Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM
Found in 184 Collections and/or Records:
Material relating to John Dover Wilson, Regius Professor of English Literature
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1519
Scope and Contents
Collection contains:
1 x recipe book
1 x notebook: 'Ye monthly Brer', from January 1894
1 x bundle assorted postcards (11) send from John Dover Wilson to Dorothy Baldwin before their marriage in 1906, being illustrations of: Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen (2), Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Professor Huxley, John Burns, G. F. Watts, and cartoon...
Dates:
1905-1964
Material relating to research into plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1324, Folder: Coll-1813 / SC-Acc-2017-0062
Identifier: Coll-1813
Content Description
This small collection consists of the material collected by Dr Tom Barron, for his research into the plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and the British community there. Having not found any surviving records when he visited Ceylon (Sri Lanka), he decided to search for private papers, including by publishing a call in the Quaterly Bulletin no. 151 of the Ceylon Association in London, for personal papers and experiences relating to planting and business ventures in Ceylon in the 19th...
Dates:
1969-1972
Mathematical archive of Professor Alexander Craig Aitken
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1529
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of mathematical mansucripts and the corrected manuscript, and correspondence around, the publication Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman. It also contains off-prints and publications by Aitken, papers and correspondence relating to Aitken's work at Edinburgh University and letters to and from academics, family and friends, as well as letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Aitken. There is also a quantity of...
Dates:
1910-1995
Medical Buildings Time Capsule
Fonds — Box EUA-A-48
Identifier: EUA GD5
Scope and Contents
Note written by William Turnbull contating details about him, his wife Cecilia, and Thomas Wilkie, which describes their idea, along with three cuttings taken from The Scotsman. One includes an item on Popery in the Highlands by John Stuart Blackie, with a related poem on the establishment of Fort Augustus. Another reports weather conditions. The third includes coverage of a meeting of the Free Church Presbytery in...
Dates:
1880
'[Meteorological] register kept at Castlecary from June 1877’ by G.G. Chisholm, 1877-1878
Item
Identifier: Coll-68/4
Scope and Contents
‘[Meteorological] register kept at Castlecary from June 1877’ by G.G. Chisholm; ms and printed newspaper cuttings of meteorological reports laid in (1877-8).
Dates:
1877-1878
Miscellaneous, 1964-1971
File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/23/RG(F)
Scope and Contents
1. Invitation to Mr Rolf Gardiner to a buffet lunch and meeting held by the Royal African Society jointly with the Royal Commonwealth Society. Speaker: Professor George Shepperson. 2 February 1967.2. Company Report: The Nchima Tea and Tung [oil extracted from crushed nuts] Estates Ltd. Mr H. Rolf Gardiner's Review. "East Africa and Rhodesia", 3 January 1957.3-8. Newspaper Cuttings. Rolf Gardiner's letters to the papers relating to ecology and conservation....
Dates:
1964-1971
Miscellaneous Papers and Notes by W.J. Watson, late 19th-early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW11
Scope and Contents
Folder containing miscellaneous papers and notes by W.J. Watson. Items include a paper on 'Some Interactions between English and Gaelic' , lists of place names, correspondence with the Burgh Surveyor's Office, Perth, concerning a site in Strathtay, a list of 'Saints in Adamnan's Life of Columba', a newspaper clipping from the Times Literary Supplement July 12, 1923, entitled 'Scottish Place Names', and an essay entitled 'The Early Church in the North'.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century
Mungo Park (1771-1805). Papers relating to Bi-Centenary Celebrations, 1971
Series — Box CLX-A-25: Series Coll-490/24; Series Coll-490/25
Identifier: Coll-490/24/MP
Scope and Contents
Mungo Park (1771-1805). Papers relating to Bi-Centenary Celebrations.
'Mungo Park and the Scottish Contribution to Africa'. Talk given by George Shepperson to the joint meeting of Royal African and Royal Commonwealth Societies. 4 February 1971.
Shortened account of the above.
Mungo Park Bicentenary lecture: Selkirk, 8 September 1971.
Statement by...
Dates:
1971
My Village (1), 1946-1947
File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/D/2
Scope and Contents
Student project from the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) Polytechnic entitled "My Village" including completed questionnaires and manuscript maps, with names and origins of students. Exemplary course work from Hav Ahdul Rahman includes manuscript maps of his region, a hand written regional history and his photograph. The course booklet Twelfth Army Pre-Release Booklet No 1: First Village Uplift Course (for Punjab and NWFP...
Dates:
1946-1947
‘News Cuttings’, note book, 1908-1930
Item
Scope and Contents
‘News Cuttings’, note book. Softbound, charcoal grey, paginated, 31 x 24 cm, 50 pages (of which 23 pages empty), contains press cuttings from 1908-30, mainly recital reviews.
Dates:
1908-1930