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Papers of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, of Dunglass.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10065
Scope and Contents
Includes rough drafts of essays, notes and drawings of Hall`s work on perspective.
Dates:
1812-1816.
Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10426
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts and corrected typescripts of poems, plays and articles.
Dates:
1939-1961 and undated.
Papers of the Hon William Douglas Home.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11222
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of a play, memoirs and reviews, together with correspondence on theatrical matters.
Dates:
1946-1991.
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 National Union of Mineworkers, Scottish Area.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10812
Dates:
1947-1985.
Papers of the Reverend Robert Kilgour, missionary of the Church of Scotland in Darjeeling, India from 1889 to 1909, and thereafter Editorial Superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
File
Identifier: MS.20487
Dates:
[Circa 1897], undated.
Papers of the Scottish National Dictionary Association.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10873
Dates:
1929-1990.
Papers of Thomas Aitken.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8839
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.
Dates:
circa 1867-1880.
Papers of Thomas H Collinson, organist of St Mary's (Episcopal) Cathedral and conductor of the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union.
File
Identifier: MS.21880
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Unfinished copy of 'Thou O God art praised in Sion' (Psalm 65) by Thomas H Collinson, an exercise for the degree of Bachelor of Music, Oxford, 1877 (folio 1), followed by drafts of several of the sections (folio 68). The unfinished parts of the scoring have been supplied in pencil, apparently by the composer's son Francis M Collinson. Folios 21-24 appear to be from an earlier copy in the composer's autograph.(ii) Setting for choir and...
Dates:
1877-1928, undated.
Papers of William Archer, the critic and dramatist, and of D S MacColl, the painter and art critic.
File
Identifier: MS.9995
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters, 1878-1924, of William Archer, the critic and dramatist. Many of the letters reflect his interest in the theatre, and concern his reviews and his translations of Ibsen's plays. He criticises various plays and suggests (folio 53) a dramatization of ‘Little Dorrit’ for Sir John Martin-Harvey. There is also (folio 50) the outline of an article, 1919, in reply to Walther Rathenau. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Letters, 1906-1944, of D S MacColl, the painter and art...
Dates:
1878-1944.
Papers on Scottish Devolution collected by Neal Ascherson and sent to the Institute of Governance, University of Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14136/1-4
Dates:
1950-2006.
Papers pasted into Robert Freebairn's printed ‘Proposals for printing by subscription Johannis Majoris Historia Scotiae, &c.’ ([Edinburgh, 1739]).
File
Identifier: MS.1888
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: a letter, or draft letter, undated, of Robert Freebairn to a peer, asking him to patronize the work; printed undertakings to subscribe, two signed, 1739; and a receipt, 1745, for a subscription, signed by Freebairn.
Dates:
1739, 1745, undated.
Papers relating to the early history of the Cameronian (Lord Angus’) Regiment.
File
Identifier: MS.542
Scope and Contents
According to a letter, 1896, of Charles Dalton, editor of ‘English Army lists’ (folio i), the papers throw additional light on the history of the regiment. Included are:(i) Assignation by Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, of the arrears due to him as Colonel of the Scots Regiment in France, 1653 (folio i);(ii) The complaints of some officers and soldiers in the Regiment against the Lieutenant-Colonel William Cleland (draft and copy), 1689 (folios 8-12);...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1653, 1689-1696, 1896.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11154/1-47
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Dates:
1959-1990.
Peninsular War papers of General Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9716
Scope and Contents
Includes letters Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, dispatches, letter books and drafts of his writings.
Dates:
1807-1809.
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.
Petition, resolution and other papers concerning the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/18
Dates:
1827-1829.
Photocopies of draft pages of Doris Anne Goodchild, "East Lothian" (1980) and "Pen Portraits of Edinburgh" (1981).
File
Identifier: Acc.10052
Dates:
circa 1980-1981.
Photocopies of preliminaries and introduction by Sidney Roscoe to his and R A Brimmell`s bibliography of James Lumsden and Son, corrected by the author.
File
Identifier: Acc.9239
Scope and Contents
With photocopies of Lumsden title pages mounted in a loose leaf binder.
Dates:
circa 1980.
Photocopies of rejected drafts of articles intended for or submitted to "The Mirror".
File
Identifier: Acc.4361
Dates:
circa 1779.
Photocopy of a draft address given by Les Murray at Stirling University.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10559
Dates:
1992.
Photocopy of draft letter of David Morrison to Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10887
Dates:
1992.
Photocopy of draft of the Copyright Act, prepared for its second reading.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9745
Dates:
1710.
Photocopy of manuscript draft of song of Robert Burns, "She says She Lo`es Me Best of a`".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8079
Scope and Contents
24 lines in two stanzas, written in pencil.
Dates:
circa 1780-circa 1796.