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12 Charters, 1648-1847, of Stonecroft, Queensferry.
With photocopies of letters, accounts and papers, 1666-1768, of John Weir, Auchengillan.
Annotated photocopy, 1989, of xerox copy of map of Orkney in 1931, in two parts.
Annotations by Peter MacDonald indicate World War II military installations, together with explanatory correspondence, 1989.
Autobiography and diaries of foreign travel, circa 1953-1979, of Helen Henderson.
With photocopies of poetry, circa 1890, of William Constable (originals now destroyed).
Copies of letters, 1889, 1894, of Alexander and Duncan Matheson to their parents in Duirmish.
With a biographical sketch, 1921, of Duncan Matheson from the Hudson`s Bay Company journal, "The Beaver"
Copies of papers concerning a threatened legal action of The United Turkey Red Company against George Dallas, "Forward", and Tom Johnston.
Copies of registration books and related documents of three Merchant Navy seamen.
Papers mostly document work for shipping companies based or registered in Leith.
Copies of ten unpublished poems by Agnes Owens.
Includes poems titled; 'Wallace', 'The barley brew', 'My father', 'Where poppies bloom', 'Satans caves', 'Have we met before', 'The hunter', 'The writer', "Don't give me the Booker", and 'War time'. Most are signed by Agnes Owens, and some have manuscript corrections or revisions.
Copy of typescript of "With the Jocks" by Peter White, circa 1945-1960.
Typescript includes text of unpublished opening to the work. Contained in a box displaying author`s own artwork. A brief memoir of Peter White by Frank Coutts accompanies the typescript.
Correspondence, 1977-1982, mostly to Dr Michael J. McGrath, gathered as research for his thesis, 'James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon): A Study in Politics and Ideas in Relation to his Life and Work' (University of Edinburgh, 1983); with photocopies of letters, 1928-1932, of Gibbon to H G Wells.
Correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.
Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Diary of William Gavin.
Recording his campaigns in South Africa, South America, and the Peninsular War, with photocopy of printed transcript, 1921.
Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.
On possible misinterpretation of his remarks on America.
Includes:
letter, 1857, of Roualeyn Gordon Cumming to Livingstone, acknowledging a copy of his book
photocopy of a poem, 1874, on Livingstone.
Drafts and corrected typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "The Gowks of Mowdieknowes".
With associated correspondence, and photocopies of a play and three poems.
Drafts and proofs of film scripts, short stories, articles and illustrations of Alasdair Gray, with some related correspondence.
Editorial papers of Professor Ian A Gordon for an unpublished edition of John Galt`s "The Ayrshire Legatees" based on the 1823 edition.
Full manuscript scores, 1930 and 1932, of Norman Porteous, "Britannia Invicta", a march for orchestra, and "The Mad Dog of Islington", a musical satire for chorus and orchestra.
With photocopy of letter, 1979, of Sir Adrian Boult to Elizabeth Crosby Cook, concerning Porteous.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, mostly relating to his historical research.
Letters, 1924, of David Hay Fleming and Alexander Carlyle to John A Fairley.
With photocopies of births, late 18th century, of members of the Welsh family.
Letters of Donald Mackenzie to Maurice Fleming.
Includes photocopies of typescripts of two plays, "All Change" and "Simone".