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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, and...

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).

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 which...

Scope and Contents This document is the family tree of the Anhalt family.

Scope and Contents This is a family tree for James VI of Scotland and I of England showing his ancestral roots.

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),...

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.

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. ...