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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, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Letters of Isobel Field, née Osbourne, (`Teuila`), step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, to Charles Paine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12014
Scope and Contents

Includes Isobel Field`s "Precious Book" containing notes on art technique and a photograph of her in old age.

Dates: 1936-1948.

Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11590
Scope and Contents

Includes related family letters and photographs.

Dates: 1948-1970 and undated.

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers of John 'Jock' Watt, Speedway reporter, including notebooks, photographs, letters and programmes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14486/1-37
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise correspondence, notebooks, photographs and programmes of John ‘Jock’ Watt, a Speedway reporter. Although he was based in Edinburgh, the papers relate to meets across the UK and internationals. The notebooks make up the bulk of this archive and cover details of meets and interviews with riders.

Dates: 1951-1970, undated.

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.

Ten letters and a postcard of Leonora Blanche Lang, née Alleyne, to her niece Margaret Munro and her husband William. With a notebook and photographs.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13025
Scope and Contents

Notebook contains series of sketches titled "Country Conversations"; photographs of Leonora and Andrew Lang.

Dates: circa 1880-1933.

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Names
Anderson, Dora, cousin of Wilhelmina Johnston Muir, author, pseudonym Agnes Neill Scott, née Anderson, fl 1948-1970 1
Anderson, Elizabeth, cousin of Wilhelmina Johnston Muir, author, pseudonym Agnes Neill Scott, née Anderson, fl 1948-1970 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Field, Isobel, step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, née Osbourne, 1858-1953 1