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Autographs

 Subject

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

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from H. Reinhaller, c 1920

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1510
Scope and Contents

Letter, [n.d], H. Reinhaller to Donald Tovey. Attempting to interest Tovey in buying autographs of Brahms, Goethe, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss and others. Holograph signed.

Dates: c 1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letter to The Librarian from G. I. C. de Courcy, 07 March 1962

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2127
Scope and Contents

Letter, 7 March 1962, New York, G. I. C. de Courcy to The Librarian, Reid School of music. Asking If the library has any copies of autograph letters from Joseph Joachim. Typescript signed, with annotation in pencil, from the librarian to Mary Grierson.

Dates: 07 March 1962
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letters from Thomas Chalmers to various correspondents

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-360
Identifier: Coll-1856
Scope and Contents A group of thirteen letters from Thomas Chalmers to various correspondents, 1820-1846. Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent, 16 February 1820: ('One reason for calling 1 upon you this evening was earnestly to solicit the hastening forward of our school estimates. Another was to speak to you of Mr McLeod in his capacity as a candidate for the reading school belonging to the Highland...
Dates: 1820-1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Liber amicorum of the family, 1st half of 20th century

 Item — Box CLX-A-1142
Identifier: Coll-1937/6
Scope and Contents

Liber Amicorum that may have belonged to ‘Tony Turner’. It contains signatures from friends and family (including William Aldren turner, John William Aldren Turner, Arthur Logan Turner, and William Turner), from 1909 to 1932.

Dates: 1st half of 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir William Turner and family

Scrapbook containing letters from John Masefield to Elizabeth Talbot Rice

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-360
Identifier: Coll-1844
Scope and Contents Scrapbook containing approx. 30 signed letters and Christmas cards from John Masefield to Elizabeth Talbot Rice. Some of them are illustrated, some others contain unpublished poems written specifically for Elizabeth. Also includes a signed photograph of John Masefield with his cat, and an envelope with three wax seals.Some of the most interesting letters include: Letter on p. 1 containing a...
Dates: 1930s-1960s (before 1967)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Scrapbook of Edinburgh University student Ella MacGregor, 1920s

 Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0181
Scope and Contents Scrapbook/diary of Ella MacGregor, an Edinburgh University student in the 1920s. It contains handwritten autobiographical accounts and thoughts, cuttings of poems and songs, copies of photographs of people involved in the University's student life (for example, V. K. Mowat, joint editor of the Student 1923-24; John B. Colquhoun, President of the Union; Lilian M. Roger, President of Edinburgh University Unionist Association), of famous people who visited the University (G. K. Chesterton;...
Dates: 1920s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Seven photocopied pages of an autograph book belonging to Harold Joachim, including one page with list of entries, 1 July 1882-21 January 1886 (dates of original document)

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Identifier: Coll-1711/4/2
Scope and Contents

List of signatures: Otto Peininger Fred Leighton Florene Hemming Alfred Piatti Arthur Sullivan Joseph Joachim Henry F. Dickens Ludwig Straus John Farmer Agnes Zimmermann Emily Skinner Illegible Paul David parry Fanny Davies Josef Ludwig Clotilde Kleberg H. Montagu Butler L. Alma Tadema Clara Schumann Arminius Vambery Gustave Masson John Hare Kate Perugini Eaton Faning B. Jowett

Dates: 1 July 1882-21 January 1886 (dates of original document)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Joachim and family / Family documents

Signature of John Francis Goodeve-Erskine, Earl of Mar, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-1973/19
Scope and Contents

Autograph of 'Mar', that is to say John Frabncis Goodeve-Erskine, Earl of Mar.

Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of pamphlets on the Earldom of Mar

Signed pencil drawing by Sydney Goodsir Smith, mid-20th century

 Item — Box CLX-D-62: Series Coll-2029/2
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0088
Scope and Contents

Pencil drawings on each side of a piece of paper, representing heads. One side is signed by Sydney Goodsir Smith

Dates: mid-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Visitor book from the Original Department of Surgery, University of Edinburgh, October 1933-early 1940s

 Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0017
Scope and Contents Visitor book containing about 200 autographs, principally of eminent pre-war surgeons from all over the world reflecting the status of the University's famous medical school. For example, Clovis Vincent, the French Neurosurgeon, who operated on Ravel, regrettably without success, signs in July 1938.The first signature in the book is of distinguished Edinburgh University Alumnus, J. M. Barrie, author of "Peter Pan" and University Chancellor from 1930 until his death in...
Dates: October 1933-early 1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection