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Academic and literary papers, including typescripts, drafts and correspondence, of Angus Calder.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9851/1-66
Scope and Contents
Concerning his doctoral thesis, books and broadcasts, his involvement in East African literature, his editorship of 'Journal of Commonwealth literature' and convenorship of the Scottish Poetry Library.
Includes lectures notes, drafts, histories, correspondence and interviews.
Dates:
1960-1988.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents
James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates:
1787-1835, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning John Allan Broun, mostly relating to work on magnetism and meteorology.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10064/1-172
Dates:
1831-1891, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Arthur Woodburn, including articles, press cuttings, lectures, photographs, glass slides and drafts of an autobiography.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7656 Box 1(1)-Box 44
Scope and Contents
Arthur Woodburn's strong interest in economics, education, European unity, international relations, modern languages and Scottish history and literature are reflected in the papers.
Dates:
1907-1977.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12345/1-189
Dates:
1960-2002, undated.
Correspondence, articles, reports, and photographs of and concerning Duncan Macrae, with related theatre programmes, press cuttings and playscripts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5443 Box 1(1)-Box 2(3)
Dates:
1929-1966, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20351-20400
Scope and Contents
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1773-1933, undated.
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Legal case papers of Judge David A O Edward, QC, with related documents.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10046/1-70
Scope and Contents
Professional papers as counsel, 1979-89, of David A O Edward, QC, Salvesen Professor of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh, 1985-9, and from 1989 a Judge of the European Community Court of the First Instance.
Dates:
1956-1989.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of plays and short stories of William McArthur.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7471/1-78
Dates:
1948-1954, undated.
Microfilm of papers chiefly of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2033-2037
Dates:
1797-[circa 1825].
Papers, including correspondence, articles, notes, reports and photographs, of Reginald W Powell, physicist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10574/1-46
Dates:
1938-1985, undated.
Papers, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, sketches and correspodence, of William McArthur.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6878 Box 1(1)-Box 13(30)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, operas, novels, short stories, and sketches, and circa 500 letters to, and copies of letters of McArthur, mostly concerning the broadcasting of his works.
Dates:
1933-1961, undated.
Papers, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles and reviews, of Robert Nye; with manuscript and typescript drafts of the anthologies, 'The English sermon, 1750-1850' (1976), and 'The faber book of sonnets' (1976), edited by Nye, with associated correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6885 Box 1(1)-Box 3(5)
Dates:
Circa 1963-1976, undated.
Papers of Alan Bissett relating to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13720/1-2
Scope and Contents
Includes typed and handwritten drafts of articles and spoken word pieces relating to the Scottish Indepdence Referendum 2014; polling card for 18 September 2014; and letter relating to National Collective's 'Cultural Ambassador' scheme.
Dates:
[?2012-?2014]
Research and professional papers of Annie Isabella Dunlop, including notebooks, lectures, articles and correspondence.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6568/1-68
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1801, 1917-1969, undated.