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Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11085
Scope and Contents
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Dates:
16th century to 17th century.
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 Donald Mackenzie to Maurice Fleming.
File
Identifier: Acc.11809
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of typescripts of two plays, "All Change" and "Simone".
Dates:
1993-1999.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Series
Identifier: MS.20311
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents
D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates:
1902-1970.
Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters of Sir William Gordon to his sister.
File
Identifier: Acc.8919
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Crimea and India.
Dates:
circa 1850-1865.
Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters of Violet Emily Cragg to her mother.
File
Identifier: Acc.9555
Scope and Contents
Written while in Nigeria.
Dates:
1924-1930.
Photocopies of typescript extracts from 32 letters of Neil Gunn.
File
Identifier: Acc.5467
Dates:
1946-1969.
Photocopies of typescripts of a letter, 1889, of Charles Stuart, missionary in Nyasaland, to his mother, and a journal, 1915-1916, of his wife Margaret.
File
Identifier: Acc.11077
Dates:
1889-1916.
Photocopies of typescripts of letters to William Watson, from relatives in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire.
File
Identifier: Acc.7439
Dates:
1801-1818, 1824.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated
Small collections of correspondence and papers of and to members of the Haldane family.
Series
Identifier: MS.20260 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Dates:
[Circa 1735]-1948, undated.
Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.
File
Identifier: Acc.8703
Scope and Contents
With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.
Dates:
1961-1965 and undated.