Articles

Scope and Contents The hospital’s earlier annual reports are bound up with pamphlets relating to the setting up of the hospital. This section therefore contains a considerable amount of material concerning the background to the hospital as well as its annual reports.The earliest annual reports are very brief: they gradually expand during the 1820s and 1830s to include patient statistics, annual accounts and lists of office bearers. From the appointment of...

Scope and Contents Small quarto, 43pp, in the original marbled paper covered wrappers. There are pieces written by Mason, and by Thomson. Others are taken from the Edinburgh Magazine and the Morning Post. Titles include, 'A Fragment', 'To a Lady on her Birthday', 'On a Lady who died in Childbirth 1778', 'The parting Lover', 'Woe', 'An inscription on the tomb of one Margaret Sect who died at Selkirk 12 miles from Newcastle 1728', and 'On Conjugal...

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Copies of articles on Booth, including articles by Emily Booth Langworthy "The Early Days of the Zambesi Industrial Mission" printed in The Polished Shaft the organ of the Zambesi Mission.

Scope and Contents Correspondence: Josephine Cunnington Edwards and George Shepperson.1. Letter from George Shepperson, University of Edinburgh, to Mrs Josephine Cunnington Edwards, Broadview Academy, Illinois, USA. George Shepperson introduces himself. He has heard that Mrs Edwards spent nine years with the Malamula Mission in Nyasaland and must consequently have interests similar to his. He outlines his plan for a book on the Nyasaland 1915 Rising and gives some indication of...

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A specifically prepared luxury volume as issued by Delarue, Cornish and Rock. Items include: 'Epitaph on professor Young of Glasgow'; 'The Traveller', a poem; 'List of Ministers names who are or have been in the Kirk of Scotland'; 'Translation of one of the Odes in the Media'; 'Hymns Constitutional de Portugal composta por Sua Altera Real Dom Pedro Quarto' with music; 'An essay upon an Apple', a poem; 'The Poets Bride', a poem, and 'Thine Album'.

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Work in the ms volume includes an untitled piece, 'On Belinda', 'Epigram', 'The roof of straw', 'Verses by a young lady', and inserted loosley 'The little men'.

The volume is signed and dated 'Helen Duncan, October 12th 1818' on the front end paper.

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Notes made by Shepperson on sources, including bibliographic material on Booth, chronologies, some transcripts or copies of documents, and some contemporary articles.

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Pamplets and articles relating to tuberculosis. Includes reprints and two folders of press cuttings.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to Black and African-American missionaries in Africa. Emma Bertha Delany (1871-1922). African-American missionary in Africa. Papers relating to her training and career. Biographical summary, extract from a letter from Miss Tapley to Mr Lucian Drury, 23.02.56, and an article written by Miss Delany, entitled 'Why I go as a Foreign Missionary' and printed in the Spelman Messenger, Vol. 18,...