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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, 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.

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

Literary and personal papers of Christopher Rush, comprising manuscripts and typescripts of poems, stories, novels and other writings; journals; commonplace books; correspondence and other papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13217
Scope and Contents The archive contains the complete literary papers of Christopher Rush to date (2010), relating to all his creative writing, published and unpublished. This includes manuscript notebooks and drafts, typescripts, and literary correspondence relating to `Peace Comes Dropping Slow` (1983), `A Resurrection of a Kind` (1984), `A Twelvemonth and a Day` (1985), `Into the Ebb` (1989), `Last Lesson of the Afternoon: a satire` (1994), `To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold` (2005),...
Dates: 1962-2010.

Papers concerning Peebleshire.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4300
Scope and Contents

Including typescript extracts from a diary, and church records.

Dates: 19th century.

Papers of General Sir J Aylmer L Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20259

Papers of James Lauder Davidson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13567
Scope and Contents The collection comprises several manuscript and typescript diaries which illustrate James Lauder Davidson’s experiences during his time in Burma, before and after WWII, and his military involvement in the conflict. Of particular interest are the earlier and later diaries, as well as the diary charting his escape into China. The collection also includes two photographic albums. The first one (item 2 in the collection) includes original photographs taken by Davidson. Most of them include...
Dates: 1938-1947

Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates: Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.

Papers of the author, Florence Marian McNeill.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26194-26259
Scope and Contents

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1901-1973, undated.

Papers of the first Earl Haig.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.3155

Personal papers of Robert James Dundas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13929/1-15
Scope and Contents Dundas was chaplain to the first Anglican Bishop of British Columbia, Canada, and together the papers give a full account of missionary activity and relations with the Indigenous population, and of his own journey to and from North America. Dundas is particularly significant because of a collection of Tsimshian art he acquired as a result of a visit to Metlakatla, in northern British Columbia, which is now housed at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria. The papers consist of eleven volumes of...
Dates: 1859-1866.

Photograph album, 1907-1908, and diary, 1913-1914, of A M Thomson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6209
Scope and Contents

The album deals with the cruise of the SS Vedamore, the diary concerns Naval operations at Scapa Flow and in the North Sea.

Dates: 1907-1914.

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Photograph albums. 15
Correspondence. 11
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 7
Albums. 5
Photographs. 5
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Letters. Correspondence. 4
Books 2
Extracts. 2
Lectures. 2
Maps. Cartographic materials. 2
Notebooks. 2
Notes. 2
Second World War (1939-1945). 2
Typescripts. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Administrative records. 1
Alps (mountain system). Europe. Longitude: 010 00 00 E. Latitude: 46 25 00 N. 1
Andes. South America. Mountain system. Longitude: -70.0000. Latitude: -2.0000. 1
Articles. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Autograph albums. 1
British Columbia. North and Central America - Canada. Province. Longitude: -125.0000 . Latitude: 55.0000 . 1
Calcutta (inhabited place). Asia - India - West Bengal. Longitude: 88.3333. Latitude: 22.5000. 1
Certificates 1
Certificates. 1
Commonplace books. 1
Copies. Derivative objects. 1
Course work. 1
Documents. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Durban. Africa - South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Province of. Inhabited place. Longitude: 31.0000. Latitude: -29.8833. 1
Egypt. Africa. Nation. Longitude: 30.0000. Latitude: 27.0000. 1
Histories. 1
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
Instructional materials. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Lists. 1
Logs. Records. 1
Manuscripts. 1
Memorandums. 1
Mountaineering. 1
North Sea. Europe. Sea. 1
Novels. 1
Obituaries. 1
Peebles. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. County. 1
Poetry. 1
Printed materials. Object genre. 1
Receipts. Financial records 1
Reports 1
Safe conduct 1
Scapa Flow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Orkney. Bay. Longitude: -3.1000. Latitude: 58.9333. 1
Short stories. 1
Sierra Leone. Africa. Nation. Longitude: -11.5000. Latitude: 8.5000. 1
South Africa. Africa - South Africa. Nation. Longitude: 26.0000. Latitude: -30.0000. 1
United Kingdom. Europe. Nation. Longitude: -4.5000. Latitude: 54.0000. 1
Visitors' books. 1
Wills. 1
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Language
English 20
Chinese 1
Multiple languages 1
Undetermined 1
 
Names
Army, Great Britain and Ireland 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Cameron, Una May (mountaineer) 1
Campbell, family 1
Davidson, James Lauder, forester, 1916-1992 1
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Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949: collector 1
Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman) 1
Elliot, George Francis Scott, botanist, 1862-1934 1
Elliot, James Scott, Calcutta merchant, d 1880 1
Elliot, William Scott, Lieutenant Colonel, 1873-1943 1
Forrester, Charles Grant, Principal, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 1895-1980 1
Goodier, Rawdon, biologist and mountaineer, b 1931 1
Gordon, James, Art teacher, 1916-2003 1
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 1
Joel, Betty, furniture and interior designer, née Stewart Lockhart, 1894-1985 1
Johnston, James Frederick Junor (Major-General) 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Login, family 1
Maitland Mackgill Crichton, family 1
McNeill, Florence Marian, folklorist, 1885-1973 1
Ritchie, James Spence, former keeper of manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, Stepfather of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston. 1
Ritchie, Margaret Macrae Ward (née Junor, then Johnston, mother of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston) 1
Runciman, James Cochran Stevenson (Steven), Sir, Knight (historian) (1903-2000) 1
Rush, Christopher, author, b. 1944. 1
Russell, Arthur Walker, WS, Vice President of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, 1873-1967 1
Scott, David, painter, 1806-1849 1
Scott, William Bell, poet and painter, 1811-1890 1
Scottish Mountaineering Club 1
Smith, Sir Robert Murdoch, Knight, Major-General, 1835-1900 1
Thomson, A M, Lieutenant-Commander, Royal Navy, fl 1907-1959 1
University of Edinburgh 1
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