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Photocopies of letters to and from eminent figures of British society.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6753
Scope and Contents

Including letters to Lovat Fraser, Henry Wickham Steed, Lord Rothermere, and letters of Earl Haig, Lord French, and Lord and Lady Curzon.

Dates: 1905-1923.

Photocopies of letters to William Montgomerie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6855
Scope and Contents

With 28 letters of Edwin Muir, nine of Willa Muir, and 38 of William Soutar, mostly concerning literary matters.

Dates: 1932-1969.

Photocopies of literary correspondence, mainly to William Mathie Parker.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5892
Scope and Contents A collection of letters mainly to William Mathie Parker.1. William Archer (2), 1917.2. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1), 1916.3. Andrew Cecil Bradley (2), 1912, 1929.4. Edward Clodd (1), 1916.5. Sir Sidney Colvin (2), 1916.6. Joseph Conrad (3), 1919-20.7. Austin Dobson (1), 1913.8. Edward Garnett (1), 1936.9. Sir Edmund Gosse (1), 1915.10. Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1),...
Dates: 1884-1956.

Photocopies of nine letters between William Cadogan, Earl Cadogan (using the pseudonym John Williams) and Edward Burke.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9453
Scope and Contents

Concerning Burke`s offer to spy on the Jacobites.

Dates: 1716.

Photocopies of nine letters of Neil Gunn.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5457
Dates: 1941-1959 and undated.

Photocopies of ninety letters, 1846-circa 1879 and undated, of Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, to his wife, Agnes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10595
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of 16 letters, 1815-1893, to Baron Gordon and his family, including four of Benjamin Disraeli.

Dates: 1815-1893 and undated.

Photocopies of one letter each of Geoffrey Keynes and J P R Wallis.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5014
Scope and Contents

Concerning William Blake.

Dates: 1919-1922.

Photocopies of papers concerning Scots and the West Indies.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6465-is now MSS.50273-50276

Photocopies of papers concerning the football career of Arthur McGachie with East Fife Footbal Club, Dunfermline Athletic Football Club and other Fife clubs.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11473
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, agreements, match programmes, photographs and press cuttings.

Dates: 1931-1995 and undated.

Photocopies of papers concerning the Omay family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7004
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. Paper, 1750, in a case between Duncan Omay of Kilchumkill and the 3rd Duke of Argyll

2. Letter and account, 1801, of John Forbes to Messrs Moddy and Omay, concerning collection of debts of a Scottish business in the United States

3. Letter, 1813, of Hector Macneill to Samuel Omay

4. 19 letters, 1813-1836, of John Galt to Samuel Omay.

Dates: 1750, 1801, 1813-1836.

Photocopies of papers from Selkirk Public Library.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6207
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning the history of Selkirk.

Including letters of Sir Walter Scott, Mungo Park and Thomas Boston.

Dates: 1608-1939.

Photocopies of papers of Graham of Airth family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6307
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. correspondence, 1762-1820, of Ann Graham, with some other Graham family letters

2. memoirs of James Graham

3. "View of the Sums Received from the Estate of Ardoch Penn, Jamaica", 1828.

Dates: 1762-1828.

Photocopies of papers of James Dodds.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6665
Scope and Contents

Including three letters of Dodds to his parents at Dunfermline, describing experiences as a miner in the Klondike goldfield, with an associated photograph.

Dates: 1895-1898.

Photocopies of papers of John Buchan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6542
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. corrected manuscripts of "Green Mantle" (1916), "The Three Hostages" (1924), "Montrose" (1928), "Memory-Hold-the-Door" (1940)

2. manuscript and typescript of "The Mountain", an unfinished novel

3. manuscripts and typescripts of addresses, 1904-1937

4. commonplace book, circa 1896

5. 30 letters, 1893-1940, of and to various correspondents, including Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, T E Lawrence, and Ezra Pound.

Dates: 1893-1940.

Photocopies of papers of John Dunlop.

 File
Identifier: Acc.4021
Scope and Contents

Including letters to Dunlop, and letters of Dunlop to George Chalmers.

Dates: 1804-1816.

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Subject
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
Reviews. Document genre. 2
Scores 2
Scores. 2
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 2
Scrapbooks 2
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
Anecdotes. 1
Annotations. 1
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
Asia. Continent. 1
Australia. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: 135.0000. Latitude: -25.0000. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Birth certificates. 1
Bonds. Legal instruments. 1
Business records. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
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
Crimea. Europe - Ukraine - Krym. General region. 1
Death certificates. 1
Declarations. 1
Diplomas. School records. 1
Dispatches. 1
Divertimentos. Musical compositions. 1
Drafts. Documents 1
Drawings. Visual works 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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