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A collection of papers and correspondence relating to the publication of Whither Scotland?, edited by Duncan Glen

 Collection — Box: CLX-A-1594
Identifier: Coll-2027
Content Description A collection of papers and correspondence relating to the publication history of Whither Scotland?, edited by Duncan Glen, from the archives of its publisher Victor Gollancz. A small quantity of typed and holograph contracts, correspondence and associated materials, between and concerning Duncan Glen, his publisher, and other interested parties. Includes 23 ALS and Typed Letters Signed (TLS) from Duncan Glen, and TLS from Tony Benn, Jo Grimond and...
Dates: 1970-1977

Album of playbills, Theatre Royal, Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2115
Scope and Contents This is a press-cutting album containing a large number of Theatre Royal playbills, covering the years 1825 to 1848. Each of the 35 (thirty-five) itemised playbills bears the printed heading Theatre Royal Edinburgh.List of publication numbers as they appear on the top right of each sheet, and dates where given:N.84 (23/02/1825) N.71 (04/02/1837) N.72 (06/02/1837) N.73 (07/02/1837) N.74 (08/02/1837) N.75 (09/02/1837) N.77...
Dates: Publication: 1808, 1825-1848

Astley Ainslie SMART Centre

 Fonds
Identifier: LHB71
Scope and Contents

Adminstrative papers, correspondence, reports, photographs, publications, and research and development documents. To date, this collection has been partially catalogued. For more information, please contact the LHSA Archivist: lhsa@ed.ac.uk.

Dates: c1960-2009

Book, medals, and printed ephemera relating to Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy Fraser

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1978
Content Description This collection includes a printed book with two enclosures, printed ephemera, and two medals related to harpist Helen Patuffa Hood and her mother Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish musician and folk-song collector. The printed book is a signed copy of The Road to the Isles (Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1927) by Kenneth Macleod given by the author himself to Patuffa...
Dates: 1889; 1925-1928; 1946

Bound lecture notes of Ethelwyn Lemon

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1933
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of 15 volumes of bound lecture notes that belonged to Ethelwyn Lemon. These notes were taken by Ethelwyn Lemon herself, or by other fellow female students, in the late 19th-early 20th century at the University of Edinburgh. Notes of lectures on British history given by Sir Richard Lodge, taken down by Barbara M Craw. Edinburgh University, 1904. (4 vols) Notes of...
Dates: 1892-1931

Bound manuscript entitled "A Collection of choice Songs English and Scots In Two Parts", compiled by John Robinson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2081
Scope and Contents This is a bound collection of Scottish and English popular songs and ballads assembled and transcribed by John Robinson, an alumnus of Appleby Grammar School, who later served as Member of Parliament for Westmoreland.The volume is divided in two parts: part one, "Chiefly English", starts on p. 1, and ends on p. 74. The very first poem, entitled "Dedication", is taken from Scottish bookseller-poet Allan Ramsay's Tea-table miscellany:...
Dates: 1765

Class cards etc. relating to John Baillie Miller

 Fonds — Box: EUA-A-10
Identifier: EUA GD67
Scope and Contents

2 matriculation cards (1862 and 1864); class cards - Greek (1862), Law of Scotland (1862/3), Scots law (1862/3), Criminal law (Summer session, 1863).

Dates: 1861-1863

Collection of 19th-century photographs of Scotland and Geneva, Switzerland

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1984
Content Description

This collection comprises twenty-one black-and-white photographs mounted on board showing various locations in Scotland (including Edinburgh, Stirling, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Loch Katrine), Geneva, and an unidentified location (probably also Geneva).

Dates: late 19th century

Collection of documents relating to student theatre in Edinburgh gathered together by Grahame Bulfield

 Fonds — Box: CLX-A-375
Identifier: Coll-1892
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 67 physical items, mainly theatre programmes, hand-outs, and newspaper cuttings relating to student theatre in Edinburgh in the late 1960s. Also includes an inventory, and a list of known student performances in Edinburgh from autumn 1964 to summer 1972. Most items are originals, but a few are copies.Click ...
Dates: late 1960s

Collection of letters of Thomas Chalmers, mostly to Rebecca Bell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2083
Scope and Contents Collection of 15 signed autograph letters from Thomas Chalmers, Edinburgh and Burntisland, 1832-1842. All but one are addressed to Miss Rebecca Bell of Woodhouse Lee, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire (the remaining letter to George Bell of Leith), discussing the state of the Church of Scotland during the campaign that culminated in the Disruption and the establishment of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. He also offers spiritual advice, and discusses Miss Bell's proposed foundation of a new...
Dates: 1832-1842

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Church of Scotland, Establishment and disestablishment 3
Family papers 3
Law 3
Lectures and Lecturing 3
Posters 3
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University of Edinburgh -- Alumni and alumnae 3
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 2
Architecture | Scotland | 2
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Scotland -- Stirling 2
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Accounts 1
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Algebra 1
Anatomical Specimens 1
Anatomy 1
Archaeology 1
Archives | Scotland | 1
Australia -- Western Australia -- Perth 1
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Batteries (Ordnance) | 1
Blood coagulation disorders 1
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Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 -- Correspondence 1
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Chile 1
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Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
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Hume, David, 1757-1838 (judge, Baron of the Scottish Exchequer) 4
University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 4
Victor Gollancz Ltd 4
Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 2
Edinburgh University Dramatic Society 2
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Naismith, Robert James, 1916-2004 (Scottish architect) 2
Simpson, Sir Alexander Russell, 1835-1916 (professor of midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 2
Annandale, Thomas, 1838-1907 (surgeon) 1
Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Baikie, Hugh Edward, 1906-1981 (Church of Scotland missionary to India) 1
Barker, Henry Aston, 1774-1856 (Artist) 1
Beaton, Janet, 1922-2018 (teacher and writer) 1
Bell, George Joseph, 1770-1843 (advocate, Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Bell, George, fl 1832-1842 (of Leith, Edinburgh | acquaintance of Thomas Chalmers) 1
Benn, Tony, 1925-2014 (British politician, writer and diarist) 1
Bickersteth, Robert (surgeon at Liverpool Royal Infirmary) 1
Boughton, Alice, 1866-1943 (Photographer) 1
Brown, George Mackay, 1921-1996 (writer and poet) 1
Brown, Gerard Baldwin, 1849-1932 (Watson-Gordon Professor of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh) 1
Brown, Kenneth R, fl 1880s (medical student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Bulfield, Grahame, 1941-: (geneticist, formerly director and chief executive, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh and vice-principal, University of Edinburgh) 1
Burns, Margaret, fl 1890s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 (Scottish poet) 1
Butcher, Samuel Henry, 1850-1910 (classicist, politician and professor of greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Cairns, David Smith, 1862-1946 (principal of the United Free Church College, Aberdeen) 1
Carse, Agnes, fl 1706 (wife of William Cochrane, Edinburgh) 1
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 1
Christie, Margaret, d 1996 or 1997 (née Campbell | Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical Education alumna) 1
Cochrane, James, fl 1700-1799 (Edinburgh printer) 1
Cochrane, William, d before 1718 (Edinburgh writer ) 1
Couper, Frederick, fl 1870s-1920s (Scottish marine engineer) 1
Craw, Barbara M, fl 1900s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Dickson, George, fl 1860s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Drummond, William, 1585-1649 (Poet) 1
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (the elder | British physician | Professor at University of Edinburgh) 1
Dunfermline College of Physical Education 1
Edenhall Hospital 1
Edinburgh Chile Solidarity Committee 1
Edinburgh University Boat Club 1
Ellis, Peter Berresford, b 1943 (British historian and author) 1
Falkirk Iron Company 1
Fraser, Marjory Kennedy-, 1857-1930 (singer, pianist, folk-song collector and arranger) 1
Fraser, Thomas Richard, Sir, 1841-1920 (physician and pharmacologist, professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh) 1
Gemmell, Alice Caroline Anne, 1879-1951 (daughter of Caroline Elizabeth Houstoun) 1
Glen, Duncan, 1933-2008 (Scottish poet and literary editor) 1
Glenbuck Ironworks (1795-1813) (Glenbuck, East Ayrshire) 1
Goodhart, Harry Chester, 1858-1895 (English footballer and Professor of Humanity, University of Edinburgh) 1
Grimond, Magnus, fl 1970s-2010s (Edinburgh University alumnus) 1
Grouchy, Philip de, b 1940 (Edinburgh University alumnus; teacher) 1
Guthrie, Douglas James, 1885-1975 (surgeon and historian of medicine) 1
Hannay, Robert Kerr, Professor, 1867-1940 (historian, palaeographer) 1
Henderson, Hamish Scott, 1919-2002 (folklorist, poet, songwriter, soldier, intellectual) 1
Hood, Helen Patuffa, 1889-1967 (harpist) 1
Houstoun, Caroline Elizabeth , 1840-1926 (granddaughter of General Sir Robert Houstoun KCB) 1
Jamieson, F R, fl 1890s (lecturer in Latin Literature, University of Edinburgh) 1
Keir, Thomas Henry, Rev., 1907-1994 (Church of Scotland Minister) 1
Kennish, T L, fl 1880s (medical student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Leith, Dick, d 2011 (linguist) 1
Lemon, Ethelwyn Lilias, fl 1890s-1940s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Lodge, Richard, Professor Sir, 1855-1936 (historian) 1
Mac a' Ghobhainn, Seumas, 1930-1987 (Scottish author and political campaigner) 1
Macleod, Kenneth, 1871-1955 (Church of Scotland minister and folklorist) 1
Marett, Robert Ranulph, 1866-1943 (British ethnologist; Rector of Exeter College ) 1
Martin, John N T, b 1940 (University of Edinburgh alumnus) 1
Maybury, Edwin, fl 1947-1951 (University of Edinburgh zoology student) 1
Miller, John Baillie, 1841-1926 (solicitor) 1
Millman, Lawrence, b 1948 (American writer, ethnographer, mycologist) 1
NHS National Services Scotland 1
Needlework Development Scheme (1934-1961) 1
Orr, Robert Low, fl 1870s-1880s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Orr, William J, fl 1870s-1880s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Orrock, Alex (former owner of student lecture notes dated 1790) 1
Orrock, W W (former owner of student lecture notes dated 1790) 1
Pattison, Andrew Seth Pringle-, 1856-1931 (Scottish philosopher) 1
Peat, George, fl 1790 (Law student) 1
Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758 (Scottish poet and bookseller) 1
Roach, William, fl 1969-1970 (Scottish historian) 1
Robinson, John, 1727-1802 (Westmorland MP) 1
Sanders, William Rutherford, 1828-1881 (Scottish physician) 1
Schofield, Anne Dollar, 1921-2015 (née Davies | Physician) 1
Scott, Sir Walter, 1771-1832 (novelist and poet) 1
Sees, Thomas, fl 1820s (Law student, University of Edinburgh) 1
Sharp, James, 1613-1679 (Archbishop of St. Andrews) 1
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1811-1870 (Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh) 1
Stenhouse, Bruce Alexander, 1911-1991 1
Stevenson, Isabella Watt, fl 1890s (Edinburgh University student) 1
Stewart, Sir Thomas Grainger, 1837-1900 (Physician, President of the BMA) 1
Stirling, Catherine Mary, 1819-1879 (Collector) 1
Stott, James Robert, c 1881-1954 (physician and World War I veteran) 1
Torrance, James B, 1923-2003 (theologian) 1
Torrance, Thomas Forsyth, 1913-2007 (theologian, and Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh) 1
Turner, Sir William, 1832-1916 (anatomist, professor of anatomy and principal, University of Edinburgh) 1
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (1945-:) 1
University of Edinburgh. Students Representative Council 1
University of Pennsylvania (1791-:) (university) 1
White, Adam, 1817-1879 1
Women's Auxiliary Air Force (1939-1949) (WAAF) 1
Woodruff, Sir Michael Francis Addison, 1911-2001 (Knight | Surgeon) 1
Young, Thomas, 1725-1783 (physician and professor of midwifery) 1
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