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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.

Draft of an article, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, "The Circulating Book Van"

 File
Identifier: Acc.9016
Scope and Contents

With two letters, 1948, of William Power to R D Macleod, concerning his own literary work.

Dates: 1948 and undated.

Literary papers, a political notebook and letters of Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, Politician and Author [1845-1937]. With three letters to Gavin Maxwell.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.13262
Scope and Contents

The main interest of the papers lies in the manuscripts and proofs of some of Sir Herbert’s many literary works including `Robert the Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence`, 1897, `The Chevalier of the Splendid Crest`, 1900, `A Century of Empire, 1801-1900`, 1909, `Inter-alia : A Scottish Calendar of Crime and other historical essays`, 1924, and `Evening Memories`, 1932.

Dates: 1884-1937, 1945, 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 the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (Adam Matthew, 1999).

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1209-1234
Scope and Contents

The content descriptions for each microfilm are taken from the catalogue descriptions of the original items and as such there may be variations between the contents of the microfilms and the descriptions provided.

The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Dates: ?19th century-[?1921].

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.

Dates: 1946-1975.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10397/1-59
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.

Dates: 1937-1974.

Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.

 File
Identifier: MS.545
Scope and Contents Included are:(i) Commission by the Marquess of Montrose to Sir James Lamont, 14th of that Ilk, to raise the fencible men in the Sheriffdom of Argyll (contemporary copy), 1645 (folio 1);(ii) ‘Articles of Capitulatione aggreed upon betuixt James Campbell of Ardkinlas ... and Sir James Lamount of Inuerin, Knight, ... annent the surrender and overgiving of his garison at Toward. At Auchevullin, the 3 of Junii, 1646’ (contemporary copy); the document is printed from...
Dates: 1645-1734.

Papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6188/1-26
Scope and Contents The surviving personal and legal papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge and historian (1892-1955). Lord Cooper passed Advocate in 1915 and was created a K.C. in 1927. He was Conservative M.P. for West Edinburgh, 1935-41, Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1935, and Lord Advocate, 1935-41. In 1941 he succeeded as Lord Justice Clerk with the judicial title of Lord Cooper, and became Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from January 1947 to...
Dates: circa 1920-circa 1955.

Papers of William Archer, the critic and dramatist, and of D S MacColl, the painter and art critic.

 File
Identifier: MS.9995
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1878-1924, of William Archer, the critic and dramatist. Many of the letters reflect his interest in the theatre, and concern his reviews and his translations of Ibsen's plays. He criticises various plays and suggests (folio 53) a dramatization of ‘Little Dorrit’ for Sir John Martin-Harvey. There is also (folio 50) the outline of an article, 1919, in reply to Walther Rathenau. (Folio 1.) (ii) Letters, 1906-1944, of D S MacColl, the painter and art...
Dates: 1878-1944.

Small collections of literary material.

 Series
Identifier: MS.15941

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Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
Cooper, Thomas Mackay, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge, 1892-1955 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 1