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Papers concerning Trevor Royle, "James and Jim: a Biography of James Kennaway" (1983).

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8551
Scope and Contents

Includes drafts, proofs, notes and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1980-1983.

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 and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
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Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.

Dates: [?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.

Papers of George Chalmers, the antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.9.1-81.9.12
Dates: Late 17th century-?1829.

Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11154/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).

Dates: 1959-1990.

Translation into English by Andrew Purves of 'Eachunn nan Cath' (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Ailein Friseal.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13597
Scope and Contents

Contains:

Acc.13597/1: an A4 notepad in which the translation covers 143 + [2] pages;

Acc.13597/2: a copy of `Eachunn nan Cath` (Glasgow: Gairm, 1979) by Ailean Friseal / Allan Henry Hector Fraser.

Dates: 1988.

Typescript of Malcolm Murray, "Överslöjtnant Alexander Irvings Skotska Bördsbrer av den 16 Maj 1642".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9162
Scope and Contents

With an English translation, notes and correspondence, 1986.

Dates: 1976-1986.

Writings of Vero L Bosazza on nineteenth century explorers of African countries, chiefly David Livingstone.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20333-20340
Scope and Contents Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....
Dates: 1861-1865, 1955-1979.

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Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Fawcett, Benjamin, engraver and colour printer, 1808-1893 1
Fleming, Lindsay, author of "Life of James Dennistoun", fl 1951-1954 1
Friseal, Ailean, Lecturer in Animal Husbandry, Aberdeen, and author, 1900-1979 1
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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Home, John (minister, soldier and author) 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 1
Irving, Alexander, army officer in the Swedish service, d 1659 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Lawson, John Parker, d. 1852 (ecclesiastical historian) 1
Macdonald, Sir Hector Archibald, Knight, Major-General, 1853-1903 1
Mackenzie, Henry, author of "The Man of Feeling", 1745-1831 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
McLean, Antonia Maxwell, wife of Ruari, typographer and author, née Carlisle, 1919-1995 1
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 1
Murray, Malcolm, writer on Alexander Irving, army officer in the Swedish service, fl 1976-1986 1
Purves, Andrew, Shepherd and Gaelic translator, 1912-2002 1
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, Knight Colonial Governor, 1781-1826 1
Reith, George Murray, Minister of St Cuthbert’s United Free Church, Edinburgh, 1863-1948 1
Royle, Trevor Bridge (broadcaster and author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) (b 1945) 1
Strachan, Michael, writer, b 1919 1
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 1
Stuart, Charlotte Wikinshaw, daughter of Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1753-1789 1
Stuart, Henry Benedict Maria Clement, cardinal and Jacobite claimant to the English, Scottish, and Irish thrones, 1725-1807 1
Stuart, James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, 1688-1766 1
Stuart, Maria Clementina, wife of James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, née Sobieska, 1702-1735 1
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