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

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Donations register, 1698-1847, 1947-1965

 Item
Identifier: AA2/2/20
Scope and Contents

Register of donations predominantly by ministers and students to Edinburgh University Theological Library and later to New College Library.

Dates: 1698-1847; 1947-1965
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / Institutional records of New College Library / Edinburgh University Theological Library

George Square redevelopment, 1960-1973

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6
Scope and Contents George Square redevelopment consists of: general correspondence, (1969-1973) Civic Trust Award, (1969) reports, (1960-1973) general photographs, (1965-1967) plans: faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, (1964-1966) plans: landscape and streetscape, (1964-1965) plans: faculty of science, (1963) ...
Dates: 1960-1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates / University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area / University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area

George Square Redevelopment: plans and drawings for Edinburgh University Main Library and Liverpool University Library, 1960-1967

 File
Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/6.8
Scope and Contents George Square Redevelopment: plans and drawings for Edinburgh University Main Library and Liverpool University Library consists of: set of plans, by Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson, entitled "University Library" consists of 12 plans and 5 elevations, mostly at 1/16 scale. There are 5 different versions of the site plan, floor plans for the lower ground, ground and second floor, 2 different...
Dates: 1960-1967
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates / University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area / University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area / George Square redevelopment

Institutional records of New College Library

 Collection
Identifier: AA2
Scope and Contents

Contains the institutional records of New College Library, Edinburgh University Theological Library, Church of Scotland General Assembly Library, Church of Scotland Lending Library and Longforgan Free Church Ministers' Library.

Dates: 1755-present
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Letter to [' Dear Sir'] from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1899

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L534
Scope and Contents

Letter, [1899], Donald Tovey to [' Dear Sir']. Suggesting that the British Museum should reorganise it's catalogue. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Mary Gardner Grierson from Sir Donald Franics Tovey, c1937

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L307
Scope and Contents

Letter, [1937], Donald Tovey to Mary Grierson. Suggesting that Hans Gal should visit the Reid library. Holograph signed, in pencil.

Dates: c1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Mary Gardner Grierson from Sir Donald Franics Tovey, c1938

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L315
Scope and Contents

Letter, 1938, Suffolk, Donald Tovey to Mary Grierson. Hans Gals's discovery of a Haydn symphony in the Reid music library, and details of forthcoming concerts. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from G Merian, 12 November 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/3
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from G Merian, asking for copies of publications for la Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Bale, as previously promised, to complete a set.

Dates: 12 November 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Wilibald Gurlitt, 06 November 1923

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1210
Scope and Contents

Letter, 6 November 1923, Friebourg, W. Gurlitt to Donald Tovey. Discussing Tovey's lecture on the middle ages to the University of Edinburgh and expressing a keenness to see the treasures of Edinburgh University library. Holograph signed.

Dates: 06 November 1923
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Observata et Dicta ... cum Huygeno Junio 1693, 30 June 1693

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [14]
Scope and Contents

Remarks en passant about library volumes in history and physics seen in Leiden. A longer passage follows: notes to a conversation with Christiaan Huygens, critiquing Sir Isaac Newton's notions of absolute motion and the propagation of light. Huygens also says that John Flamsteed ought to declare for the absolute speed of light, and that this should persuade Jean Dominique Cassini.

Dates: 30 June 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

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