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Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections: 2020 Accessions
 Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
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- Robert Abraham (fl 823-1825), physician, journalist and lawyer: manuscript on medicine and drugs entitled "An Enquiry into the Elements of General Therapeutics, with Special Illustrations, to which is prefixed an Essay on the Nature Value and Utility of Theory", written in Carlisle and in London c1825 (Coll-1981; SC-Acc-2020-0030)
- Reverend Henry Clark (1763-1809), vicar of the Anti-Burgher seceder congregation at Boghole: personal notebook, containing a range of entries incl finished sermons, notes for sermons and personal musings on theology c1766-1780 (Coll-1848/20-0048; SC-Acc-2020-0048)
- George Dalgliesh (fl 1660-1662), University of Edinburgh student: student notes on natural philosophy lectures given by Thomas Craford, containing commentaries to Aristotle's major works "transcribed" by Dalgliesh and dictated by Craford 1660-1662 (Coll-2012; SC-Acc-2020-0095)
- Maud Hitchcock (b 1882), missionary in China: archive of letters, together forming a journal of seven years’ work for the Church Missionary Society in China and providing a detailed account of her journey and her mission there, mostly addressed to ‘dear Friends’ of her church in Bermondsey 1901-1908 (Coll-2000; SC-Acc-2020-0064)
- Collecting Covid-19 Initiative: material offered to the CRC Archive documenting peoples experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 (SC-Acc-2020-0083)
- Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), geologist: album entitled "Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists" containing autograph letters (118) to Lyell and family, and portraits (57) of the senders 1805-1899 (Coll-1997; SC-Acc-2020-0022)
- Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978), Scottish poet: collection of correspondence, incl rel to the publication of "Stony Limits" (London: Gollancz. 1934), as well as a signed contract between MacDiarmid and Gollancz for "Stony Limits and Other Poems" 1934-1986 (Coll-2005; SC-Acc-2020-0085)
- Anne Dollar Schofield (1921-2015), physician: papers, rel to her life as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh between 1939 and 1945, and to her training in three hospitals in the mid and late 1940s 1920-1990 (Coll-1976; SC-Acc-2020-0014)
- Catherine Sinclair (1800-1864), Scottish novelist: manuscript notebook containing the "Private Memorials of Helen Late Mrs Stewart of Physgill - Written for her children at the request of Mary Stewart by her Sister Catherine Sinclair" 1845-1863 (Coll-1848/20-0023; SC-Acc-2020-0023)
- Shan manuscript, originating from the Shan people in eastern Burma, displaying cosmology symbols and talisman tattoo designs, used by a skilled monk or master Sala as a reference for tattoo designs and auspicious dates early 20th cent (Coll-1848/20-0024; SC-Acc-2020-0024)
- Taoist Dragon Scroll of the Yao People of Southern China, Thailand, Laos and North Vietnam; the scroll painting serves as a bridge that connects this world with the supernatural worlds c1900 (Coll-1977; SC-Acc-2020-0025)
- Manuscript (44 pages) titled 'Heads of Dr. Ferguson's Lectures 1760', apparently by a student who attended lectures of Adam Ferguson (1723-1816), Scottish philosopher and historian, at Edinburgh University 1760 (SC-Acc-2020-0060)
- Margaret (Megan) Browne (1911-1991), senior lecturer in sociology and acting head of the School of Social Study, University of Edinburgh: personal papers, and papers rel to professional career as a social worker and educator 1940-1960 (Coll-2010; SC-Acc-2020-0015)
- Thomas Brown (1778-1820), Scottish poet and professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh University: bound volume of manuscript materials 1797-1835 (Coll-1986; SC-Acc-2020-0050)
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