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Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10555/1-163
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of published works, including 'Ring of bright water' and 'The rocks remain', and photographs, drawings and notes, together with literary, business and personal correspondence.

With business records of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises, including correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1955-1969 and undated.

Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11310
Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.

Dates: 1899-1953 and undated.

Photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.

 File
Identifier: MS.15197
Scope and Contents The book appears to have belonged to Katherine Jane Ellice, first wife of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1880), who died in April 1864. Each visitor was asked to sign the book, adding the dates of arrival and departure, his profession, his object in coming and any remarks or complaints. Several took the opportunity to write in verses or poems or to make drawings, which range in size from thumbnail sketches to full-page drawings. Latterly, small photographs of many of the visitors...
Dates: 1846-1863.

"Rambling Thoughts on a Highland Ramble" by L.L. Joseph.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13706
Scope and Contents Illustrated journal of a tour in Scotland with watercolours and sketches and pasted in photographs and printed cards. The writer travelled by train from St Pancras, London, to Dumfries, Melrose, Galashiels and Edinburgh. He travelled north over the newly opened Forth Bridge to Pitlochry. From Pitlochry, he visits notable landmarks including the Falls of Bruar and the Pass of Killiekrankie. There is a detailed account of the process of making tweed following a visit to the Pitlochry Tweed...
Dates: 1890

Scrapbook of Lady Isobel Scott

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13515
Scope and Contents Scrapbook compiled by Lady Isobel Scott, consisting largely of autographs, drawings and photographs of places visited. Most are country houses including Monteviot, Woodburn, Beaulieu, Newbattle Abbey, Kiplin in Northumberland, Fountains Abbey, Bishop`s House, Kennington, Boughton House, Kettering, Falconhurst in Kent, Drumlanrig Castle and Douglas Castle. In addition, there are a number of entries relating to visits to Admiralty House, Devonport, a series of photographs taken on visit to...
Dates: 1899-1904

Two home-produced magazines and related printed books (annotated) of George Henry Nettle.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11805
Scope and Contents

The 1914 magazine "The Rambler" contains many pastel/pencil drawings and photographs of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison`s funeral procession, 1913.

Dates: circa 1894-1939.

Two "visiting books" compiled by Lady Edith Campbell.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6973
Scope and Contents

Containing photographs, watercolours, drawings, and signatures of guests.

Dates: 1894-1903.

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Photographs. 33
Correspondence. 10
Letters. Correspondence. 8
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 7
Manuscripts. 6
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Typescripts. 6
Diaries. 4
Notes. 4
Poetry. 4
Visitors' books. 4
Watercolours. Paintings. 4
Copies. Derivative objects. 3
Drafts. Documents. 3
Photograph albums. 3
Scrapbooks 3
Sketches. 3
Travel journals 3
Annotations. 2
Articles. 2
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 2
Books 2
Documents. 2
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Lists. 2
Magazines. periodicals. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Microfilms. 2
Paintings. Visual works. 2
Plays. 2
Prints. Visual works. 2
Proofs. Printed matter. 2
Signatures. Names. 2
Slides. Photographs. 2
Abbotsford House (historic house). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. 1
Account books. 1
Accounts. 1
Albums. 1
Antarctica. Continent. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 1
Biographies. 1
Boer War (1899-1902). 1
Buenos Aires (inhabited place). South America - Argentina - Distrito Federal. Longitude: -58.5000. Latitude: -34.6667. 1
Business records. 1
Calculations. 1
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 1
Cartoons. Humourous images. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Certificates. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Compact discs. 1
DVDs. 1
Declarations. 1
Deeds. Legal documents. 1
Diplomas. School records. 1
Dirleton. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - East Lothian. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.7667. Latitude: 56.0333. 1
Dispatches. 1
Drafts. Documents 1
Dryburgh Abbey. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Ruins. Longitude: -2.6667. Latitude: 55.5667. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Ephemera. 1
Essays. 1
Etchings. Prints. 1
Exercise books. 1
Family papers. 1
Financial records. 1
France. Europe. Nation. Longitude: 2.0000. Latitude: 46.0000. 1
Gardening. 1
Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833. 1
Greeting cards. Correspondence. 1
Haddington. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. County. Longitude: -3.0833. Latitude: 55.9167. 1
Holographs. Autographs. 1
Horoscopes. 1
Illuminated manuscripts. 1
Illustrations. Layout features. 1
Invitations. 1
Iona. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute . Island. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lectures. 1
Legal documents. 1
Literature (writings). 1
London. Europe - United Kingdom - England - Greater London. Inhabited place. Longitude: -0.1667. Latitude: 51.5000. 1
Medals. 1
Melrose Abbey. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Ruins. Longitude: -2.7500. Latitude: 55.6167. 1
Melrose. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.7167. Latitude: 55.5833. 1
Memorabilia. 1
Menu cards. 1
North Berwick. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - East Lothian. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.7167. Latitude: 56.0667. 1
Notebooks. 1
Novels. 1
Offprints. 1
Pamphlets. 1
Personal papers. 1
Photocopies. 1
Plans (orthographic projections). 1
Portraits 1
Prefaces. 1
Printed materials. Object genre. 1
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Language
English 25
Undetermined 8
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Adair, John (surveyor and map maker) 1
Beeton, David Nicholson, costume designer, 1952-2013 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
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Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
Bruce, William Speirs, explorer, 1867–1921 1
Campbell, family 1
Clerk, Sir John, 2nd Baronet, of Penicuik, 1676-1755 1
Davenport, John, writer, fl 1954-1957 1
Davison, Emily Wilding, suffragette, 1872-1913 1
Douglas, George Norman, travel writer, 1868-1952 1
Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Geddes, Sir Patrick, Knight, sociologist, 1854-1932 1
Gordon, family, of Ellon 1
Graham, Agnes, wife of William Sydney, née Kilpatrick, 1909-1999 1
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 1
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 1
Harvey, Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol, fl.1882-1891: author 1
Harvey, Charles Octavius (wine and spirit merchant, Bristol) 1
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Login, family 1
Mackay, Lucinda Louise, Lady, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchcape (artist) (b 1941) 1
Maitland Mackgill Crichton, family 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
McLaren, William Norman, film director, 1914-1987 1
Mears, Norah, Lady Mears, wife of Sir Frank C., Architect, nee Geddes, 1887-1967 1
Mossman, James, Jeweller and Watchmaker, Edinburgh, fl.1870-1905: recipient 1
Mossman, Robert Cockburn, meteorologist, 1870-1940 1
Nettle, George Henry, poet, fl 1894-1939 1
Percy, Lady Edith, wife of Henry, 7th Duke of Northumberland, née Campbell, 1849-1913 1
Russell, Florence M, correspondent of W Norman McLaren, film director, fl 1936-1992 1
Sanderson, John, collector, d 1986: collector 1
Scott, Lady Isobel Alice Adelaide, wife of James Cospatrick Hepburne Scott, née Kerr, 1881-1976 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1
Taylor, Harold John, Vice-Chancellor of Gauhati University, India, d 1996 1
Thompson, Sylvia, friend of W S Graham, b 1934: recipient 1
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1819-1901 1
Wilkie, Robert Blair, Editor of the "Scots Independent", 1913-1998 1
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