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Extracts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Discrete bibliographical items which though once part of a larger whole (e.g., a periodical issue) have been disbound in order that may stand alone. Distinguished from ""excerpts"" and ""offprints"" which are printed separately, in that extracts were once physically part of a larger whole.

Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:

Notebooks of Graham Brown, containing fair notes., 1851-1855, 1886-1899, 1924-1929, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/115-159
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: 1851-1855, 1886-1899, 1924-1929, undated.

Notebooks of Graham Brown, containing rough notes and extracts., 1743-1777, 1835-1859, 1955, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.4338/95-114
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Comprising correspondence and papers of T Graham Brown, concerning mountaineering.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1743-1777, 1835-1859, 1955, undated.

Notes for '100 years of Hibs', undated, including notes on players and statistics. Also, photocopies of extracts from 'SFA annuals', Hibernian Football Club minutes, newspaper articles, contracts, and match programmes., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10691/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

Dates: Undated.

Offprints and extracts of articles and lectures by various authors, held as file copies by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1923, 1954-1956.

 File
Identifier: MS.50229
Scope and Contents The offprints and extracts are arranged chronologically. 1923.Extract, 1923, from ‘The Caledonian Medical Journal’ of an article, ‘Psycho-Analysis: An Occupational Psychosis, or Volvulus of the Psyche’, by Ivy Mackenzie. Folios 1-6.1954.Transcript, 1954, of a talk ‘Science and the Freudian Unconscious’ by Nigel Walker, broadcast on BBC radio’s ‘Third Programme’ service, 13 September 1954. Folios 7-17. 1956.Offprint,...
Dates: 1923, 1954-1956.

Papers concerning the death of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1965.

 File
Identifier: MS.50250
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically. Announcement of the death of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.Press cutting from the ‘Scotsman’, 2 January 1965, of the notice of death for William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folio 1.Offprint, 1965, of the notice of death in the ‘Scotsman’, [2 January 1965], for William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn. Folio 2.Papers concerning the funeral of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.Manuscript list, [before 6...
Dates: 1965.

'Papers on Persian affairs.', ?1809-?1810.

 File
Identifier: MS.13716
Scope and Contents

The manuscript includes:

(i) "Abridged account of the mission of Sir Harford Jones and Brigadier General Malcolm, Bombay 12 April 1809" (folio 1);

(ii) Excerpt from private letter, 27 June 1809, from Lord Minto to Brigadier General Malcolm about Sir Harford Jones' Persian mission (folio 29);

(iii) Copy letter, 7 January 1810, from Malcolm to Minto about Sir Harford Jones' dispatches (folio 39).

Dates: ?1809-?1810.

Papers relating to missions of the Edinburgh Benevolent Society for the Deaf and Dumb., 1880-1976.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13643/64-81
Scope and Contents

In 1886, the Society appointed W W Matheson its first Honorary Missionary serving Hawick. From this time the Society held regular religious services in missions south and central Scotland.

Dates: 1880-1976.

Papers relating to the personal interest of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn in migraine; and, personal recollections of Fairbairn in the context of self-analysis., 1919-circa 1955.

 File
Identifier: MS.50169
Scope and Contents The papers in this file have been arranged by theme. Psychic experiences of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.Manuscript note, 1919, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn recorded on a postcard. The note outlines an incident experienced by Fairbairn, and others, on 11 December 1919 which he questions whether it was not a psychic experience. Folio 1.Papers relating to the personal interest of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn in migraine. Extracts and...
Dates: 1919-circa 1955.

Papers submitted to the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty in 1851 by Captain (subsequently Vice-Admiral Sir) Horatio T Austin., 1845-1859.

 File
Identifier: MS.9513
Scope and Contents The collection consists of extracts from Captain Austin's instructions to his assistants, and observations and bearings recorded by them, during the expedition to the Arctic in 1851 (in which Austin commanded a squadron) to search for traces of the expedition by Sir John Franklin in 1845, which had failed with the loss of all who had taken part. The papers are preceded by twelve sheets of printed matter concerning Franklin and his expedition, much of it press-cuttings from copies of the...
Dates: 1845-1859.

Personal papers concerning William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn and his family; with miscellaneous literary papers., After 1916-1959, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.50246
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular subject spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1927-1936.Papers relating to the children of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn.Commemorative offprint, 1927, of the notice in the ‘Scotsman’, 23 June 1927, of the birth of Ellinor Fairbairn. Folio 1.Manuscript and typescript notes, 1932-1936, of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn recording...
Dates: After 1916-1959, undated.

Prints, chiefly cut from books, consisting of portraits, the decorated titles of maps, architectural subjects, and miscellaneous subjects, and apparently collected for their decorative qualities., 16th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.2198
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.

Dates: 16th century.

Public accounts, presumably connected with the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale's period of office as Commissioner of the Treasury., 1662-1669.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7039-7043
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: MSS.7003-7022, Letters to the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Tweeddale, with a few letters concerning them, 1661-1713, forms a separate sequence but because of the way some of the manuscripts have been bound this distinction could not be represented exactly in the hierarchy of the descriptions.Of the letters written before 1697 (the year of his death), by far the greater number are addressed to the 1st Marquess; but occasionally it is not certain whether the addressee is the 1st...
Dates: 1662-1669.

Reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of works of other authors., 1939-1957.

 File
Identifier: MS.50220
Scope and Contents The reviews are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1939.‘A Biological Approach to the Problem of Abnormal Behaviour’, by Milton Harrington.Carbon copy of a typescript, [circa 1939], of a review by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of ‘A Biological Approach to the Problem of Abnormal Behaviour’, by Milton Harrington. The review was published in the ‘Edinburgh...
Dates: 1939-1957.

Reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of works of others authors., 1926-1938.

 File
Identifier: MS.50219
Scope and Contents The reviews are arranged chronologically. Where material concerning a particular work spans two or more years the papers are placed by the earliest date.1926.Assorted reviews.Extract, pages 93-94, ‘Notes on Books’, from the ‘Edinburgh Medical Journal’, 1926. The extract includes reviews by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn of: ‘Old and New Viewpoints in Psychology’, by Knight Dunlop [i.e. Dunlap]; and, ‘Psychoanalysis and the Psychic Disorder of General...
Dates: 1926-1938.

Second corrected proofs of ‘Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile’ by John Hanning Speke, including the conclusion and appendices. , [1863, or before.]

 File
Identifier: MS.4874
Scope and Contents The proofs have been heavily corrected by John Hanning Speke and by John Hill Burton, the editor of the work.Also included are further proofs of pages 1-15, 20-54, 56-62, 74-81, 155, and 597-658 (folios 24, 47, 67, 83, 136, 394, 412, and 441); the manuscripts of part of the conclusion, in Burton's hand, and Appendix E, in Speke's hand (folios 410 verso, 476); and two leaves of the ‘Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society’, volume iv (1860), containing a printed letter of...
Dates: [1863, or before.]

'The descent probative, branches, and relations of R.M., engr. in Edr.', i.e., Robert Mylne, son of the antiquary, 'by the mother ... Collected from a great many . . . authentick documents in my own custody', with additions and corrections by the father., 1728.

 File
Identifier: MS.2094
Scope and Contents

The families chiefly described are those of Govean or Govan (page 1), Forrester of Denovan (page 29), Rind (page 37), Row (the reformer and his descendants) (page 43), Geddie (page 57), and Avery (page 101); detailed accounts are given of some individuals, with extracts from their correspondence. At the beginning (folio ii) is a fragment of an account of Mr John Govean, Minister of Campsie, followed by a list of contents. At the end are miscellaneous notes.

Dates: 1728.

Typed documents, chiefly copies and extracts of letters, of William Marshall and his family., 1790-1817.

 File
Identifier: MS.15371
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) ‘Connected narrative with extracts from the letters 1790-1815’ being a narrative of the military services of William Marshall's sons with copies and extracts of their letters to one another and their father, covering the years 1790 to 1815 (folio 1); (ii) ‘Letters written when on service, to his friends at home, by William Marshall, 1795-1818’ being transcripts and a few extracts of letters of William Marshall (subsequently Lieutenant-Colonel) to his father,...
Dates: 1790-1817.

Typed summary of certain business transacted and extracts from minute book of society, May 1808 - Sept 1814., 1808-1814.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10615/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers, mostly late 19th to 20th centuries, of the Highland Society of London, covering the interests of the society; cultural, military, charitable, social and historical.

Dates: 1808-1814.

Typescripts of an article, ‘The War Neuroses - their Nature and Significance’, by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn., 1940-1941, 1943.

 File
Identifier: MS.50190
Scope and Contents The papers are arranged chronologically. 1940-1941. Case notes and miscellaneous notes.Six sets of typescript case notes, 1940-1941, some carbon copy, five by William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, one by Lieutenant N Copeland, of service personnel receiving treatment at Carstairs Hospital. Several of the case notes were used in the formulation of the early versions (below) of Fairbairn’s article, ‘The War Neuroses - their Nature and Significance’. The cases...
Dates: 1940-1941, 1943.