of Craighall, the Earl of Wigtown, the Duke of Hamilton, the Lord of Inglestone, Charles Erskine of Alba, Alexander Tait, Lady Marie Keith, the Earl of Crawford, Lord...
Dates:
1662-1671