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12 stereo views of Scotland, 1891, B. W. Kilburn, Littleton NH
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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...
17th century notebook (Heylin / Van Helmont / Gregory)
Fonds — Folder: Coll-1968 (Dk.3.32)
Identifier: Coll-1968
Scope and Contents
Notebook in multiple hands , including "Observations out off Heylin's Cosmographie", "Religio Medici Van Helmont", "Catlogus Lib. Math consulente Gregario". Also, list of seeds, 1690.
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...
18th century Royal warrant commanding the preparation of letters patent granting Robert Barker use for fourteen years of his invention 'La nature a coup d'oeil ... for displaying views of nature ... by oil painting', or 'panorama'
Fonds — Volume: CLX-A-1324
Identifier: Coll-1692
Scope and Contents
This document is of significant interest as a record of the invention of what became one of the most popular forms of public entertainment in the first half of the 19th century.It is a Warrant signed by George III commanding the preparation of letters patent granting to Robert Barker the sole use for fourteen years of his invention of 'an entire new contrivance or apparatus which he calls la nature a coup d'oeil for the purpose of displaying views of nature at large by oil...
1950s study on the assimilation of African and West Indian students in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1304
Scope and Contents
This thesis of 296 pages was probably written in the mid- to late-1950s and is written in language that reflects the period. It features a bibliography of works from between 1902 and 1954, and the work is concerned with the black community and assimilation within the 'bluebrick universities' of Oxford and Cambridge.
2 Common-place books with medical receipts and prescriptions, and with gardening hints
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1555
Scope and Contents
The common-place books are written in the same hand, largely, and are described as:
1 x common-place book, small 4to, with 174pp numbered, dating from 1817-1837, though a later style of handwriting on last unnumbered 4 pp feature the date 1849. Original lightly diced Russia, lacking spine. Manuscript medical receipts, prescriptions. Entries feature named Scottish doctors or Scottish periodicals. An extensive...
2 glass negatives & prints featuring Dr Clerk Ranken
Fonds — Folder: EUA GD51
Identifier: EUA GD51
Content Description
Two glass negatives showing Clerk Ranken in a Chemistry laboratory, c1903, and in a group of students, c1905. Along with the negatives are two later prints of the same.
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...
2 letters from H J C Grierson to Dear Sir
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1556
Scope and Contents
The letters are:
1 x ts dated 23 October 1944, written 12 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, and addressed to 'Dear Sir'. Grierson suggests that 'you will look at that interesting book' entitled 'Sir Walter Scott's Friends' by Florence MacCunn (1909). In it 'you will find that it was Mrs Ann Murray Keith [...] who declared that she recognised stories she had told Scott'.
1 x ms dated 30 October 1944,...
2 letters of Rev John Gray and items of printed ephemera
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1565
Scope and Contents
1 x ms letter dated 31 December 1928 from Rev. John Gray, St. Peter's, Falcon Avenue, Edinburgh, to 'Dear Mrs Kinnear', thanking her for her 'generous gift' which has been 'placed [...] to the building fund'. 1 x ms letter dated 31 May 1933 from Canon John Gray, St. Peter's, Falcon Avenue, Edinburgh 10, to 'Dear Mrs Kinnear', saying that he 'shall much like to have a visit from' her father 'on Monday'. Not 'in the morning' though, because he will go to his retreat on that day....
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