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Manuscripts of two articles by Louisa K Haldane.

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Identifier: Acc.9945
Scope and Contents

On the university education of women.

Dates: first half of 20th century.

Manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of work by Alexander Scott (1920-1989).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26474-26481
Scope and Contents

Alexander Scott was educated in Aberdeen, and after service in the army during the Second World War, became a lecturer in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He was the editor of the ‘Saltire Review’, 1954-1957, served on a number of literary committees, and edited work by William Soutar and Sydney Goodsir Smith, among others. His own literary work consisted of poetry, drama, and criticism.

Dates: 1948-1970, undated.

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.915
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);

Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);

Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).

Dates: [1890-1948.]

Microfilm of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (Adam Matthew, 1999).

 Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1209-1234
Scope and Contents

The content descriptions for each microfilm are taken from the catalogue descriptions of the original items and as such there may be variations between the contents of the microfilms and the descriptions provided.

The dates are taken from the accession records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

Dates: ?19th century-[?1921].

Miscellaneous papers.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Translation, 17th century, of Jan de Laet`s edition of ‘Lexicon Vitruvianum’. The beginning is missing; the text starts at `Abstantia` and breaks off at `Mataxa`. (Folio 1.)(ii) Article attacking the service-book, circa 1638. (Folio 51.)(iii) Manuscript, 1709, of ‘A Letter directed thus, for Mr James Lyon in Kirkwal’ by James Sands. (Folio 72.)(iv) Copy, late 17th century, of George Buchanan`s...
Dates: ?1595-18th century.

Notebook containing transcripts of specifications and articles by various authors relating to a wide variety of small engineering undertakings, owned and chiefly compiled by R Blackadder.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19981
Scope and Contents R Blackadder worked in Dundee, and appears to have been a member of the family of mapmakers and civil engineers from Berwickshire. He was part estate management consultant and part engineer. His interests ranged from manure and drainage, to the construction of damheads, ice houses, bridges, and railway curves. He also made notes on landlord tenant relations, on crop rotation, and on the organisation of various large estates. His work was primarily in Angus, but he spent some time in...
Dates: Mid 19th century-late 19th century.

Notes and correspondence of James R Anderson, concerning a bibliography of Philip Doddridge's ‘Life of Colonel Gardiner’.

 File
Identifier: MS.6156
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript of a lecture by James R Anderson, possibly given to Glasgow Bibliographical Society, apparently unprinted (folio 1);(ii) Extracts from an article and subsequent correspondence in the 'Scotsman', September-October 1918, relating to the Battle of Prestonpans and to Colonel Gardiner (folio 22);(iii) Notes, etc., relating to the compilation of the bibliography (folio 28);(iv) Letters, 1918-19, 1925, to...
Dates: 1918-1919, undated.

Papers of Alan Bold, David Morrison, and Tom Scott.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6329/1-9
Scope and Contents

Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, articles and essays.

With letters of Alan Bold and Tom Scott to David Morrison, on literary matters.



Dates: 1972-1974 and undated.

Papers of and concerning Hugh MacDiarmid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10173- is now MSS.27001-27246
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, articles, reviews and autobiography, literary notebooks and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1927-1978.

Papers of and concerning Lord Boyd Orr.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6545
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of speeches, lectures, articles, reviews, broadcast talks, and memorandums, with correspondence and associated printed items.

Dates: 1938-1971.

Papers of and concerning O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11309
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, articles, broadcast talks and biography.

Dates: 1904-1988.

Papers of Archie Lamont.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9290
Scope and Contents

Includes:

notes, articles and correspondence on geology and zoology

notes, correspondence and press cuttings on the Scottish Nationalist movement

manuscripts of poems.

Dates: 1925-1984.

Papers of "Cencrastus".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10532
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of articles, reviews, short stories and poems, and business records including minute books, corrspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1980-1991.

Papers of David M Black.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8864
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, short stories, articles, reviews lectures, with associated correspondence.

Dates: circa 1958-1980.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9045
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, a novel, autobiography, essays and articles.

Dates: 1964-1985.

Papers of Eric Linklater.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10155/1-98
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, articles, broadcast talks and poems, with correspondence.

Dates: 1902-1974 and undated.

Papers of Hamish Macmillan Brown

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13940

Papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.

With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.

Dates: 1935-1987 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.

Dates: 1946-1975.

Papers of Jessie M King.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6740
Scope and Contents

Comprising drawings, sketchbooks, manuscripts of books and articles, diaires, and correspondence, with letters of Gordon Bottomley and Cecile Walton.

Dates: circa 1899-1949.

Papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9243
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, autobiography articles, essays and reviews.

Dates: 1965-1985.

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Language
English 60
Undetermined 23
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 3
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Names
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
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Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson, novelist and biographer, née Wilson, 1828-1897 2
Scottish National Party 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Akros Publications 1
Akros, literary magazine 1
Althaus, Friedrich, Professor at University College, London, 1829-1897 1
Anderson, Iain Fleming, historian, b 1902 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Blackie, John Stuart, Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh, 1809-1895 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Campbell, Jean, harpist and teacher, fl 1959-1973 1
Campen, Ank Van, harpist, 1932-2010 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 1
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham, poet, b 1942 1
Ferguson, William, Reader Emeritus in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, b 1924 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Haldane, Louisa Kathleen, wife of John Scott, physiologist and philosopher, née Trotter, 1863-1961 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Home, Henry, Lord Kames, Senator of the College of Justice, 1696-1782 1
Houston, Douglas, poet, b 1947: recipient 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Lamont, Archie, geologist and nationalist, 1907-1985 1
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maxwell , Gavin, Naturalist and author, 1914-1969: recipient 1
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Muirhead, Roland Eugene, Chairman of the Scottish National Party, 1868-1964 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971 1
Orr, John Boyd, 1st Baron Boyd Orr, 1880-1971. 1
Parker, William Mathie, author, 1891-1973 1
Reid, John M, author, pseudonym 'David Toulmin', 1913-1998 1
Ruskin, John (author and art critic) (1819-1900) 1
Saltire Society 1
Schlapp, Otto, Emeritus Professor of German, University of Edinburgh, 1859-1939 1
Scott, John, journalist, 1784-1821 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955 1
Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers, poet and Scottish nationalist, 1874-1955: recipient 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
Taylor, Jessie Marion, illustrator and designer, née King, 1875-1949 1
Taylor, Jessie Marion, illustrator and designer, née King, 1875-1949. 1
The Badenoch Record 1
Thompson, John McLean, Professor of Botany, the University, Liverpool, 1887-1977 1
Thomson, Robert Barclay, Minister of Tighnabruaich East, d 1956 1
Walker, William James Stirling, research chemist, 1897-1958 1
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 1
Wells, Robert Preston, California, fl 1977-1980 1
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 1
Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010 1
Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010: collector 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973. 1
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