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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Robert Murdoch Smith.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9569
Scope and Contents

Concerning Murdoch Smith`s archaeological and diplomatic activities, as used by W K Dickson in his "Life" (1901).

Dates: 1855-1902.

Correspondence and papers of Charles Forrester.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10164/1-68
Scope and Contents

Charles Forrester (1895-1980), a graduate of Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh, was Professor of Chemistry 1926, Vice-Principal 1932 and Principal 1936-1948 of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. After his retirement he worked in the Chief Scientist's Division, Minister of Power, 1949-1960, and the British Coal Utilisation Research Association 1960-1963. The papers largely concern Forrester's position as Director of the Indian School of Mines.

Dates: 1910-1980, undated.

Correspondence, four diaries, two photograph albums and other papers of Rawdon Goodier.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11178
Scope and Contents

Concerns climbing in the UK, the Alps and the Andes.

Dates: circa 1950-1983.

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates: 1962-2010.

Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259

Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates: Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.

Papers of the author, Florence Marian McNeill.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26194-26259
Scope and Contents

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1901-1973, undated.

Papers of the first Earl Haig.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3155

Personal papers of Robert James Dundas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13929/1-15
Scope and Contents Dundas was chaplain to the first Anglican Bishop of British Columbia, Canada, and together the papers give a full account of missionary activity and relations with the Indigenous population, and of his own journey to and from North America. Dundas is particularly significant because of a collection of Tsimshian art he acquired as a result of a visit to Metlakatla, in northern British Columbia, which is now housed at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria. The papers consist of eleven volumes of...
Dates: 1859-1866.

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Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Forrester, Charles Grant, Principal, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 1895-1980 1