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Microfilm and photocopies of journals, diaries, and letters of David Livingstone, 1853-1866, with some letters of members of his family, 1860-1874.

 Series
Identifier: MS.10775
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (1) Journal, 11 November 1853-26 May 1856. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 4. (2) Journal, 2 August 1858-9 January 1859. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham, page 272, number 6. (3) Journal, 1 December 1859-11 June 1860, 3 December 1860-23 March 1861. See ‘David Livingstone: a catalogue of documents’ by G W Clendennen and I C Cunningham,...
Dates: 1853-1874.

Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents

The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.

Dates: Mid 20th century-1988, undated.

Nine letters (one a photocopy) of the Reverend Dr Robert Laws, missionary in Malawi.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11242
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters of the Reverend Malcolm Moffat, missionary in Zambia, to Alexander Gill, jeweller, Aberdeen, together with photograph of a baptismal bowl.

Dates: 1888-1928

Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates: 1902-1970.

Papers concerning the Lord High Commissioners to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10240/1-116
Scope and Contents

The papers contain a large number of photocopies of documents dating back to the 17th century.

Dates: 1924-1984, undated.

Papers of and concerning the painter Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19245-19250
Scope and Contents

A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

Dates: 1891-1925.

Papers of and concerning the Rev Dr Murdoch Mackenzie, missionary in China.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12056
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of letters, tributes and biographical note and photographs.

Dates: 1918-1939.

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 George Robinson, concerning the Zulu War, 1879.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6692
Scope and Contents

Including transcripts, photographs, photocopies, and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1879-circa 1976

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 Magnus Magnusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13542/1-1198
Scope and Contents This archive contains the papers of Magnusson Magnusson (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar, author and environmentalist accumulated over the course of his career. After embarking on a career in journalism in the 1950s Magnusson moved into television in the-mid 1960s where he presented such programmes as "Chronicle" which was dedicated to achaeological discoveries. Magnusson may be best known for his role of quizmaster on the long-running BBC show Mastermind. Magnusson had a strong connection...
Dates: circa 1948-2006.

Papers of Robert Herdman.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4541
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. photocopy of "Picture Book", 1870-1887, recording pictures painted by Herdman

2. notes of Herdman, on Thomas Carlyle, made while painting his portrait

3. correspondence of R Duddingstone Herdman, 1897, concerning the mounting of an exhibition.

Dates: 1870-1897.

Papers of the "Edinburgh Review."

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11517

Papers of Walter S Crow.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7164
Scope and Contents

Including account of 1918 war experiences, compiled in 1977 from original notebook carried in the field, which is also presented, together with a letter on the battle of Château-Thierry.

With photocopies of two letters, 1944, of W R Crow, and photocopies of unassociated essays.

Dates: 20th century.

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.

Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1818-2011, undated.

Photocopies and microfilm of letters of Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6104
Scope and Contents

With associated papers.

Dates: circa 1800-circa 1832.

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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
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Illustrations. Layout features. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
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Photograph albums. 2
Portraits. 2
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Publications. 2
Reports. 2
Research notes. 2
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Selkirk. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. County. 2
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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
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Australia. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: 135.0000. Latitude: -25.0000. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Birth certificates. 1
Bonds. Legal instruments. 1
Business records. 1
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Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 1
Cello music. 1
Certificates 1
Certificates. 1
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
Compact discs. 1
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Death certificates. 1
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Diplomas. School records. 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) (1905-1999) 1
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