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Signed copies of poems of George Mann MacBeth
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1459
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 3 x mimeographed typescript copies of poems, being:
- 'The Wasp-Woman', after Ponge - signed George MacBeth
- 'Noah's Journey' [1966] - signed George MacBeth
- 'The Castle', after le Chastel d'Amours - signed George MacBeth
Signed copy of the Act of the Associate Presbytery for renewing the National Covenant, and the Solemn League and Covenant of the three nations
Collection
Identifier: MS 5012
Scope and Contents
Signed copy of the 'Act of the Associate Presbytry [sic]; For Renewing the National Covenant of Scotland, and the Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Nations. In A Way and Manner agreeable to our present Situation and Circumstances in this Period.' Published in Glasgow, printed ('Pinted') by Jon Bryce, and sold at his shop opposite Gibson's Wynd, Salt-Market, 1776. Also weekly offering card for Woolton Congregation Church, c. 1870. Some pages have been excised and the final printed...
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Silver medal awarded to Edward Price Edwards 1888-1889
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1622
Scope and Contents
Silver medal with: on obverse - Edinburgh Veterinary Medical Society / Professor Jas. Hunter President / Awarded to E.P. Edwards For Best Special Essay Session 1888-1889; and, on reverse - Androcles and the Lion.
In presentation or jeweller's case of Alexander Kirkwood and Son, Medalists, 9 St. James Square, Edinburgh.
The medal - diameter 51mm - is gripped in a tight band decorated on the 'top' with a fancy link for a neck ribbon.
In presentation or jeweller's case of Alexander Kirkwood and Son, Medalists, 9 St. James Square, Edinburgh.
The medal - diameter 51mm - is gripped in a tight band decorated on the 'top' with a fancy link for a neck ribbon.
Simmons, Ida
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-33
Scope and Contents
Nursing certificates 1919-1926; documents regarding later work 1940-1950, WWI war medals; M.B.E. medal
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Simpson, Mary
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-71
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of nurse's midwifery diploma awarded to Mary Simpson by Alexander R. Simpson University of Edinburgh 1879; photocopy of Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital training certificate awarded to Mary Simpson 1879
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Sketch books and photo albums of Charles Lovett Gill
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1603
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of: Box 1:
1 x photograph album with 'C. L' Gill' on endpaper. Album includes approx. 86 photographs of architectural subjects interspersed with family groups. Various captions including : New House, Sevenoaks, Jan-Feb '09, group photographs, the Fleet at Southend, King Edward's funeral, continental Europe
1 x photograph album with 'C. L' Gill' on...
Sketchbooks by R. M. Ballantyne, including seven autograph letters
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-327
Identifier: Coll-1838
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two sketchbooks by Scottish writer R. M. Ballantyne:1. The first sketchbook is made of approximately 85 leaves, almost all of which bear original drawings (pencil, ink and ink-and wash), cartoons, sketches and preliminary ideas. Some are
highly finished images intended for a subsequently abandoned book of his fishing trip
to Norway, as well as material for the published 'Freaks on the Fells'. On the first
blank is Ballantyne's presentation inscription to the...
Sketchbooks containing drawings and notes by John Williamson for the illustration of works by Sir Walter Scott
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1301
Scope and Contents
One of the two sketchbooks is titled on the front board, 'Sketches made at Edinburgh, Melrose and Craigmillar, etc, for drawings illustrating Sir Walters Scott's novels The Monastery and The Abbot'. There are several loose leaves and fragments in the second sketchbook.
The sketchbooks contain drawings in pencil and ink and some are coloured or washed. There are notes from lectures in the history of art.
The sketchbooks contain drawings in pencil and ink and some are coloured or washed. There are notes from lectures in the history of art.
Slide collection illustrating Edinburgh University Expedition to East Africa, 1965
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1119
Scope and Contents
The slide collection contains 46 slides showing the gathering of parasite samples and parasite treatment in Kenya, and 69 slides showing general views of Kenya and general aspects of the expedition.
Small broadside - an ordinance of the Baillies in Edinburgh
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1107
Scope and Contents
This broadside is addressed toEdinburghand is dated 29 November 1720. The name Jo. Wightman, Baillie, J.P. appears at the bottom of the ordinance. There is a woodcut initial at the beginning of the text.
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