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Albums relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13649
Scope and Contents Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...
Dates: 1893-1938

Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14019
Scope and Contents

Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.

Dates: 1923-1929.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.

With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.

And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.

Dates: 1890-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20037-20079
Scope and Contents

Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.

Dates: 1809-1937, undated.

Correspondence and papers of William Winter Hamilton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10951/1-124
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Dates: 1950-1987.

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14596/1-248
Scope and Contents This archive contains literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown, the celebrated Orcadian poet and novelist. At the heart of this collection is the vast amount of correspondence received by George Mackay Brown throughout his life from friends, fans, editors, publishers and others. These letters, postcards and greetings cards give a unique insight into the breadth of attention that his work drew, as well as the connections he made with correspondents from across the world, all from...
Dates: 1800, 1934-2013, undated.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1895-1965, undated.

Family magazine 'The Blue Bell', written by various members of the Gibb family of Carnwath.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.9169-9170
Scope and Contents

The twelve issues cover intermittently the period October 1855-December 1856, and are written in various hands. The contents include stories, local news, a few photographs and drawings, and other 'newspaper' features.

Dates: 1855-1856.

Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates: Circa 1925-2014.

Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents

Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.

Dates: Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]

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Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
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Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
Jenkin, Anne (née Austin, wife of Henry C. Fleeming Jenkin, engineer) 1
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming (engineer) 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macdonald, Malcolm 'Callum' (printer and publisher) 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
McAlpine, Morag (librarian) (1946-2014) 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
Menuhin, Yehudi, Baron Menuhin, violinist and conductor, 1916-1999 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Morrison, Margaret Mackie (novelist, writing under the pen name 'March Cost') (1897-1973) 1
Mossman, James, Jeweller and Watchmaker, Edinburgh, fl.1870-1905: recipient 1
Mossman, Robert Cockburn, meteorologist, 1870-1940 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Orchardson, Sir William Quiller, Knight, painter, 1832-1910 1
Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd, 1868-1947 (author, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist) 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Ramage, George (Lance Corporal, Gordon Highlanders) 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Saltire Society 1
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1
Scottish National Party 1
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 1
Stevenson, Frances Matilda Van de Grift (née Van de Grift, then Osbourne, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson) 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 1
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 1
Strachan, Michael, writer, b 1919 1
Strong, Austin (playwright) 1
Sutherland, John D, banker, Oban, fl 1910-1930 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
Women's Social and Political Union, suffragettes 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973. 1
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