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33 letters of Douglas Dunn to Douglas Houston.
File
Identifier: Acc.9903
Scope and Contents
Concerning literary and personal matters.
With corrected manuscript of an article, undated, by Dunn.
Dates:
1971-1987 and undated.
34 letters to David Morrison of correspondents including George Mackay Brown, Neil Gunn, and Fionn MacColla, all concerning the 'Scotia Review'; with associated typescripts and page proofs of poems and articles.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6839 Box 1(1)-Box 5
Dates:
1970-1974, undated.
Album of Euphemia Inglis, "Great Homes... Visited and Described by Innes Adair".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8493
Scope and Contents
Contains cuttings of articles on historic houses published by Inglis in the "Weekly Scotsman", photographs, notes and letters.
Dates:
1898-1902.
Bound volume made up for James Simpson Fleming of articles published by him.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.7
Scope and Contents
The articles in the volume are: an interleaved copy of the third edition of Fleming’s ‘Scottish Banking’ (Edinburgh, 1877); a reprint from ‘Blackwood`s Magazine’, volume 118 (June 1875), of his “Banking and Mr Goschen`s Bill”; `The Interview between Sir Stafford Northcote and the English Bankers` and `Extension of Scottish Banks into England` from “Bankers` Magazine”, volume 36 (July 1876). Pasted in amongst the binder`s blank endpapers are a collection of press-cuttings,...
Dates:
1875-1877.
Collection of holograph manuscripts of authors of the early 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.812-816
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Copy of Orlo Williams, "The Evacuation of the Dardanelles".
File
Identifier: Acc.1700
Scope and Contents
Article published in the National Review, includes letter and marginalia of Major-General Granville-Egerton.
Dates:
circa 1946.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning O H Mavor ('James Bridie'); with letters of Evan John to Alfred Wareing.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8181-8184
Dates:
1927-1951.
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents
Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates:
circa 1916-2006.
Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents
Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates:
1896-2006.
Dialogue containing the basic articles of Christianity, translated into Gaelic by Alexander MacAulay (autograph).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.8
Dates:
1763.
Draft of an article, undated, of Elizabeth S Haldane, "The Circulating Book Van"
File
Identifier: Acc.9016
Scope and Contents
With two letters, 1948, of William Power to R D Macleod, concerning his own literary work.
Dates:
1948 and undated.
Editorial correspondence and papers of Derick S Thomson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11418
Scope and Contents
Papers concern Thomson`s "Companion to Gaelic Scotland" and "Gairm" magazine
Dates:
circa 1952-1992.
Four letters of C.M. Grieve to Peter Grant, with the manuscript of an article, 1961, for `SLA News` concerning Grieve`s editorship of `William Soutar: collected poems` (1948).
File
Identifier: Acc.13135
Dates:
1961, 1972.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, mostly on historical matters.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13223
Dates:
1985-2010.
'Journal of a Tour to the Continent in Autumn, 1815, with Walter Scott, John Scott, Esqr., of Gala, and Alexr. Pringle, Younger of Whitebank', by Robert Bruce, Advocate, afterwards Sheriff of Argyll.
Item
Identifier: MS.991
Scope and Contents
The journal runs from 28 July to 23 August. With it are a passport and letter (folio 23) of Robert Bruce, 1815, an article of the donor regarding the manuscript cut from ‘Chambers’s Journal’ (folio 25), and a letter of the donor, 1934, giving further information (folio 27).
Dates:
1815.
Letter from the General Council of Basle to the bishops and other councillors of James II of Scotland and related material.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.15.1.26-15.1.26C
Dates:
1442, 1922.
Letter of Thomas Stewart to Henry M Caddell.
File
Identifier: Acc.9816
Scope and Contents
Concerns the prevention of the waste of water, with accompanying printed article by Stewart.
Dates:
1882.
Letter of William Beattie probably to Percy Muir on bibliographical matters; together with an anonymous article on the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society.
File
Identifier: Acc.13279
Dates:
1942.
Letters and manuscripts of Donald Whyte.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10431
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Letters and papers concerning honours bestowed on Thomas Carlyle.
File
Identifier: MS.1795
Scope and Contents
The contents concern the following:Membership of the Gesellschaft für in- und ausländische schöne Literatur in Berlin, 1830, 1835 (folio 1); of the Orden der Wachsamkeit, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1859 (folio 7); of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1866 (folio 16); and of the Prussian order, Pour le Mérite, 1874 (folio 18); with a letter forwarding an article published in the ‘Deutscher Reichs- und Königlich-Preussischer Staats-Anzeiger’ in honour of Thomas Carlyle's birthday, 1875...
Dates:
1830-1875.
Letters and papers of Thomas Carlyle, with a few of his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle and others.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1796-1800
Dates:
1823-1875, undated.
Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents
The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates:
1617-1668, undated.
Letters of, and an article by, Robert D Macleod.
File
Identifier: MS.9997
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters,1930-1956, undated, to Robert Macleod, chiefly in his capacity of editor of ‘Library review’. The writers include J M Builoch, R B Cunninghame Graham, and Donald Carswell. Most of the correspondence concerns articles for ‘Library review’, but there is also material on a memorial to Cunninghame Graham, and a number of autobiographical notes requested by Macleod in 1932. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Typescript, 1957, of an unpublished article by Macleod entitled...
Dates:
1930-1957, undated.
Letters of Thomas Hardy to Sir George B Douglas, 5th Baronet of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.
File
Identifier: MS.8121
Scope and Contents
As well as giving his impressions of contemporary literary figures, Hardy discusses poetry and frequently mentions both his own and Douglas's work including the reception in 1895-1896 of 'Jude the Obscure'.
The letters are followed by a typescript of Sir George Douglas's article, 'Thomas Hardy: personal reminiscences’.
Dates:
1887-1924, undated.
Literary papers, a political notebook and letters of Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, Politician and Author [1845-1937]. With three letters to Gavin Maxwell.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13262
Scope and Contents
The main interest of the papers lies in the manuscripts and proofs of some of Sir Herbert’s many literary works including `Robert the Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence`, 1897, `The Chevalier of the Splendid Crest`, 1900, `A Century of Empire, 1801-1900`, 1909, `Inter-alia : A Scottish Calendar of Crime and other historical essays`, 1924, and `Evening Memories`, 1932.
Dates:
1884-1937, 1945, undated