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Lectures and Lecturing

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

Found in 399 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript Notes from David Hume's Lectures on Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2075
Scope and Contents This collection consists of four volumes (numbered 1, 2, 5 and 6) with spine-labels reading "Hume's Lectures on the Scots Law". Topics include marriage, contracts, teinds, tack, adjudication, and succession in heritage. There are near-contemporary ownership inscriptions (Alex Orrock, Newton of Wemyss) to front pastedown of each volume.Vol. 1 and vol. 6 have numerous additional pages of later notes on agriculture and chemistry at the rear, and extracts from A. W. Kinglake's novel...
Dates: 1790

Manuscript notes on medical lectures taken at the University of Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2119
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of 18 volumes of manuscript notes taken at medical lectures at the University of Edinburgh between 1873 and 1874. At the front of each volume the subject of the lecture and the name of the lecturer is provided.The subjects covered are: Pathology (Vols. I-IV); Materia Medica (Vols. I-II); Midwifery (Vols. I-IV); Surgery (Vols I, II, and V only); Clinical Surgery (Vols. I-II); Practice of Physic...
Dates: 1873-1874

Manuscript text (copy) entitled "The Author's Point of View", undated

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2128/4/7
Scope and Contents Manuscript (copy) entitled "An Author's Point of View", containing the text for a talk given by D. E. Stevenson in Glasgow. Undated. Note from the author: "Some notes for a talk to members of the Book Trade and other Businessmen and women in Glasgow. It was arranged by Messrs Collins and given in their premises in Cathedral Street. They enjoyed the jokes but very few of them had any useful suggestions to offer, however Messrs. Collins seemed quite satisfied - and said there was a good deal...
Dates: undated

Manuscript text entitled "Lecture No. 5. Island Magic", undated

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2128/4/6
Scope and Contents

Document entitled "Lecture No. 5. Island Magic", containing the manuscript text for a lecture given by D. E. Stevenson. Undated.

Dates: undated

Manuscript text of a talk entitled " The Nettle", 18 January 1949

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2128/4/3
Scope and Contents

Document entitled "The Nettle", containing the manuscript text for a talk given by D. E. Stevenson to Bodesbeck Guild on 18 January 1949.

Dates: 18 January 1949

Manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2064
Content Description This is a manuscript volume containing notes of lectures by Hugh Blair, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh, taken down by an unknown student. It is dated 1770, and comprises 39 complete lectures.Hugh Blair published his lectures in 1783, but very few manuscripts of his teachings survive nowadays. He did not want any "bastardised" versions to survive, as he called them in his publications, and insisted in his will that all his personal papers...
Dates: 1770

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4, 12 August 1895-5 November 1918

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Scope and Contents Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1, 2, 3, & 4. ‘Schubert Lecture’, 21 November 1903, modified and re-read two years later [1905], also various notes, and Schumann lecture, [23 January 1904], manuscripts. ‘When asked by your secretary to read a paper before you [...]’, lecture, undated, manuscript. ‘On listening to music’, lecture, [Edinburgh] Summer Meeting,...
Dates: 12 August 1895-5 November 1918

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1 & 2, 1808-17 August 1896

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Scope and Contents Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1 & 2. ‘Gibbon and the Madrigalists’, lecture, also one edited copy, undated, typescripts. ‘Lawes and the Monodists’, lecture, undated, typescript. ‘Purcell and the Dramatists’, lecture, two slightly edited copies, undated, typescripts. ‘Arne and the Eighteenth Century Composers’, lecture,...
Dates: 1808-17 August 1896