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Germany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 51.165691;10.451526,Created For = Germany

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

General: late 1945, 1945

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/19
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, press cuttings and related items, including material relating to John Baillie's visit to Germany as part of a British Council of Churches delegation and letters from his wife Florence Jewel Baillie, his brother Donald Macpherson Baillie and Bertram Christian.

Dates: 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

German papers, 1945-1946

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/22
Scope and Contents

Letters, diary, reports, travel documentation, notes and notebooks relating to John Baillie's visit Germany as part of a British Council of Churches delegation.

Dates: 1945-1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Instead of Kaiser, Bethmann, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3198
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, and his Chancellor, Bethmann Hollweg from the Daily Mirror, 30 June, 1919.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Lecture on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles', 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/7/1
Scope and Contents

Notes for 5 lectures on 'The Origin of the Scenery of the British Isles' given to the Royal Institution in 1884, along with printed abstracts. Sir Archibald Geikie focused on geological formations around the British Isles, with comparisons from European and North American locations, looking at the materials of which they are composed and the processes which went into their creation.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Lecture notes

Letter to Lady Charlotte Murchison from Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Clausthal, 20 August 1854

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74 Gen. 523/1/1
Scope and Contents

Letter to Lady Charlotte Murchison from Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, addressed 'Clausthal in the Harz'. He describes the various parts of Germany he has visited, including Bonn, Brunswick, Harzburg and the Harz mountains.

Dates: 20 August 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison / Letters from Sir Roderick Impey Murchison to Lady Charlotte Murchison

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Joseph Joachim, c1900

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1303
Scope and Contents

Letter, [1900], Joseph Joachim to Donald Tovey. Regretfully explaining to Tovey that Joachim can not perform at a concert as he has to devote his time to his Quartet performances, inviting Tovey to Vienna. Holograph signed, with annotations attached to the back page.

Dates: c1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Notebook No.251, 8 June 1865-2 August 1865

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/251
Scope and Contents This dark red Notebook details Lyell's travels in Bavaria, Germany, joined by Mary, Leonard Lyell, his secretary Arabella Buckley, and expert companions. The book contains detailed drawings, notes and queries. The itinerary begins on page 4 on 8th June 1865 in London, before Lyell travels to Dover, Calais, Luxembourg, Burgen, Coblenz, Frankfurt then to Kissengen, Nuremberg. Munich, Innsbruck, Klobenstein, Finsterbach, Eiggshorn, Viesch and Aletsch Glaciers before descending into Italy,...
Dates: 8 June 1865-2 August 1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Official Delegation to the Nazi leaders, 1936

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/17/6
Scope and Contents

Official Delegation to the Nazi leaders consists of:


  1. conference papers & reports
  2. copy of Zwei Jahre Arbeit an der Reichsautobahn (Two years' work on the Reich's motorway)
  3. newspapers
  4. notes and ephemera
Dates: 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / General filing correspondence

Papers in geography, history, and science, 1750-1781

 Item
Identifier: Coll205/2/2 (Dc.1.58)
Scope and Contents Approximately 75 mostly handwritten leaves, including a 2-page colour drawing of Burrum chundalle, an extract from a history of Louisiana by W. de Page du Pratz (1783); extract from a history of Sumatra by William Marsden (1783); extract from the 'Constitution of the German Empire', s.n., s.d.; extract from 'Baretti's Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy' (1775); extract from 'Baretti's Travels Thro' England Portugal Spain & France to Genoa (1760); extract from 'Travels thro'...
Dates: 1750-1781
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Papers on History, Geography, Science, Natural History, Parish Management and other matters

Photos related to relief work, 1920-1945

 File
Identifier: Coll-705/6/3
Scope and Contents This file contains photos related to Majorie Rackstraw's relief work in Russia during 1920-1922, and her work in Germany with Displaced Persons during 1944-1945. The top photo is a group photo of 7 people in uniform, Marjorie Rackstraw is in the top row on the far left. The next photo is a group of women surrounding a woman in white in a wheelchair. The back of this photo reads "Polish bride with no legs. (As written by Meg!) UNRRA Germany, probably at Greven DP Camp where MR was welfare...
Dates: 1920-1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Marjorie Rackstraw / Photographs

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