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22 notebooks, 1942, containing the corrected manuscript of A J Cronin, "The Keys of the Kingdom".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9873
Scope and Contents
With a copy of the novel inscribed by Cronin and a letter, 1950, of Cronin.
Dates:
1942-1950.
Account books and other business records of T and T Clark, publishers, Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.247
Dates:
1848-1962.
Catalogues, inventories, order books, correspondence and other business records of William Brown, booksellers, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7926/1-61
Dates:
1581-1961.
Correspondence and papers of Mark Sprot of Garnkirk and his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10309-10323
Dates:
1827-1895.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21001-21069
Scope and Contents
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Dates:
1802-mid 20th century, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.8501-8770
Scope and Contents
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Dates:
1898-1955.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
Diaries, a few notebooks and some miscellaneous papers chiefly of Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson, with some of her parents, brother and sisters, her husband and daughter.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20080-20207
Dates:
[1823, or after]-1935, undated.
Journals and notebooks of and relating to various members of the family of Douglas of Tilquhillie.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10342-10370
Dates:
1752-1885, undated.
Journals and notebooks of Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13420
Scope and Contents
Edward Theodore Salvesen (1857-1942) was the son of Christian Frederick Salvesen (1827-1911), the Norwegian born founder of the Salvesen shipping company of Leith. He was educated at Edinburgh University and called to the Scottish Bar in 1880, becoming a Queen’s Counsel in 1899. As a Liberal Unionist candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituencies of Leith Burghs in 1900 and Bute in 1905. He was Sheriff of Roxburghshire, Berwickshire and Selkirkshire from 1901-1905...
Dates:
1873-1900.
Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, and photocopies of material permanently exhibited there.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10707-10756
Dates:
1792-1874, undated.
Literary papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, radio scripts and correspondence of Kathleen Annie Fidler.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8078/1-880
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.
Dates:
1878-1980.
Literary papers of Tom Bryan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13566
Scope and Contents
Tom Bryan (1950- ) was born in Winnipeg, Canada, but has long been resident in Scotland, his mother’s country. A widely-published and broadcast poet and writer, he has published six collections of poetry, three non-fiction books, two collections of short stories and a novel. Tom Bryan has held a number of residencies and Royal Literary Fellowships, and was the sixth Brownsbank Writing Fellow. He co-edited `Northwords` magazine, founded `The Eildon Tree` and has edited other literary...
Dates:
Circa 1981-2014.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Microfilm of notebook of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall; and, account book of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Callendar.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.326
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: Notebook, 1667-1676, of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall (Adv.MS.13.2.17); Account book, [circa 1657-1684], of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Callendar (Adv.MS.13.2.18).
Dates:
[Circa 1657-1684.]
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates:
1750-1802.
Minutes and other administrative papers of the 7/45 Leith Dockers branch of the Transport and General Workers Union and predecessor bodies.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12234
Dates:
1930-1989.
Notebook containing lists of equipment and provisions taken on Scottish Shooting parties in Arran and Inverness-shire.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13355
Dates:
1810-1823
Notebooks of Christina Struthers, wife of Sir John Struthers, the anatomist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8900-8901
Dates:
1861-1875.
Notebooks of lecture notes and excercise books of Elsie Jean McGuire relating to her studies at Edinburgh College of Domestic Science.
File
Identifier: Acc.12465
Scope and Contents
Includes text books.
Dates:
1938-1939, undated.
Papers concerning Scottish football.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9979
Scope and Contents
Includes:
"Scottish Football Annual, 1875-6"
"Constitution and Rules of the Scottish Football Association" (1873), with manuscript notes
five notebooks, 1867-1903, of Sir George Graham, on Scottish football
21 postcards, 1904-1912, of Scottish football teams and players
typescripts and newspaper cuttings, 1931-1933 and undated, on Scottish football
Dates:
1867-1933 and undated.
Papers connected with the parish of St Ninians, Stirlingshire, and the family of William Wilson, clothmaker, Bannockburn.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.9823-9826
Dates:
1778-[circa 1850].
Papers of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14889
Scope and Contents
Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.