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Correspondence and papers of Sir George Taylor, botanist, including diaries and photographs relating to botanical expeditions to Africa and the Himalayas.

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Identifier: Acc.9533/1-414
Scope and Contents Sir George participated in three major botanical expeditions (to South Africa, 1927-8, East Africa, 1934-5, and Tibet and Bhutan, 1938) which are illustrated in letters, photographs and diaries.Correspondence of special interest includes letters from botanical explorers Frank and Jean Kingdon Ward, George and Betty Sherriff and Frank Ludlow (mostly from Burma, Tibet and Bhutan) and from King Gustav of Sweden and Stanley Smith (the latter discussing the possible foundation of a...
Dates: 1792-1990.

Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9343/1-88
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.

Includes photographs, articles and printed books.

Dates: 1909-1969, undated.

Correspondence between Lewis Spence and R E Muirhead.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3565
Scope and Contents

With an offprint of article of Spence.

Dates: 1927-1930.

Correspondence between Steuart Campbell and the editor of "Free Inquiry", New York.

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Identifier: Acc.11890
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Includes corrected typescript article entitled "On Morality".

Dates: 1984-1986.

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.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

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'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

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Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Correspondence, diaries, photographs and other papers of Seton Gordon, including some of Audrey Seton Gordon and their children.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7451 Box 1(1)-[Volume] 21
Scope and Contents

Including diaries, correspondence, photographs, and articles, mainly concerning natural history and piping.

Dates: 1894-1977, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates: 1896-2006.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

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Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence, papers, bromides and negatives of 'Chapman' literary magazine.

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Identifier: Acc.10684/1-46
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and proofs of poems, short stories, articles and reviews, together with editorial correspondence.

Dates: 1981-1988, undated.

Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.

Dates: Circa 1926-1997.

Correspondence, reports, lectures and other professional papers of James R Erskine-Murray, electrical engineer and inventor; with some notebooks, diaries and other papers of members of his family.

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Identifier: Acc.5900/1-76
Scope and Contents

Including lecture notebooks, copies of lectures and reports, and drafts of articles.

Dates: 1745-1961.

Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

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Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.

With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.

Donation from Dr Steven Main comprising articles from Russian newspapers reporting on the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13624
Scope and Contents

Donation from Dr Steven Main (academic and consultant on Russian affairs) comprising articles from Russian newspapers reporting on the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Newspapers included in the donation include those from the Official Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, Izvestiia, a high circulation Russian daily newspaper and an independent military digest.

Dates: 2013-2014

Draft of an article, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, "The Circulating Book Van"

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Identifier: Acc.9016
Scope and Contents

With two letters, 1948, of William Power to R D Macleod, concerning his own literary work.

Dates: 1948 and undated.

Editorial correspondence and papers of Derick S Thomson.

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Identifier: Acc.11418
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Thomson`s "Companion to Gaelic Scotland" and "Gairm" magazine

Dates: circa 1952-1992.

Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.5
Scope and Contents The manuscripts were sent to Ewen MacLachlan by the Highland Society of Scotland in 1812. Dated passim. MacLachlan generally called the volume ‘An Leabhar Caol’, but on the title pages added as alternatives ‘An Diabhol Caol’, ‘The Celtic Repository’. Binding inscribed ‘Ancient Celtic Tales’, ‘The Tales of Other Times’.The contents (text) as follows.(i) Contents list. (Page ii.)(ii) Note on 8th-century learning. (Page iii.)(iii)...
Dates: 1st quarter of 19th century.

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Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 3
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 6
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 5
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 5
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 4
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
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Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 4
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 3
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 3
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Scottish National Party 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 2
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
MacNeacail, Aonghas, poet, b 1942 2
MacTaggart, Sir William, Knight, painter, 1903-1981 2
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2
Macrae, John Duncan Graham, actor, 1905-1967 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson, novelist and biographer, née Wilson, 1828-1897 2
Scotia Review, literary journal 2
Scott, Margaret Mackenzie, writer and journalist, pseudonym Beatrice Nairn, b 1888 2
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 2
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 2
Akros Publications 1
Althaus, Friedrich, Professor at University College, London, 1829-1897 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Anderson, Iain Fleming, historian, b 1902 1
Ardern, L L, Librarian, College of Technology, Manchester, fl 1953-1988 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Bassin, Ethel Rose, collector of Scottish songs and music teacher, 1889-1974 1
Blackie, John Stuart, Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh, 1809-1895 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Boag, William G F, Assistant to the Keeper, Scottish United Services Museum, 1923-1992 1
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Boyes, John, Emeritus Professor of Dental Surgery, University of Edinburgh, 1913-1985 1
Braehead Secondary School, Buckhaven 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Brown, James, Minister of Colmonell, b 1896 1
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Burness, Robert, translator, fl 1948 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Cadell, Henry Moubray, geologist, 1860–1934: recipient 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Campbell, Archibald, jurist, piper, 1877-1963 1
Campbell, Jean, harpist and teacher, fl 1959-1973 1
Campbell, Steuart, science writer, b 1937 1
Campen, Ank Van, harpist, 1932-2010 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Chiari, Joseph, author and critic, 1911-1989 1
Christie, family, of Cowden Castle, Clackmannanshire 1
Cokayne, George Edward, formerly Adams, genealogist, 1825-1911 1
Colquhoun, Ross 1
Cooper, Thomas Mackay, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge, 1892-1955 1
Cox, J Randolph, Editor of "Dime Novel Round-Up", b 1936 1
Craigen, James Mark, politician and author, b 1938 1
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 1
Darling, Frank Moss Fraser, Sir, Knight (ecologist) 1
Davidson, Sir John Humphrey, Knight, Major-General, 1876-1954 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Dott, Eric F, physician and conscientious objector, 1898-1999: recipient 1
Dott, Peter McOmish, Edinburgh, art dealer, 1856-c 1935 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham, poet, b 1942 1
Edinburgh Active Citizenship Group. EACG 1
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 1
Edinburgh Film Festival 1
Edinburgh Film Guild 1
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 1
Egerton, Granville George Algernon, Major-General, 1859-1951 1
Elder, R Ian, Rector, Webster's High School, Kirriemuir, fl 2000-2002 1
Elliot, James Scott, Major General, HM Lieutenant of the County of Dumfries, 1902-1996 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Ferguson, William, Reader Emeritus in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, b 1924 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Films of Scotland Committee 1
FitzPatrick, William John (Irish biographer) 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Fraser, George Macdonald, journalist, novelist and screen-writer, 1925-2008 1
Free Inquiry, New York, secular humanist journal 1
French, Gilbert James, biographer, 1804-1866: collector 1
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 1
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 1
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