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Typescript and printed volumes on Glasgow and Edinburgh 'lodging houses'

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1566
Identifier: Coll-1816
Content Description A collection of 2 x ts and printed volumes on Glasgow and Edinburgh 'lodging houses'. These were created by...:Louie Murray, who wrote Edinburgh Common Lodging-Houses, a study of the residents and how their needs are met by statutory and voluntary social services. Murray's work was presented as a thesis for the Diploma in Social Study, Edinburgh University... 94pp including appendices.Dr. Stuart Laidlaw, who wrote ...
Dates: 1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Typescript by James Dick: Account of his boyhood in Scotland

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Identifier: Coll-1900
Scope and Contents

Typescript by Colonel James Dick (1863-1926), containing an 'account of his boyhood in Scotland'.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century (before 1926)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Typescript by John Findlater, Methodist minister, Leith

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Identifier: MS FIN 1
Scope and Contents Typescript manuscript of John Findlater, Methodist minister, Leith. Fl.1906 - 1913.Manuscript titled "The Missionary Movement: Its Rise, Progress, and Prospects." Created c.1909, with several former shelfmarks and the author's name inscribed inside. Notes on 'The Great Commission' loosely inserted after page 232. Typescript frequently annotated with pencil, with printed biblical passages pasted in. Ammendments are mostly small, but occasionally whole paragraphs are marked for...
Dates: c.1909
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Typescript by Richárd Hörcsik (1955-) entitled ‘The history of the Hungarian scholarship at Edinburgh’

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Identifier: MS HOR 1
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Loose leaf typescript titled 'The history of the Hungarian scholarship at Edinburgh'. By Richárd Hörcsik. Undated, but created c. 1990. 56 numbered pages, followed by 2 pages of charts.

It is unclear if this paper was ever published in its current format, but it is cited in some of Hörcsik's later publications.

Dates: c.1990
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Typescript Cunningham Lectures by Prof William Alexander Curtis (1876-1961)

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Identifier: MS BOX 36.7
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Dates: 1950-1953
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Typescript epistolary journal by [Alice] Maud Hitchcock

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-2000
Content Description Extensive archive of letters, together forming a journal of seven years’ work for the Church Missionary Society in China. Addressed to ‘dear Friends’ of her church in Bermondsey, Hitchcock’s letters provide a detailed account of her journey to China and her mission there. Though evidently travelling frequently throughout south-east China, Hitchcock was stationed primarily on Haitan (Pingtan) island with Eleanor Jane Harrison, recording efforts to teach the Gospel to the local population and...
Dates: 1901-1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Typescript form of daily devotion by Father Mark Gibberd

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Identifier: MS BOX 36.6
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Dates: nd
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Typescript letter from Arthur Koestler to Dr. Thomas Koevari

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1804 / SC-Acc-2017-0036
Identifier: Coll-1804
Content Description This typescript letter from Arthur Koestler was sent to Dr Thomas Kovari (Kövári Tamás) who had escaped from Hungary in 1956. The letter to 'Dear Mr. Koevari' - indirectly described by Koestler as a fan - was written from the Berghotel 'Böglerhof', Alpbach, in the Tyrol, Austria, on 2 July 1959. It is signed in Koestler's hand. Koestler thanks Mr. Koevari for the trouble he has taken to point out a passage... a 'howler'.Although the title referred to is un-named, it is ...
Dates: 2 July 1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Typescript of ‘Christian stalwarts’ by William H Clark

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Identifier: MS CLA 2
Scope and Contents

Typescript short studies on 'Christian stalwarts' such as Peter Waldo (c.1170), John Hus (1369-1415), Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), Martin Luther (1483-1546), John Calvin (1509-1564), Wycliffe, Tyndale, Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, John Knox (c. 1510-1572), Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), John Wesley (1703-1791), David Livingstone (1813-1873), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Written by William H. Clark.

Dates: 1972
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Typescript of Iain Moffatt-Pender's own corrected draft of his English translation of Kenneth Macleod's essay "Duatharachd na mara"

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Identifier: Coll-2940
Scope and Contents

This is a typescript of Iain Moffatt-Pender's own corrected draft of his English translation of Kenneth Macleod's essay "Duatharachd na mara". The title page reads: ""Duatharachd na mara." (The Romance -- or the Mystery of the Sea) / by Kenneth Macleod "The Minister of the Songs" translated by Iain Macalastair Moffatt-Pender." [In red ink above title: NOT FOR PUBLICATION). No date, but 1927 or earlier.

Dates: [1927 or earlier]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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