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Correspondence and papers concerning the National Demonstration in Scotland, in honour of Arthur James Balfour.
Including accounts and press cuttings.
Correspondence and papers concerning the publication by Messrs John Smith and Son of their catalogue "Bibliotheca Scotica".
Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, articles and reviews, of Nigel Tranter.
Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, topographical works, and articles, together with correspondence comprising around 2000 letters.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Correspondence and papers of, and concerning, Joseph Hislop.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning O H Mavor ('James Bridie'); with letters of Evan John to Alfred Wareing.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Robert Murdoch Smith.
Concerning Murdoch Smith`s archaeological and diplomatic activities, as used by W K Dickson in his "Life" (1901).
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the family of Anderson of St. Germains and their descendants, being chiefly the correspondence of Warren Hastings Anderson (died 1875), son of David Anderson of St. Germains (1751-1825).
Warren Hastings Anderson entered the merchant house of his uncle, Robert Anderson and Company, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in 1813, becoming a partner in 1818. From then until the 1850s he spent most of his life in Italy and France engaged in trade, finally retiring to Bowerhouse near Dunbar. Family, personal and legal material predominates in this collection.
Correspondence and papers of Arthur Woodburn, including articles, press cuttings, lectures, photographs, glass slides and drafts of an autobiography.
Arthur Woodburn's strong interest in economics, education, European unity, international relations, modern languages and Scottish history and literature are reflected in the papers.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Alexander Lillie.
Correspondence and papers of Gilbert Askew, concerning his research into the history of the bagpipe.
A collection of papers of Gilbert Askew (1893-1950), numismatist and expert on the Northumbrian bagpipe. It contains correspondence and press cuttings concerning Askew's published works 'The bibliography of the bag-pipe', 'Two sets of miniature bagpipes in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland' and 'The bagpipe in Early Britain', and material collected for an unpublished work entitled 'The bagpipe in England'.
Correspondence and papers of H H MacTaggart.
Concerning MacTaggart`s family and the executry of his father William McTaggart.
Correspondence and papers of Hector Hugh Mackenzie.
Papers mainly concern Highland history and music, including some papers relating to Frances Tolmie.
Correspondence and papers of James Connell and Sons.
Includes:
420 letters, 1897-1934, of Sir David Y Cameron to James Connell and Sons, concerning his etchings and paintings
letters, 1912-1941, to James Connell from correspondents including Sir Muirhead Bone, Jacob Epstein and Sir Alfred Munnings
three volumes of press cuttings, 1890-1952, concerning James Connell and Sons
associated document and photographs.
Correspondence and papers of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
Correspondence and papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, his wife Susan Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir, his brother James Walter Buchan, and sister, Anna Buchan.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
Correspondence and papers of Lord Macleod of Fuinary.
Includes papers concerning the Iona Community.
Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.
Correspondence and papers of Priscilla, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, and some papers of John, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1945-1978; with a speech, 1935, of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Correspondence and papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre.
Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.