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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.

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.

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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.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, 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 Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27374-27410
Scope and Contents

The sister of Nancy Brysson Morrison, Margaret M Morrison studied at Glasgow School of Art and trained for the stage before beginning her career in literature.

Dates: 1936-1972, undated.

Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents

Includes:

"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934

letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell

verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.

Dates: 1934-1964 and undated.

Typescripts of diaries and autobiographical pieces of C Meadmore.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11911
Scope and Contents

Material concerns life in post-war Edinburgh and holidays in Scotland, and includes three letters of Miss Meadmore to her mother.

Dates: 1940-1949.

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Names
Campbell, Marion, wife of John, of Kilberry, née Durand, b 1919 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1