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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.
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 Alexander Reid.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8348
Scope and Contents
Including letters, notebooks, diaries and corrected typescripts of plays, short stories, poems, novels, and articles.
Correspondents include James Bridie, Neil Gunn, and Robert McLellan.
Dates:
1928-1981.
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 James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.
Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.27374-27410
Scope and Contents
The sister of Nancy Brysson Morrison, Margaret M Morrison studied at Glasgow School of Art and trained for the stage before beginning her career in literature.
Dates:
1936-1972, undated.
Papers of Peter McOmish Dott.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8531
Scope and Contents
Including diaries, notes and essays on socialism and art history and appreciation. With correspondence of Peter M Dott to Eric Dott.
Dates:
1889-1931.
Papers of Sir Steven Runciman, including correspondence, diaries, photographs, and lectures.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13883
Dates:
1910-2000.
Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12274
Scope and Contents
Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.
Dates:
1946-1982.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5058
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Personal papers of Robert James Dundas.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13929/1-15
Scope and Contents
Dundas was chaplain to the first Anglican Bishop of British Columbia, Canada, and together the papers give a full account of missionary activity and relations with the Indigenous population, and of his own journey to and from North America. Dundas is particularly significant because of a collection of Tsimshian art he acquired as a result of a visit to Metlakatla, in northern British Columbia, which is now housed at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria. The papers consist of eleven volumes of...
Dates:
1859-1866.
Photocopies of typescripts of a letter, 1889, of Charles Stuart, missionary in Nyasaland, to his mother, and a journal, 1915-1916, of his wife Margaret.
File
Identifier: Acc.11077
Dates:
1889-1916.
Poems, letters and other papers of the poet William Julius Mickle (1734 or 1735-1788).
Series
Identifier: MSS.15934-15936
Dates:
1722-1788, undated.
Professional and personal papers of Ethel Bassin; including papers concerning her biography of Francis Tolmie, 'The Old Songs of Skye' (1977).
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7040 Box 1(1)-Box 16(2)
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1863, 1908-1977, undated.
The First World War: Political, Social and Military Manuscript Sources. Series 1: The Haig Papers. Diaries and letters of Sir Douglas Haig. (Harvester Microform: Brighton, [n.d.].)
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.764-773
Dates:
1914-1919.
Typecripts, undated, of short stories, one with an African theme of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10840
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Housing Diary", Glasgow, 1934
letter, 1964, of Marion Campbell
verse, undated, including some of Stephen Spender.
Dates:
1934-1964 and undated.
Typescripts of diaries and autobiographical pieces of C Meadmore.
File
Identifier: Acc.11911
Scope and Contents
Material concerns life in post-war Edinburgh and holidays in Scotland, and includes three letters of Miss Meadmore to her mother.
Dates:
1940-1949.
Volume containing typed copies of diaries of Jane C Burdon-Sanderson of journeys to India in the winters of 1885-1886 and 1888-1889 for the sake of her health; with associated papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20668-20669
Dates:
1885-1889.