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Papers concerning James Pittendrigh MacGillivray.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10447
Dates:
circa 1920-1967.
Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198
Dates:
1569-1876, undated.
Papers, including literary notebooks and drafts of novels, plays and short stories, of James Kennaway.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5696 Box 1(1)-Box 5(2)
Dates:
1944-1971, undated.
Papers of and concerning the Reverend George Murray Reith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3564
Scope and Contents
Including notebooks, press cuttings, an unpublished life of Sir Stamford Raffles, and lectures on ecclesiastical history.
Dates:
[?1885]-?1st half of 19th century.
Papers of and relating to the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14057/1-19
Dates:
1847-1955, undated.
Papers of Dr Farquhar Macintosh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14003
Content Description
Correspondence and other papers of and about Dr Farquhar Macintosh, teacher and educationalist and supporter of Gaelic. He was born in Elgol, Isle of Skye, on 27 October 1923, a native speaker of Gaelic, and died in Edinburgh, 18 November 2007. He went to Edinburgh University and Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, and became headmaster of Portree High School (1962-1966) and Oban High School (1967-1972), and finally Rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh (1972 to 1989). He served...
Dates:
1940s-2007
Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14889
Scope and Contents
Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Papers of Leslie Shirlaw.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10634
Scope and Contents
Includes research notes and articles on Archibald Pitcairne.
Dates:
1970-1980 and undated.
Papers of Peter Caddy, Co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12042
Dates:
circa 1940-1996.
Papers of the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates:
1892-1965, undated.
Papers of the Reverend Prof Franz Hildebrandt.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9251
Scope and Contents
Includes sermons, lectures, notes for published works, correspondence, pastoral notebooks and diaries.
Dates:
1926-1985.
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14220-14226
Scope and Contents
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
Dates:
1833-1939, undated.
Photocopies of genealogical notes concerning the Mackenzies of Kilcoy.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6282
Dates:
20th century.
Photocopies of items of David Livingstone belonging to his grandson Dr H F Wilson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10757-10765
Dates:
1854-1873.
Scores of operatic works by James A Moonie, and autograph and fair copies of scores, and correspondence of his son William B Moonie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21983-22014
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century-3rd quarter of 20th century, undated.
Six notebooks, with lecture notes in longhand and shorthand, taken by Sir James Matthew Barrie when an undergraduate at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6652-6657
Dates:
1880-1881.
Students` notebooks containing lecture notes, problems and notes on mathematics.
File
Identifier: Acc.10071
Dates:
1878-circa 1889.
Two notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5831
Scope and Contents
Containing manuscript corrected drafts, 1970, of an unpublished novel, "The Clone Mums", and notes on travels in India.
Dates:
1970.
Working papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, including samples of fired ceramics; with papers relating to her published works and thesis.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12879/1-97
Scope and Contents
Recipes, tests, firing schedules, samples, sketches, and other papers of Margery Clinton relating to the production of pottery, her masters' thesis, and her book, 'Working with lustres'.
Dates:
1963-2005, undated.