DEP/AWP/5/5/1 | Journal of William Pulteney Alison | The diary gives an account of Alison's trip to Rouen, France, Paris, France, Geneva, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chamonix, France (where he failed to reach the summit of Mont Blanc), Milan, Italy, Pavia, Italy, Lake Como, Italy, Arth, Switzerland and the Rigi, Switzerland, Engelberg, Switzerland, Reichenbach, Switzerland, Berne, Switzerland, and Tours, France, amongst other places from August to November 1820. He records people he met, conversations, sites seen and hospitals visited. It also contains reminders to himself and an account he heard about smallpox at the front and financial accounts of the trip at the rear. Includes loose sheets with entries for 7 November, 9 November, 13 November and 17 November, giving details of visits to the Hospice de la Maternité, Les Enfants Malades and Val-de-Grâce in Paris, France and including some poetry on Oberhasli, Switzerland and the Tyrol, Switzerland (stored separately).The previous catalogue also indicates that the passport at AWP/5/5/6 was originally with this volume. | 1820 |
DEP/AWP/5/7/6 | [Extracts of notes on various subjects by William Pulteney Alison] | These were found together in an embroidered cover with the initials MCA (Margaret Crawford Alison - Alison's wife). Includes: 'amendments to the Police and Improvement Scotland Bill' 1850; 'address by the Lord Advocate to the Leith Burghs' 7 March 1857; extract from Acland's Memoir on the Cholera in Oxford; extract from the 'Illustrated London News' 6 April 1850 on prison reform; reviews of Alison's work from 'Edinburgh Review' Volume 18; extract from Memorial to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary by James Gregory; extract from 'Journal of a Naturalist on the coasts of France Spain and Sicily' by A de Quatrefages; extract from 'Christian and Religious Antiquities of Edinburgh' by Reverend James Stothert; extract from 'Livingstone's Missionary Travels in South Africa'; extract from 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton' by Sir David Brewster; extract from Humboldt's 'Cosmos'; extract from 'Note of the Dialogues in Lord Brougham's Natural Theology'; extract from the 'North British Review'; extract from 'Memoirs of Dr Thomas Young' by George Peacock; extract from 'Oxford essays on natural theology' by Rev Baden Powell 1857; extract from 'The World of Mind' by Isaac Taylor (1858); abstract of the 'Theory of Specific Causes' by Professor E Forbes; and extract from the 'European Review Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man' (Thomas Reid 1855). | 1850s |
DEP/BRE/6/18/17 | Letter from Sis [Mrs Henderson] to Edwin Bramwell | She is returning from Italy soon and settling war damage claims. | 9 Jul 1951 |
DEP/BRE/6/18/25 | Correspondence concerning Mrs Henderson's sale of her property in Italy | Papers of the Bramwell family. Includes letters from Billy Gray Muir at Morton, Smart, Macdonald and Prosser, solicitors. | 14 Aug 1951-20 Dec 1951 |
DEP/BRE/6/18/33 | Letter from Jock [Professor Crighton Bramwell], Manchester, England to Edwin Bramwell | He writes of their sister leaving Italy and other family news. | 19 Sep 1951 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/5 | Letter from Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti, Florence, Italy to William Cullen | Case of Captain John Gairdner. | 13 Oct 1758 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/1939 | Letter from Dao [?] Pitcairn, Scotland to William Cullen | Letter of introduction for Dr Audiberte, physician to the King of Sardinia. | 14 Oct 1786 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/1941 | Letter from Saml [Samuel] Foast [?] Simmons, Air Street to William Cullen | Letter of introduction for Dr Audiberte. | 15 Oct 1786 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/2265 | Letter from William Batt, Genoa, Italy to William Cullen | Epileptic cases of the children and the father, A J B, 'of a noble Genoese family'. Covering letter in English and two consultations in Latin dated 11th and 19th July. The cases had also been referred to Dr Tissot in Italy. | 27 Jul 1788 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/2287 | Letter from S F Simmons, Air Street to William Cullen | Letter of introduction for Dr Iberti, 'a respectable Italian physician who travels at the expense of the King of Spain...Dr Iberti is the author of an ingenious work on Hospitals'. | 29 Sep 1788 |
DEP/CUL/1/2/2481 | Letter from Nichl [Nicholas ?] Renwick, Liverpool, England to William Cullen | Letter of introduction for Thomas Padgett from Lancaster, England. He also gives an account of his son's studies in Paris, France, Italy, Germany and Holland [Netherlands]. | 9 Oct 1789 |
DEP/GOO/1/18 | Letter to Alexander Goodall from G Romano, Milan, Italy | He asks about a niece he is treating, gives a case history and asks for advice. | 22 Jul 1932 |
DEP/HTW/2/5/5 | Letter from James Jeffray, Genoa, Italy, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He writes that Mr George's complaints have gone even though they had a bad passage but that Mr Stirling's cough returned on the voyage. They stopped at Nice ('somewhat in the style of Buxton') and met Dr Ewart and he describes the climate and lifestyle. Mr Ferondy in Nice, France and Dr Batt, Professor of Chemistry and Botany in Genoa, Italy have told him that those places are two centuries behind in medicine. Transcript available. | 19 Feb 1787 |
DEP/HTW/2/5/6 | Letter from James Jeffray, Rome, Italy, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He reports on his own health (haemoptysis) and that of Mr Stirling and what he has observed of Italian physicians particularly one administering the bark as a salt. He describes Holy Week and seeing Pius VI 'Garrick could not have acted with more dignity and propriety'. | 6 Apr 1787 |
DEP/HTW/2/5/7 | Letter from James Jeffray, Turin, Italy, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He reports on the health of Mr Stirling and Mr Munro and describes a patent lamp he had seen demonstrated. | 9 Apr 1787 |
DEP/HTW/2/5/8 | Letter from James Jeffray, Bologna, Italy, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He thought Mr Munro's cold might be from going to St Peter's to see the Pope. He in unimpressed with Bologna, Italy which is 'dirty, ill built and small' but has seen 500 volumes of the natural history of Ulysses Aldrovandus. | 24 Apr 1787 |
DEP/HTW/2/5/9 | Letter from James Jeffray, Geneva, Switzerland, to William Hamilton | Addressed to William Hamilton. He has settled Mr Stirling and will allow him to bathe in the lake. Mr Monro will return with him as far as Dijon in order to learn French. He has met his friends Dr Odier and Dr Sylvester who will act as physicians in his absence. He will report on their outrée and liberal medical society when he sees him. | 27 May 1787 |
DEP/HUJ/2 | Diaries [of James Hume?] | This section contains diaries originally attributed to James Hume or Home. The author of these volumes is unknown. According to the original manuscripts catalogue they were by James Hume but the handwriting does not resemble that in HUJ/1. They are all bound in the same vellum and although no year is given in the volumes, the day and months for the first three follow on from each other. No year is given in any volume. However, the days of the month given in HUJ/2/1 falls in 1718 so that year has been assumed for the first five volumes. The nearest year for the days of the month given in HUJ/2/5 is 1714. | c1714 - c1718 |
DEP/HUJ/2/1 | Diary [of James Hume?] | The volume is inscribed 'No 2' on the front. The entries start on Monday May 9th and end on Saturday 21st May. They describe a trip to Sicily including Palermo, Italy, Trapani, Italy, Temple of Juno etc and possibly also to Malta, Italy. The writer has added diagrams to the text. The diary entries are on every second page and the writer has used the blank pages for quotes and general notes. Dated from the succeeding volume. | c1718 |
DEP/HUJ/2/2 | Diary [of James Hume?] | The volume is inscribed 'No 3' on the front. The entries describe a trip to Sicily, Italy although the first entry describes a voyage from Malta, Italy. The writer has added diagrams to the text. The diary entries are on every second page and the writer has used the blank pages for quotes and general notes. There is a reference on the last page to a book published in 1713. | c1718 |