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Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert. Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates: [Circa 1925]-1987, undated.

Papers of Annie S Swan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6003
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts of novels and plays, correspondence, and photographs.

Dates: circa 1881-1943.

Papers of Callum Macdonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9476
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of publications, together with associated correspondence and printed items.

Dates: 1953-1986.

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 John D Sutherland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11248
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript and printed papers, newspaper cuttings and photographs, much of it concerning Coventry.

Dates: circa 1910-1930.

Papers of Katherine Cecil Thurston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11378
Scope and Contents

Includes literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories and plays, and photographs.

Dates: 1903-1911.

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 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.

Papers of Richard Dark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3617/1-17
Dates: 1815-1st half of 20th century.

Papers of Sir William O Hutchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6898
Scope and Contents

Including sketchbooks, manuscripts and typescripts of addresses and talks, and over 100 letters to Hutchison, mostly concerning his paintings.

With associated printed items and photographs of paintings.

Dates: 1928-1960.

Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.360
Dates: 18th century-20th century.

Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)

Papers relating to the climb featured in and the publication of 'Eiger Direct', by Dougal Haston, Peter Gillman and Chris Bonington.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14376/1-16
Scope and Contents The records here all relate to the climb made in 1966 of the north face of the Eiger. The purpose of the climb had been to establish an alpine style, direct route up the north face of the mountain. A team of British and American climbers (Chris Bonington, Mick Burke, Peter Gillman, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Layton Kor and Don Whillans) attempted the climb in March 1966. The climb was troubled by bad weather and tragedy when a rope broke, sending Harlin to his death.There was...
Dates: 1966-2018.

Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11154/1-47
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).

Dates: 1959-1990.

Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates: 1818-2011, undated.

Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison

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Identifier: Acc.12578/1-45
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the life and work of the novelist, poet and writer Naomi Mitchison. Includes personal correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, press cuttings, family papers and photographs.Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, née Haldane, was born in Edinburgh in 1897. She was the youngest child of Louisa Kathleen Haldane, née Trotter, and John Scott Haldane (1860-1936). Her elder brother was the biologist J. B. S. 'Jack' Haldane (1892–1964).Naomi attended the Dragon School...
Dates: 1836-2002

Photographs and watercolour portraits of, or assembled by, William Simpson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11877
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript of memoir "Notes and Recollections".

Dates: 1843-1893.

Photographs of five pages of MS. Lat. Q.v.1, 112 in the M E Saltuikov-Shchedrin Library in Saint Petersburg: Hours of Mary, Queen of Scots.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.8
Scope and Contents

The manuscript, written and illuminated circa 1430, contains verses in French in Mary`s hand, most of which are reproduced here.

Placed with the photographs is a letter concerning them from Ronald Munro Ferguson to Lord Rosebery, 1903.

Dates: Circa 1430.

Roll of Scottish troops in the Swedish service, being photographs of selected pages of a manuscript volume in the Krigsarkiv in Stockholm, entitled "Militiehuvudbok över värvade trupper, 1630".

 File
Identifier: MS.788
Scope and Contents

The photographs are of folios 51, 56-57, 71-72, 74-77, 79-87, 91, 93, 96, 98-101, 105-141, 209, and 241-250 of the original 'Militiehuvudbok ...', which is described in the catalogue of the Gustavus Adolphus Exhibition in Stockholm, 1932, as follows: ‘No. 444. A detailed list of all the enlisted troops, mainly of Scottish and German origin, who appear in the Swedish armies’.

Dates: 1630.

Single letters and papers.

 File
Identifier: MS.2522
Scope and Contents

The contents include: letters, 1825-1826, of Robert Chambers regarding a projected but apparently unpublished work, 'Traditions of Scotland'; a photograph of Sir Walter Scott's letter, 1827, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, now in the Goethe- und Schiller- Archiv, Weimar; and correspondence, 1854-1868, (chiefly of Sir Roderick Murchison) of and relating to David Livingstone.

Dates: 1825-1868.

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Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 3
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
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Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 1
Bonington, Christian John Store, Sir, Knight (mountaineer, writer and photographer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Bruce, William Speirs, explorer, 1867–1921 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Chrystal, Francis M, member of the Old Edinburgh Club, d 1944 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Crawford, Kenna (artist) (b. 1959) 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Gillman, Peter (journalist and mountaineer) 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Hamilton, William Winter, politician, 1917-2000 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Haston, Duncan Curdy McSporran (mountaineer) 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 1
Insh, George Pratt, historian, b 1883 1
Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
Jenkin, Anne (née Austin, wife of Henry C. Fleeming Jenkin, engineer) 1
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer) 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macdonald, Malcolm 'Callum' (printer and publisher) 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
McAlpine, Morag (librarian) (1946-2014) 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
Menuhin, Yehudi, Baron Menuhin, violinist and conductor, 1916-1999 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Morrison, Margaret Mackie (novelist, writing under the pen name 'March Cost') (1897-1973) 1
Mossman, James, Jeweller and Watchmaker, Edinburgh, fl.1870-1905: recipient 1
Mossman, Robert Cockburn, meteorologist, 1870-1940 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Orchardson, Sir William Quiller, Knight, painter, 1832-1910 1
Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd, 1868-1947 (author, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist) 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Ramage, George (Lance Corporal, Gordon Highlanders) 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Saltire Society 1
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1
Scottish National Party 1
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 1
Stevenson, Frances Matilda Van de Grift (née Van de Grift, then Osbourne, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson) 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 1
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 1
Strachan, Michael, writer, b 1919 1
Strong, Austin (playwright) (1881-1952) 1
Sutherland, John D, banker, Oban, fl 1910-1930 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
Women's Social and Political Union, suffragettes 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973. 1
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