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34 letters to David Morrison of correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Neil Gunn, and Fionn MacColla, all concerning the 'Scotia Review'; with associated typescripts and page proofs of poems and articles.
43 letters of William Soutar to the Reverend David Stevens.
On personal and literary matters.
With associated photographs, typescripts, and printed items.
Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.
The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.
It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
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
Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.
Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.
Further literary papers and correspondence of and relating to Gael Turnbull.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Letters of and to Naomi Mitchison.
With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.
Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.
The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.
Letters, photographs and papers, 1815-1936, 1972, and undated, of or concerning the Dallas and Macarthur families of Nairn, and relating chiefly to the activities of the brothers Macarthur in Quebec, Ontario, Iowa and Manitoba from 1861.
Miscellany of letters and documents of African explorers, missionaries, and administrators.
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Papers of Alexander Galloway, concerning William Soutar.
Including:
six letters, 1939-1942, of William Soutar to Alexander Galloway, mainly on literary matters
two letters, 1949, Francis George Scott to Alexander Galloway, concerning Soutar
two photographs, circa 1916-1920, of Soutar
typescript account of Alexander Galloway, describing his friendship with Soutar.
Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
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.
Papers of Sir William O Hutchison.
Including sketchbooks, manuscripts and typescripts of addresses and talks, and over 100 letters to Hutchison, mostly concerning his paintings.
With associated printed items and photographs of paintings.
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).
Photographs and transcripts of poems by Allan Ramsay, with related correspondence.
Typescript copies of letters, 1795-1797, of Mary Cecilia Gibson, daughter of Professor James Balfour of Pilrig and wife of William Gibson, of the Durie family, to her son Lewis in India.
Typescript of Hamish Brown`s "Get Your Knees Brown, Brown: National Service Letters Egypt, Kenya, 1953-1955".
Includes photographs of expeditions in Scotland by pupils of Braehead School, 1950s.
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.
Typescript translation of questions on Buddhism submitted to the Dalai Lama by the Reverend Even Mackenzie.
With photograph, circa 1912, of the Dalai Lama.