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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 Roland Eugene Muirhead, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks and related material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6052/1-157
Scope and Contents
Concerning personal, business and political matters.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1803-1957, undated.
Personal items of Muriel Spark.
File
Identifier: Acc.11870
Scope and Contents
Includes diary, 1953, and passport, 1988.
Dates:
1953 and 1988.
Personal papers of Cécile Victor.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11512
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, travel journals and sketchbooks.
Dates:
1925-1996.
Personal papers of Patrick Smith, Lanarkshire Mineworkers’ Union.
File
Identifier: Acc.13075
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises miscellaneous personal papers of Patrick Smith, including a membership card of the Lanarkshire Mineworkers` Union.
Dates:
1941-1978.
Personal papers of Robert James Dundas.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13929/1-15
Scope and Contents
Dundas was chaplain to the first Anglican Bishop of British Columbia, Canada, and together the papers give a full account of missionary activity and relations with the Indigenous population, and of his own journey to and from North America. Dundas is particularly significant because of a collection of Tsimshian art he acquired as a result of a visit to Metlakatla, in northern British Columbia, which is now housed at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria. The papers consist of eleven volumes of...
Dates:
1859-1866.
Personal papers of William Crosbie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13367
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1933-1972, of the artist William Crosbie (1915-1999), with related printed material, circa 1943-1990. This small collection of material was apparently cleared from his studio at 12 Ruskin Lane, Glasgow, many years after his death.
Dates:
1933-1972.
Photocopies of a typescript of a diary of James McCorquodale.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7027
Scope and Contents
Describing a voyage out to Argentina.
Dates:
1866.
Photocopies of eight climbing journals of Iain Hamish Ogilvie, civil engineer.
File
Identifier: Acc.11851
Dates:
1920-1990.
Photocopies of items of David Livingstone belonging to his grandson Dr H F Wilson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10757-10765
Dates:
1854-1873.
Photocopies of typescripts of a letter, 1889, of Charles Stuart, missionary in Nyasaland, to his mother, and a journal, 1915-1916, of his wife Margaret.
File
Identifier: Acc.11077
Dates:
1889-1916.
Photocopy of a diary of Patrick G Beaton who emigrated from Inverness-shire to Venezuela.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6486
Dates:
1824-1826.
Photocopy of a diary of the Reverend Duncan Macleod.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9460
Scope and Contents
Concerns temporary ministry among Lewis and other Highland emigrants in Megantic County, Quebec.
Dates:
1901.
Photocopy of a diary of William R Ramsay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10227
Scope and Contents
Details a journey from Greenock, Scotland to Melbourne, Australia.
With photocopy of transcript and other documents.
Dates:
1854.
Photocopy of a journal, in letter form, of William Calder Marshall.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4207
Dates:
1836-1838.
Photocopy of diary of John Fraser, formerly of Old Head croft, Ballindalloch, Banffshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6964
Scope and Contents
Describing his voyage as an emigrant to Taihape, North Island, New Zealand.
Dates:
1887-1888.
Photocopy of diary of Lance-Corporal R Dick in the Boer War.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9244
Dates:
1899-1900.
Photocopy of part of the journal of Sir James Hall.
File
Identifier: Acc.4616
Scope and Contents
Covering the period 7th - 15th April 1781.
Dates:
1781.
Photocopy of typescript of diary of John Steele, whilst aboard the "Curler", Greenock to New York.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5814
Dates:
1828.
Photograph album, 1907-1908, and diary, 1913-1914, of A M Thomson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6209
Scope and Contents
The album deals with the cruise of the SS Vedamore, the diary concerns Naval operations at Scapa Flow and in the North Sea.
Dates:
1907-1914.