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Papers of Everitt Young
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1071
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of letters to Ivory Buchan (Margaret Ivory Ritchie Buchan) and includes: Edinburgh letters, 1931-1938, beginning on a regular basis in 1934, with comments on teacher training, and setting up a private school in Blackhall; South Africa letters, 1938-1951, going abroad for health reasons, early difficulties in South Africa, and about work in Benoni and Johannesburg.
Dates:
1931-1951
Papers of Marjorie Jean Oswald Kennedy
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1290
Scope and Contents
Mounted photograph of Highland scene
Packet of photographs c1970s inc. Edinburgh Castle
Folder "Upwards of a Century"
Family photographs
Students taking exam, location unidentified
Album of South African photographs: "Mr R Kennedy, with best wishes from T Wilson Cairncross, Cape Town, South Africa, 14 Oct 1896"
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Dates:
19th-20th century
Papers of Robert Moffat
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-220
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four letters from Moffat (c 1841, 1873-1875) referring to engagements and to payment for 'Scripture Lessons'; The Lords Prayer in Tswana in Moffat's hand (after 1870); an engraved, autographed portrait of Moffat; and the first verse of a hymn in the Tswana language in Moffat's hand (1841).
Dates:
[ca. 1841]-1875
Papers of Sir John Jackson
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1490
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of the papers of Sir John Jackson, including:
Photograph albums.
Albums of newspaper clippings relating to Sir John Jackson's work, and to his and his family's personal life.
Personal and business correspondence.
Material relating to Sir John Jackson's candidacy as MP for Devonport in 1904, 1906, and 1910.
Printed...
Dates:
1838-2002
Stereoscopic photographs of Boer War and other subjects
Fonds — Box: Coll-1753
Identifier: Coll-1753
Scope and Contents
An as yet unsorted box of steroscopic photographs
Dates:
Publication: c1900
Typescript theses related to Malawi, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa, and Hausa manual
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1944
Content Description
Three bound theses on subjects related to Malawi, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, and one handbook to learn Hausa (a Chadic language spoken mostly in southern Niger and northern Nigeria).
Teaching Yourself Hausa, by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene and Charles H. Kraft, 1966 (uncorrected draft). Annotation: "Presented by the author to the General Linguistics Library, June...
Dates:
1966-1982
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- Greene, Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-, 1925-2018 (British historian) 1
- Hjort, Johan, 1869-1948 (fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, oceanographer) 1
- Jackson, Ellen Julia, fl 1876-1919 (wife of Sir John Jackson) 1
- Jackson, John, Sir, 1851-1919 (civil engineer; engineering contractor) 1
- Kennedy, Marjorie Jean Oswald, c1916-2003 (Edinburgh University Library member of staff) 1
- Kraft, Charles H, b 1932 (American anthropologist and linguist) 1
- Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883, Scottish Missionary 1
- St. George's Training College, Edinburgh 1
- Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 (mathematician and physicist) 1
- Young, Janet Everitt Maclean, fl. 1931-1951, Teacher 1
- Zaharoff, Basil, 1849-1936 (arms-dealer, industrialist) 1 ∧ less
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