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Papers of J.F. Hendry, comprising corrected typescript article, 'Austria today', three typescript poems and one letter.
File
Identifier: Acc.13880
Dates:
?1947-1949.
Papers of John L Broom and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10802
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of articles and addresses.
Dates:
1912-1992.
Papers of John Maclean, Clydeside agitator, 1909-1923; with material concerning him, 1924-1966.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.88- is now Acc.4251.
Dates:
1909-1966.
Papers of John McVie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4813
Scope and Contents
Mainly concerning his work as a Burns scholar.
Dates:
20th century.
Papers of Moultrie R Kelsall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7716/1-328
Scope and Contents
Including scripts of plays, short stories, articles, talks, broadcast scripts of radio and television documentaries, and associated correspondence.
Dates:
1931-1977.
Papers of Peter McOmish Dott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8531
Scope and Contents
Including diaries, notes and essays on socialism and art history and appreciation. With correspondence of Peter M Dott to Eric Dott.
Dates:
1889-1931.
Papers of Peter Ritchie Calder, including lectures, addresses, articles, correspondence, diaries and autobiography.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.370
Dates:
Circa 1940-1980.
Papers of Robert Waterston concerning the Waterston family and the printing firm George Waterston and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12330
Dates:
18th century-mid 20th century.
Papers of Sir John Davidson, mostly concerning Field-Marshall Douglas Haig and the First World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.3679
Scope and Contents
Contains the following:1. Photostat of article on 1917 French mutinies in "Blackwood's Magazine", January 1944.2. Memorial article on Haig by Davidson in the 'Contemporary Review', March 1928. (two copies).3. Map showing allied gains 8 August–11 November 1918 with typescript notes.4. Pamphlet: 'The "Total" War' by General Ludendorff.5. Speech delivered by Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bart., of Ulbster, … in memory of Haig 28 Jun 1950....
Dates:
1918, 1927, 1928, 1944, 1950, 1953, undated.
Papers of Sir William MacTaggart, and of his wife Fanny.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8636
Dates:
1931-1980.
Papers of Stanley Cursiter.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5451
Scope and Contents
Including sketch books, typescripts of short stories, typescript and printed articles, and correspondence.
Dates:
1906-1967.
Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10397/1-59
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.
Dates:
1937-1974.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates:
1892-1965, undated.
Papers of The Duke and Duchess of Atholl.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4814
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Scottish National War Memorial.
Dates:
20th century.
Papers of the "Edinburgh Review".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9635
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of articles, short stories, poems and reviews, with associated correspondence.
Dates:
1980-1987.
Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.360
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.545
Scope and Contents
Included are:(i) Commission by the Marquess of Montrose to Sir James Lamont, 14th of that Ilk, to raise the fencible men in the Sheriffdom of Argyll (contemporary copy), 1645 (folio 1);(ii) ‘Articles of Capitulatione aggreed upon betuixt James Campbell of Ardkinlas ... and Sir James Lamount of Inuerin, Knight, ... annent the surrender and overgiving of his garison at Toward. At Auchevullin, the 3 of Junii, 1646’ (contemporary copy); the document is printed from...
Dates:
1645-1734.
Papers of the literary magazine, "Chapman".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6899
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, translations, articles, and reviews, with editorial correspondence, comprising over 700 letters. With associated printed items.
Dates:
1973-1976.
Papers of the Reverend Robert Lister Turner (1875-1949), a missionary in Papua.
File
Identifier: MS.9770
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Turner was sent to Papua in 1902 by the London Missionary Society, and worked both in the mission field and in Lawes College, Isuleilei, until his retirement in 1939.The papers consist of the following.(i) Typescripts with manuscript corrections, undated, of four lectures on the ethnology of Papua. The fourth lecture concerns the history of the London Missionary Society in Papua. Two pages are missing at the beginning of the third lecture. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1910-1939, undated.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.164- is now Acc.5058.
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6188/1-26
Scope and Contents
The surviving personal and legal papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge and historian (1892-1955). Lord Cooper passed Advocate in 1915 and was created a K.C. in 1927. He was Conservative M.P. for West Edinburgh, 1935-41, Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1935, and Lord Advocate, 1935-41. In 1941 he succeeded as Lord Justice Clerk with the judicial title of Lord Cooper, and became Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from January 1947 to...
Dates:
circa 1920-circa 1955.
Papers of Wendy Wood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9915
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.
Dates:
circa 1930-1980.
Papers of William Archer, the critic and dramatist, and of D S MacColl, the painter and art critic.
File
Identifier: MS.9995
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters, 1878-1924, of William Archer, the critic and dramatist. Many of the letters reflect his interest in the theatre, and concern his reviews and his translations of Ibsen's plays. He criticises various plays and suggests (folio 53) a dramatization of ‘Little Dorrit’ for Sir John Martin-Harvey. There is also (folio 50) the outline of an article, 1919, in reply to Walther Rathenau. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Letters, 1906-1944, of D S MacColl, the painter and art...
Dates:
1878-1944.