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115 letters to W R Aitken and his family of Hugh MacDiarmid, and four from Valda Grieve.
With manuscripts of a short story and essay of MacDiarmid, proof copy of "Sanschaw" and typescript copy of a thesis on MacDiarmid by Claude Henry.
Archives of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, consisting of incoming correspondence, lectures and papers read to the Society; including the original manuscript, 1871, of the essay of Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Intermittent Lights'.
The papers comprise two distinct yet related groups, giving in all quite a comprehensive account of the Society's history, and spanning more than a century of rapid scientific and technological achievement.
Copies of three appreciations of Wallace, Burns and Stevenson by Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
Re-published in 1905 by Aeneas Mackay, Stirling, being the publisher`s own copies including original letters of Lord Rosebery, 1905, tipped in.
Correspondence, 1807-1853, mostly of James Everson, Beverley, on the Scotch Baptist Church.
Includes transcripts, 1944, by James Idwal Jones, together with notes, essays and pamphlets on the history of the Church.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.
Correspondence of Samuel Brown, the chemist, and his family.
Among Samuel Brown's more frequent correspondents, outside the family, are Thomas Aird, George Combe (the phrenologist), Sydney Dobell, and Coventry Patmore; those of his widow and daughter (the donor) include Alexander Anderson ('Surfaceman') and Harriet Martineau.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Correspondence, photographs and papers relating to the Clyde Workers` Committee.
Correspondence, photographs and papers, 1913-c 1920s, relating to John W. Muir (1879-1931), trade unionist and Labour MP for Glasgow Maryhill, and his involvement in the Clyde Workers’ Committee (CWC). Some of the papers also relate to his wife Catherine Fraser and to other prominent members of the CWC.
Documents concerning Thomas de Quincey during his residence in Edinburgh.
The documents include 3 letters of Thomas de Quincey, 1838, 1841; books of accounts for rent, etc., incurred when he lodged with the Misses Miller in the Holyrood sanctuary, 1836-1841; and papers in a process at law with Robert Bauchope about monies due by de Quincey, 1837-1838; with an essay based on these documents by Tinsley Pratt, undated (typed), and a letter regarding them, 1881.
Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.
The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).
Essays, probably by Margaret Inglis, a schoolgirl in Edinburgh.
The subjects include themes from literature and history as well as more general topics and descriptions. Also included is a copy of a letter of Margaret Inglis (page 39), and miscellaneous notes and paraphrases.
Galley proofs of "A Symposium on the After War Religion", unpublished work edited by Denis Saurat, and including an essay of Hugh MacDiarmid.
With five letters to Robert S Silver, three from Saurat and one each from MacDiarmid and Robert McLellan.
Journals and correspondence of and concerning David Roberts.
Letter, 1978, of Naomi Mitchison, together with manuscript, undated, entitled "A Note on Courtesy Between Chiefs", concerning Botswana.
Letter of Andrew Lang to Mr Watson and essay entitled "Cruelty to Poets".
Letter of C M Grieve enclosing an essay on his work and a prospectus for "In Memoriam James Joyce".
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.