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Gibraltar

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Annotated Map of Gibraltar, 1868

 Item
Identifier: Coll-99/11/1
Scope and Contents

Coloured index map to the 1/600 Plans of Gibraltar, with geological annotations detailing features such as raised beaches and shale.

Dates: 1868
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps

Letter from George Burnett (nephew) to Joseph Black, 23 September 1771

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/38-39
Scope and Contents

Letter from George Burnett, Gibraltar (nephew of Joseph Black) to Joseph Black, sending mineralogical specimens and fossils.

Dates: 23 September 1771
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letters from Colonel John Murray to 'My Dearest Mim' and 'My Dearest Mother' from Balaklava and Sebastapol, 1855-56, and onboard HMS Royal Albert, en route to Crimean War. Includes poem 'The Storming of the Redoubt', 1855-1856

 File
Identifier: Coll-1383/4/31
Scope and Contents

HMS Royal Albert- 8 leaves - relating to passage by Gibraltar in autumn and how the weather is akin to a London summer's day.


4th September 1855, writing to his mother, Murray tells her that he is to take charge of a detachment and tells her of provisions arriving for winter.

Dates: 1855-1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Ian R. Grant, antiquarian bookseller / Correspondence

Siege of Gibraltar, being Journal or Log-book kept on board H.M.S Essex, by Jonathan Greenwood, with drawings,1704, 1704

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Identifier: La.III.578
Scope and Contents

Records made by Jonathan Greenwood from his time with the ship, Essex.

Dates: 1704
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Laing Collection / Section III. Bound volumes

Two photograph albums, of older Spain and Portugal, and of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe... one of them collected by William Horn, Edinburgh

 Collection — Volume Coll-1807 / SC-Acc-2016-0196
Identifier: Coll-1807
Scope and Contents One album, with photographs of the Nile Valley and Classical Europe, has ms description on fore-page: "Photographs Collection of William Horn [address], Edinburgh. On tour of 1872." Some of the photographs are signed, 'A. Beats'. Many of the photographs of Classical Europe have Italian scenes around Florence, Naples and Pompei, and Milan, and there are photographs of Alpine scenes and Vienna too.The other album is entitled on the front board: "Photographs of Spain &...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1872-1890
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections