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11 letters, 1967-1983, to and copies of two letters, 1970-1971, of W R Aitken

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8951
Scope and Contents

With inscribed copies of Robert Bain, "James the First of Scotland" (1921), and William Montgomerie, "A Selection of Three Poems" (1965), each with letters, 1921 and 1965, from the authors.

Dates: 1921, 1965-1983

13 letters to Robert Bruce.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8587
Scope and Contents

Concerning political and personal matters. Correspondents include Sir Alexander Gray and Sir Stafford Cripps.

With associated testimonials and copies of four letters of Bruce.

Dates: 1933-1940.

17 letters of Neil Gunn to Naomi Mitchison.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5813
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter, 1944, of Naomi Mitchison to Neil Gunn, and one other letter, undated, of Mitchison to an unknown recipient.

Dates: 1942-1971.

20 letters and cards, 1990-1996, of Ronald Stevenson to Michael Lister, on musical and personal matters.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11318
Scope and Contents

Includes:

copies of 23 letters, 1990-1996, of Lister to Stevenson

copy of letter, 1994, of Lister to Alasdair Gray

correspondence, 1989-1996, of Lister, concerning Ronald Stevenson.

Dates: 1989-1996.

31 letters, 1822-1836, of Sir David Wilkie to Sir James Willoughby Gordon.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7901
Scope and Contents

Mostly on artistic matters.

With copies of three letters, 1828-1839, of Gordon to Wilkie, and an associated memorandum.

Dates: 1822-1839.

39 letters of Gavin Ewart to Philip Larkin.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10877
Scope and Contents

On literary and personal matters. With a copy of letter, 1976, of Larkin to Ewart.

Dates: 1976-1985.

40 letters or copies of letters to, or concerning, Sir James Young Simpson and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5683
Scope and Contents

With copies of three letters, 1866, of Sir James Young Simpson to Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff.

Dates: 1850-1868 and undated.

60 letters to Robert H Lundie and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8673
Scope and Contents

With copy of letter, 1809, of Sir Walter Scott to Robert Lundie, Minister of Kelso, enclosing a letter of James Thomson.

Dates: 1809, 1851-1909 and undated.

73 letters to George Bruce from various correspondents, and copies of 18 letters of Bruce.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10998
Scope and Contents

On literary matters.

Dates: 1950, 1965-1988.

95 letters of André Raffalovich to Charles Ballantyne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4630
Scope and Contents

With ten copies of letters, 24 postcards, and two telegrams. Also two letters and a card concerning Raffalovich.

Dates: 1925-1934.

130 Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to James F Hendry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10806
Scope and Contents

Includes related copy letters of Hendry.

Dates: 1945-1985

About 3400 letters and copies of letters of Angus Calder.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11312
Scope and Contents

Letters concern literary, academic and personal matters.

Dates: 1961-1989.

Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.2.1-81.2.10
Scope and Contents

Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.

Dates: 16th century-19th century.

`Adversaria`, being miscellaneous notes and copies of correspondence of Sir Robert Sibbald, with scholars such as William Nicolson, Edward Lhuyd and John Smith of Durham on Scottish history and antiquities.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.19
Scope and Contents Smith`s letters (folios 47-61), some of which are originals, concern the records of Scottish history surviving at Durham. Other contents are as follows:(i) Notes on historical manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library (folio 2).(ii) The life of Robert Morison copied from his ‘Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis’, part 3, with notes on the same volume (folio 4 verso).(iii) `A list of Gold Scotch Coyns` (folios 13 verso, 18).(iv) `The...
Dates: Circa 1682-1706, and undated.

African diary, 1885, and copies of letters, 1885-1886, of Dugald McFadyen.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11247
Scope and Contents

Diaries and letters concern the African Lakes Corporation`s trading station at Mandala, British Central Africa (Malawi). Includes a photograph of McFadyen, undated.

Dates: 1885-1886 and undated.

Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates: Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.

Album of ‘Jacobite relics’, containing printed and manuscript material and portraits, formerly owned, perhaps started, by James Maidment, and containing additions made by a later owner.

 File
Identifier: MS.2960
Scope and Contents The printed matter is recorded in the Catalogue of Printed Books. In addition to some forgeries, the manuscript material is as follows:(i) Letter, undated, of John Stevenson, James Maidment's publisher, probably to Maidment (folio 2);(ii) A version, in a hand of about Maidment's time, of part of the poem on Lord justice Clerk Whitelaw, 'Old Nick was in want of a lawyer in hell,' printed by Maidment in ‘A book of Scotish pasquils’ (Edinburgh, 1827), page 73 (folio 2...
Dates: 1696-1891, undated.

Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates: ?1825-1856.

Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents

William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.

Dates: 1778-1961, undated.

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Letters. Correspondence. 285
Manuscripts. 98
Correspondence. 94
Notes. 78
Typescripts. 47
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Microfilms. 42
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Lists. 34
Documents. 28
Diaries. 24
Accounts. 23
Photographs. 23
Excerpts. 20
Memorandums. 20
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 20
Speeches. Documents. 20
Instructions. Document genre. 16
Minutes. Administrative records. 16
Genealogies. 15
Notebooks. 14
Legal documents. 13
Reports. 13
Translations. Documents. 13
Articles. 11
Histories. 11
Inventories. 11
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 11
Printed materials. Object genre. 11
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Biographies. 10
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Language
English 186
Undetermined 163
Latin 9
Multiple languages 7
French 2
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 5
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 4
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 3
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 2
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 2
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Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Campbell, Sir Colin, 2nd Baronet, of Glenorchy, 1577-1640 2
Cuthbert, Walter Robertson, Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, husband of Gwendoline Emily Meacham, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1887-1970 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 2
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841 2
Adolphus, John Leycester, barrister and author, 1795-1862: recipient 1
Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling, founder of Nova Scotia, c 1577-1640 1
Alpine Club 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Anne, Queen Consort of James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1574-1619 1
Armistead, John, commentator on occupation of Newcastle by Scottish army, fl 1641 1
Armstrong, Robert B, antiquary, fl 1880 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Bain, Margaret I, correspondent of Henry W Meikle, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, fl 1932 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour (statesman) 1
Ball, Sir Alexander John, Baronet, Rear-Admiral, 1756-1809 1
Ballantyne, Charles K N, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh, 1903-1985: recipient 1
Ballantyne, James (printer) 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908: recipient 1
Barnett, David, Curator of Lady Stair's House Museum, Edinburgh, fl 1918-1936 1
Beattie, George, poet, 1786-1823 1
Bell, Henry, builder of the "Comet", 1767-1830 1
Bell, William, great grand-nephew of Henry Bell, builder of the "Comet", d 1978 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene (poet and author) 1
Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre René, poet and author, 1870-1953: recipient 1
Boswell, Euphemia, wife of Alexander, Lord Auchinleck, née Erskine, 1718-1766 1
Boswell, John, Lieutenant, 21st (Royal North British Fusilier) Regiment of Foot, 1743-c 1798 1
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 1
Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan, barrister, 1818-1905: recipient 1
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (statesman, Lord Chancellor) (1778-1868) 1
Brown, T Gordon, correspondent of Michael Roberts, poet and mountaineer, fl 1946 1
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, traveller in Africa, 1730–1794 1
Bruce, Robert, Cape May, New Jersey, fl 1933-1983 1
Bruce, Robert, Cape May, New Jersey, fl 1933-1983: recipient 1
Byres, James, of Tonley, antiquary and architect, 1734-1817 1
Cadell and Davies, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, George William, 6th Duke of Argyll, 1768-1839 1
Canning, George, statesman, 1770-1827: recipient 1
Carey, William (Baptist missionary in India) 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881: transcriber 1
Chapman, Sir Stephen Remnant, Knight, Colonel-Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1776-1851: recipient 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Cochrane, Hon Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis, Knight, Admiral, 1758-1832: recipient 1
Cochrane, Jane, wife of Thomas, 8th Earl of Dundonald, née Stuart, d 1808 1
Cockburn, John M, Sergeant, 23rd London Regiment, fl 1915 1
Connel, John, emigrant to Quebec, fl 1845-1860 1
Crawford, Lawrence, Parliamentary Major-General, 1611-1645: recipient 1
Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford, Knight, politician and lawyer, 1889-1952 1
Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1599-1658 1
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 1
Cunninghame, William, of Lainshaw, fl 1799-1813: recipient 1
Dallas, family, Nairn 1
Darling, Frank Moss Fraser, Sir, Knight (ecologist) 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Dickson, Sir Alexander, Knight, Major-General, 1777-1840 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Drummond, Andrew Alastair Landale, Minister of Eadie, Alva, d 1966 1
Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant, Knight, Governor of Madras, 1829-1906 1
Dundas, John, Edinburgh, fl 1857-1859: recipient 1
Edmond, William, emigrant to Minnesota, fl 1845-1860 1
Elliot, Sir Walter, Knight, East India Company servant and archaeologist, 1803-1887 1
Elphinstone, Arthur, 6th Lord Balmerino, Jacobite army officer, 1688-1746 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan (poet) (1916-1995) 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Fairlie, Robert Francis, civil and mechanical engineer, 1830-1885 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Ferrerio, Giovanni, philosopher, poet, historian, 1502-1579 1
Fleming, Lindsay, author of "Life of James Dennistoun", fl 1951-1954 1
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, patriot, ? 1653-1716. 1
Forrester, family 1
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 1
Fraser, Sir William, Knight, genealogist, 1816-1898 1
Gallacher, William (politician and trade unionist) 1
Gallacher, William, political activist and politician, 1881-1965 1
Gardiner, family, Banffshire 1
Gibson, Williamina, correspondenct of George Beattie, poet, fl 1821-1823: recipient 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008: recipient 1
Gordon, D A, correspondent of Sir Compton Mackenzie, author, fl 1969: recipient 1
Gordon, George Huntly, amanuensis to Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1868 1
Gordon, Sir James Willougby, 1st Baronet, of Niton, 1772-1851 1
Gordon, Sir James Willougby, 1st Baronet, of Niton, 1772-1851: recipient 1
Graeme, Elizabeth, sister of Robert, of Redgorton, Advocate, fl 1857-1859 1
Graeme, Patrick, of Murrayshall, fl 1752: recipient 1
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