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Autograph letters signed by John Stuart Blackie
Fonds
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'
Fonds
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
Fonds
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
Fonds
Identifier: MS PAN
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1877
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Bangour General Hospital
Fonds
Identifier: LHB40
Scope and Contents
Patients (bound records) 1959-1988; patients (unbound records) 1939-1948; buildings 1953-1954
Dates:
1939-1988
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Bangour General Hospital Folder-based Case Notes
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: LHB40 CC
Scope and Contents
LHSA has two collections of case notes from Bangour General Hospital, both stemming from the hospital's foundation as an Emergency Medical Service Hospital during the Second World War. One collection (LHB40 CC/1) covers military patients treated by the maxillofacial surgery specialist unit. The second (LHB40 CC/2) relates to the patients from the military and auxiliary services treated by Norman Dott's Brain Injuries' Unit.
Dates:
1939-1970
Bangour Village Hospital
Fonds
Identifier: LHB44
Scope and Contents
Management 1859 - 1929; administration 1903 - 2004; patients (bound volumes) 1904 - 1982.
Dates:
1859 - 2004
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Bannatyne, Katie Smith
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-95
Scope and Contents
Certificates relating to Katie Smith Bannatyne's training as a nurse and midwife at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1934-1935; Affleck Medal awarded to Katie Smith Bannatyne, 1934
Dates:
1934-1935
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Banner, medals and badge relating to the 1986 Commonwealth Games at Edinburgh
Collection
Identifier: Coll-2009
Content Description
This collection includes objects relating to the Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh in 1986, that belonged to Colin Cruickshank.
One banner celebrating the University's Quatercentenary in 1983 that had been hanged on the wall of the Sports Hall during the 1986 Commonwealth Games. The Sports Hall had been turned into the Air Weapons Range for the occasion.
Two Commonwealth Games commemorative...
Dates:
1983-1986
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- Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 4
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- Geikie, James, 1839-1915 (professor of geology, University of Edinburgh) 4
- Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research 4
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- Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, 1866-1960 (literary critic and professor of English Literature) 4
- Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 4
- Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 4
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Scottish poet) 4
- Monro, Alexander, 'primus', 1697-1767 (Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 4
- Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817 ("Secundus", Professor of anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 4
- Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 4
- Poultry Research Centre (1947-1986) (research institution) 4
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- Young, Thomas, 1726-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 4
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- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 3
- Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 3
- Crew, Francis Albert Eley, 1886-1973 (professor of animal genetics and professor of public health and social medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
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- Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women (1868-1974) 3
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- Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 3
- Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 3
- Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 3
- Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 3
- Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research - Edinburgh Research Station. IAPGR (1986-1993) 3
- Jameson, Robert, 1774-1854 (geologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 3
- Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 3
- Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (writer, reviewer) 3
- Oldham, Joseph Houldsworth, 1874-1969 (missionary and ecumenist) 3
- Pillans, James (Regent, University of Edinburgh) 3
- Royal (Dick) Veterinary College (1839-1951| veterinary college) 3
- Smith, Sydney Alfred, Sir, 1883-1969 (Professor of Forensic Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 3
- Tragara Pressnn 3
- University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Library 3
- University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 3
- Unknown (Unknown) 3
- Ambler, Richard Penry, 1933-: (professor of protein chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865 (lawyer, poet) 2
- Balfour, Sir Isaac Bayley, 1853-1922 (professor of botany, University of Edinburgh and regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh) 2
- Bickersteth, Robert (surgeon at Liverpool Royal Infirmary) 2
- Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 (professor, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2
- Borland, Catherine Robina, d 1946 (manuscript historian) 2
- Brash, James Couper, 1886-1958, Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University 2
- Brewster, David, 1781-1868 (natural philosopher and vice-chancellor, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Buchan, John, Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940 (Scottish novelist and historian) 2
- Bulfield, Grahame, 1941-: (geneticist, formerly director and chief executive, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh and vice-principal, University of Edinburgh) 2
- Campbell, Archibald Hunter, 1902-1989 (legal scholar, Professor of Public law, Dean of the Faculty of Law) 2
- Chisolm, George Goudie, 1850-1930 (geographer) 2
- Christian Salvesen Ltd. (1872-2007) (shipping company) 2
- Christison, Robert, Sir, 1797-1882 (toxicologist and physician) 2
- Church Missionary Society 2
- Combe, George, 1788-1858, Phrenologist 2
- Craigie, Patrick George, Major, 1843-1930 (statistician; army major) 2
- Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 2
- Davidson Clinic (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2
- Dickson, William Kirk, 1860-1949, Librarian Historian 2
- Dollar, Thomas Aitken, 1833-1909 (Veterinary scientist) 2
- Dunfermline College of Physical Education 2
- Edinburgh College of Art (1907-:) 2
- Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre (1907-1959) 2
- Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU) (c1971-present) 2
- Edinburgh University Women's Athletics Club 2
- Emmett, William B, fl mid 20th century (psychologist) 2
- Foreign Mission Committee the Church of Scotland 2
- Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 2
- Geological Society of London (1807-:) 2
- Geological Survey of Great Britain (1835-:) 2
- Greenwood, Alan William, 1897-1981 (genetical physiologist and director of ARC Poultry Research Centre) 2
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford) 2
- Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 2
- Hamish Henderson Archive Trust 2
- Hannay, Robert Kerr, Professor, 1867-1940 (historian, palaeographer) 2
- Heriot-Watt College (1885-1966) 2
- Holland, Thomas Henry, Sir (geologist, Principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2 ∧ less
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