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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Dates:
1962-1976, undated.
Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.
File
Identifier: MS.9809
Scope and Contents
Most of the material concerns the artists Walter Richard Sickert and James McBey. The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, 1910-1932, undated, chiefly concerning McBey's paintings and etchings, but including a few letters of Sickert (folio 1);(ii) Printed and manuscript articles by Sickert, 1912-1932, undated, most of which have been reprinted in ‘A free house! ... the writings of Walter Richard Sickert’, edited by Osbert Sitwell (London, 1947)...
Dates:
1910-1935, undated.
Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13476/1-319
Scope and Contents
John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates:
1927-1978, undated.
Typescripts, manuscripts, research notes, correspondence and other papers of Duncan Fraser and of Standard Press publishers, Montrose.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8058/1-239
Scope and Contents
Including corrected typescripts and proofs of historical and topographical works, and circa 400 letters and copies of letters.
With papers, 1928-1959, of the Standard Press, Montrose.
Dates:
1765-1983.