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"Field Marshal Earl Haig K T Letters 1920 to 1927".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9431
Scope and Contents

Contains 41 letters to James Curle with associated printed material and a photograph.

Dates: circa 1920-circa 1927.

Four albums of photographs by James Simson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3348
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Palestine, Syria, the Levant, Athens, Vienna and Strasbourg, and photocopies of 10 volumes of travel journals.

Dates: 1876.

Four albums of press cuttings, 1878-1964, collected by members of the Craig-Brown family.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.4447/1-4
Scope and Contents

Concerning military matters and Selkirkshire antiquities.

Dates: 1878-1964.

Four Scottish genealogical manuscripts.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.7400
Scope and Contents

Including, "The Genealogie of the Famalie of Ruthven" and "A Breviat of the Genealogie of ... the Leslies Earles of Rothes".

Dates: circa 1650-circa 1699.

Friendship album in which are illustrated the likes and dislikes of various contributors.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14130
Scope and Contents A friendship or confession album in which are illustrated the likes and dislikes of various contributors. Several of the identifiable contributors are Scottish and others have links to Liverpool. Only 13 of the pre-printed album pages have been filled in. Contributors include:A M Brancker, probably Anne Mary Harrison (fl 1845-1901), née Brancker.D M Brancker, probably Dorette Maude Harris (1852-1924), née Brancker H J Brancker, probably Helen...
Dates: 1873-1875.

Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13843/1-13
Content Description

Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers

Dates: 1712-1947, undated.

Further political and estate papers of the Anstruther-Gray family of Kilmany, Fife.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14335
Scope and Contents

Comprising the political, military, and personal papers of Lt. Col. William Anstruther-Gray [formerly Anstruther-Thomson] and William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, with family estate records, hunting and game books, and photographs.

Dates: 1791-1985.

Game Book compiled by William Lockett Agnew, recording shooting parties on the Altyre Estate, at Aldourie and elsewhere. With numerous illustrations of sporting activities and daily life

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13541
Scope and Contents As well as records of sporting parties and their `bags`, the Game Book provides detailed daily accounts of game seen and weather conditions. The album includes numerous photographs of shooting parties and daily activities, principally on the Altyre Estate and at Aldourie Castle and Fetteresso. Many of the photographs are of estate and household servants. There is a fine series of photographs of the interior of Altyre, several of cycling parties including Sir Luke Fildes, R.A., croquet...
Dates: 1887-1908

'In Mermoriam Sir James Matheson, Bart', memorabilia concerning Sir James Matheson of Achany and the Lews.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10175
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter, 1952, of James Anderson, Culloden, to Miss Augusta Lamont of Knockdow.

Dates: 1952, undated.

Jacobite poetry.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.6654

Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-5, of James Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma during the Second World War.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13598
Scope and Contents Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-1945, of James `Jimmy` Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma.James Gordon was born in 1916 in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. A gifted artist and art teacher, Gordon enlisted with the British Army during the Second World War. His journal begins on 10 November 1941, and records daily observations and his thoughts during his journey from the Clyde on board the troopship Aorangi. He describes Freetown, Sierra Leone, in...
Dates: 1941-1945

Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7723
Scope and Contents Comprising:1. Eastern journal, 1838-1839, of Roberts, in two volumes ("Egypt" and "Syria"), in the hand of his daughter, Christine Bicknell2. "The Roberts Festival", 1842, album containing press cuttings, reports and correspondence with or concerning Roberts3. Family correspondence, 1836-1863, of Roberts, including 60 letters to Christine and Henry Bicknell4. Draft essay, 1851, on the Royal Academy of Arts, and a page of notes, 1862, on...
Dates: 1836-1863 and undated.

Letters, 1819-1884, to Robert and Thomas Stevenson, in an album of Thomas Stevenson.

 Item
Identifier: MS.785
Scope and Contents

The volume also contains remarks on the raising of the continuation of Dysart pier, by John Smeaton, 1758 (folio 7), and a note of John Howard, the philanthropist, 1780 (folio 18). The correspondents, who are chiefly scientific celebrities, include J M W Turner, 1819 (folio 9), and Sir Walter Scott, sending a proposed alteration in the preface of Robert Stevenson’s ‘Account of the Bell Rock Light-house’, 1824 (folio 3).

Dates: 1758-1884.

Letters and documents received by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount, together with some letters written by them.

 File
Identifier: MS.6524
Scope and Contents

The subjects of the letters include the Peninsular War, East India Company affairs, and matters relating to many European countries.

Dates: 1780-1830.

Letters and parts of letters of celebrities of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, pasted in two albums.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.740-741
Scope and Contents

The letters are unconnected except some addressed to the editor of 'Good Words' and others addressed to Professor George Buchanan, Glasgow.

Dates: Late 18th century-19th century.

Letters and photograph album of John Lawson Welch.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8757
Scope and Contents

Written while in Pauper Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, concerning family and professional matters, and on philately.

Includes letters to his sister, son and brother, the Reverend Prof Adam C Welch.

Dates: 1888-1897.

Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11800
Scope and Contents

Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.

Dates: circa 1800-1965.

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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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