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Ref NoDEP/ALW/4/3
TitlePapers of William Alister Alexander relating to the Residents Club of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Date1912-1939
Description Of ItemIncludes menu for the final year dinner signed by those attending, 1912; menu for the Residency Mess dinner with a postcard to Miss Alexander from 'RKD'; menu for Residency Mess dinner, 1915; menu, 1934, with a photograph of the current president Dr W B Mackay and the members of 1885, 1934; list of residents 1838-1937 with the rules of the club and a cutting on the award to Alexander of a medal by the Royal Medical Society 1965; menu, 1939, with a photograph of the current president Edwin Bramwell and the members of 1897; account of the dinner, c1939; and words and music to Arran Isle of Tall Stags and Kintyre inscribed to Alexander from Allan Geddes. Also photographs which may not relate to the Residents Club but were in the same folder: three of doctors, uncaptioned; three captioned 'Sandy teaching' (probably Alexander); one possibly of Alexander and an unidentified man and woman, September 1972; eleven photographs only captioned 'former medical teachers' on the original envelope, except for Professor J H Ashowrth (Zoology); and one of Leslie Duncan, Sandy, Ronnie Robertson and an unidentified man sharing a drink.
Extent1 folder
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