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Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents
The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates:
1532-18th century, and undated.
Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.
Item
Identifier: MS.9319
Scope and Contents
The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards;
detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.
The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.
Dates:
1854-1856.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.301
Dates:
1726-1888.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Papers of, and relating to, Iain Crichton Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12600/1-65
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1946, 1962-2000.
Papers of David Cairns.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9326
Scope and Contents
Includes typescripts of articles, addresses, and poems, transcripts of diaries and correspondence.
Dates:
1926-1986.
Papers of David Torrance relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13670/1-17
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the activities of David Torrance surrounding the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014. As well as publishing numerous newspaper, magazine and online articles on the subject of the Referendum, Torrance has also written a number of books on the subject, including The Battle for Britain: Scotland and the Scottish Independence Referendum (2013), Scotland’s Referendum: A Guide for Voters (2014) and 100 Days of Hope...
Dates:
2012-2014
Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259
Dates:
1875-1950, undated.
Papers of James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, concerning administration in Wei Hai Wei, and Chinese art and literature.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.83- is now Acc.4138.
Dates:
1859-1937.
Papers of John L Broom and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10802
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, notebooks, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of articles and addresses.
Dates:
1912-1992.
Papers of Peter Ritchie Calder, including lectures, addresses, articles, correspondence, diaries and autobiography.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.370
Dates:
Circa 1940-1980.
Papers of Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb, Queen`s Counsel, including diaries, notes, correspondence, and manuscripts and corrected typescripts of unpublished works, lectures, addresses, memoranda and broadcast talks, with related printed items.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.217
Dates:
1905-1966.
Papers of Robert J B Sellar, Including notebooks, diaries, and scripts of radio plays and dramatisations.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7918 Box 1-Box 5
Dates:
1911-1962, undated.
Papers of Robert Kemp, including typescripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries; correspondence, including letters from James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie; diaries, accounts, press cuttings and photographs.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.294- is now Acc.7622.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1967.
Papers of the Burns Begg family, being the family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.328- is now Acc.13138.
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers of the Mure of Caldwell and Bloxham families.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13678/1-6
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of letters and notes on the genealogy of the Mure of Caldwell family, Ayrshire and their relatives the Bloxham family, Banbury, diaries of Catherine Mure, daughter of William Mure of Caldwell (succ.1776) and legal documents of and relating to the Mures of Caldwell and the Bloxhams.
Dates:
1496-1907
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Dates:
15th century-1814.
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.
Poems, letters and other papers of the poet William Julius Mickle (1734 or 1735-1788).
Series
Identifier: MSS.15934-15936
Dates:
1722-1788, undated.
Political and personal correspondence and papers of Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, including some papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11884/1-359
Scope and Contents
These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...
Dates:
Circa 1911-circa 1998.
Printed copy of the standing orders for the Annandale and Eskdale Regiment of Local Militia, with a manuscript diary of a voyage to Canada.
File
Identifier: Acc.8426
Dates:
1816.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Dates:
1648-20th century.
Records of the service of the Home Guard (formerly Local Defence Volunteers).
Series
Identifier: MSS.3816-3822
Scope and Contents
The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.
Dates:
1940-1945.
Regimental standing orders, 1796, for the 37th Regiment at Gibraltar.
File
Identifier: Acc.7127
Scope and Contents
Including:
diary, 1868, of John Maxwell of Baillieston, mostly meteorological
burgess ticket, 1766, of Rutherglen, in favour of Steven Maxwell.
Dates:
1766, 1796 and 1868.