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Papers of Sir William MacTaggart, and of his wife Fanny.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8636
Dates:
1931-1980.
Papers of Stanley Cursiter.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5451
Scope and Contents
Including sketch books, typescripts of short stories, typescript and printed articles, and correspondence.
Dates:
1906-1967.
Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10397/1-59
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.
Dates:
1937-1974.
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the author, poet and journalist, Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960), consisting chiefly of material for her published and unpublished works.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20404-20435
Dates:
1892-1965, undated.
Papers of The Duke and Duchess of Atholl.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4814
Scope and Contents
Concerning the Scottish National War Memorial.
Dates:
20th century.
Papers of the "Edinburgh Review".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9635
Scope and Contents
Includes corrected typescripts and proofs of articles, short stories, poems and reviews, with associated correspondence.
Dates:
1980-1987.
Papers of the family of Dunlop of Stevenson.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.360
Dates:
18th century-20th century.
Papers of the Lamonts of that Ilk.
File
Identifier: MS.545
Scope and Contents
Included are:(i) Commission by the Marquess of Montrose to Sir James Lamont, 14th of that Ilk, to raise the fencible men in the Sheriffdom of Argyll (contemporary copy), 1645 (folio 1);(ii) ‘Articles of Capitulatione aggreed upon betuixt James Campbell of Ardkinlas ... and Sir James Lamount of Inuerin, Knight, ... annent the surrender and overgiving of his garison at Toward. At Auchevullin, the 3 of Junii, 1646’ (contemporary copy); the document is printed from...
Dates:
1645-1734.
Papers of the literary magazine, "Chapman".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6899
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, translations, articles, and reviews, with editorial correspondence, comprising over 700 letters. With associated printed items.
Dates:
1973-1976.
Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26490-26560
Scope and Contents
Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.
Dates:
1923-1968, undated.
Papers of the Reverend Robert Lister Turner (1875-1949), a missionary in Papua.
File
Identifier: MS.9770
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Turner was sent to Papua in 1902 by the London Missionary Society, and worked both in the mission field and in Lawes College, Isuleilei, until his retirement in 1939.The papers consist of the following.(i) Typescripts with manuscript corrections, undated, of four lectures on the ethnology of Papua. The fourth lecture concerns the history of the London Missionary Society in Papua. Two pages are missing at the beginning of the third lecture. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1910-1939, undated.
Papers of the Stewart and Christie families, and concerning the Murdostoun estate.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.164- is now Acc.5058.
Dates:
19th century-20th century.
Papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6188/1-26
Scope and Contents
The surviving personal and legal papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge and historian (1892-1955). Lord Cooper passed Advocate in 1915 and was created a K.C. in 1927. He was Conservative M.P. for West Edinburgh, 1935-41, Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1935, and Lord Advocate, 1935-41. In 1941 he succeeded as Lord Justice Clerk with the judicial title of Lord Cooper, and became Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from January 1947 to...
Dates:
circa 1920-circa 1955.
Papers of Wendy Wood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9915
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries, correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, memoirs, short stories and articles.
Dates:
circa 1930-1980.
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 of William Johnstone.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8877
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of books, articles, and lectures.
Dates:
1923-1980.
Papers of William Laird McKinlay relating to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.357- is now Acc.12696.
Dates:
1913-1918.
Papers relating to Ritchie Calder`s work with the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.
File
Identifier: Acc.12799
Dates:
circa 1942-2005.
Papers with additional information to support the films preserved by the Moving Image Archive
Fonds
Identifier: MI.11/1
Dates:
1901-2015
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.
Photocopies of articles and press cuttings concerning Braehead School, Buckhaven.
File
Identifier: Acc.12295
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches and ephemera of the school.
Dates:
1964-2001.
Photocopies of papers connected with the process of canonizaton of St John Ogilvie.
File
Identifier: Acc.7251
Dates:
20th century.
Photocopies of rejected drafts of articles intended for or submitted to "The Mirror".
File
Identifier: Acc.4361
Dates:
circa 1779.
Poems and articles of Eurys I Rowlands.
File
Identifier: Acc.9383
Scope and Contents
With correspondence.
Dates:
1986-1987.