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Photocopies of papers of Graham of Airth family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6307
Scope and Contents

Including:

1. correspondence, 1762-1820, of Ann Graham, with some other Graham family letters

2. memoirs of James Graham

3. "View of the Sums Received from the Estate of Ardoch Penn, Jamaica", 1828.

Dates: 1762-1828.

Photocopy, 1970, of a typescript of reminiscences, 1909, of John Gilray, entitled "Early Days of the Socialist Movement in Edinburgh".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4965
Scope and Contents The period described is circa 1884–18 93. Early socialist organisations mentioned include a Republican Society, affiliated to the Democratic [later Social Democratic] Federation; Edinburgh University Socialist Society; the Socialist League; the Scottish Land and Labour league; the Scottish Labour Party, and Labour Party; the Independent Labour Party; and the Fabian Society. The narrative is based on a talk given originally at the 17th Annual Conference of the Independent Labour Party,...
Dates: 1970.

Photocopy of M B Harvey, "Childhood Memories of an Indian Hill Station [Kasauli]".

 File
Identifier: Acc.10018
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of connected papers, 1920 and 1948.

Dates: 1920-1953.

Photocopy of memoir of Colonel James Dick.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10508
Scope and Contents

Concerns his family`s involvement in mining and his education in Edinburgh.

Dates: 1924.

Photographs and watercolour portraits of, or assembled by, William Simpson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11877
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript of memoir "Notes and Recollections".

Dates: 1843-1893.

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.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5705
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1934, 1941.

Privately-printed memoir of Peter Mackay.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14481
Scope and Contents The memoir gives an account of Mackay's career in the Scottish Office from 1963 to 1995, with secondments to the Manpower Services Commission in the Department for Employment, London, 1983-86, and his public appointments and other professional work after 1995. Subjects covered include the relationship between St Andrews House and Westminster and Whitehall prior to devolution; civil service recruitment; working relationships with politicians including George Willis, Willie Ross, Dick Mabon,...
Dates: 2022.

'Recollections of my boyhood, with open-air-lessons of later years, by Thomas Edward (of Banff, shoemaker)’.

 File
Identifier: MS.2227
Scope and Contents

Four letters, 1883-1884, of Thomas Edward to David Douglas, bookseller, Edinburgh; proofs of Edward's apparently unpublished 'Recollections', as in MS.1662, with some manuscript corrections; proofs of other essays, also apparently unpublished, with corrections.

The title is in the hand of David Douglas.

Dates: 1883-1884.

Reminiscences, ? 1936, of the Reverend Dr E M Macphail.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8299
Scope and Contents

Concerning his service in Madras Christian College in 1886-1887 and of life in Madras at this time.

With letter, 1936, of Secretary of Madras Christian College Day Association to Macphail.

Dates: 1936 and undated.

Reminiscences covering the years 1839 to 1881 of George Anderson from Dundee, indigo planter in India.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9969
Scope and Contents

Includes genealogical information about his family.

Dates: circa 1881.

Reminiscences of Andrew Macgeorge.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8341
Scope and Contents

Concerning his family, upbringing and social life.

With typed transcript.

Dates: 19th century.

Reminiscences of James Steuart.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3624/1-3
Dates: Circa 1860-circa 1886.

Reminiscences of travels in Greece of John M Cook.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11167
Scope and Contents

Includes two reports on Greek monuments.

Dates: 1930-1945.

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Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 6
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981 2
Macneill, Hector, poet, 1746-1818 2
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 2
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National Library of Scotland 2
Anderson, Ann, nurse in Australia, 1833-1906 1
Anderson, George, East Kilbride, fl 1914-1984 1
Anderson, George, indigo planter at Kumtoul in Tirhoot Behar, India, 1817-1893 1
Annunzio, Gabriele d', poet, 1863-1938 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, 52nd (Lowland) Division 1
Baker, Patricia, National Library of Scotland, fl 1930-1985 1
Band, David, Crail, seaman, fl 1809 1
Bathgate Forge Company Ltd, spade and shovel manufacturers 1
Bell, Alan Scott, library and literary consultant, 1942-2018 1
Berry, R J A , medical practitioner, Bristol, fl 1961 1
Black, Elinor F E, President of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, 1905-1982 1
Black, Elinor F E, President of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, 1905-1982: recipient 1
Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Bogie, David Wilson, Sheriff, 1946-1999 1
Bonaparte, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 1
Brown, George Douglas, author, 1869-1902 1
Brown, W D, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, fl 1942-1943 1
Brown, William Alexander, military adventurer, 1922-1984 1
Bury, Charlotte Susan Maria, Lady (novelist, née Campbell, then Campbell) (1775-1861) 1
Cadell, Colin Simson, Air Commodore, 1905-1996 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881: transcriber 1
Church of Scotland, Blantyre Mission, Malawi 1
Cleland, W L, Medindie Gardens, Australia, fl 1989 1
Cleland, William, Lieutenant-Colonel, poet, d 1689 1
Cook, John Manuel, Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Bristol, 1910-1994 1
Coutts, Francis Henderson, Brigadier, 1918-2008 1
Cowan, family 1
Crabbe, Sir John Gordon, Knight, Colonel, 1892-1961 1
Crabbie, Donald, Lieutenant, Royal Navy, d 2001 1
Craig, William Marshall, chartered accountant, fl 1917-1923 1
Craw, W A, Southampton, fl 1920-1986 1
Crawford, Lawrence, Parliamentary Major-General, 1611-1645 1
Crocket, James, gardener, fl 1935 1
Crow, W R, Sergeant, Indian Command, Royal Air Force, fl 1944 1
Crow, Walter S, Sergeant, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, d c 1978 1
Curran, Henry, author of memoir "Interrupted Odyssey", 1926-2008 1
Dalrymple, Sir Hew Whitefoord, 1st Baronet, General, 1750-1830 1
Daniel, Cecil C, Captain, Royal Scots, fl 1899-1901 1
Davidson, Richard, India, tea-planter, fl 1930 1
Denham, Sir James Steuart, 3rd Baronet, of Coltness and Westshield, economist, formerly Steuart, 1713-1780 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Dick, James Adam, Colonel, 1866-1942 1
Douglas, David, bookseller, 1823-1916 1
Douglas, Gavin, Bishop of Dunkeld, poet, c 1476-1522 1
Dwelly, Edward, Gaelic lexicographer, pseudonym Ewen MacDonald, 1864-1939 1
Elliot, James Scott, Major General, HM Lieutenant of the County of Dumfries, 1902-1996 1
Elphinstone, Alexander Francis, 1788-1865 (naval officer) 1
Elphinstone, John, RN, naval officer in the Russian service, 1722-1785 1
Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 1
Fabre, Claire Chevrillon-, author of "Code Name Christiane Clouet...", 1907-2011 1
Falco, Robert di, St Andrews, 1899-1963 1
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 1
Foster, Margaret, Assistant Secretary to the Royal Scottish Academy, fl 1925-1995 1
Fraser, Donald, politician, 1904-1956 1
Fraser, Eileen Lucy, wife of George Sutherland, poet and critic, née Andrew, b 1918 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
French, Annie, illustrator, 1872-1965 1
Friel, George, George (novelist) 1
Galloway, Alexander, correspondent of William Soutar, poet, fl 1939-1977 1
Galloway, Alexander, correspondent of William Soutar, poet, fl 1939-1977: recipient 1
Geary, Francis (Admiral) 1
George Wolfe and Sons Ltd, Bathgate, spade and shovel manufacturers 1
Gibb, John Philip (commercial traveller) 1
Gillespie, James, associate of George Friel, novelist, fl 1926-1985 1
Gillies, Donald John, emigrant, minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada , 1901-1994 1
Gillies, Sir William George, painter and art teacher, 1898-1973 1
Gilray, John, Edinburgh, socialist, fl 1884-1909 1
Gower, George Granville Leveson, 1st Duke of Sutherland, 1758-1833 1
Graham, Angus, forester and architectural historian, 1892-1980 1
Graham, Ann, of Airth, fl 1762-1820 1
Graham, James, of Airth, d 1806 1
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981: recipient 1
Graham, family, of Airth 1
Grant, Sir Francis, Knight, portrait-painter, 1803-1878 1
Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford, Knight, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 1866-1960 1
HMS Bellerophon, 1786-1824, ship of the line 1
Haldane, Archibald Richard Burdon, Writer to the Signet, 1900-1982 1
Haldane, Thomas Graeme Nelson, scientist, 1897-1981 1
Harvey, M B, author of "Childhood Memories of an Indian Hill Station", fl 1920-1990 1
Hastie, John, father of William, Minister of Slamannan, fl 1670-1700 1
Hastie, William, Minister of Slamannan, d 1755 1
Hastie, family, of Bogohaugh 1
Hawthorne, Harry, Sergeant, 5th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, b 1917 1
Henderson, Catherine Elsie, wife of John, manager, Edinburgh Assurance Company Ltd, née Jones, 1886-1947 1
Henderson, Sir David, Knight, Lieutenant-General, 1862-1921 1
Hetherwick, Alexander, Head of Church of Scotland Mission, Blantyre, Nyasaland, 1860-1939 1
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 1
Iain Gordon Brown, Dr 1
Jarvie, Gordon, writer and editor, b.1941. 1
Kaye, Florence R S, emigrant to United States, b c 1922 1
Kenmure, Vera Mary Muir, Minister at Hillhead, Glasgow, née Findlay, 1904-1973 1
Lahiri, B N, Indian Police, fl 1950 1
Lindsay, James, 24th Earl of Crawford and 7th Earl of Balcarres, 1783-1869 1
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