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Papers of and concerning William Murray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7323
Scope and Contents

Including photographs and copies of letters concerning Murray`s military service in the First World War.

The papers were received in three installments.

Dates: 1911-1977 and undated.

Papers of and relating to Emile Joseph Dillon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14111/1-19
Content Description

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, notes, photographs, press cuttings and papers of and relating to Emile Joseph Dillon. With notes of and papers collected by Ernest Eugene Laws for his proposed biography of Dillon.

Dates: 1854-1951.

Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12600/1-65
Dates: Majority of material found within 1946, 1962-2000.

Papers of David Angus.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6905
Scope and Contents

Concerning his life and work in South America and Damaraland.

Dates: 1882-1926.

Papers of David Cairns.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9326
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of articles, addresses, and poems, transcripts of diaries and correspondence.

Dates: 1926-1986.

Papers of David Torrance relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13670/1-17
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the activities of David Torrance surrounding the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. As well as publishing numerous newspaper, magazine and online articles on the subject of the Referendum, Torrance has also written a number of books on the subject, including The Battle for Britain: Scotland and the Scottish Independence Referendum (2013), Scotland’s Referendum: A Guide for Voters (2014) and 100 Days of Hope...
Dates: 2012-2014

Papers of Don and Bridget MacCaskill.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13709/1-41
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, literary papers and photographs, 1973-2007, undated, of Don and Bridget MacCaskill.Don MacCaskill was an eminent naturalist and forester who pioneered the blending of nature conservation with forestry practice. After his retirement as Chief Forester in Strathtyre and his wife Bridget concentrated on wildlife. They are especially known for their twelve year study of otters at Loch Teacuis on the Rathay Estate and the Eagle Watch project.While...
Dates: 1973-2007, undated.

Papers of Dr Ruth M A Tait.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9663
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries and correspondence.

Dates: 1916-1950 and undated.

Papers of Elizabeth Mantell, medical missionary and midwife in Malawi, including letters to her parents, her diaries, and draft reports; also included are diaries of Ruth Mantell, Elizabeth's sister, relating to her visits to Malawi.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14298/1-24
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of surviving letters of Elizabeth Mantell to her parents, her diaries covering both periods she spent nursing in Malawi, copies of her mission partner reports collected by her sister, Ruth, and a few ephemeral items.

The letters and diaries are detailed and discuss general life and the family, but also describe Elizabeth’s work in the hospitals. Ruth visited her sister in Malawi on a number of occasions, and her diaries from those visits are included.

Dates: 1962-1996.

Papers of Emile Joseph Dillon, containing correspondence, notebooks and literary papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12382/1-67
Scope and Contents

These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.

Dates: 1871-1939, 1951-1955, undated.

Papers of Ethel Bassin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10536

Papers of F M Crum.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4981

Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.85.1.1-85.1.14
Scope and Contents

Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.

Dates: 1907-1913.

Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259

Papers of Hamish Macmillan Brown

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13940

Papers of Herrick Bunney, musician and organist of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14453
Content Description

Corrspondence and papers of Herrick Bunney, documenting mainly his work at St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. It contains papers illustrating his musical activities, as well as papers and photographs documenting the fundraising for, and installation of a new organ at St. Giles' in the 1990s.

Dates: 1898-2006

Papers of Isobel W Hutchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5509
Scope and Contents

Comprising diaries, typescripts of articles, and correspondence.

Dates: 1914-1956.

Papers of James Robertson, civil engineer, including other papers, chiefly correspondence, of members of his family.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10012/1-12
Scope and Contents Correpondence, journals, and photographs of James Robertson, civil engineer, with other papers of members of his family. James Robertson worked on the construction of the Port Patrick Railway, Ayrshire, 1859-60, and then in India, particularly on the G I P Railway at Nagpore, Centra Provinces. He returned to Scotland in 1870 and became a partner in the Milnwood Iron Works, Motherwell.The correspondence, which forms the bulk of this collection, consists largely of letters written...
Dates: 1859-1890, undated.

Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates: Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.

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.

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Diaries. 229
Correspondence. 162
Letters. Correspondence. 73
Photographs. 63
Notebooks. 46
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Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 44
Typescripts. 42
Notes. 41
Manuscripts. 40
Poetry. 36
Articles. 31
Copies. Derivative objects. 24
Speeches. Documents. 18
Drafts. Documents. 16
Lectures. 16
Accounts. 15
Microfilms. 13
Financial records. 12
Legal documents. 12
Autobiographies. 11
Plays. 11
Documents. 10
Maps. Cartographic materials. 10
Publications. 10
Short stories. 10
Photograph albums. 9
Photocopies. 8
Printed materials. Object genre. 8
Sketches. 8
Novels. 7
Reports 7
Reports. 7
Travel journals. 7
Biographies. 6
Drawings. Visual works. 6
Family papers. 6
Sermons 6
Transcripts 6
Account books. 5
Excerpts. 5
Letter books. 5
Lists. 5
Memorandums. 5
Scripts. Documents 5
Address books. Reference sources. 4
Albums. 4
Certificates 4
Commonplace books. 4
Ephemera. 4
Essays. 4
Estate records. 4
Genealogies. 4
Literature (writings). 4
Minutes. Administrative records. 4
Mountaineering. 4
Passports. 4
Personal papers. 4
Professional papers. 4
Programmes. 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Second World War (1939-1945). 4
Songs. Musical compositions. 4
Books 3
Calculations. 3
Catalogues. 3
Certificates. 3
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 3
Inventories. 3
Memoirs. 3
Memoranda Book. 3
Negatives. Photographs. 3
Obituaries. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Scrapbooks 3
Testimonials. 3
Translations. Documents. 3
Travel journals 3
Watercolours. Paintings. 3
Administrative records. 2
Alps (mountain system). Europe. Longitude: 010 00 00 E. Latitude: 46 25 00 N. 2
Anecdotes. 2
Annotations. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 2
Authors 2
Bankbooks. 2
Business records. 2
Cashbooks. 2
Claims. Legal documents. 2
Contracts. Agreements. 2
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Exhibition catalogues. 2
Extracts. 2
Fiction. 2
Fragments. 2
Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833. 2
Histories. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 2
Invitations. 2
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Language
English 161
Undetermined 69
German 2
Multiple languages 2
Swedish 1
 
Names
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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