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Diaries of Walter Robertson Cuthbert.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11914
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters to Cuthbert from his mother and two photographs from World War I.

Dates: 1912-1932.

Diary, 1828-1830, of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10702
Scope and Contents

Includes colour sketches and concerns hunting expeditions in India.

With a letter, 1839, of Graham from India to his sister, Mrs Anna Calderwood.

Dates: 1828-1839.

Diary, 1894-1895, of the Reverend George Douglas Shepherd, compiled while a student at Edinburgh University.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6796
Scope and Contents

With over two hundred letters, 1899, to Shepherd`s family on his death.

Dates: 1894-1899.

Diary and correspondence of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1451
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Diary, 1855, 1858, of Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland as a Captain of the 93rd Regiment, in India. (MS.2234);  

Correspondence, 1855-1875, of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs of Trumland. (MS.2235).

Dates: 1855-1875.

Diary kept by Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming during her journey to and stay in Fiji.

 Item
Identifier: MS.7180
Scope and Contents

The diary commences in February 1875 and breaks off in July 1876, fourteen months before the writer left Fiji. The material in the diary is basically similar to that of Miss Gordon-Cumming's book, ‘At home in Fiji’ (Edinburgh, 1881), as far as volume ii, page 25, although the book is composed of a series of letters to the writer's friends in England. Occasional thumb-nail sketches or diagrams appear in the diary.

Dates: 1875-1876.

Diary of John Ballantyne, printer, containing entries covering the period December 1814 to July 1818.

 Item
Identifier: MS.5059
Scope and Contents

Also included are:

(i) Three of John Ballantynes' letters, 1820-1821 (tipped-in at folios 1, 16 and 19);

(ii) Minutes of a meeting, in June 1821, of Ballantynes' trustees (tipped-in at folio 22);

(iii) A letter, 1821, of Ballantynes' brother, James (tipped-in at folio 26).

On the flyleaf is a note concerning the provenance and identity of the volume.

Dates: December 1814-July 1818, 1821.

Diary of Lieutenant William A Henderson, 13th Royal Scots, on active service on the Western Front (including the Battle of Arras).

 File
Identifier: Acc.8849
Scope and Contents

With a letter, 1917, of his brother, Robert, to their father.

Dates: 1916-1917.

Diary of Sir John Hill, RN, detailing his mission to Scotland in 1837 to relieve distress caused by the famine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12738
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of commission from the Government and other associated papers and correspondence; with a volume of typed transcripts.

Dates: 1837.

Diary, two letters and typescript reminiscences of Sergeant Harry Hawthorne, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12568
Scope and Contents Lance Sergeant Harry Hawthorne served in the 5th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borders during World War II. He was made a prisoner of War in early February 1945 and released by British troops on 2 May 1945. This small collection contains some correspondence and several manuscript and typescript extracts from his diary, which provide an insight into his experiences during the war.Contains the following:1. Letter from Major A.D. Macdonald, C.C. D. Company, 5th...
Dates: 1945, [circa 1980-1989], undated.

Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents

Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.

Dates: 1799-1853, undated.

Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates: 1608-1913, undated.

Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).

Dates: 1968-1983.

Journal and letters of Captain Edward Henry Columbine, Royal Navy.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11610
Scope and Contents

Columbine describes places in Northern Ireland and on the west coast of Scotland, the Firth of Clyde and Glasgow, visited while on anti-smuggling duty.

Dates: 1792.

Journal of Sir Walter Scott, with letters and other papers.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3389
Scope and Contents The journal, printed, as in MS.1570, but covering the period from 20 November 1825 to 13 April 1831, and other material collected by John Gibson Lockhart for the ‘Life’, all printed on one side of the page, with manuscript corrections of the text, chiefly typographical.The material other than the journal consists of Mrs John Davy's Malta journal, 1831 (folio 437); letters of Sir Walter Scott to Mrs Scott of Harden, 1832 (folio 444 verso), and others, 1828-1830 (folio 448 verso);...
Dates: 1825-1832.

Journals and papers of Thomas Lennox Gilmour.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8989
Scope and Contents

Concerning his education, service as private secretary to the 5th Earl of Rosebery, and to his government work during the First World War.

Dates: 1879-1920.

Journals, letters, manuscripts, notes, verse and other papers of and relating to Alastair Cram.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13170
Scope and Contents Alastair Cram was educated at Perth Academy and Edinburgh University and started his working life as a solicitor in private practice at the Scottish Bar. In the Second World War he saw service with the Royal Regiment of Artillery and SAS during which time he was taken prisoner and was involved in several successful escapes. Alastair Cram was awarded the Military Cross in 1945. In peacetime, he served as a Judge in Kenya and, in 1965, was Governor-General of Malawi. Alastair Cram was also a...
Dates: 1928-1967, and undated.

Ledgers of Alasdair Gray containing diary entries and drafts of works, with typescripts of 'Fleck' and a file of press cuttings.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13021/1-15
Scope and Contents

Eight ledgers or notebooks contain diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel 'Old men in love'; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of 'Fleck', a play; and a file of cuttings of reviews of the French edition of 'Lean tales'.

Dates: 1845-2008.

Letters, 1916-1918 and undated, of Cecile Walton to Eric Robertson, and a letter, 1929, of Dorothy Ratcliffe.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11858
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, 1917-1942 and undated, of various correspondents and a transcription of the diary, 1907, of Eric Robertson.

Dates: 1907-1942 and undated.

Letters, 1917-1962, to Margaret Mackenzie Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6035
Scope and Contents

Concerning her literary work, correspondents including Algernon Blackwood, Walter de la Mare, Harold Nicolson and Robert Sutherland.

With a diary, 1946-1947, of Margaret Mackenzie Scott.

Dates: 1917-1962.

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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 4
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 2
Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 2
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
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Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 2
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 2
Dillon, Emile Joseph (philologist, author and journalist, pseudonym 'E B Lanin') (1854-1933) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 2
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Smith, Lilian Adam, 1866-1949 (née Buchanan, wife of Sir George, Knight) 2
Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 2
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 2
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 2
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Baume, Louis Charles, mountaineer, 1919-1993 1
Bienert, Werner, German Language Teacher, 1902-1988 1
Blackwood, Algernon Henry, writer of supernatural fiction, 1869-1951 1
Blackwood, William, William (publisher) 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bloxham, family, Banbury 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Bonar, James, Solicitor of Excise, 1757-1821 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Brocklebank, Thomas Anthony, mountaineer and teacher, 1908-1984 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Brown, Thomas Graham, neurophysiologist and mountaineer, 1882-1965 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Bunney, Herrick, 1915-1997 (organist of St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh) 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Cairns, family, Edinburgh 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Calderwood, Anna, sister of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham, fl 1839 1
Cameron, Verney Lovett, explorer, 1844-1894 1
Campbell (family, of Argyll) 1
Campbell family, of Inverneill 1
Campbell, George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll, politician and scientist, 1823-1900 1
Campbell, John Douglas Edward Henry, 7th Duke of Argyll, 1777-1847 1
Campbell, John Lorne, scholar of Scottish Gaelic folklore, 1906-1996 1
Campbell, Marion, wife of John, of Kilberry, née Durand, b 1919 1
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866. 1
Cathcart, Hon. Sir George, Knight, Major-General, 1794-1854 1
Cathcart, family, of Cathcart, Earls Cathcart 1
Church of Scotland 1
Clark, Alastair Trevor (colonial civil servant, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Solomon Islands) 1
Columbine, Edward Henry, Royal Navy, Governor of Sierra Leone, 1763-1811 1
Cram, Alastair, Lawyer and Judge in Kenya, 1909-1994 1
Crosbie, Hugh Provan, novelist, pseudonym 'John Carrick', 1912-2003 1
Crosbie, William, artist, 1915-1999 1
Crum, F M, Major, fl 1893-1955 1
Cuthbert, Jane, Ayr, née Robertson, fl 1869-1926 1
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 1
Dalziel, Ethel, kinswoman of John, Writer to the Signet, fl 1902: recipient 1
Dalziel, John, Writer to the Signet, 1838-1883 1
Dalziel, family 1
Darling, Frank Moss Fraser, Sir, Knight (ecologist) 1
Davenport, John, writer, fl 1954-1957 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Dott, Eric F, physician and conscientious objector, 1898-1999: recipient 1
Dott, George, Scottish Nationalist, fl 1909-1959 1
Dott, Peter McOmish, Edinburgh, art dealer, 1856-c 1935 1
Douglas, George Norman, travel writer, 1868-1952 1
Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Drew, Charles Smith, 1893-1970 1
Drew, Lilian Mary Buchanan, 1894-1980 (née Adam Smith, wife of Charles S. Drew) 1
Dunbar, John Telfer, costume historian, 1912-2002 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Fell, Alison, poet and novelist, b 1944 1
Fergusson , Bernard Edward, Baron Ballantrae of Auchairne and the Bay of Islands (Governor General of New Zealand) 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Forrester, Charles Grant, Principal, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 1895-1980 1
Free Church of Scotland 1
George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gilmour, Thomas Lennox, journalist and barrister, 1859-1936 1
Gladstone, Thomas, 2nd Bart., of Fasque, 1804-1889 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
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