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Papers of George Renfrew Wilson relating to his unpublished biography of David Young Cameron.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13488 Box 1(1)-Box 6(3)
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises research papers and typescripts of a biography of Sir David Young Cameron which seemingly was close to publication, probably by Paul Harris, Edinburgh in the early 1980s. The anecdotal evidence is that some kind of disagreement stopped publication.
The papers include typescripts, correspondence, exhibition catalogues and press cuttings.
Dates:
c 1944-1980.
Papers of James Halliday, former chairman of the SNP, and two minute books of the National Party of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13417
Scope and Contents
James Halliday (1927-2013) played a pivotal role in stabilising the SNP in the 1950s. He replaced Dr Robert D. McIntyre as chairman of the party in 1956, thus becoming the youngest chairman at the age of 28. However, this promotion was not devoid of problems as internal divisions had to be overcome. By the 1959 election the prospects of the party had started to improve. There were five candidates contesting seats, including Halliday himself who stood once more for Stirling burghs. That same...
Dates:
1928-2005, undated.
Papers of John Maclean, Clydeside agitator, 1909-1923; with material concerning him, 1924-1966.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.88- is now Acc.4251.
Dates:
1909-1966.
Papers of Professor John Erickson concerning the `Edinburgh Conversations`.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13596
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda and related papers, 1974-1997, concerning the ‘Edinburgh Conversations’ and Professor John Erickson`s involvement in them.John Erickson (1929-2002) was a British military historian and the West’s leading authority on the Soviet military during and after the Second World War. During the ‘Cold War’ he was one of the very few academics to earn the trust of both sides and a key channel for contact between the Soviets and the Americans.After...
Dates:
c.1970s-1994
Papers of Robert Kemp, including typescripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries; correspondence, including letters from James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie; diaries, accounts, press cuttings and photographs.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.294- is now Acc.7622.
Dates:
Circa 1920-1967.
Papers of T J Douglas MacDonald (Fionn MacColla), including literary and autobiographical notebooks.
Series
Identifier: Dep.265
Dates:
Circa 1957-1975.
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 National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26036-26103
Scope and Contents
James Leslie Mitchell is best known for his Scottish novels, ‘Sunset song’ (London, 1932), ‘Cloud Howe’ (London, 1933) and ‘Grey granite’ (London, 1934), published under the pseudonym 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', but he also wrote essays, biographies, and a study of South American history, ‘The conquest of the Maya’ (London, 1934).
Dates:
1915-1979.
Papers of the Scottish Mountain Leadership Training Board.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12842
Scope and Contents
Includes press-cuttings relating to Billy Graham`s "Scottish Campaign", 1955, typescript of Dave Hewitt`s "Notes on Corbetts" for a CD Rom produced by the Scottish Mountaineering Club, 2002, and typescript of Michael Lidwell`s "Ascent of the Munros, 1960-1980", 2006.
Dates:
1955, 1971-1974, 2002, 2006.
Papers of the Very Reverend A Nevile Davidson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7968
Scope and Contents
Including newspapers cuttings, 1935-1945, and the typescript of Davidson`s autobiography, 1977.
Dates:
1935-1945, 1977.
Papers of the Very Reverend Harry Whitley, Doctor of Divinity.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.374-374A
Dates:
1919-1978, and undated.
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
Fonds
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
Personal and literary papers of Wendy Wood, including notes, correspondence, diaries, corrected typescripts of autobiographical work, records of the Scottish Patriots, and associated press cuttings.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7980/1-54
Dates:
1920-1980, undated.
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
Press cuttings and typescripts, with manuscript corrections, of articles of Seton Gordon.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7018
Scope and Contents
Mostly on Scottish birds.
Dates:
1908-1912 and undated.
Records of the Amalgamated Slaters` Society of Scotland.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.124- is now Acc.4707.
Dates:
1913-1963.
Scrapbook, photograph album and typescript magazines of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison and her siblings.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13412
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook, photograph album and typescript magazines, ca.1894 – 1900, of and relating to Isobel Wylie Hutchison and her siblings, the children of Thomas Hutchison, Merchant, Edinburgh [b.1841]. The typescript magazines and many of the photographs relate to the Hutchison children’s childhood at Carlowrie.
Dates:
ca.1894-1900
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing inserts; with further letters and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21248-21249
Dates:
1719, 1929-1933, undated.
Typescript and pasted-up magazine cuttings of parts of ‘Cleg Kelly' by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, with extensive manuscript corrections by the author.
File
Identifier: MS.6517
Scope and Contents
The typescript covers chapters I-II (folios 1-7), X-XV (folios 23-45) and part of chapter XLVI to the end of the book (folios 55-119). The two former sections were mounted on large sheets of paper, and the last section has now been similarly treated to facilitate binding. The printed cuttings cover chapters III-IX (folios 7-22) and chapters XVI-XIX (folios 46-54). The printed text is taken from an earlier appearance of parts of the novel in the 'Sunday School' during 1894. The typescript...
Dates:
[1896, or before.]
Typescript articles of James Mark Craigen, circa 1988-2009, correspondence with trade union and political leaders, 1973-1980, and related news-cuttings, 1971-1986.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13072
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises original typescripts of mostly published material including several articles, circa 1988-2009, on trade union history, politics and the co-operative movement. It also includes a small file of correspondence, 1973-1980, between James Craigen and several political and trade union leaders including ex-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Lord Shinwell, former TUC secretaries Lord Citrine, Lord Feather and Sir Vincent Tewson, and John Henry, Deputy General Secretary of the...
Dates:
1971-2009.
Typescript history of Cumbernauld by the Reverend John Ogilvie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4405
Scope and Contents
With a scrapbook, circa 1940, containing press cuttings of articles of Ogilvie.
Dates:
circa 1940.