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Papers, mostly of Marshall Anderson, from the Attic Archive, Dundee.
Papers of and concerning John MacDougall Hay (1881-1919), father of the poet George Campbell Hay.
John MacDougall Hay became minister of Elderslie in 1909, but is best known for his work as a novelist and poet, particularly for his novel 'Gillespie' (London, 1914). He also wrote numerous articles for newspapers and periodicals.
Papers of Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd (1893-1981).
Born in Cults, Dr Anna ('Nan') Shepherd was educated in Aberdeen and became a lecturer in English at Aberdeen College of Education. She wrote poems in Scots and English and three novels as well as articles for magazines and journals.
Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
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.
Papers of James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, concerning administration in Wei Hai Wei, and Chinese art and literature.
Papers of Magnus Magnusson.
Papers of Neill and Company, printers, Edinburgh.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Papers of the 1st Company of the Edinburgh Volunteer Rifle Battalion.
The Company, recruited mainly from the Faculty of Advocates, was raised in 1859, as part of the general Volunteer mobilisation in that year. The majority of the papers belong to that and the immediately following years.
Papers of the family of Ballantyne of Holylee.
Includes letters of J G Lockhart and Robert Cadell.
Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.
Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.
Papers of the Very Reverend Harry Whitley, Doctor of Divinity.
Papers of William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Personal and political papers of Rosemary Hall.
Printed papers and manuscripts concerning the troubles in Geneva.
Short book of verses and caricatures by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepdaughter, Mrs Strong.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Three letters to Captain Charles Gray, Royal Marines, regarding his ‘Familiar Epistle addressed to Peter McLeod’ (Edinburgh, 1845), in which they are pasted.
Two letters, a leaf of manuscript, and a watercolour sketch by Joyce Cary, inserted in a copy of her 'A house of children' (London, 1941).
The manuscript contains a passage from the novel corresponding to page 30 and notes for another work. The sketch illustrates the scene described on page 30.