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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

2 glass negatives & prints featuring Dr Clerk Ranken

 Fonds — Folder EUA GD51
Identifier: EUA GD51
Content Description

Two glass negatives showing Clerk Ranken in a Chemistry laboratory, c1903, and in a group of students, c1905. Along with the negatives are two later prints of the same.

Dates: 1903-1905
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

A List of Contributors to a Fund to Commemorate Professor Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson

 Fonds — Box Dk.3.35
Identifier: Coll-2172
Scope and Contents

A List of contributors to a fund to commemorate the retirement in 1935 and 70th birthday in 1936 of Professor Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. 1935-1936. With an undated greetings telegram to Professor Grierson from "Darrie", despatched from Guildford, probably on one of the above occasions.

Dates: 1935-1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Album presented to Megan Browne on the occasion of her retirement party, 1973

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0089
Scope and Contents

Album relating to the retirement in 1973 of former head of Social Work at the University of Edinburgh Margaret (Megan) Browne, containing notes from her coworkers, as well as an envelope with letters.

Dates: 1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Autobiography of Richard James Arthur Berry

 Fonds — Volume Dk.2.36
Identifier: Coll-2157
Scope and Contents

Berry, Richard James Arthur. 'Chance and Circumstance. An autobiography. Typescript. There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads in to fortune. A true story of what befell a man who took it, told by R.J.A. Berry, M.D. F.R.C.S., F.R.S.E.'

Dates: 20th century (before 1962)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Henry Holland to Dr George Gregory, 10 April 1821

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/2
Scope and Contents

Autograph Letter Signed ('H Holland') from Sir Henry Holland, physician to William IV and Victoria, to Dr George Gregory, pressing the claims of William Pulteney Alison to succeed Dr James Gregory as Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh. Mount street, 10 April 1821.

Dates: 10 April 1821
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Autograph Letter Signed to William Pulteney Alison from William Benjamin Carpenter, 8 November 1837

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/1
Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from William B. Carpenter to Professor William Alison of Edinburgh University, addressing amongst other things an accusation of plagiarism laid against him by fellow-student John Hughes Bennett. Bristol, 8 November 1837.Carpenter begins by apologising to Alison for asking his opinion "on a subject on which I am anxious to obtain the best information I can from those most qualified to judge". The question Carpenter asks is: "Do you think that there is any...
Dates: 8 November 1837
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Collection of 19th-century autograph letters assembled by the Rev. John Walker

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2103
Scope and Contents This collection consists of c. 200 letters acquired by the Rev. John Walker (1855-1941), a Scottish-Australian autograph collector. The main fields of interest represented are geology, botany, theology, literature, academia, and politics. Names that feature particularly prominently include Walker's uncle John Stuart Blackie, Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh; William Garden Blaikie, Professor of Divinity at New College, Edinburgh; James Geikie, Professor of Geology at the...
Dates: 1792-1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Framed portrait of Charles H. Stewart, Secretary to the University, after 1978

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0010
Scope and Contents

One framed black-and-white portrait of Charles H. Stewart, Secretary to the University 1948-1978.

Dates: after 1978
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Lectures of James MacKinnon (1860-1945), Professor of Ecclesiastical history, University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCK 5
Scope and Contents Notes on lectures delivered by Prof. James MacKinnon, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, during University of Edinburgh session 1908-1909. Volume I only.Part I: Origins of the Reformation (84 numbered pages, final 16 pages are blank).Part II: Progress of the Reformation (74 unnumbered pages, with infrequent blanks)Part III: Continuation of Calvin's Theories. (71 numbered pages).Part III [distinct from previous, reason for duplicated numbering...
Dates: 1908-1909
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Letters relevant to the Round Table Club and referring to John Gray McKendrick, 1908

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1324
Identifier: Coll-1694
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of two letters.The first is dated Edinburgh, 27 June 1908, and is from "your old friends", the "other surviving members" of the Round Table Club, to "Dear McKendrick". It goes on: "thank you very heartily for your labour of love. You bring back very vividly those happy times, and make us young again. We are especially grateful to you for what you say of those who have got [sic] before us, and we again see and hear their friends faces and their songs and...
Dates: 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections