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Take Care Campaign
Fonds
Identifier: GD22
Scope and Contents
Operational, administrative and project files, 1988-1998; educational resources, 1975–2000; promotional material including leaflets, posters, display boards, t-shirts, badges, balloons and condoms, 1985-1990s; newspapers, 1989–2000; and audio/visual materials, 1991-1996.
Dates:
1968 - 2000
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Taylor, Frances
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-21
Scope and Contents
Instruments and case awarded to Frances Taylor 1898; letters of Frances Taylor to her family 1899; photograph 1890s; certificate of Leeds Trained Nurses' Institution 1902
Dates:
1898-1902
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Testament written 3 June 1936 by John Baillie (1886-1960), Professor of Divinity, in favour of Ursula Mary Niebuhr (1907-1997)
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1378
Scope and Contents
The manuscript testimonial (2-sided letter) dated 3 June 1936 and signed by Professor John Baillie was found alongside some more recent photocopies of other material in a book (unnamed in a lot of 19 titles) purchased by Edinburgh University Library. The testimonial talks of Mrs. Niebuhr's maturity of scholarship, the 'soundness of her judgement' and 'the quick intuitive character of her mind'. The other photocopies are: 1 letter from John Baillie to 'My dear Bishop' dated 29 May 1939, in...
Dates:
1936-2012
Testimonial addresses to Rev Dr Robert MacDonald (1813-1893), minister of North Leith Free Church
Fonds
Identifier: MS MCD 3
Scope and Contents
Scroll containing two rolled folio.The first folio is an illuminated testimonial address to Rev. Dr. Robert Macdonald on the occasion of his moderatorship of the Free Church General Assembly, 1882-1883. The text is a clear italic in black ink, with titles and key achievements highlighted in a combination of red, yellow, blue and metallics.At the left of the page is floral imagery in black line, with a medallion of the burning bush and the phrase 'nec tamen...
Dates:
1882-1883
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
The Agra Correspondence and Papers of Sir William Muir
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1037
Scope and Contents
The Agra Correspondence of Sir William Muir consists of original manuscripts and typed transcripts relating to his career in the North-West Provinces of India, but in this case pertaining to 1857. The papers in the collection include letters to his wife from 1840 to 1895, letters of congratulations on the Muir's golden wedding, letters relating to the period 1813 to 1902, press cuttings, documents and the Annual reports. Miss Taylor's orphanage for Moslem and Druse girls, Beyrout, and other...
Dates:
1813-1902
The Allinson Papers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-39
Scope and Contents
The collection of Allinson Papers consists of a mixed box of small printed items and pamphlets, posters, photographs, and bundles of newspaper and magazine cuttings; a number of scrapbook albums containing mainly newspaper cuttings relating to Allinson, and dating variously from 1881 to 1918; and, folders containing scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings, handbills, and lecture posters from the 1880s to 1918.For more details on the contents of the collection, see the box list. You can...
Dates:
1881-1928; 1984
‘The ancestry of Randall Thomas Davidson, D.D.’ by Rev Adam Philip (1856-1945), minister of Longforgan United Free Church
Fonds
Identifier: MS PHI1
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1903
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
The Angus Fraser Manuscript
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-58
Scope and Contents
The Angus Fraser Music Manuscript consists of three named collections intended for publication, a series of sets of variations mostly on well-known airs, and a variety of less-organised manuscript pages. The differing interests of Simon Fraser and Angus Fraser are reflected in the Manuscript.
Dates:
19th century
The Birken Trust manuscript, by Annie Swan
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1562
Identifier: Coll-2071
Scope and Contents
This is a loose leaf manuscript by Annie Swan entitled "The Birken Trust", c. 1934.Comprising 516 manuscript pages on loose-leaf paper, this work constitutes a novel under the working title "The Birken Trust." It consists of 40 chapters, each individually paperclipped and paginated per chapter, with an average of 13 single-sided pages in Swan's handwriting. Minor corrections by Swan are present throughout the manuscript. Additionally, two typewritten sheets are clipped in, one...
Dates:
c 1934
The British Weekly
Collection
Identifier: MS BRIT
Scope and Contents
'British Weekly' newspaper publications marked 'private copy' with advertisement prices written in ink.Bound in 16 volumes, which include:October 1900-April 1901, Vol. 21April 1901-October 1901, Vol. 30October 1936-September 1937, Vols. 101 and 102October 1937-September 1938, Vols. 103 and 104October 1938-September 1939, Vols. 105 and 106October 1939-September 1940, Vols. 107 and 108October...
Dates:
1901-1948
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections