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Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections: 2023 Accessions

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  • Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell (1850-1926): album containing 85 letters addressed to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family by physicists, chemists, explorers, geographers, geologists, and doctors and surgeons, often with portrait photographs of senders 1808-1897 (Coll-1997 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0082))
  • John Robinson (1727-1802), Westmorland MP: manuscript entitled "A Collection of choice Songs English and Scots In Two Parts", compiled by John Robinson 1765 (Coll-2081 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0023))
  • Alfred Stumpff (1928-2008), German administrative judge and collector: substantial collection of autograph documents by mainly German, French, and British orientalists, assembled by Alfred Stumpff, member of the German-Indian Society of Mainz 1713-2004 (Coll-2106 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0117))
  • Doctor's manuscript casebook, recording his practice among the urban poor in the South East District of an unidentified city (probably Glasgow) c1800-1830 (SC-Acc-2023-0184)
  • Falkirk Iron Company: photograph album recording First World War work of the company that switched to the production of munitions in 1915 1915-1918 (SC-Acc-2023-0185)
  • 18 volumes of manuscript notes taken at medical lectures at the University of Edinburgh between 1873 and 1874, for which lecturers include William Rutherford Sanders, Sir Alexander Russell Simpson, Sir William Turner, Sir Robert Christison, and Thomas Annandale 1873-1874 (SC-Acc-2023-0186)
  • Family papers concerning the Scott Family (first ancestor: Walter Scott, Burgess of Edinburgh, fl1521) with genealogical documents regarding the Bruces of Powfoulis, descendants of Robert the Bruce, and of the families Bell, Crawford, and Gray, combining original documents, research notes and copy documents 1663-1993 (Coll-2076 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0015))
  • Volume entitled "Notes of Hume's Lecture's", containing manuscript notes on David Hume's lectures on Scots law at Edinburgh 1811 (Coll-1848 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0035))
  • Henry Maurice Dunlop Nicoll (1884-1953), psychiatrist: archive of photographs, letters, and newspaper cuttings rel to Dr Nicoll and his social circle 1924-1998 (Coll-2079 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0025)
  • John Middleton Murry (1889-1957), writer and journal editor: notebooks incl autobiographical essay, verse drama 'Cinnamon and Angelica', with notes on French and English literature and two journal entries, dated 19 April 1921 and 3 March 1923, describing dreams of his wife, the writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) 1915-1923 (Coll-2097 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0104))
  • Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), geologist: manuscript notes of lectures on agriculture, taken by Lyall, a student of the University of Edinburgh, during the academic session 1833-1834. The lecturer was probably David Low, who held the Chair of Agriculture from 1831 to 1854 1831-1854 (Coll-203 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0181))
  • Regina Kapeller-Adler (1900-1991), biochemist and Jewish refugee: papers c1930-2020 (Coll-2091 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0124))
  • Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter (1857-1938), Gaelic culture advocate and suffragist: scrapbooks (2) compiled by Campbell Hunter and her daughter Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell, dealing with both public and private life, incl material rel to the Gaelic movement, the suffragette movement, the two women's participation in high society life, and their experience of the First World War 1909-1919 (Coll-2080 (Accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0021))
  • Louisa Agnes Czarnecki (fl1861), Scottish poet: album primarily focused on politically engaged poetry that vehemently protests against "Russian atrocities" while celebrating the triumph of Garibaldi in Italy, perhaps related to her marriage to Arthur Antoine Czarnecki, a Polish exile residing in Scotland 1861 (Coll-2090)
  • Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College: signed autograph letters (15) from Chalmers, all but one are addressed to Miss Rebecca Bell of Woodhouse Lee, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire (the remaining letter to George Bell of Leith), discussing the state of the Church of Scotland during the campaign that culminated in the Disruption and the establishment of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843 1832-1842 (Coll-2083 (accession number: SC-Acc-2023-0031))
  • David Monro Binning, law student and son of Alexander Monro (secundus) (1776-1834): notebook containing manuscript student notes on law at the University of Edinburgh, covering the following chapters, as listed on the title page: "Man and Wife / Parent and Child / Tutors and Minors/Curators / Master and Servant" 1797 (Coll-1848/23-00109)
  • Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973), illustrator: register of work projects, month by month, 1946-1967, with nature note book for August 1909 by her sister Dorothy Oswald Barker 1909-1967 (SC-Acc-2023-0153)