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Astronomy notes circa 1804
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Identifier: Coll-1543
Scope and Contents
The bound manuscript volume contains notes on 'Astronomy' and 'Spherical Trigon[ometry]'. There are a number of sketches within the notes.
Dates:
1800-1806
Autograph book of Janet Murray
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Identifier: MS MUR
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
c.1887-1900
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Autograph book of John Hutchison ( -1901), minister of Bonnington United Presbyterian Church, Leith
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Identifier: MS HUT2
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1857-1859
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Autograph letter from George Gleig, Scottish cleric, writer and editor, to Messrs Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh
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Identifier: Coll-1718
Scope and Contents
The autograph letter is dated, Stirling, Scotland, March 16th 1800. It is a single sheet, 195mm x 205mm.
Addressing his letter to Messrs Bell & Bradfute, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Gleig asks that, with respect to the Anti Jacobin Review the: 'Gentlemen [...] give to John Macfarquhar esq. the first four volumes of that work [...] and state them against the proprietor...'.
Addressing his letter to Messrs Bell & Bradfute, Booksellers, Edinburgh, Gleig asks that, with respect to the Anti Jacobin Review the: 'Gentlemen [...] give to John Macfarquhar esq. the first four volumes of that work [...] and state them against the proprietor...'.
Dates:
1800
Autograph letter signed, Adam Ferguson, to John Home, West Lauriston, 9 October 1780
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1682
Scope and Contents
This is a letter from Ferguson to Home discussing the attempt by their mutual friend George Johnstone to find a seat in the general election of September 1780. Ferguson mentions a letter addressed to Home that had arrived at Edinburgh in Home's absence, and writes of a meeting on Saturday, 'most of the Day', with the letter's author, 'Our Friend', a political figure aspiring to office who had been overlooked. 'Our Friend' may be George Johnstone, who is mentioned by name later. Ferguson hopes...
Dates:
1780
Autograph letters signed by John Stuart Blackie
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Identifier: Coll-1514
Scope and Contents
The first letter on University of Edinburgh embossed notepaper, dated 3 February 1865, begins 'My Dear Sir' and sends his 'sincere thanks for the present' of a book. Blackie is sorry that he is 'too much occupied at present to allow [...] the p[leasure of reading it; but the subject is so interesting and important' that hw ill make time soon. The second letter on notepaper headed 24 Hill Street, Edinburgh, is dated 25 November [no year], and begins 'My Dear Moir'. It is a letter...
Dates:
1864-1866
Autograph ms from 'The Shepherd's Calendar' by James Hogg, being a leaf from the draft for 'Class IV. Dogs'
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Identifier: Coll-1713
Content Description
Autograph ms from 'The Shepherd's Calendar', by James Hogg, 1824. It is a leaf from the draft of 'Class IV. Dogs', and is large folio size laid onto paper.
The ms has some Borders stories about dogs e.g. 'the late Mr. Steel's nephew in Peebles had a bitch [...] whose feats in taking home sheep from the neighbouring farms into the market at Peebles by herself form innumerable anecdotes in that vicinity...'.
The ms has some Borders stories about dogs e.g. 'the late Mr. Steel's nephew in Peebles had a bitch [...] whose feats in taking home sheep from the neighbouring farms into the market at Peebles by herself form innumerable anecdotes in that vicinity...'.
Dates:
1824
Autograph signed letter from Charles Hotham to Sir Roderick Murchison
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Identifier: Coll-1731
Scope and Contents
Addressed from Port Philip Heads, Melbourne, 10 July 1855, the autograph letter signed by Sir Charles Hotham (then lieutenant governor of
the Australian colony of Victoria) is to the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871).The letter begins with Hotham assuring Murchison that with regard to the
'pretensions' of 'Mr. Clarke' (meaning the geologist William Branwhite Clarke, 1798-1878), in claiming to
have made the first discovery of gold in Australia, he is 'delighted' that Murchison...
Dates:
10 July 1855
Autographs of clergymen
Fonds
Identifier: MS AUT
Scope and Contents
Autographs of clergymen collected by Mrs Macnealy, Wester Auchinloch, by Lenzie
See External Documents (below).
See External Documents (below).
Dates:
1864-1921
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Autographs of the Pan-Presbyterian Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
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Identifier: MS PAN
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1877
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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