Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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237
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Repository
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Edinburgh University Library: Special Collections Division
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Reference
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GB237/Coll/86
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Title
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Papers of Professor Fraser Mitchell (1900-1988)
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Dates
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c1919-1984
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Access Status
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Open
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Access Conditions
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Contact the repository for details
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Description
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The papers of Professor Mitchell at Gen. 2271-2290 include poems, plays and an unfinished novel Moth and peaseblossom which was to follow Cobweb and mustard seed published in 1928; copies of A slim volume ; notes and manuscripts; general letters from between the 1920s and the 1980s; papers on educational research; letters to him on education; papers on contemporary poets and artists; and, material on religion and tolerance, and pulpit teaching. There are card indexes for Mitchell's research on Monboddo; letters and papers on his Monboddo research; newspaper and other cuttings on Monboddo; and, genealogical material relating to Monboddo. There is an album of Christmas cards, Victorian and Edwardian ephemera, postcard albums, and material on the history of Dundee. There are personal papers too, and Mitchell's academic hoods. At Gen. 1948 there are poems and an essay offered for prizes at Oxford, a typescript on paganism, a fragment of a novel, a typescript for a play, a verse drama, and printed material.
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Level
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Fonds
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Extent
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18 boxes, 3 albums (2 linear metres)
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Finding Aids
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An important finding aid is the alphabetical Index to Manuscripts held at Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections and Archives. Additions to the typed slips in sheaf binders were made until 1987.
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Previous Numbers
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Gen.1948; Gen.2271-2290
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Format
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Undefined
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Related Material
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The Index to Manuscripts shows a reference to letters to W. F. Mitchell covering 1947-1970 at Gen. 1971/3
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Associated Persons
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ED542 | William Fraser Mitchell |
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