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Albums of caricatures by John A Hipkins, wood-engraver, with scrap-books containing material collected by or associated with him.
The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.
Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.
Archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach.
The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.
Archive of the Royal Celtic Society.
The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.
The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.
Business books of Archibald Constable & Company, Robert Cadell & Company, and Robert Cadell.
Correspondence and papers concerning Maclean families, collected by Dr James Maclean of Glensanda, Younger.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Douglas of Cavers papers.
Four scrapbooks and six golfing programmes of John Panton.
Four scrapbooks of Admiral Lord Mark Kerr.
Contains watercolours and pen and pencil sketches, mostly grotesques and cartoons but with some landscape and architectural drawings.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, mostly relating to his historical research.
Journal and scrapbooks of John Blackwood Greenshields of Kerse, Advocate, author of ‘The annals of Lesmahagow’.
Letter books and other administrative papers of Messrs Lindsay, Jamieson and Haldane, accountants, Edinburgh.
Letters, scrapbooks, photographs and papers of James Scott, baker, Edinburgh, and of other members of the Scott family, of Scott`s Bakers Shop, Broughton Street, Edinburgh and Scott-Lyon Ltd, Bakers, Edinburgh.
Microfilm of minute book and scrapbook of the Union Society of Journeyman Bookbinders.
The contents are as follows:
Minute book, 3 April 1882-1884, 1862, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders of Edinburgh (Acc.4395, number 1);
Scrapbook, 1822-1874, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders, containing correspondence, rulebooks, etc. (Acc.4395, number 26).
Microfilm of the scrap books of the National Library of Scotland.
Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-18 (Adam Matthew).
Papers and correspondence of and concerning William Brodie and his family.
Papers, including correspondence, press cuttings, speeches, literary and political manuscripts and scrapbooks, of Walter Elliot.
Papers, including journals, scrapbooks, press cutting books, photographs and other items of Sir Robert Heatlie Scott and Lady Rosamond Aeliz Scott.
The collection relates particularly to Sir Robert Scott's wartime imprisonment in Singapore (1942-1945), and to his period as Commissioner-General in South East Asia.
Papers of and concerning Lex McLean, mostly relating to his career in entertainment.
Papers of Arnold Kemp, Robert Kemp, and relating to the Kemp family.
Papers, circa 1960-2002, of Arnold Kemp, with papers and correspondence, circa 1851-1995, relating to Robert Kemp and the Kemp family.
Papers of John Maxwell Geddes.
Papers of John P Watson and his son, both Writers to the Signet.
Papers include letters, scrapbooks and notes, many concerning the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Papers of John Telfer Dunbar, costume historian.
Includes letters of William Wilson, tartan manufacturer, Bannockburn, circa 1800-1840.