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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Clermiston Estate Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-720
Scope and Contents This archive relates to the Clermiston Estate and to the Dick family and includes papers particular to, and signed by, Sir Alexander Dick (1703-1785), a notable medical man of the time. The papers, mostly legal, include: instruments of sasine, heritable bonds, bonds of corroboration, documents of discharge and renunciation, searches of incumbrances, a plan of Cramond Muir Road, a sketch of parts of Cramond Moor, a description of Clermiston House, measurement of turnips sold on the Estate,...
Dates: 1741-1850

Correspondence of Joseph Black V: Family Letters, 1746-1799

 Series
Identifier: Coll-16/V
Scope and Contents

Joseph Black exchanged a lot of correspondence with his family, particularly his brother George, and also with his brother Thomas, his father John, and his nephew George.


64 letters, chronologically arranged (1746-1799).

Dates: 1746-1799

Diaries of a Nigerian District OfficerÆs family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-719
Scope and Contents The collection is composed of: a typescript accountViolet in Nigeriaedited by Margaret A. Kerrich (nee Cragg) from her mother's letters covering the period 1924-1930, and about the life of a District Officer's family; 2 cassette tapes recorded on three of the four sides by Kerrich relating experiences in Nigeria 1931-1932, and based on a diary; a small number of photographs (some of a leopard, possibly 'Piccin'), drawings and miscellaneous items; and, a nameplate for 'Piccin' the leopard...
Dates: 1924-1934
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Papers of the Christison Family

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1817
Content Description This fonds contains the papers of: Professor Alexander Christison FRSE (1751-1820), Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh from 1806 to his death in 1820, father of Sir Robert Christison. Sir Robert Christison, 1st Baronet, FRSE FRCSE FRCPE (1797-1882), toxicologist and physician, father of Sir Alexander Christison (1828-1918). John Christison (1789-1862),...
Dates: 1785-1904; 1979

Papers of the family of Don Wauchope of Edmonstone

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-708
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of bonds of provision, discharges and statements, bonds of corroboration, discharges of interest, dispositions and assignations, bonds of relief, calculations of interest, notes of mines and seams at Edmonstone and Wolmote, lists of bonds due, and states of bonds due.

Dates: 1708-1836

Photographs, c 1920-c 1990

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1976/6
Scope and Contents This series consists of photographs of Anne Davies's family, class photographs, and photographs of Edinburgh University graduate reunions. Group photographs: University of Edinburgh First Year Medicine 1939-1940; First Year medicine 1940-41; R.I.E. Autumn Term, 1942 (x 3, including a photocopy); Sir John Fraser's Clinique 1943-1944 (outsize). Students are identified under the pictures. ...
Dates: c 1920-c 1990