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

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Edmonston and Douglas, 19 June 1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/9
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Edmonston and Douglas handing him a list of persons to whom a presentation copy of Memoir of Edward Forbes, ( 1861) have been sent.

Dates: 19 June 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence concerning the compilation of 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'

Letter to Sophie Weisse from C. Haydin Coffin, 16 December 1906

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2208
Scope and Contents

Letter, 16 December 1906, London, C. Haydin Coffin to Sophie Weisse. Accepting Miss. Weisse's kind offer of fifty pounds. Holograph signed.

Dates: 16 December 1906
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

List of names and addresses, 18 June 1861

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/3/10
Scope and Contents

List of names and addresses for persons to whom presentation copies of Memoir of Edward Forbes , ( 1861) , have been sent.

Dates: 18 June 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence concerning the compilation of 'Memoir of Edward Forbes'

Minutes of the SMG Edinburgh Befriending Committee, 9 Dec 1975

 Item
Identifier: GD61/1/1/1/23
Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include the use of Broughton Street premises by befrienders, and an anonymous donation.

Dates: 9 Dec 1975
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) / Minutes / Minutes of the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (LGLS) and Predecessors / Minutes of the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG) Edinburgh Befriending Committee

Papers of Professor Max Born

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-309
Content Description

3 items:


  1. Original manuscript in German of The restless universe, c 1930. [Dk.7.50]
  2. DVD (content not yet identified). [E.2006.32]
  3. Chinar wooden box presented to Born by students and admirers on 14 March 1936. [E.2007.09]
Dates: Majority of material found within c 1930-1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Story about catching lobster, 7 August 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/21
Scope and Contents

Story collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Lochaline [Loch Àlainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] about catching lobster which reads 'Lobster got on high sea level in Port Mor in rock in fissure of red [gairial]' [Port Mòr, A' Mhorbhairne/Morvern].

Dates: 7 August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for 'Cochair', 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/64
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula for 'Co chair' defining it as 'an old Gaelic word, signifying a small gift given with a good warm feeling.' Alexander Carmichael appears to have annotated 'Co chair' as 'cochair'. Text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Wedding present lists, 1919-1920

 File
Identifier: BAI 3/7
Scope and Contents

Lists of John and Florence Jewel Baillies wedding presents, some compiled in relation to having them sent to the United States.

Dates: 1919-1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Marriage of John Baillie and Florence Jewel Fowler