The silver book : published on behalf of Lord Provost Lewis's fund for the Aberdeen & Northern Counties' General Hospitals Scheme
Aberdeen Bon-Accord and Northern Pictorial1928
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The Silver Book was the contribution from the proprietors of Aberdeen Bon-Accord and Northern Pictorial newspaper to help Lord Provost Lewis's appeal on behalf of the new Royal Infirmary to reach its £400,000 target. The book features messages of support from notable figures of the day, short stories, poetry, articles on local and medical history and adverts for local businesses.
Author:
Murray, Charles, 1864-1941, contributorLewis, Andrew, Lord Provost, 1875–1952, contributorKeith, Arthur, Sir, 1866-1955, contributorAngus, Marion, 1865–1946, contributorBulloch, John Malcolm, 1837-1932, contributorBaxter, Jean, contributorHuntly, Charles Gordon, Marquis of, 1847-1937, contributorMunro, Neil, 1863-1930, contributorRorie, David, 1867-1946, contributorAberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Marquess of, 1847-1934, contributorAberdeen and Temair, Ishbel Gordon, Marchioness of, 1857-1939, contributorCrowe, Christine, contributorTocher, J. F., contributorFoster, John, contributorKinloch, J. P., contributorRae, Harry J. (Harry James), 1886-1955, contributorAberdeen Bon-Accord and Northern Pictorial, printer and publisher
Imprint:
Aberdeen : Henry Munro, Ltd., 1928.
Collation:
lvi, 92 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 28 cm.
Contents:
Preface - - Messages of goodwill - - The Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin - - Lord Provost Andrew Lewis - - Principal Sir George Adam Smith - - Dr John Scott Riddell - - Sir Austen Chamberlain - - Winston Churchill - - Viscount Cecil of Chelwood - - John Buchan, M.P. - - St. John Ervine - - G. K. Chesterton - - Charles Murray - - Sir Thomas Jaffrey - - Professor J. Arthur Thompson - - Sir Robert S. Horne, M.P. - - George Bernard Shaw - - Sherrif J. D. Dallas - - Annie Viscountess Cowdray - - An old graduate's greetings / Sir Arthur Keith - - Ann Gilchrist / Marion Angus - - The skeely wife: new style / Dr J. M. Bulloch - - Story of the movement - - The skeely wife: old style / Jean Baxter - - The case for Foresterhill - - Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society - - Fed up: in a nursing home / Lady Mac Alister - - When the bajanellas came! / The Marquis of Huntly - - A man misunderstood / Neil Munro - - On curers and curing / David Rorie - - John Donald and In the Hebrides / The Rev. Lauchlan MacLean Watt - - From a nurses notebook / E. V. Kanthack - - Take care of him / John Roy Stuart - - Taggartiana / An ex-Lord Provost of Aberdeen - - What constitutes a good light novel? / Ian Hay - - The medical fledgling / "Woolman Hill" - - Doctors of aul' lang syne / The Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair - - Maternal mortality / The Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair - - Muggie Hadden - sic a wifie! / Christine Crowe - - Longer lives and better living / Dr J. F. Tocher - - Hospital services in Aberdeenshire / Dr Harry J. Rae - - Marmaduke / John Foster - - Some medical personalities / Dr J. P. Kinloch - - Pictorial - - Marischal College, Aberdeen - - The old gateway. From a drawing by Alex. Fraser - - A vista of Aberdeen from Foresterhill - - Old Odell. From an etching from George Whitelaw - - The Chelsea pensioner by John R. Greig - - Western towers, Elgin Cathdral. From a drawing by T. C. F. Brotchie - - Towers of Marischal College. Drawing by Alec. Fraser - - Outward bound. From a drawing by John M. Aiken - - Index of advertisers.
Local class:
AaL1.3362.1
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3401881
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