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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.
Records and papers of Craigmount School for Girls, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12271
Dates:
1933-1966.
Records of the Ladies Scottish Climbing Club.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14612/1-15
Scope and Contents
The Ladies Scottish Climbing Club was founded in 1908 by Jane Inglis Clarke, her daughter Mabel Inglis Clark (later Jeffey), and Lucy Smith. All three had climbed extensively in Scotland and the Alps, sometimes in the company of their respective male family members and friends. Since the Scottish Mountaineering Club did not yet accept female members, the three women decided to form their own Club to further extend their climbing activities.
The first New Year's Meet was held in...
Dates:
1904-1987.
`The Bass Rock and Reminiscences of Days spent on it with Harold Raburn [sic] By William Douglas, 1929`.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13446
Scope and Contents
At the back of the volume, are notes on the history of the Bass Rock. A letter of Ruth Raeburn to William Douglas, 1930, press cuttings and articles are pasted in or loosely enclosed.
Dates:
1929 - 1929
Transcript, circa 2007, of a diary kept by Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Gavin R V Hume-Gore, 1st Gordon Highlanders, 1914.
File
Identifier: Acc.12782
Scope and Contents
Includes transcripts of related documents, 1914-1918, and a copy of a photograph of Hume-Gore.
Dates:
circa 2007.
Typescript diary of a cruise from Leith to North Cape, Norway, with photographs.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7087
Dates:
1927.
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.