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Letters of Isobel Field, née Osbourne, (`Teuila`), step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, to Charles Paine.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12014
Scope and Contents

Includes Isobel Field`s "Precious Book" containing notes on art technique and a photograph of her in old age.

Dates: 1936-1948.

Letters of Willa Muir to her cousins Dora and Elizabeth Anderson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11590
Scope and Contents

Includes related family letters and photographs.

Dates: 1948-1970 and undated.

Literary and personal papers of, and relating to, David Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13259/1-78
Scope and Contents

As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

Dates: 19th century, circa 1916-1996.

Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26116-26162
Scope and Contents

Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Dates: 1922-1980, undated.

Literary papers of Alastair Reid.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12450
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, poetry worksheets, correspondence with poets, translators and editors, manuscripts and typescripts of prose works, including a book written with Robert Graves, photographs and audio and video tapes.

Dates: 1951-2003.

Literary papers of Raymond Vettese.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12501
Scope and Contents

Includes notebooks, worksheets, correspondence and photographs.

Dates: 1952-2003.

Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8844/1-65
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.

Dates: 1896-circa 1976.

Papers, 1882-1947 and undated, of Sir Edward L Durand, 1st Baronet, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10838
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, 1787-1884 and undated, of the Percy and other related families.

Dates: 1787-1947 and undated.

Papers concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21193-21198

Papers, correspondence, cuttings and photographs of Esther Barbara Chalmers and the extended Chalmers and Lorimer families, including research notes and drafts concerning the histories of the families.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8695/1-336
Scope and Contents This collection, while primarily composed of the letters and papers of Esther Chalmers herself, and reflecting her own life and activities, also reflects those of her family, from her grandparents to her nieces and nephews, and of her friends, both in Britain and abroad. The papers concern mostly her own life and her association with Lucie Dejardin, the Belgian socialist, with papers concerning her kinfolk the Lorimers of Kellie (particularly James Lorimer and J H Lorimer) and her father Sir...
Dates: 1786-1983.

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 and relating to Emile Joseph Dillon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14111/1-19
Content Description

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, notes, photographs, press cuttings and papers of and relating to Emile Joseph Dillon. With notes of and papers collected by Ernest Eugene Laws for his proposed biography of Dillon.

Dates: 1854-1951.

Papers of Bernard Fergusson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10985
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, photographs, press cuttings and notebooks.

Dates: circa 1928-1980.

Papers of Bet Low, artist.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12177
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Low`s role in the establishment of the Charing Cross Gallery, Glasgow.

Dates: 1948-1984.

Papers of Emile Joseph Dillon, containing correspondence, notebooks and literary papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12382/1-67
Scope and Contents

These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.

Dates: 1871-1939, 1951-1955, undated.

Papers of Hamish M Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9925
Scope and Contents

Log books, 1951-1970, of the Braehead Mountaineering Club

notebooks, 1961-1966, of cuttings and photographs concerning Braehead School

three radio scripts, 1961-1967, of Hamish Brown and R F Mackenzie.

Dates: 1951-1970.

Papers of John 'Jock' Watt, Speedway reporter, including notebooks, photographs, letters and programmes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14486/1-37
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise correspondence, notebooks, photographs and programmes of John ‘Jock’ Watt, a Speedway reporter. Although he was based in Edinburgh, the papers relate to meets across the UK and internationals. The notebooks make up the bulk of this archive and cover details of meets and interviews with riders.

Dates: 1951-1970, undated.

Papers of Katie Horsman, potter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11787/1-74

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Photographs. 59
Correspondence. 44
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 24
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Letters. Correspondence. 12
Manuscripts. 12
Notes. 12
Poetry. 12
Documents. 7
Lectures. 6
Speeches. Documents. 6
Copies. Derivative objects. 5
Drafts. Documents. 5
Lists. 5
Photograph albums. 5
Publications. 5
Catalogues. 4
Personal papers. 4
Printed materials. Object genre. 4
Research notes. 4
Reviews. Document genre. 4
Sketches. 4
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 3
Essays. 3
Financial records. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
Negatives. Photographs. 3
Scripts. Documents 3
Biographies. 2
Business records. 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Diplomas. School records. 2
Histories. 2
Lecture notes. 2
Literature (writings). 2
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Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Novels. 2
Obituaries. 2
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Accounts. 1
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Agendas. Administrative records. 1
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Language
English 48
Undetermined 12
Multiple languages 2
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Dillon, Emile Joseph (philologist, author and journalist, pseudonym 'E B Lanin') (1854-1933) 2
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
Anderson, Dora, cousin of Wilhelmina Johnston Muir, author, pseudonym Agnes Neill Scott, née Anderson, fl 1948-1970 1
Anderson, Elizabeth, cousin of Wilhelmina Johnston Muir, author, pseudonym Agnes Neill Scott, née Anderson, fl 1948-1970 1
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Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 1
Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Braehead Mountaineering Club 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Chalmers, Esther Barbara (daughter of Sir David Patrick, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast) 1
Chalmers, Sir David Patrick, Knight, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast, d 1899 1
Clyde Workers' Committee 1
Dejardin, Lucie, socialist, 1875-1945 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Durand, Sir Edward Law, 1st Baronet, colonial administrator, 1845-1920 1
Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Fergusson , Bernard Edward, Baron Ballantrae of Auchairne and the Bay of Islands (Governor General of New Zealand) 1
Field, Isobel, step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, née Osbourne, 1858-1953 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Grange Cricket Club 1
Graves, Robert Ranke, poet and author, 1895-1985 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Horsman, Katie, potter, 1911-1998 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Kennaway, James Peebles Ewing, novelist and scriptwriter, 1928-1968 1
Lang, Andrew, historian, 1844-1912: recipient 1
Lang, Leonora Blanche (writer and translator, wife of Andrew, anthropologist, classicist, historian, née Alleyne) (1851-1933) 1
Lillie, Robert Alexander, art collector, fl 1907-1977 1
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 1
Lorimer, James, Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh, 1818-1890 1
Lorimer, John Henry, 1856-1936 (painter) 1
Lorimer, family, of Kellie 1
Low, Bet, artist, 1924-2007 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 1
Mackay, James Peter Hymers, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Clerk Register of Scotland and Keeper of the Signet, b 1927 1
Mackenzie, Robert F, Headteacher, Braehead Secondary School , 1910-1987 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
Morrison, Margaret Mackie (novelist, writing under the pen name 'March Cost') (1897-1973) 1
Muir, John William, trade unionist and Labour MP for Glasgow Maryhill, 1879-1931 1
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 1
Munro, Margaret, wife of William, niece of Leonora Blanche Lang , fl 1926-1933: recipient 1
Munro, William, correspondent of Leonora Blanche Lang, fl 1926-1928: recipient 1
Murray, James Robert Erskine-, physicist, 1868-1927 1
Murray, William Hutchison, 1913-1996 (mountaineer, author and environmental campaigner) 1
Paine, Charles, artist, 1895-1967: recipient 1
Percy, family 1
Plumb, Isabella (Church of Scotland missionary) 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 1
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926: recipient 1
Roberts, William Edward (poet and mountaineer, pseudonym Michael Roberts) 1
Ross, Alfred William, Deputy Chief Scientist (Navy), Ministry of Defence, 1914-1991 1
Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 1
Thomson, David, author of "Nairn in Darkness and Light", 1914-1988 1
Vettese, Raymond, poet, b 1950 1
Wainwright, Jacob, follower of Livingstone, d 1892 1
Watt, John [Jock] M (Speedway journalist) 1
Weir, Thomas [Tom] (explorer, journalist and photographer) 1
Wellington, Matthew, follower of Livingstone, d 1935 1
William Brown, booksellers 1
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