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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Hay Caird, 29 January 1899

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/9
Scope and Contents

Caird states how interested he was in Ewart's letter which appeared in The Scotsman. He also discusses physical development and the transference of lines of thought between generations. He gives examples of his own family, and of other Scottish families.

Dates: 29 January 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Hay Caird, 06 February 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/11
Scope and Contents

Caird outlines some personality traits and physical characteristics of his father and grandfather. He discusses other family resemblances, the origins of the family name and other genealogical information.

Dates: 06 February 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Forsyth, 05 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/11
Scope and Contents

Forsyth provides some family details and information about the meeting of the Congested Districts Board at which Forsyth argued the case for Ewart's 'Pony Report'. He also reports meeting with the new Secetary of State for Scotland, 'Tullibardine' of Blair Atholl and a pony salesman.

Dates: 05 February 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Spencer Ewart, 03 February [1904]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/10
Scope and Contents

Ewart writes concerning the family history he is writing about his own branch of the Ewart family and asks Ewart if he would like to contribute a brief autobiography.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 03 February [1904]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from W. Coldstream, 11 September 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/72
Scope and Contents

Coldstream enquires whether Ewart might consider publishing his paper Reminiscences of Professor Allman. He states that he is also trying to compile information about his late father, who contributed to the Encyclopedia of Physiology, and asks if Ewart is familiar with this.

Dates: 11 September 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 02 September 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/22
Scope and Contents

Blunt replies to Ewart's acceptance of the gift of a filly. He encloses details of the filly's breeding. He also enquires in what published work he could find details of the fossil of the horse as originally traced by Huxley and Marsh, as he is hoping to begin a genealogy of the Arabian horse.

Dates: 02 September 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1898

Ms volume of genealogies of Scottish families, drawn up by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1568, Volume: Coll-1802 / SC-Acc-2017-0034
Identifier: Coll-1802
Content Description

This genealogical manuscript volume relating to Scottish families, by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, bears the bookplate of Robert Graham, a literary patron of Robert Burns.


The title-page is noted as...: "A collection of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland, drawn from their own charters [...] By Sir George Mackenzie".


264 manuscript leaves, contemporary quarter calf over boards.

Dates: c 1636-1691
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about Allan Mòr Mac Mhic Mhurachaidh, 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/36
Scope and Contents

Note about Allan Mòr Mac Mhic Mhurachaidh brother of Allan Donn Mac Mhic Mhurachaidh after whom he was named. It states that Allan Mòr was the youngest of the family and 'had a brig - long fr[om] Ruhuinish' [Rubha Hunis/Rubha Hunish, Isle of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach].

Dates: 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note on the origin of the name Geikie, late 19th-early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/10/14
Scope and Contents

Brief account of the origin of the Geikie surname, suggesting it is not, as has been claimed, a corruption of MacGregor or its variants.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Miscellaneous

Note which reads 'Maisie Marjory da[ugh]ter of Ro[ber]t Bruce', October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/72
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Maisie Marjory da[ugh]ter of Ro[ber]t Bruce'.

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

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