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Diaries, correspondence and notebooks of Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet of Fasque and his family.
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Identifier: Acc.13414
Dates:
1822-1829
Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents
The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.
Dates:
1896-1977.
Diaries, notebooks and related papers of George Dott, Scottish nationalist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12987/1-64
Dates:
1909-2008.
Diaries, notebooks, film-scripts and film-related papers of Richard Jobson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13740/1-50
Dates:
1982-2012.
Diaries of Bessie Stone and her sister.
File
Identifier: Acc.6800
Scope and Contents
With notebook containing an anonymous translation of the first part of Alphonse Daudet, "Le Petit Chose".
Dates:
1903-1904, 1907.
Diary of a return trip between Edinburgh and Yokohama by Miss Madelena L Stewart.
File
Identifier: Acc.12756
Scope and Contents
Comprises bound notebook compiled in pencil and loose typescript with illustrations.
Dates:
1934.
Digital archive of Don Paterson, with two notebooks.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13339
Scope and Contents
Since 2000, Don Paterson has done much of his writing directly onto his Apple Mac (and subsequent models), and his digital archive appears to contain most of his work – in diverse fields - back to that point. The development of the poems are charted through multiple drafts as he hones a work down to the essence. The prose, some of which seems to form the raw material for his collections of aphorism, is occasionally written at such speed that there is no attempt to correct typos or even spell...
Dates:
1995-2011
Digital archive of literary and personal papers of Christopher Whyte.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13746
Dates:
2013-2016.
Drafts, proofs, notes, and research materials of Tom Pow, including related correspondence and other literary papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12950/1-59
Dates:
[1915]-2007, undated.
Family papers of the Frasers of Belladrum, 1563-1786; including a copy of one earlier document 1203x1222 concerning Brice De Douglas, Bishop of Moray and John Bisset of Lovat.
File
Identifier: Acc.11244
Dates:
1563-1786.
Formal documents and miscellaneous papers of the family of John Taylor, rector of Musselburgh Grammar School.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14271-14272
Dates:
1800-1936, undated.
Four field-diaries, numbered 21, 22, 24 and 26, 1867-1871, and notebooks, numbered 2 and 4, 1850-1854, of David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: Dep.343
Dates:
1850-1854, 1867-1871.
Four notebooks of Sir Robert Somerville containing material on the history of Dunfermline.
File
Identifier: Acc.10930
Dates:
circa 1930.
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Dates:
ca. 1800-1823
Further literary papers of Ron Butlin.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13400
Scope and Contents
Literary papers of Ron Butlin, including various drafts of an unpublished novel titled `The Invisible Woman`, and papers relating to `No More Angels`(2007).
Dates:
2001-2012.
Genealogical notebook concerning the Malcolm of Burnfoot and Palmer Douglas families.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11709
Dates:
19th century.
Genealogical notebook mainly concerning the Gill family.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9983
Dates:
20th century.
Historical and genealogical notebook.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11639
Scope and Contents
Includes extracts from works of George Crawford, Sir James Dalrymple and Sir J Scott of Scotstorvet.
Dates:
circa 1709.
Journal of Robert Stevenson, civil engineer, describing visits to lighthouses in England, Wales and Ireland on behalf of the Commissioners for Northern Lighthouses.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14576
Dates:
1801-1806
'Journal of the tour round the Western Islands of Scotland 1788', a quarto notebook and various unbound pages forming together an incomplete journal, in the hand of John, 1st Marquess of Bute (then Lord Mountstuart).
Item
Identifier: MS.9587
Scope and Contents
The journal comprises chiefly the account of a voyage, August 1788, in the revenue cutter ‘Royal George’ from Mountstuart, Isle of Bute, to Islay (folio 2), Mull and Lismore (folios 5-12), Staffa and Iona (folios 26-27), North Uist and Lewis (folios 28-30), Skye and Raasay (folios 30-34), Canna (folios 34-41), and Oban and Kerrera (folio 42). There is also a fragment of journal, 12-19 October, relating to a later cruise in Loch Fyne (folio 43). Also included are...
Dates:
1788.
Journalist's notebooks of Neal Ascherson.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13676/1-185
Scope and Contents
The notebooks and engagement diaries cover Ascherson's career as correspondent for the Manchester Guardian (1956-57), The Scotsman (1959-60), Observer (1960-1975 and 1979-1990), and The Independent on Sunday (1990-1998), as well as his later career as a writer and academic. They contain descriptive notes relating to his research and reporting on international and home politics and affairs. From 1987, the notebooks also contain detailed personal diary entries.Ascherson's time as...
Dates:
1957-2013
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.