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Universities and Colleges, Administration

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

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c01 May 1922

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L665
Scope and Contents

Letter, [May 1922], Edinburgh, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. News of Tovey's wife's recovery, details of forthcoming engagements and discussion of the status of the music faculty within the University. Holograph signed.

Dates: c01 May 1922

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, c1922

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L667
Scope and Contents

Letter, [1922], Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse . News that the University has agreed to Tovey's Sunday concerts and of the University musical society and the Reid Orchestra, criticism of an article by A. C. Benson, Necks illness. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1922

Letter to Sophie Weisse from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 06 August 1923

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L672
Scope and Contents

Letter, 6 August 1923, Donald Tovey to Sophie Weisse. Explaining a mix up in Salzburg, where Tovey's place had been taken by another pianist. Holograph signed in pencil.

Dates: 06 August 1923

Letter to the Secretary of the University court from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 07 October 1919

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L137
Scope and Contents

Letter, 7 October 1919, Edinburgh, Sir Donald Francis Tovey to the Secretary of the University court. Informing the University court how much money is needed for the Historical concerts, Reid orchestra and the musical interpretation class. Dictated signed.

Dates: 07 October 1919

Papers of Professor Michael Anderson

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1000
Identifier: Coll-1351
Scope and Contents

Copies of printed documents (memoranda, committee papers, emails), many with autograph annotations, relevant to the review of support services, academic management restructuring and devolution to colleges and schools, along with several large tables charting the relevant chairs, duties, and particulars of appointment of professors across the older Faculty structure of the University - all covering the period 2001-2002.

Dates: 2001-2002

Papers of Sir David Smith, Principal of Edinburgh University, 1987-1994

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1085
Scope and Contents The boxes contain 39 files and 3 scrapbooks. The files cover a variety of subjects, from: appointment as Principal; financial crisis; recovery plan; restructuring; graduation addresses; talks and speeches; anglicisation; new University logo; and, the installation of Muriel Gray as rector. The scrapbooks contain cuttings or copies of cuttings on: the closure of the Dental School; the anglicisation of Edinburgh University; attacks on the University as inefficient; league tables; cuttings...
Dates: 1986-2006

Postcard to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Sophie Weisse, 08 August 1921

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1901
Scope and Contents

Postcard, 8 August 1921, Bad Nauheim, Sophie Weisse to Donald Tovey. Expressing Miss. Weisse's belief in Tovey's work in Edinburgh. Holograph signed, stamped, date from postmark.

Dates: 08 August 1921

University Court, 1644-date

 Sub-subfonds
Identifier: EUA IN1/GOV/CRT
Scope and Contents papers relating to the legal basis of the University: Ordinances, Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments etc. (2 volumes) 1583-1809 minutes (draft and final), agenda papers and billets, 1859-present letterbooks (31 volumes) c1872-1919 papers relating to specific legal cases, disciplinary matters etc. University Grants Committee / Funding...
Dates: 1644-date

University Governance and legal basis of the university

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: EUA IN1/GOV
Scope and Contents
  1. Chancellor
  2. Rector
  3. University Court
  4. Senatus Academicus
  5. General Council
  6. Curators of Patronage
Dates: 1582-date

University Secretary

 Sub-subfonds
Identifier: EUA IN1/ADS/SEC
Scope and Contents

Letter books (outgoing correspondence); Records formerly held within the central filing systems, as detailed in the appendices to Michael Westcott's Report on filing.

Dates: 1582-date