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Papers of Archibald J Cronin.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10106
Scope and Contents

Includes school and university notes and essays, and corrected manuscripts of novels, short stories and autobiography.

Dates: 1911-1978.

Papers of Arthur Woodburn.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6276
Scope and Contents

Concerning his Parliamentary Bill to facilitate the formation of a common European language.

Dates: 1962-1963.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7147
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, essays, bibliographies and other literary work.

With Duncan Glen, "Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance", and poems of, and essays concerning, Hugh Macdiarmid.

Dates: 1962-1977.

Papers of Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9045
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, a novel, autobiography, essays and articles.

Dates: 1964-1985.

Papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.

With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.

Dates: 1935-1987 and undated.

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.

Dates: 1946-1975.

Papers of John Buchan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6482
Scope and Contents

Comprising photocopies of corrected typescripts of an essay, 1893, "Angling in Still Waters", and two short stories, undated, "Coriolanus" and "Other Gods".

Dates: 1893 and undated.

Papers of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6975
Scope and Contents

Including literary notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts of literary work, and family and personal correspondence.

With papers of Susan, Baroness Tweedsmuir, including typescripts of essays and addresses, and correspondence.

Dates: 1894-1940.

Papers of John Herdman.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9243
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, autobiography articles, essays and reviews.

Dates: 1965-1985.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10281
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays, novels and essays, with correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1974.

Papers of Thomas Aitken.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8839
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.

Dates: circa 1867-1880.

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

Quintin Kennedy, "Ane Compendius Tractive", with annotations by the author.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9268 [RB.s.2950]
Scope and Contents

With manuscript copy of "De Praesentia Corporis in Sacramento Altaris".

Dates: 1558.

`Some Remarks on Providence and the Lord`s dealings with me in my tender years, and progressively carried on since. Together with some Meditations on various subjects`, by Hugh Camron, a catechist and schoolmaster in Lochbroom.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.30
Scope and Contents

The first 12 chapters are mainly autobiographical. There are two later insertions however, the preface and the section between folios 49 and 53 verso, which deals with later events in his life dating from 1751 to 1763. Chapter 13 is divided into 16 sections taking the form of moralising essays on various aspects of Christian behaviour. The work is apparently unpublished.

Dates: 1746-1763.

"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12456
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.

Dates: 1794-1802.

Two manuscripts of Sir William Purves`s work on the revenue of the Crown in Scotland.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.14-31.2.14a
Scope and Contents Purves does not seem to have altered the figures of the rental after compiling his work in 1667, but he did expand the section of the introduction on the Court of Exchequer. The final form which the work took in 1681 was published by D Murray Rose as ‘Revenue of the Scottish Crown, 1681’, from a manuscript in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 33,238). The original work of 1667 (entitled ‘Ane Abbreviat of his Majesties proper and constant rent peyit be the severall ffewars for their...
Dates: 1667-1681.

Works of John H Balfour Browne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.

Dates: circa 1880-circa 1920.

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Essays. 68
Manuscripts. 67
Typescripts. 21
Correspondence. 13
Poetry. 13
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Articles. 10
Letters. Correspondence. 10
Notes. 9
Drafts. Documents. 8
Novels. 7
Photographs. 7
Lectures. 6
Short stories. 6
Speeches. Documents. 6
Autobiographies. 5
Copies. Derivative objects. 5
Plays. 5
Diaries. 4
Histories. 4
Notebooks. 4
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 4
Proofs. printed matter 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Albums. 2
Annotations. 2
Biographies. 2
Books 2
Ephemera. 2
Excerpts. 2
Fragments. 2
Pamphlets. 2
Photocopies. 2
Reports 2
Transcripts. 2
Audiocassettes. 1
Autographs (manuscripts). 1
Bibliographies. 1
Born digital. 1
Calculations. 1
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Compact discs. 1
Covers (gathered matter components). 1
Criticism. 1
DVDs. 1
Dictionaries. 1
Documents. 1
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Epistles. 1
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Excise tickets. 1
Exercise books. 1
Exhibition catalogues. 1
Facsimiles. Reproductions. 1
Fiction. 1
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Holographs. Autographs. 1
Illuminated manuscripts. 1
Illustrations. Layout features. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Legal documents. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Memoirs. 1
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Newspapers. 1
Orders. Military records. 1
Periodicals. 1
Personal papers. 1
Photographic prints. 1
Political posters. 1
Prayers. 1
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Printed materials. Object genre. 1
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Proofs. Printed matter. 1
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Watercolours. Paintings. 1
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Language
English 58
Undetermined 8
Latin 2
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 5
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 2
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
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Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 2
Aitken, Thomas, Medical Superintendent, District Asylum, Inverness, fl 1867-1880 1
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Bryce, Alexander, Minister of Kirknewton, 1713-1786 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Buchanan, James, tutor to David S Erksine, 11th Earl of Buchan, fl 1760 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1
Cairns, David Smith, Principal, Christ's College, Aberdeen, 1862-1946 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 1
Davis, Albert C, British Council Representative in Scotland, 1910-1992 1
Encyclopaedia Britannica, publisher 1
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 1
Ferguson, William, Reader Emeritus in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, b 1924 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 1
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820 1
Home, George, of Wedderburn, Principal Clerk of Session, 1734-1820: former owner 1
Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club 1
Jenkin, Anne (née Austin, wife of Henry C. Fleeming Jenkin, engineer) 1
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer) 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kennedy, Quintin, Abbot of Crossraguel, c 1520-1564 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
MacLean Sorley, Poet, 1911-1996. 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay (statesman and historian) 1
Macintosh, George, author of "Researches Relative to the Cyclopian Ruins of Antiquity", fl 1822-1826 1
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Melville, Robert, General and antiquary, 1723-1809 1
Mirror, Edinburgh, newspaper 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Moncrieff, George Scott-, writer, 1910-1974 1
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 1
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 1
Myers, Henry, author of "Hegelian Dialectics of Moses, Jesus, and Paul", fl 1938 1
Nevinson, Henry Woodd, journalist and author, 1856-1941 1
Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd, 1868-1947 (author, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist) 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Reid, Thomas, horologist, 1746-1831 1
Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1
Scott, Paul Henderson, author, b 1920 1
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 1
Sharp, William (author, pseudonym 'Fiona Macleod') 1
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, antiquary, 1781-1851 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Stevenson, Frances Matilda Van de Grift (née Van de Grift, then Osbourne, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson) 1
Strong, Austin (playwright) (1881-1952) 1
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 1
The Peripatetic, Thurso, Quarterly Magazine 1
Thomson, Mary S, Edinburgh, fl 1960 1
Tytler, Alexander Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee, historian and lawyer, 1747-1813 1
Whitaker, John, historian, 1735-1808 1
Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
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