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Nine letters (one a photocopy) of the Reverend Dr Robert Laws, missionary in Malawi.
Includes two letters of the Reverend Malcolm Moffat, missionary in Zambia, to Alexander Gill, jeweller, Aberdeen, together with photograph of a baptismal bowl.
Note concerning the foundation of the new parish church of Tulliallan.
Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.
Papers concerning the Lord High Commissioners to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
The papers contain a large number of photocopies of documents dating back to the 17th century.
Papers of and concerning Francis George Scott, composer.
Papers of and concerning Lex McLean, mostly relating to his career in entertainment.
Papers of and concerning the painter Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922).
A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.
Papers of and concerning the Rev Dr Murdoch Mackenzie, missionary in China.
Includes photocopies of letters, tributes and biographical note and photographs.
Papers of and concerning Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle and their home at 24 Cheyne Row, Chelsea.
Papers of and concerning William Murray.
Including photographs and copies of letters concerning Murray`s military service in the First World War.
The papers were received in three installments.
Papers of Andrew Brown.
Comprising eight notebooks and one photocopied notebook.
Including diary, 1899, of the Boer War, journal, 1905, of voyage from Johannesburg to Europe, via Egypt, Palestine and Greece, and poetry and reflections.
Papers of Dr George Pratt Insh, mostly concerning his unpublished biography of Thomas Muir of Huntershill.
Papers of George Robinson, concerning the Zulu War, 1879.
Including transcripts, photographs, photocopies, and correspondence.
Papers of Hamish Brown including log books, literary papers and family correspondence, with some relating to Braehead School.
Papers of James B Caird.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.
With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.
Papers of John Buchan.
Comprising photocopies of corrected typescripts of an essay, 1893, "Angling in Still Waters", and two short stories, undated, "Coriolanus" and "Other Gods".
Papers of Magnus Magnusson.
Papers of Robert Herdman.
Comprising:
1. photocopy of "Picture Book", 1870-1887, recording pictures painted by Herdman
2. notes of Herdman, on Thomas Carlyle, made while painting his portrait
3. correspondence of R Duddingstone Herdman, 1897, concerning the mounting of an exhibition.
Papers of Walter S Crow.
Including account of 1918 war experiences, compiled in 1977 from original notebook carried in the field, which is also presented, together with a letter on the battle of Château-Thierry.
With photocopies of two letters, 1944, of W R Crow, and photocopies of unassociated essays.
Papers relating to the publication of works of Michael Strachan.
Includes correspondence, manuscript drafts, copies and transcripts of 17th-century documents relating to the following works of Michael Strachan: 'The life and adventures of Thomas Coryate' (Oxford University Press, 1962); 'The East India Company journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617' (University of Minnesota Press, 1971); 'Sir Thomas Roe (1581-1644): a life' (Salisbury, 1989).
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Photocopied plans of the Scottish Central Library for Students, Fishers Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.
Photocopies, 1967, of notes, 1965, by J O French on the history of the Scottish lodges of the United Operative Plumbers’ Association of Great Britain, predecessor of the Plumbers' Trade Union.
Covers the period 1865-1965. The Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow No.1 and Greenock lodges are described in the typescript.