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Death

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 153 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas George Bonney, 16 March 1915

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74 Gen 524/8/60
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas George Bonney expressing his commisserations at the death of one of Geikie's daughters.

Dates: 16 March 1915
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence to Sir Archibald Geikie: A Bachellery to Thomas Forster Brown

Manuscript notebook entitled "Private Memorials of Helen Late Mrs Stewart of Physgill", by Catherine Sinclair, 1845, 1863 (enclosed letter), 1946 (newspaper clippings)

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0023
Scope and Contents This is a small manuscript notebook with a metal clasp, written by Scottish novelist Catherine Sinclair in 1845. It relates the last moments of her sister Helen, as indiciated on the title page: "Private Memorials of Helen Late Mrs Stewart of Physgill - Written for her children at the request of Mary Stewart by her Sister Catherine Sinclair".The notebook opens with the following words from Catherine Sinclair: "Having attended my sister Helen through the last two months of her...
Dates: 1845; 1863 (enclosed letter); 1946 (newspaper clippings)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Mask of Dante Alighieri

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1723
Scope and Contents

Death mask of Italian poet Dante Alighieri. A death mask is a wax or a plaster cast made of a person's face after they have died.

Dates: unknown
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Newspapers, 1934-1960

 Series
Identifier: BAI 2/10
Scope and Contents

Selection of newspapers relating either to John Baillies award of an Honorary DD degree from the University of Yale or covering the period around his death.

Dates: 1934-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of Florence Jewel Baillie

NonRes.7.5 Health Visitors, 9 October 1961

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/1/7/5
Scope and Contents

Summary by Molly Harrington of a meeting with a group of local health visitors. Some discussion of the importance of death in neighbourhood communities and the practice of collecting for deaths. "If there's a death, it pulls them all together". Also brief discussion about aspiration "If they're aspiring when they come, they soon lose it in these depressing surroundings".

Dates: Other: 9 October 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Social Environment Research Unit / Field Notes / Non-Residents: Interview Summaries / Non-Residents 7: Interview Summaries

Note about burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra and accompanying vocabulary, August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/20
Scope and Contents Burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra, probably collected from Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, telling how a 'bonnach tollt' was put in the coffin and a coin is put under the coffin in the grave. 'The toll saved the bonnach from the corra-chagailt...Even the coin in the fasnadh had to be treated in a peculiar way to save it from the sithich' [fairies].' The vocabulary notes include 'Tàsg = the bird that foretells death tri sgramhann granda - less than a...
Dates: August 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about Crann[o]g nien Ri L[och]lann, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/147
Scope and Contents

Note about Crann[o]g nien Ri L[och]lann [Crannog nighean Rìgh Lochlainn/Dùn Crannag] that it is situated at Crannag [Barraigh/Isle of Barra], which is where the placename comes from. A dun was built for here there but the roof was filled over and the people inside were killed. It is mentioned in the poem 'Tha Chr[a]n[na]g fo chlachan an duin'.

Dates: September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about dogs dying and accompanying story about a faithful dog, October 1892

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/46
Scope and Contents

Note about dogs dying and accompanying story about a faithful dog collected from Duncan Macniven 'Don[nachadh] Pharuig', aged 88, Airds, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. Duncan tells how dogs go away from home to die and that shepherds know this to be the case. He also tells how a man in Glencoe [Gleann Comhann] went to work in England and every day at the same time his dog went out to wait for him and wept until it eventually died.

Dates: October 1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about the rocks 'Leac na Bana-Ghoisich' and 'Na h-Uird Bhairneach', 3 February 1874

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/47
Scope and Contents

Note about the rock 'Leac na Bana-Ghoisich' that it is a dolmen at Kilbride [Cille Bhrìghde, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and was where a bana-ghoiseach [possibly god-mother] was burnt. Also notes that Na h-Uird Bhairneach are 'long lintels lying down.'

Dates: 3 February 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note entitled 'Butterfly', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/45
Scope and Contents

Note by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Butterfly' describing how the 'Dalan De' of golden colour if seen flying over a corpse signifies that their spirit is in heaven. The superstition only applies to this particular kind of butterfly. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael