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Obituaries

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

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Terras, 27 January 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/7
Scope and Contents

Terras thanks Ewart on behalf of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for sending an obituary of Dr George Allman, and enquires when he might be willing to give his paper to the Society.

Dates: 27 January 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from the Secretary of the Royal Society, 15 January 1930

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/36/2
Scope and Contents

The Secretary requests Ewart on behalf of the Society to prepare an obituary notice for Professor Philip J. White to be published in the Proceedings of the Society.

Dates: 15 January 1930
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1930

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from A. Higgs, c07 November 1920

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1252
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Letter, 7 November 1920, A. Higgs to Donald Tovey. Congratulating Tovey on success. Holograph signed, with obituary note of James Higgs, 'The Croydon advertiser 1902 May 8'.

Dates: c07 November 1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Letters from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2116
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of six letters sent from Charlotte Auerbach to Raphael and Ruma Falk from 1987 to 1992, as well as two postcards. The letters still have their original envelopes, and were sent from Auerbach's home in Grange Loan, Edinburgh to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The correspondence is mostly about exchanging news and small talk, in Auerbach's "old age".There is also a typed letter from Prof. Geoffrey Beale to "all old friends of Lotte", dated 16 August 1994...
Dates: 1987-1994
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Memorials and obituaries, 1960-61

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Identifier: BAI 11/2
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Memorials and obituaries of John Baillie, from publications, newspapers, minutes and other sources. Authors include Isobel Mary Forrester, John McIntyre, Sir Edward Appleton, Henry Pitney Van Dusen. Also the texts of funeral readings.

Dates: 1960-61
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / John Baillie: posthumous

Minutes relating to the death of Donald Macpherson Baillie, 1954

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Identifier: BAI 7/15
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Extracts from minutes of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland and the Senate and Faculty of Divinity of the University of St Andrews relating to the death of Donald Macpherson Baillie.

Dates: 1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie

Miscellaneous, late 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/5
Scope and Contents

The Miscellaneous series consists of:


  1. Poems, songs, notes and obituary notices.
Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

Miscellaneous biographical information, articles on Appleton and his work, obituary tributes, etc., 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-37/A.1
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Miscellaneous biographical information, articles on Appleton and his work, obituary tributes, etc.

Dates: 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Biographical and personal / Biographical and bibliographical

Newscutting relating to Alexander Macbride, 1875

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Identifier: Coll-74/5/7
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Newscutting which appeared in the Buteman, 20 November 1875 and includes an account of Alexander Macbride (1807-1875) by Sir Archibald Geikie.

Dates: 1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Miscellaneous

Note about the death of Dr Donald Munro Morrison, October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/63
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Note about the death of Dr Donald Munro Morrison, son of Iain Gobha, Na Hearadh/Harris, who died in Ward 22 of the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh on 2 December 1889.

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