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Photocopy of a letter, undated, of Robert Louis Stevenson to his mother, Margaret Stevenson.

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Identifier: Acc.9506
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With photocopies of notes, 1894 and undated, concerning Stevenson by Charles Baxter and A S Neilson.

Dates: 1894 and undated.

Photocopy of an agricultural census document, 1853, of John Munro.

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Identifier: Acc.7023
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Giving details of his emigration from Kincardine, Easter Ross, to Renfrew, Ontario, Canada.

With a letter, 1977, giving biographical details of John Munro and his family.

Dates: 1853, 1977.

Photocopy of Archibald Moffatt, "Young Man Goes East".

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Identifier: Acc.9858
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Slightly altered version of letters of Moffatt to his future wife, Alison, while he was working in the teak forests of Burma.

Dates: 1930-1935.

Photocopy of corrected typescript of "MacDiarmid`s Disciple" by Henry Mair.

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Identifier: Acc.12031
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Includes photocopies of related correspondence and reviews.

Dates: 2001.

Photocopy of Kurt Wittig, "Die Nationale Literatur Schottlands der Gegenwart" (1945).

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Identifier: Acc.5450
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With photocopy of letter, 1958, of Neil Gunn to Kurt Wittig.

Dates: 1945, 1958.

Photocopy of letter, 1856, of David Livingstone.

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Identifier: Acc.11642
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Letter concerns a debt owed to the recipient`s (identified only as Welsh) brother. Includes a summary of interview, 1948, by Michael Kittermaster with Alumana, a headman in Zambia, on his meeting with Livingstone in 1873.

Dates: 1856 and 1948.

Photocopy of letter, 1866, of Rory Bowie to his sister, Catherine McIntyre.

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Identifier: Acc.6869
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Giving news of relatives at home.

With copy of an explanatory letter, 1964, of Effie McCormick to J L Campbell.

Dates: 1866, 1964.

Photocopy of letter of Alexander Maclean Sinclair to Father Allan MacDonald.

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Identifier: Acc.9563
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Concerns Gaelic poetry.

Dates: 1888.

Photocopy of letter of Callum Macdonald to Trevor Royle.

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Identifier: Acc.9362
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Concerns the history of "Lines Review".

Dates: 1986.

Photocopy of letter of David B Morris to E A Hornel.

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Identifier: Acc.8914
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Concerning the National Library of Scotland.

Dates: 1926.

Photocopy of letter of David Hume to Hamilton and Balfour.

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Identifier: Acc.11463
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Concerns a second edition of volume one of Hume`s "History".

Dates: ? 1754.

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Letters. Correspondence. 255
Correspondence. 52
Typescripts. 28
Photographs. 22
Poetry. 20
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Manuscripts. 16
Notes. 15
Drafts. Documents. 14
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 14
Transcripts 11
Copies. Derivative objects. 8
Diaries. 8
Biographies. 7
Speeches. Documents. 7
Lists. 6
Articles. 5
Documents. 5
Genealogies. 5
Memoirs. 5
Microfilms. 5
Novels. 5
Accounts. 4
Fragments. 4
Memorandums. 4
Notebooks. 4
Research notes 4
Translations. Documents. 4
Travel journals. 4
Extracts. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
Proofs. Printed matter. 3
Reviews. Document genre 3
Transcripts. 3
Videocassettes. 3
Account books. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
Canada. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -96.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 2
Catalogues. 2
Census records. 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Commonplace books. 2
Drawings. Visual works. 2
Ephemera. 2
Essays. 2
Excerpts. 2
First World War (1914-1918). 2
Graphs. 2
Greeting cards. Correspondence. 2
Histories. 2
Illustrations. Layout features. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Negatives. Photographs. 2
Photograph albums. 2
Portraits. 2
Programmes 2
Publications. 2
Reports. 2
Research notes. 2
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Scores 2
Scores. 2
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 2
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Selkirk. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. County. 2
Snapshots. 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
South Africa. Africa - South Africa. Nation. Longitude: 26.0000. Latitude: -30.0000. 2
West Indies. Archipelago. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Admiralty charts. 1
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Argyll. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. County. 1
Arran, Island of. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - North Ayrshire. Island. Longitude: -5.2500. Latitude: 55.6000. 1
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Australia. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: 135.0000. Latitude: -25.0000. 1
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Birth certificates. 1
Bonds. Legal instruments. 1
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Cello music. 1
Certificates 1
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Ceylon. Asia - Sri Lanka. Island. Longitude: 81.0000. Latitude: 7.0000. 1
Charters 1
Choral music. 1
Château-Thierry (inhabited place). Europe - France - Picardy - Aisne. Longitude: 3.4000. Latitude: 49.0500. 1
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Language
English 282
Undetermined 20
Multiple languages 3
French 2
German 1
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 29
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 14
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 11
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 7
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 6
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James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 6
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 3
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 3
Gunn, Neil Miller, author, 1891-1973 3
Hornel, Edward Atkinson, artist, 1864-1933: recipient 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 3
Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet, 1848-1919 2
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 2
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 2
Edgeworth, Maria (novelist) 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Gordon, Edward Strathearn, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, 1814-1879 2
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 2
Heelis, Helen Beatrix, author, née Potter, 1866-1943 2
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873: recipient 2
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 2
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 2
Murray, John (publisher (III)) (1808-1892) 2
Neilson, George, historian and antiquary, 1858-1923 2
Ogilvy, John, Inshewan, fl 1966 2
Pughe, William Owen, antiquary and lexicographer, pseudonym Idrison, 1759-1835: recipient 2
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 2
Scott, Walter, Writer to the Signet, 1729-1799 2
Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, 1427-1496: recipient 2
Smith, David Nichol, literary scholar, 1875-1962 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Aall, Jacob, Norway, politician and author, 1773-1844 1
Aitken, James, correspondent of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, fl 1839: recipient 1
Aitken, Margaret Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, d 1932 1
Aitken, Mary Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist, fl 1877-1932 1
Allan, Thomas Ward-, Superintendent of the Chulsa and Bagracote Tea Company Ltd, Dooars, India, 1888-1950 1
Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, politician and journalist, 1873-1955 1
Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, politician and journalist, 1873-1955. 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Angus, William, prebendary and sacristan of the Chapel Royal, Stirling, fl 1590 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Anne, Queen Consort of James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1574-1619 1
Archer, William, critic and dramatist, 1856-1924 1
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, folklorist, 1812-1885: recipient 1
Atherstone, Edwin, author, 1788-1872 1
Baird, John Logie, inventor of television, 1888-1964 1
Baird, Malcolm Henry Inglis, Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada, son of John Logie, inventor of television , b 1935: collector 1
Baker, Sir Samuel White, Knight, traveller, 1821-1893: recipient 1
Balfour, Lewis, Minister of Colinton, 1777-1860: recipient 1
Balfour, Robert, 2nd Lord Balfour of Burleigh (succeeded 1619), d 1663: recipient 1
Balfour, Sir William, Knight, of Pitcullo, Lieutenant-General, d 1660 1
Balvaird, W, Paris, fl 1815 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908 1
Barleus, Caspar, theologian, 1584-1648: recipient 1
Barnard, Henry, Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools, 1811-1900: recipient 1
Bell, Andrew, Malawi, fl 1887-1890 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Birch, Thomas, historian, 1705-1766 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Blake, William, engraver, artist and poet, 1757-1827 1
Bodoni, Giambattista, printer and typographer, 1740-1813 1
Boodle, Adelaide A, correspondent of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, fl 1887: recipient 1
Boston, Thomas, divine, the Elder, 1676-1732 1
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck, 1775-1822 1
Boult, Sir Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983 1
Bowie, Rory, Howbeg, South Uist, fl 1866 1
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman, Lord Chancellor, 1778–1868. 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Brown, Peter 1
Brown, Robert (Mount Pleasant Estate, Saint Vincent) 1
Brown, Samuel, founder of "itinerating libraries", 1779-1839 1
Brøndsted, Peter Oluf, Chevalier, archaeologist, 1780-1842 1
Burke, Hon Edward, 5th son of John, 9th Earl of Clanricarde, fl 1716: recipient 1
Burton, Sir Richard Francis, Knight, explorer, 1821-1890 1
Böll, Heinrich, author, 1917-1985 1
Cadogan, William, Earl Cadogan, pseudonym John Williams, d 1726 1
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Cameron, Alexander K, Montana, essayist, 1882-1956 1
Cameron, Esther, correspondent of Neil Gunn, author, fl 1933: recipient 1
Cameron, Morven Catriona Smyllie, teacher and poet, Glasgow, 1930-2002 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, Archibald, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1682-1761 1
Campbell, Archibald, Bishop of Aberdeen, d 1744 1
Campbell, John Francis, of Islay, folklorist, ? 1821-1885 1
Campbell, John Lorne, scholar of Scottish Gaelic folklore, 1906-1996: recipient 1
Campbell, Neill, Bishop of Argyll, d ? 1613: recipient 1
Campbell, Sir Ilay, 1st Baronet, of Succoth, Lord President of the Court of Session, 1734-1823: recipient 1
Campbell, Thomas (sculptor) 1
Carleton, Janet Buchanan (author and journalist, née Adam Smith, then Roberts) 1
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