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Literary papers of Tom Pow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12233/1-87
Scope and Contents
Literary papers, 1969-2003, of Tom Pow (b. 1950), poet and lecturer in Creative and Cultural Studies at Glasgow University's Chrichton Campus. This collection includes papers relating to the following published works: 'Rough seas' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987); 'The moth trap' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990); 'In the palace of serpents' (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1992); 'Shouting it out' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), edited by Tom Pow; and 'Red letter day' (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe,...
Dates:
1969-2003.
Literary papers of William McIlvanney.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14097 Box 1(1)-Box 5(40)
Dates:
[?1966-?2015.]
Log and naval and military notebook of Sir Charles Malcolm, while stationed on the East coast of America.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8804
Dates:
1814-1824.
'Man in his muscles', a notebook of anatomical engravings attributed to Robert Elliot Bewick, wood-engraver, Newcastle, with notes on perspective, and the bones of the human skull.
Item
Identifier: MS.9318
Scope and Contents
It is possible to date the engravings circa 1824, from an obituary of 'Mr Sharp the Engraver', copied into the notebook, and stated to come from the ‘Tyne Mercury’ for 19th October 1824.
Dates:
[Circa 1824.]
Manuscript notebook of Edward Boyd.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4747
Scope and Contents
Containing sketches of broadcast scripts.
Dates:
circa 1940-circa 1969.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Manuscripts of Donald MacPherson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14890-14895
Scope and Contents
Donald MacPherson is described in ‘Cairm’, volume 25, page 207. He was born in Laggan, Badenoch, about 1788 (MS.14891, page 124). He served in the 75th Regiment for fourteen years, and reached the rank of sergeant. On leaving the army he married Mary Stacey, a native of Richmond-on-Thames, and entered business as a bookseller at 54 Upper Ebury Street, Pimlico. In 1824 he published some of his English poems as ‘Melodies from the Gaelic’. This achieving some success, he proposed another work,...
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Manuscripts of parts of George Scott-Moncrieff's verse drama ‘Fotheringhay’, and of his history of the Catholic Church in Scotland, ‘The mirror and the cross’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19628-19631
Dates:
1951, 1960.
Manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence and other papers of and relating to James Kennaway.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12760/1-86
Dates:
[1937]-1994, undated.
Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Kathleen Jamie, with related papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11599/1-54
Scope and Contents
Kathleen Jamie was born in Johnstone in 1962, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. These papers date from the period 1988 to 1997. During this time, Kathleen Jamie was writer in residence to various organisations, including the Workington Docks Project and the University of Dundee, and was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Scottish-Canadian Fellowship in 1994. The collection includes papers relating to the following published or broadcast works:The Golden Peak (London:...
Dates:
1980-1997.
Manuscripts, typescripts, research notes and personal papers of Jean Mary Allan, librarian and novelist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8844/1-65
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, essays, talks and some personal papers.
Dates:
1896-circa 1976.
Mathematical exercise book of James Phillips, Dunning School.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9799
Dates:
1842.
Medical notebook of Alexander Ochterlony, a younger son of James Ochterlony of Wester Seaton who studied medicine at the University of Paris.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the notebook are as follows:(i) `Spagyricae seu Jatrochymicae Synopsios Cursus ... illustratus a doctissimo viro domino Rheo`, July 1631. Notes of lectures on chemistry given by Rhee [?Rae], a Scot teaching in Paris. (Folio 1.)(ii) `De primis Naturae principiis`. (Folio 39.)(iii) Extracts from ‘De gradibus et compositionibus receptorum et naturalium’ by Paracelsus. (Folio 45.)(iv) Prescriptions in Latin. (Folio 51.)...
Dates:
1631-1635.
Medical notebook of Dugald Blair Brown, while on service in India.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8640
Dates:
1885-1886.
Microfilm of a notebook of Alexander Main, containing copies of letters to him from George Eliot and G H Lewes.
Item
Identifier: MS.15551 [Mf.MSS.30]
Dates:
1871-1877.
Microfilm of diaries and notebooks, and photocopies of a diary of David Livingstone.
Series
Identifier: MS.10776
Dates:
1850-1871.
Microfilm of journal and notebook of Henry Aston Barker describing a voyage to Constantinople, and his life there.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1069
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Journal, 1799-April 1800 (MS.9647);
Journal, April-July 1800 (MS.9648);
Notebook, 1799-1800, 1802 (MS.9649).
Dates:
1799-1802.
Microfilm of journals, notebooks, and draft letters of George Combe.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1014-1015
Dates:
1804-1837.
Microfilm of letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh; and notebook of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, containing reminiscences of Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.378-380
Dates:
1821-1879.
Microfilm of manuscripts chiefly concerned with Orkney and Shetland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.484
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notebook, 2nd half of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, of Sir Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material (Adv.MS.13.2.8);‘Glossary of Shetland words’, Early 19th century, prepared for John Jamieson by the Reverend Thomas Barclay, principal of Glasgow University (Adv.MS.22.5.2);Original manuscript, 1776, of ‘Fauna Orcadensis’ by George Low, Minister of Birsay (Adv.MS.32.4.1);Manuscripts, 1770-1772,...
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century-early 19th century.
Microfilm of notebook, 9 April-21 April 1857, of John Inglis, containing notes of cases in the High Court on circuit.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1688
Dates:
1857.
Microfilm of notebook containing a detailed account, including many diagrams, of the construction of Waterloo Bridge, compiled by George Rennie.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1009
Dates:
1817.
Microfilm of notebook containing press cuttings chiefly of obituary notices for William Sharp.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1061
Dates:
1905-1910.