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Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).
Papers of Annie S Swan.
Including manuscripts of novels and plays, correspondence, and photographs.
Papers of Callum Macdonald.
Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of publications, together with associated correspondence and printed items.
Papers of Dr George Pratt Insh, mostly concerning his unpublished biography of Thomas Muir of Huntershill.
Papers of Gavin Maxwell and of Gavin Maxwell Enterprises Limited.
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.
Papers of John D Sutherland.
Includes manuscript and printed papers, newspaper cuttings and photographs, much of it concerning Coventry.
Papers of Katherine Cecil Thurston.
Includes literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories and plays, and photographs.
Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
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.
Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.
Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.
Papers of Sir William O Hutchison.
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.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.
Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Papers relating to the climb featured in and the publication of 'Eiger Direct', by Dougal Haston, Peter Gillman and Chris Bonington.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
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).
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Personal and literary papers of Naomi Mitchison
Photographs, ?1920, of the manuscript described by John Sobieski Stuart in his edition of the `Vestiarum Scoticum` (Edinburgh, 1842), and further discussed by him in his ‘Reply to the "Quarterly Review" [June, 1847] upon the "Vestiarium Scoticum"’, where it is described as the `Cromarty Manuscript`.
Photographs and watercolour portraits of, or assembled by, William Simpson.
Includes manuscript of memoir "Notes and Recollections".
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.
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.
Photographs of the Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany in prose and verse written by John Asloan early in the reign of James V of Scotland (1513-1542).
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".
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’.
Single letters and papers.
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.