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Papers of the Reverend Robert Lister Turner (1875-1949), a missionary in Papua.

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Identifier: MS.9770
Scope and Contents The Reverend Turner was sent to Papua in 1902 by the London Missionary Society, and worked both in the mission field and in Lawes College, Isuleilei, until his retirement in 1939.The papers consist of the following.(i) Typescripts with manuscript corrections, undated, of four lectures on the ethnology of Papua. The fourth lecture concerns the history of the London Missionary Society in Papua. Two pages are missing at the beginning of the third lecture. (Folio 1.)...
Dates: 1910-1939, undated.

Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1)-Box 14(10)
Scope and Contents

Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.

Dates: 1707-1977.

Papers of Thomas Aitken.

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Identifier: Acc.8839
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Includes manuscript drafts of antiquarian, scientific and medical discourses, many of which were read at meetings of Inverness Scientific and Field Club.

Dates: circa 1867-1880.

Papers of Thomas Johnston.

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Identifier: Acc.5862
Scope and Contents

Including notebooks, sketchbooks, correspondence, and manuscripts of lectures and addresses.

Dates: 1904-1957.

Papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper.

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Identifier: Acc.6188/1-26
Scope and Contents The surviving personal and legal papers of Thomas Mackay Cooper, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge and historian (1892-1955). Lord Cooper passed Advocate in 1915 and was created a K.C. in 1927. He was Conservative M.P. for West Edinburgh, 1935-41, Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1935, and Lord Advocate, 1935-41. In 1941 he succeeded as Lord Justice Clerk with the judicial title of Lord Cooper, and became Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from January 1947 to...
Dates: circa 1920-circa 1955.

Papers of William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9807
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of "The Unhung Parliament", "The Christmas Truce", and "Retirement Age", and a lecture delivered at Lille University.

Dates: circa 1984-1988.

Papers of William Johnstone.

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Identifier: Acc.8877
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of books, articles, and lectures.

Dates: 1923-1980.

Papers of William MacLellan.

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Identifier: Acc.10630
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of lectures, programmes, newsletters and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1954.

Papers of William Will.

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Identifier: Acc.7534
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and 68 letters from, among others, John Buchan, Sir Ian Hamilton and Neil Munro, on literary and personal matters.

Dates: 1919-1939.

Papers relating to the literary activities of George Sutherland Fraser.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.4681/1-27
Scope and Contents

Comprising typescript versions of poems and typescripts of lectures and broadcast talks, with selection of literary correspondence.

Dates: Circa 1940-circa 1969.

Precis and photocopy of lecture, 1934, on "The Submarine and Anti-submarine War, 1914-1918", delivered by A E M Cunninghame Graham, to the RAF Staff College, Andover.

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Identifier: Acc.5705
Scope and Contents

With photocopy account, 1941, of a voyage to Murmansk, "Random Recollections of Hitler`s War".

Dates: 1934, 1941.

Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.

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Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents

Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.

Dates: 1648-20th century.

Series of fifteen lectures of Joseph Black on the subject of heat, delivered at Edinburgh University.

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Identifier: MS.8487
Scope and Contents

The subject matter is essentially similar to other manuscript versions, e.g. MSS.3533 and 3534, and to the printed text, ‘Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry’ but the arrangement of the material is different.

Dates: 2nd half of 18th century.

Some Burns Characteristics; or, A Cluster of Flower and Fruit from the Poet`s Garden.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13667
Scope and Contents

A printed volume based on a lecture delivered before the Rosebery Burns Club, Glasgow, 10 March 1903, by James Walsh.

The Volume is dedicated to Mr McGill, who was a `personal friend` Walsh.

A handwritten grace, `Oh thou who blest the loaves and fishes` is inscribed on the last page of the volume. It is attributed to Robert Burns, but appears to be a reworking of an earlier version by Jonathan Swift.

Dates: 1903.

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Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 3
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Findhorn Foundation 2
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 2
Read, John (Professor of Chemistry, St Andrews University; science author) 2
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Saltire Society 2
Wilson, Charles Haynes, Sir, Knight (Principal of the University of Glasgow) 2
Aitken, Thomas, Medical Superintendent, District Asylum, Inverness, fl 1867-1880 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 51st (Highland) Division 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Garrison Artillery, 11th Siege Battery 1
Baume, Louis Charles, mountaineer, 1919-1993 1
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 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
Bieganska, H, Uniwersytet Slaski, fl 1974 1
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 1
Blaikie, Walter Biggar, historian, civil engineer and publisher, 1847-1928 1
Blair, William, Principal Clerk to the United Free Church General Assembly, 1830-1916 1
Brown, John, of Haddington, biblical commentator, 1722-1787 1
Bruce, Michael, known as the gentle poet of Lochleven, 1746-1767 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, J Walter, head of the Commercial Bank, Peebles, brother of John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1882-1953 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Buchanan, Robert, Professor of Logic, University of Glasgow, 1786-1873 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Cairns, Alison Helen, Secretary of the Saltire Society, 1902-1959. 1
Cairns, David, Minister of Stitchel, d 1910 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Cairns, William Thomas, Minister of Davidson Church, Edinburgh, 1868-1944 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Chalmers, Esther Barbara (daughter of Sir David Patrick, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast) 1
Chalmers, John, son of Theodore, medical missionary, fl 2005 1
Chalmers, Sir David Patrick, Knight, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast, d 1899 1
Chalmers, Theodore, medical missionary, 1884-1973 1
Church of Scotland, Itu Leper Colony, Nigeria 1
Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, Knight, bibliographer, 1867-1962: recipient 1
Cooper, Thomas Mackay, Baron Cooper of Culross, judge, 1892-1955 1
Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-, Knight, novelist and literary scholar, 1863-1944 1
Cumming, James, Minister of Melness Free Church, 1821-1894 1
Davidson, Andrew Nevile, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, 1899-1976 1
Dejardin, Lucie, socialist, 1875-1945 1
Dickson, James Holms (Professor of archaeobotany and plant systematics, University of Glasgow.) 1
Edinburgh Assistant Booksellers' Association 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Findlay, William, Minister of Saline, d 1917: collector 1
Finniston, Sir Harold Montague, Knight, metallurgist and businessman, 1912-1991 1
Forbes, Sir Charles Fergusson, Knight, army surgeon, 1779-1852 1
Foster, John, Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History, University of Glasgow, 1898-1973 1
Fraser, Alexander Campbell (philosopher) 1
Gardner, Archibald Ward, physician, 1923-1994 1
Geddes, Arthur, son of Sir Patrick, sociologist, 1895-1968: author 1
Geddes, Sir Patrick, Knight, sociologist, 1854-1932 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981 1
Graham, William, Minister of Lochwinnoch, 1807-1872 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, Knight, General, 1853-1947 1
Harper, James Walker, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1859-1938 1
Heelis, Helen Beatrix, author, née Potter, 1866-1943: transcriber 1
Highland Medical Society 1
Hildebrandt, Franz, Minister of Slateford-Longstone Church, 1909-1985 1
Hiller, W, of the Polish Consulate-General in Great Britain, fl 1941 1
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 1
Honeyman, Thomas John, Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, 1891-1971 1
Honeyman, Thomas, father of Thomas John, Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, fl 1877-1934 1
Hont, István (Historian of economics and political thought at the University of Cambridge) 1
Hume, David, Baron of the Exchequer, d 1838 1
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 1
Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club 1
Jackson, Jack Tully-, local historian, b ? 1924 1
Jardine, George, Professor of Logic at University of Glasgow, 1742-1827 1
Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
Johnston, George Pyper, bookseller, Edinburgh, d 1938 1
Johnston, James Frederick Junor (Major-General) 1
Johnston, Thomas, politician and newspaper editor, 1881-1965 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Kemp, Robina Jane, kinswoman of William Strathhenry Kemp, Rector of Falkirk Grammar School, fl 1897-1904 1
Kemp, William Strathhenry, Rector of Falkirk Grammar School, d 1873 1
Lancaster, Sir Osbert, Knight, cartoonist, author and critic , 1908-1986: transcriber 1
Lindsay, David Alexander Robert, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres, 1900-1975 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
Lloyd, Robert Wylie, alpinist, 1868-1958 1
Lorimer, James, Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh, 1818-1890 1
Lorimer, John Henry, 1856-1936 (painter) 1
Lorimer, family, of Kellie 1
MacDougall, Ian, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society, b 1933 1
MacInnes, John (minister of Halkirk) 1
MacLellan, William MacLaren, publisher, Glasgow, 1915-1996 1
Macdonald, Andrew Buchanan, Superintendent of the Itu Leper Colony, 1892-1970 1
Mackay, James Peter Hymers, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Clerk Register of Scotland and Keeper of the Signet, b 1927 1
Mackenzie, Agnes Mure, historian and author, 1891-1955 1
Madge, Charles Henry, poet and sociologist, 1912-1996 1
Masefield, John Edward, Poet Laureate, 1878-1967: transcriber 1
Matheson, William, Reader Emeritus in Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 1910-1995 1
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 1
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