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"Autograph Letters of Sir Walter Scott"

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9430
Scope and Contents

Contains letters mainly to Charles Erskine and James Curle, with associated documents, all as described in printed index bound in.

Dates: circa 1800-circa 1826.

Copies of dispatches and correspondence of Charles Pasley.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6538
Scope and Contents

Concerning his part in Sir John Malcolm`s mission to Persia.

Dates: 1808.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir Robert Murdoch Smith.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9569
Scope and Contents

Concerning Murdoch Smith`s archaeological and diplomatic activities, as used by W K Dickson in his "Life" (1901).

Dates: 1855-1902.

Correspondence and papers of Charles Forrester.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10164/1-68
Scope and Contents

Charles Forrester (1895-1980), a graduate of Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh, was Professor of Chemistry 1926, Vice-Principal 1932 and Principal 1936-1948 of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. After his retirement he worked in the Chief Scientist's Division, Minister of Power, 1949-1960, and the British Coal Utilisation Research Association 1960-1963. The papers largely concern Forrester's position as Director of the Indian School of Mines.

Dates: 1910-1980, undated.

Correspondence and papers of James Connell and Sons.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7797
Scope and Contents

Includes:

420 letters, 1897-1934, of Sir David Y Cameron to James Connell and Sons, concerning his etchings and paintings

letters, 1912-1941, to James Connell from correspondents including Sir Muirhead Bone, Jacob Epstein and Sir Alfred Munnings

three volumes of press cuttings, 1890-1952, concerning James Connell and Sons

associated document and photographs.

Dates: 1890-1952.

Correspondence and papers of John Strain.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9205
Scope and Contents

Concerning mining in Ayrshire and railways in Argentina.

Dates: circa 1880-1900.

Correspondence, four diaries, two photograph albums and other papers of Rawdon Goodier.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11178
Scope and Contents

Concerns climbing in the UK, the Alps and the Andes.

Dates: circa 1950-1983.

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates: 1649-1919, undated

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Albums. 148
Photograph albums. 84
Letters. Correspondence. 56
Correspondence. 41
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 40
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Photographs. 37
Drawings. Visual works. 23
Diaries. 21
Autograph albums. 20
Manuscripts. 18
Notes. 18
Poetry. 16
Copies. Derivative objects. 11
Watercolours. Paintings. 11
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 10
Notebooks. 10
Typescripts. 10
Sketches 9
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 8
Essays. 7
Maps. Cartographic materials. 7
Postcards. 7
Sketches. 7
Articles. 6
Documents. 6
First World War (1914-1918). 6
Portraits. 6
Accounts. 5
Annotations. 5
Books 5
Drafts. Documents. 5
Genealogies. 5
Histories. 5
Microfilms. 5
Minute books. 5
Autographs (manuscripts). 4
Commonplace books. 4
Lectures. 4
Legal documents. 4
Lists. 4
Novels. 4
Plans (orthographic projections). 4
Prints. Visual works 4
Reports 4
Scrapbooks 4
Signatures. Names. 4
Travel journals 4
Certificates 3
Egypt. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 30.0000. Latitude: 27.0000. 3
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 3
Memoirs. 3
Newsletters. Serials. 3
Obituaries. 3
Photocopies. 3
Printed materials. Object genre. 3
Programmes 3
Scrapbooks. 3
Second World War (1939-1945). 3
Sermons 3
Songs. Musical compositions. 3
Visitors' books. 3
Architectural drawings. 2
Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 2
Bindings. Binding components. 2
Biographies. 2
CD-ROMs. 2
Caricatures. 2
Devon. Europe - United Kingdom - England. County. Longitude: -3.8167. Latitude: 50.7333. 2
Drawings. Visual works 2
Engravings. Prints. 2
Ephemera. 2
Excerpts. 2
Extracts. 2
Game Books. 2
Guide Books. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Inscriptions. 2
Invitations. 2
Journals. Periodicals. 2
Kelso. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.4167. Latitude: 53.6000. 2
Landscapes. Representations. 2
Lecture notes. 2
Letter books. 2
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 2
Magazines. periodicals. 2
Memorandums. 2
Menu cards. 2
Menus. 2
Minutes. Administrative records. 2
Mountaineering. 2
Oban. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. Inhabited place. Longitude: -5.4667. Latitude: 56.4167. 2
Offprints. 2
Palestine. Middle East. Historical region. Longitude: 35.3333. Latitude: 31.9167. 2
Pamphlets. 2
Pencil drawings. 2
Programmes. 2
Prospectuses 2
Reviews. Document genre 2
Scores 2
Scores. 2
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Language
English 200
Undetermined 48
Chinese 1
Multiple languages 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 5
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 4
Smith, Chilton Lind Addison-, Writer to the Signet, 1875-1955 3
Wilson, George Washington, miniature painter and photographer, 1823-1893 3
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 2
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 2
Reid, Walter, seal engraver in Paris and Edinburgh, fl 1838-1886 2
Scottish Mountaineering Club 2
Scottish Youth Hostels Association 2
Valentine, James, engraver and photographer, 1815-1879 2
Agnew, William Lockett, art dealer, 1858-1918 1
Allan, Andrew, artist, 1863-1942 1
An Comunn Gàidhealach 1
Anderson, James, Culloden, fl 1952 1
Andrew Melrose, Edinburgh, Tea Dealers and Grocers 1
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 5th (Service) Bat 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1
Baird, James, of Little Fiddes and Byth, Advocate, d 1655 1
Bankes, Florence, 1854-1947 (artist) 1
Barns-Graham, Jean Meldrum, 1870-1948 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Baxter, William Edward, traveller and author, 1825-1890 1
Bell, Richard, author of "My Strange Pets and other Memories of Country Life", 1833-1909 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: recipient 1
Bicknell, Christine, wife of Henry S, art collector, née Roberts, b 1821: transcriber 1
Bicknell, Henry Sanford, art collector, 1818-1880 1
Blackie, John Stuart (Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh) 1
Blackwood, William (publisher, and founder of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine") 1
Bone, Sir Muirhead, Knight, painter and etcher, 1876-1953 1
Book of Me Group 1
Boothby, Eliza, compiler of an album of verses and drawings, fl 1835 1
Boothby, Robert John Graham, Baron Boothby, politician, 1900-1986. 1
Bowman, Walter, tutor and antiquary, 1699-1782 1
British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Scotland 1
Brown, Alexander, medical missionary, Livingstonia, fl 1900-1930 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, James, Minister of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh, ? 1724-1786 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976 1
Brown, William Oliver, editor of "Scots Socialist", 1903-1976: recipient 1
Browne, John Hutton Balfour-, barrister, 1845-1921 1
Bruce, William Speirs, explorer, 1867–1921 1
Buchanites, Irvine, Scotland, religious sect 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Cameran Photographic Society (fl. 1894-1917) 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 1
Campbell, Jean Davidson, missionary in India, fl 1900-1940 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Campbell, family 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carr, Anna Margaret, artist, fl 1838-1859 1
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Prime Minister) 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Charlotte Chapel Sabbath School, Edinburgh 1
Christie, Dugald (Medical missionary) 1
Church of Scotland 1
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Cocozza, Enrico (filmmaker) 1
Cookesley, Margaret Deborah Murray, 1844-1927 (née Garland, artist, wife of Edward Murray Cookesley) 1
Corbett, Thomas Godfrey Polson, 2nd Baron Rowallan (succeeded 1933), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, 1895-1977 1
Corrie, Anna, singer, wife of Haydn Corri, pianist and composer, née Adams (Adami), 1800-1867. 1
Cottam, Eliza Letitia, née Ironside, fl 1825-1845 1
Cottam, John Tatham, relative of Eliza L, née Ironside, fl 1812 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Coventry Sketching Club 1
Craig-Brown, family : collector 1
Cubie, Donald G, Mininster of Carfin, b 1902: recipient 1
Cummings, family, of Altyre 1
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 1
Curle, James, writer, Melrose, fl 1812-1826: recipient 1
Currie, Jenny M B, Gaelic singer, 1892-1974 1
Dalrymple, Alexander, Kinseathill, fl 1894-1906 1
Daniel, George, compiler of album including note by Robert Burns, fl 1850: collector 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davidson, James Lauder, forester, 1916-1992 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Douglas, family 1
Dreschfeld, Violet Jennie, 1890-1975 (sculptor) 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Durand, Sir Edward Law, 1st Baronet, colonial administrator, 1845-1920 1
Durris Red Cross Hospital, Kincardineshire 1
Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club 1
Ellice, Edward (landowner and politician) 1
Ellice, Edward (statesman) 1
Ellice, James, descendant of Edward Ellice, Statesman, 1901-1983: author 1
Ellice, Katherine Jane, of Invergarry, née Balfour, 1813-1864 1
Elliot, George Francis Scott, botanist, 1862-1934 1
Elliot, James Scott, Calcutta merchant, d 1880 1
Elliot, Sir Walter, Knight, East India Company servant and archaeologist, 1803-1887 1
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