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Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

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.

Political papers of Sam Ghibaldan.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13669
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sam Ghibaldan chiefly relating to the Liberal Democrats in Westminster (1995-1997), including the Cook-Maclennan talks which led to the Blair government’s constitutional reform agenda; ‘Make Votes Count’, which was the pro-AV+ campaign in the electoral reform referendum that Blair’s government ultimately failed to hold; and the two Scottish coalitions (1999-2007).

Dates: 1996-2007

Records of the National Party of Scotland, Scottish Convention, Scottish Covenant Association and Scottish National Party.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7295/1-34
Scope and Contents

Minutes, letters and papers, with miscellaneous printed political leaflets and ephemera retained with the collection, from the Edinburgh Headquarters of the Scottish National Party. Included are records of other organizations of the national movement.

Dates: 1932-1974, undated.

Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).

 File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6); (ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48); (iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11); (iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50); (v) A...
Dates: [1893, or after]-1918.

Scrapbooks of Lord MacGregor Mitchell.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13603
Scope and Contents

Eleven scrapbooks, 1899-1935, concerning Lord Robert MacGregor Mitchell (1875-1938), Scottish lawyer and judge, Liberal MP for Perth and University Rector.

The scrapbooks contain newspaper cuttings, letters, photographs and miscellaneous ephemera mostly documenting Lord Mitchell’s legal and political career, as well as his personal interests in golf and cricket.

Dates: 1899-1935

Typescripts of talks of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9426
Scope and Contents

With two letters of the Reverend Thomas M Donn to Thomson, and cuttings.

Dates: 1965-1969 and undated.

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Correspondence. 75
Photographs. 47
Drafts. Documents. 37
Speeches. Documents. 34
Typescripts. 32
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Notes. 29
Manuscripts. 22
Letters. Correspondence. 21
Diaries. 20
Notebooks. 18
Scripts. Documents 18
Articles. 17
Poetry. 16
Copies. Derivative objects. 11
Lectures. 11
Legal documents. 11
Documents. 10
Photocopies. 10
Minutes. Administrative records. 9
Novels. 9
Obituaries. 9
Publications. 9
Plays. 8
Reports 8
Ephemera. 7
Lists. 7
Proofs. printed matter 7
Short stories. 7
Translations. Documents. 7
Administrative records. 6
Maps. Cartographic materials. 6
Memorandums. 6
Pamphlets. 6
Reports. 6
Reviews. Document genre 6
Scripts. Documents. 6
Albums. 5
Audiocassettes. 5
Essays. 5
Financial records. 5
Literature (writings). 5
Autobiographies. 4
Biographies. 4
Drafts. Documents 4
Fragments. 4
Personal papers. 4
Printed materials. Object genre. 4
Programmes. 4
Proofs. Printed matter. 4
Reviews. Document genre. 4
Sketches. 4
Accounts. 3
Autographs (manuscripts). 3
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 3
Certificates 3
Certificates. 3
Journals. Accounts. 3
Musical compositions. 3
Newsletters. Serials. 3
Periodicals. 3
Politics. 3
Postcards. 3
Programmes 3
Scrapbooks 3
Sermons 3
Sketches 3
Transcripts 3
Travel journals 3
Travel journals. 3
Videocassettes. 3
Account books. 2
Agendas. Administrative records. 2
Catalogues. 2
Drawings. Visual works. 2
Excerpts. 2
Family papers. 2
Fugues. Musical compositions. 2
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 2
Genealogies. 2
Illustrations. Layout features. 2
Invitations. 2
Librettos. Documents for music. 2
Microfilms. 2
Negatives. Photographs. 2
Offprints. 2
Paintings. Visual works. 2
Parts. Scores. 2
Passports. 2
Photograph albums. 2
Piano music. 2
Posters. 2
Receipts. Financial records 2
Scores. 2
Sermons. 2
Suites. Musical compositions. 2
Tables. Documents. 2
Testimonials. 2
Transcripts. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
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Language
English 88
Undetermined 24
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 3
Multiple languages 3
Danish 1
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Names
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 4
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 3
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
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Kesson, Jessie Grant, novelist, née McDonald, 1916-1994 2
Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh 2
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 2
7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland) 1
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, 1871-1913 1
Argyll Publishing (Glendaruel) 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Braehead Mountaineering Club 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
Brander, Michael (writer) 1
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 1
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902: recipient 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, J Walter, head of the Commercial Bank, Peebles, brother of John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1882-1953 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 1
Church of Scotland, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Clifford, Bertram, electrical engineer, 1877-1954 1
Clifford, Jo, playwright, b 1950 1
Dallmeyer, Andrew (playwright, theatre director and actor) 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davidson, Andrew Nevile, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, 1899-1976 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1
Dawn Cine Group (cine club) 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Duncan, Joseph Forbes, Trade Union Secretary, 1879-1964 1
Elliot, James Scott, Major General, HM Lieutenant of the County of Dumfries, 1902-1996 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Fidler, Kathleen Annie (afterwards Goldie, author and headmistress) 1
Fifth Estate Theatre Company 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fraser, Alexander Campbell (philosopher) 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, nobleman and aviator, 1903-1973 1
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Hess, Rudolf Walter Richard, deputy of Adolf Hitler, 1894-1987 1
Hewson, Andrew, literary agent, fl. 1981-2016 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 1
Kerr, Roderick Watson, poet and author, d c 1973 1
Liberal Democrats, political party 1
Liberal Party, political party 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Low, Bet, artist, 1924-2007 1
MacDonald, Margo, teacher, broadcaster, politician, 1943-2014 1
MacPhail, James Calder, Minister of Pilrig Free Church, Edinburgh, 1821-1908 1
MacPhail, James Robert Nicolson, advocate, Sheriff of Stirling, 1858-1933 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macarthur, Edith, actor, b. 1926 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackay, Lucinda Louise, Lady, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchcape (artist) (b 1941) 1
Mackenzie, Robert F, Headteacher, Braehead Secondary School , 1910-1987 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maclean, John (revolutionary socialist) 1
Magnusson, Magnus, scholar, broadcaster and enviromentalist, 1929-2007 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
McLean, Lex, comedian, 1907-1975 1
Mearns, Jim, b.1959 (civil servant, archaeologist, and political campaigner) 1
Mitchell, Lord Robert MacGregor, lawyer, judge, Liberal MP for Perth and University rector, 1875-1938 1
Mossman, Robert Cockburn, meteorologist, 1870-1940 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
National Party of Scotland 1
North British Railway Company 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Rae, Janet Milne, author, née Gibb, 1844-1933 1
Rae, Janet Milne, author, née Gibb, 1844-1933: recipient 1
Rae, Lettice Milne, author, b 1882: recipient 1
Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, Knight Colonial Governor, 1781-1826 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Reith, George Murray, Minister of St Cuthbert’s United Free Church, Edinburgh, 1863-1948 1
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 1
Royal Academy of Arts 1
Royal Society of Edinburgh 1
Saltire Society 1
Scott, Paul Henderson, author, b 1920 1
Scott, Thomas Ross, physician and playwright, fl 1913-1948 1
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