Showing Browse Resources: 1 - 25 of 40
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Copies of papers of L L Ardern.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9693
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes and printed articles.
Dates:
1953-1969 and undated.
Copy of Orlo Williams, "The Evacuation of the Dardanelles".
File
Identifier: Acc.1700
Scope and Contents
Article published in the National Review, includes letter and marginalia of Major-General Granville-Egerton.
Dates:
circa 1946.
Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7085 Box 1(1)-Box 32
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.
Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.
Dates:
1938-1973, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.323- is now Acc.13476.
Dates:
1944-1978.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9343/1-88
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.
Includes photographs, articles and printed books.
Dates:
1909-1969, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
circa 1916-2006.
Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents
Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates:
1896-2006.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
Correspondence, photographs and antiquarian collections on Pictish symbol-stones, of Cosmo Gordon.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.272- is now Acc.12803.
Dates:
20th century.
Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.
Dates:
Circa 1926-1997.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1796-1800
Dates:
1823-1875, undated.
Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents
The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates:
1617-1668, undated.
Literary papers of Alexander Law.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11490
Scope and Contents
Papers mainly concern studies of Scottish schools and school books, education in Edinburgh, and the works of Allan Ramsay. Includes correspondence and papers of Burns Martin and John Walter Oliver on earlier editions of the works of Ramsay.
Dates:
circa 1930-1990.
Literary papers of George Blake.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11930
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, typescripts of novels published and unpublished, play-scripts, a diary of a visit to the United States, first copies of published works of fiction and non-fiction. Also includes notes on Blake, copies of articles by him and correspondence and papers of Christopher Dalgleish accumulated in the course of an uncompleted dissertation.
Dates:
20th century.
Manuscript material from the 5th Earl of Rosebery's library at the Durdans, Epsom.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10217-10241
Dates:
1657-1919.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott and Robert Southey, written and collected by James Glen, Writer, Glasgow.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2525-2533
Dates:
1792-1843, 1921-1935, undated.
Microfilm of letters and other papers of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.419
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, [1823-1875], of Thomas Carlyle to various persons, with some written to him (MS.1796);Letters, [1833-1868], of Jane Welsh Carlyle to various persons, with some of Geraldine Jewsbury to Lady Amberley and of Margaret Welsh and Dr John Aitken Carlyle to William and Mrs Dods (MS.1797);Articles, notes, and fragments, 1767, [1832-?1871], in Thomas Carlyle’s autograph (MS.1798);‘Thomas Carlyle, Eine biographisch-literarische...
Dates:
1767-[1875].
Microfilm of letters and papers, 1826-1831, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and correspondence, 1831-1846, of his son Walter and Lady Scott, and some other papers.
Item
Identifier: MS.15555 [Mf.MSS.63]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Letters and papers of Sir Walter Scott, consisting of notes on Malta, undated, fragments of the manuscript of an article, 'Ancient history of Scotland' in ‘Quarterly review’, volume xli (1828), instructions for his will, 1831, and some letters, 1826, undated. (The letters from this collection which are published in ‘The letters of Sir Walter Scott’, edited by Sir Herbert J C Grierson (London, 1932-1937) or copies of which are included in MSS.1750-1753, are...
Dates:
1826-1846, undated.
Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.
File
Identifier: MS.6156
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of a lecture by James R Anderson, possibly given to Glasgow Bibliographical Society, apparently unprinted (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from an article and subsequent correspondence in the 'Scotsman', September-October 1918, relating to the Battle of Prestonpans and to Colonel Gardiner (folio 22);(iii) Notes, etc., relating to the compilation of the bibliography (folio 28);(iv) Letters, 1918-19, 1925, to...
Dates:
1918-1919, undated.
Notes and drafts by Harry Pirie-Gordon of Buthlaw on the history of Dumbarton Castle, Celtic rulers of Strathclyde, and other topics in Highland history and genealogy.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.326
Dates:
[Mid 20th century.]
Notes and papers of John Boyes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9009
Scope and Contents
Concerning Boyes` researches into the history of medicine and dentistry in Edinburgh.
Dates:
circa 1970-1980.
Notes of Dr Alexander Mitchell for a biography of John Gibson Lockhart, taken chiefly from manuscript material in the National Library of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5210-5265
Scope and Contents
The notes fill fifty-four notebooks (MSS.5210-5263).
MSS.5264-5265 contain miscellaneous correspondence and papers concerning John Gibson Lockhart.
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
Papers, including correspondence, articles, notes, reports and photographs, of Reginald W Powell, physicist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10574/1-46
Dates:
1938-1985, undated.