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Papers of John Telfer Dunbar, costume historian.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12251
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of William Wilson, tartan manufacturer, Bannockburn, circa 1800-1840.

Dates: circa 1940-1990.

Papers of Katie Horsman, potter.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11787/1-74

Papers of Mabel Ross, hand spinner and weaver.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11234
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, notebooks, diaries and working papers.

Dates: 1939-1995 and undated.

Papers of Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to the 51st (Highland) Division in the First and Second World Wars.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7380/1-95
Scope and Contents

Maps, accounts, diaries, lectures and other papers, mainly concerning operations, 1942-1943, of the 51st (Highland) Division in North Africa and Sicily, together with a smaller quantity of associated post-war correspondence and some papers, 1918, concerning the Division in the First World War.

Dates: 1914-1976, undated.

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 Mary Geikie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8887
Scope and Contents

Includes literary and historical notes, a diary and press cuttings concerning her novels.

Dates: 1908-1948.

Papers of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9201
Scope and Contents

Includes poems, beginning of a novel, two plays, sketches of books, two diaries and paper, "The African Solution".

Dates: circa 1916-circa 1986.

Papers of Peter McOmish Dott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8531
Scope and Contents

Including diaries, notes and essays on socialism and art history and appreciation. With correspondence of Peter M Dott to Eric Dott.

Dates: 1889-1931.

Papers of Robert di Falco, St Andrews.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12028
Scope and Contents

Includes field diary, memoirs and photographs concerning di Falco`s service in the Italian Army, 1918-1921. Also includes Italian war service medals (framed) and material concerning Gabriele d`Annunzio`s seizure of Fiume, 1919.

Dates: 1918-1947

Papers of Robert Kemp, his father, the Reverend Arnold L Kemp and other members of the family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10125
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries, testimonials and photographs.

Dates: 1802-1986 and undated.

Papers of Ronald Selby Wright.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11296
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, sermons, photographs, diaries and press cuttings.

Dates: circa 1930-1994.

Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5510-5721A
Scope and Contents After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates: 1756-1832.

Papers of the author, Florence Marian McNeill.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26194-26259
Scope and Contents

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1901-1973, undated.

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Poetry. 47
Copies. Derivative objects. 35
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Travel journals. 24
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Scottish Mountaineering Club 7
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 5
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 3
Gall, James, publisher, 1784-1874 3
Smith, Lilian Adam, 1866-1949 (née Buchanan, wife of Sir George, Knight) 3
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Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 3
Angus, David, civil engineer, 1855-1926 2
Angus, Elizabeth Siddons, b.1883 (Daughter of Major General John Angus) 2
Angus, Nancy W, daughter of David, civil engineer, fl 1907-1960 2
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 2
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 2
Beaton, Patrick Grant, merchant in Venezuela, fl 1824-1826 2
Bonar, James, Solicitor of Excise, 1757-1821 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (politician, née Thomson, then Grant) (1915-1978) 2
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 2
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 2
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 2
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 2
Craigmount School for Girls, Edinburgh 2
Dease, William H, farm worker, fl 1816-1818 2
Dillon, Emile Joseph (philologist, author and journalist, pseudonym 'E B Lanin') (1854-1933) 2
Free Church of Scotland 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Graham, Susan Roope, mother of Robert Chellas, Lord of the Barony of Skipness, née Schuyler, 1811-1895 2
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hawthorne, Harry, Sergeant, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, b 1917 2
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 2
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 2
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 2
Ogilvie, Iain Hamish (civil engineer) 2
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 2
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 2
Robertson, Eric Harald Macbeth, artist, 1887-1941 2
Scott, James, Major, fl 1945-2015 2
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 2
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 2
Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry, Knight, explorer, 1874-1922 2
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 2
Stewart, family, of Murdostoun 2
Walton, Cecile, painter, 1891-1956 2
Whyte, Christopher, poet and novelist, b 1952 2
Wright, Ronald William Vernon Selby, Minister of the Canongate, Edinburgh, 1908-1995 2
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Amman, Alexander, Polish Army, fl 1939-1942 1
Anderson, Robert Burn, Lieutenant, 1st European Regiment, East India Army, 1833-1860 1
Anita Guthrie Dent, née Williamson, 1868-1948 (daughter of Stephen Williamson MP) 1
Annandale and Eskdale Regiment of Local Militia 1
Annunzio, Gabriele d', poet, 1863-1938 1
Anstruther, Mary Elma (née Hovell-Thurlow, wife of Arthur Wellesley, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, then Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce) 1
Apthorp, D P, Captain, Royal Norfolk Regiment, fl 1942-1945 1
Armstrong, John , Artist and Author, d. 2003 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Corps of Royal Engineers 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Engineers 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
Arundel, Honor, novelist and journalist, 1919-1973 1
Ascherson, Charles Neal, b. 1932 (journalist, writer, and historian) 1
Baillie, May, music teacher, St Leonards School, St Andrews, fl 1903-1910 1
Barclay, Annie, wife of David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1948 1
Barclay, David Black, Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, fl 1943-1946 1
Barnet, Alexander Avon, Commander, Royal Navy, 1904-1985 1
Baume, Louis Charles, mountaineer, 1919-1993 1
Beattie, Thomas, Muckledale, fl 1806 1
Bell, Alan Scott, library and literary consultant, 1942-2018 1
Bell, William, architect, b 1881 1
Bethune, John Drinkwater, colonel, historian, formerly Drinkwater, 1762-1844 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821 1
Bienert, Werner, German Language Teacher, 1902-1988 1
Birnie, Arthur, Lecturer in Economic History, University of Edinburgh, b 1890 1
Blackwood, Algernon Henry, writer of supernatural fiction, 1869-1951 1
Blackwood, William, William (publisher) 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bloxham, family, Banbury 1
Blythe, Charles, farmer, d 1949 1
Bogie, David Wilson, Sheriff, 1946-1999 1
Borland, John, 1796-1885 (merchant and emigrant) 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Boyd, James, Edinburgh, schoolboy, fl 1850 1
Brocklebank, Thomas Anthony, mountaineer and teacher, 1908-1984 1
Brodie, James, of Brodie, fl 1671-1673 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Andrew, South Africa, telegraph controller, fl 1899-1905 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, Henry, Galashiels, textile manufacturer, d 1885 1
Brown, John, Minister of Whitburn Secession Church, 1754-1832 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 1
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 1
Brown, Thomas Graham, neurophysiologist and mountaineer, 1882-1965 1
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