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Papers of William Johnstone.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8877
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of books, articles, and lectures.
Dates:
1923-1980.
Papers of William Laird McKinlay relating to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.357- is now Acc.12696.
Dates:
1913-1918.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12799
Dates:
circa 1942-2005.
Papers with additional information to support the films preserved by the Moving Image Archive
Fonds
Identifier: MI.11/1
Dates:
1901-2015
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1818-2011, undated.
Poems and articles of Eurys I Rowlands.
File
Identifier: Acc.9383
Scope and Contents
With correspondence.
Dates:
1986-1987.
Political, academic and personal papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, political academic and MP for Berwick and East Lothian.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13476/1-319
Scope and Contents
John Pitcairn Mackintosh (1929-1978) was a political scientist, professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and a Labour MP for Berwick and East Lothian (1966-1974, 1974-1978). He was pro-Europeist and pro-devolutionist and campaigned in favour of a yes vote during the 1979 Referendum on a Scottish Aseembly.The material consists of the personal and academic papers detailing Mackintosh’s political and academic career. The papers document his many academic ventures including his...
Dates:
1927-1978, undated.
Political correspondence of Lord James Douglas Hamilton, mainly as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West, 1974-1997, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians, 1999-2007.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.252
Dates:
1972-2010.
Professional and personal papers of Ethel Bassin; including papers concerning her biography of Francis Tolmie, 'The Old Songs of Skye' (1977).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7040 Box 1(1)-Box 16(2)
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1863, 1908-1977, undated.
Scientific papers, journals and correspondence of Alexander Turnbull Christie (died 1832), assistant surgeon in the East India Company.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9490-9497
Scope and Contents
In 1828 Alexander Turnbull Christie returned to Scotland and studied geology, meteorology, and other branches of science in Edinburgh and on the Continent. In 1830 he was appointed geological surveyor on the Madras establishment, but did not return to India until the following year. He contributed a number of papers to the ‘Edinburgh new philosophical journal’.
Dates:
1821-1838, undated.
Six letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Fergusson.
File
Identifier: MS.568
Scope and Contents
The letters are in continuation of MSS.555-556.
Dates:
1819-1822.
Small collections and single letters presented by various donors.
Series
Identifier: MS.5406
Dates:
1810-1897.
Small collections of correspondence, with some papers, chiefly of J B S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MS.20655
Dates:
1912-1936, undated.
Some papers of Hew Morrison, Fellow of the Society of Antiquities Scotland, Edinburgh City Librarian, and editor of ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ by Rob Donn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14953-14955
Dates:
1882-1926, undated.
Three letters, 1890-1892, of James Hardy, Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club, to John Freer, Fordel, about papers for the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club and kindred matters.
File
Identifier: MS.3406
Dates:
1890-1892.
Typed copies of newspaper articles and correspondence relating to John Knox, from the scrap-book of David Hay Fleming.
File
Identifier: MS.2932
Scope and Contents
The correspondents include David Hay Fleming himself, Hume Brown, Andrew Lang, and James King Hewison.
Dates:
1890-1905.
Typescripts, manuscripts, research notes, correspondence and other papers of Duncan Fraser and of Standard Press publishers, Montrose.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8058/1-239
Scope and Contents
Including corrected typescripts and proofs of historical and topographical works, and circa 400 letters and copies of letters.
With papers, 1928-1959, of the Standard Press, Montrose.
Dates:
1765-1983.