Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Abstract of Journal of William Henry Playfair
Fonds — Volume Dc.3.73
Identifier: Coll-1677
Content Description
The volume is concerned mainly with affairs connected with the building of the University of Edinburgh, 1817-1822. It also lists details of income and expenditure during the period and, refers to other projects, clients etc.Playfair's opening paragraph describes this as an abstract of a journal of "the principal transactions and events of my life, chiefly in order to prevent doubt and confusion in matters of business."The volume mentions Playfair taking occupancy of...
Dates:
1817-1822
Diaries of Dr. S. W. Carruthers
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1134
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of notes and news cuttings at Dc.2.76/17, a dissertation at Gen. 1931, and three manuscript diaries at E2008.14.The material at Dc.2.76/17 consists of a notebook (circa 17 pages) with notes accompanying several newspaper cuttings on various University activities. The front cover is noted 'Edinburgh University / Various Student Activities / 1887-1888'. It contains clippings relating to: the Rectorial Elections 1887 and 1888 and from the ...
Dates:
1885-1888
Diaries of Edwin Maybury, zoology student at the University of Edinburgh
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1605
Identifier: Coll-2112
Scope and Contents
This fonds consists of five diaries written by Edwin Maybury of Nuneaton, Warwickshire covering the time period 1947-1951, when he was a student at the University of Edinburgh reading zoology. In his diaries, Edwin writes introspectively about himself, talks about his daily life as a student in Edinburgh, and records his experience of different lectures and practical courses. For example, in his 1947 diary he mentions on p. 291 a lecture he attended given by "Dr Auerbach", that is to say Dr...
Dates:
1947-1951
Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter FRCP FACP Executive Dean Faculty of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, and Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1651
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Jacobus Louw Potter, and of Dr Elizabeth Mackay Potter, are comprised of:
1 x folder - correspondence, 1981-1987
1 x folder - correspondence, contracts and other material relating to film And so goodbye, 2003-2004
1 x folder - graduation material, programmes, seating plans, dinner menus etc - 1981-1987
2 x...
Dates:
1942-2007