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Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, 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.

Diary, two letters and typescript reminiscences of Sergeant Harry Hawthorne, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12568
Scope and Contents Lance Sergeant Harry Hawthorne served in the 5th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borders during World War II. He was made a prisoner of War in early February 1945 and released by British troops on 2 May 1945. This small collection contains some correspondence and several manuscript and typescript extracts from his diary, which provide an insight into his experiences during the war.Contains the following:1. Letter from Major A.D. Macdonald, C.C. D. Company, 5th...
Dates: 1945, [circa 1980-1989], undated.

Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents

Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.

Dates: 1799-1853, undated.

Ledgers of Alasdair Gray containing diary entries and drafts of works, with typescripts of 'Fleck' and a file of press cuttings.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13021/1-15
Scope and Contents

Eight ledgers or notebooks contain diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel 'Old men in love'; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of 'Fleck', a play; and a file of cuttings of reviews of the French edition of 'Lean tales'.

Dates: 1845-2008.

Letters of members of the Walker family of Dundonald, Ayrshire.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.12085
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from relations in America and one reporting on anti-Catholic riots in Edinburgh 1779, also includes a 19th century transcript (and 20th century typescript copy) of a journal of Josiah Walker, originally written in 1780.

Dates: circa 1772-1783.

Literary papers and diaries of the author and poet, Violet Jacob (1863-1946).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27411-27416
Scope and Contents

Born Kennedy-Erskine, she was brought up in the House of Dun near Montrose, and married an army officer in 1894. She wrote in both Scots and English, and some of her prose works are set in Angus.

Dates: 1895-[circa 1945], undated.

Literary papers of Alison Fell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12394/1-85
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts of poetry, short stories, novels, and works for radio, film and the theatre.This collection includes papers relating to the following published works:'The bad box' (London: Virago, 1987)'The crystal owl' (London: Methuen, 1988)'Dreams, like heretics' (London: Serpent’s Tail, 1997)'Every move you make' (London: Virago, 1984)'The grey dancer'...
Dates: 1971-2001.

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.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.

Papers and correspondence of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10753
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, 1915-1917, of Mitchison`s brother John B S Haldane, part of a typescript diary of a visit to Russia, literary typescripts and papers, 1967-1969, concerning Botswana.

Dates: 1915-1969 and undated.

Papers of Alexander Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8348
Scope and Contents

Including letters, notebooks, diaries and corrected typescripts of plays, short stories, poems, novels, and articles.

Correspondents include James Bridie, Neil Gunn, and Robert McLellan.

Dates: 1928-1981.

Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12600/1-65
Dates: Majority of material found within 1946, 1962-2000.

Papers of David Cairns.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9326
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, addresses, and poems, transcripts of diaries and correspondence.

Dates: 1926-1986.

Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1907-1913.

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Correspondence. 28
Manuscripts. 20
Articles. 18
Photographs. 16
Letters. Correspondence. 15
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Notes. 13
Notebooks. 12
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 12
Poetry. 11
Speeches. Documents. 9
Short stories. 8
Copies. Derivative objects. 7
Drafts. Documents. 7
Plays. 6
Novels. 5
Publications. 5
Financial records. 4
Lectures. 4
Transcripts 4
Autobiographies. 3
Essays. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
Photocopies. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Scripts. Documents 3
Accounts. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 2
Annotations. 2
Drawings. Visual works. 2
Memoirs. 2
Negatives. Photographs. 2
Obituaries. 2
Reviews. Document genre 2
Travel journals 2
Watercolours. Paintings. 2
Administrative records. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 1
Authors 1
Botswana. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 24.0000. Latitude: -22.0000. 1
Calculations. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Catalogues. 1
Cookbooks. 1
Deeds. Legal documents. 1
Documentaries. 1
Documents. 1
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 1
Excerpts. 1
Exercise books. 1
Fiction. 1
Fragments. 1
Genealogies. 1
Indexes. Reference sources. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Magazines. periodicals. 1
Memorandums. 1
Microfilms. 1
Mountaineering. 1
Newsletters. Serials. 1
Optical discs. 1
Pamphlets. 1
Personal papers. 1
Prefaces. 1
Printed materials. Object genre. 1
Prints. Visual works. 1
Professional papers. 1
Proofs. Printed matter. 1
Reports 1
Research notes 1
Research notes. 1
Rules. Instructions. 1
Russia. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 47.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 1
Scrolls. Information artefacts. 1
Second World War (1939-1945). 1
Sketchbooks. 1
Sketches. 1
Slides. Photographs. 1
Snapshots. 1
Stats. Copies. 1
Travel journals. 1
Travel literature 1
Travel sketches. 1
Treatises. 1
United States. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -98.0000. Latitude: 38.0000. 1
Videocassettes. 1
Wills. 1
Wrangel Island. Asia - Russia - Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Island. Longitude: -179.5000. Latitude: 71.0000. 1
literature (general genre) 1
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Names
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
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Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Campbell, Marion, wife of John, of Kilberry, née Durand, b 1919 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hawthorne, Harry, Sergeant, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, b 1917 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
McLellan, Robert, playwright, 1907-1985 1
Meadmore, C, Cornwall, fl 1940-2000 1
Morrison, Margaret Mackie (novelist, writing under the pen name 'March Cost') (1897-1973) 1
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 1
Ross, Mabel, hand-spinner and weaver, d 1995 1
Scottish Patriots, cross-party campaigning organisation 1
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 1
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 1
Spender, Stephen Harold, Sir, Knight (poet and critic) (1909-1995) 1
Stuart, Charles, missionary in Nyasaland, fl 1889 1
Stuart, Margaret, wife of Charles, missionary in Nyasaland, née McCallum, fl 1915-1916 1
Walker, Josiah, acquaintance and commentator on Robert Burns, 1761-1831 1
Walker, family, Dundonald, Ayrshire 1
Weir, Thomas [Tom] (explorer, journalist and photographer) 1
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