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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.
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, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Essays and other papers of William Myrtle, author of ‘The plagiarist’, chiefly written while he was a student at Edinburgh University (1877-1880).
Manuscripts and typescripts of talks and essays of James Archibald Campbell of Achanduin and Barbreck (1854-1926).
Notebook of James Mutter, Ardrossan.
Contains a lecture on a visit to Germany and an essay on Schiller.
Notebooks and papers, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes.
Papers mostly containing historical research notes, lectures, articles and or broadcasts, some in Gaelic, of the Reverend Dr John MacInnes, minister of Halkirk (1934-1955) and of Hopeman (1955-1966) and historian of Highland evangelicalism. The collection consists mostly of notebooks, many very miscellaneous in content: only in principal content of each notebook or file is noted.
Papers and correspondence of literary figures.
Includes:
inaugural lecture, 1913, of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University
"El Tango Argentino", 1913, of R B Cunninghame Graham
"The Satire of Rage", 1913, of H W Nevinson
With 24 letters, 1890-1942, to Sir Sydney Cockerell from Quiller-Couch (16), Cunninghame Graham (3) and Nevinson (5).
Papers, circa 1852-1872, of William Strathhenry Kemp.
Includes historical and literary lectures and essays, and addresses to pupils at Falkirk Grammar School and Glasgow High School.
With papers, 1897-1904, of Robina Jane Kemp, including certificates and testimonials.
Papers of Thomas Aitken.
Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.