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Photocopies and microfilm of letters of Sir Walter Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6104
Scope and Contents

With associated papers.

Dates: circa 1800-circa 1832.

Photocopies and prints of photographs of John Lennox, Aberdeen.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10042
Scope and Contents

Includes material concerning the Aberdeen contingent of the National Hunger March, 1936, and to the Spanish Civil War and Bob Cooney.

Dates: 1927-1943.

Photocopies and transcripts of two letters of Charles McIntosh to Beatrix Potter.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11464
Scope and Contents

Letters concern fungi.

Dates: 1894 and undated.

Photocopies, circa 2005, of letters, 1899-1902, of and to Lord Herbert Scott, when on service in the South African War.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12482
Scope and Contents This collection of letters and telegrams had been numbered before copies were received by the Library, and this numbering has been adhered to. All letters are from Lord Herbert Scott (henceforth HS) to his mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, unless otherwise stated.The sequence of numbers 1 to 61, and 74 to 107, are chronological. Numbers 62 to 73 are an interpolation of telegrams, and this comprises a duplicate chronological sequence.1. 18 January 1899 [or rather...
Dates: Circa 2005.

Photocopies of 13 letters, 1776, of David Hume to his brother, John Home of Ninewells.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7509
Scope and Contents

With:

letter, 1771, of Hume to his nephew, Joseph Hume of Horndean

letter, 1766, of Hume to John Craufurd of Auchenaines.

Dates: 1766-1776.

Photocopies of 14 letters, mainly to Mrs Peter Brown, from her sons Peter and Robert, at school and in the West Indies.

 File
Identifier: MS.50268
Scope and Contents Letters, 1818-1826, of Peter Brown to his mother, his cousin and his mother’s husband Thomas Lawrie concerning his education in Glasgow and his life in St Vincent (folios 1-28).Letters, 1826-1832, of Robert Brown to his mother concerning his education, his life in St Vincent and the death of Peter Brown (folios 29-35).Letter, 1840, of Archibald Lamont to Lilly Lowrie [Lawrie] concerning a loan (folios 36-37).Letters, 1842-1845 of William Lawrie to Duncan...
Dates: 1818-1845.

Photocopies of 15 letters of Seton Gordon to Paul C Spink.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9176
Scope and Contents

Mostly on weather conditions in the Highlands.

Dates: 1964-1976.

Photocopies of 16 letters of James Bridie to Joan White.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9877
Scope and Contents

Mostly concern Bridie`s plays.

Dates: 1935-1946 and undated.

Photocopies of 16 letters to Kaikhosru Sorabji.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10031
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include, Cecil Gray, Hugh MacDiarmid and Francis George Scott.

With four letters of Sorabji to Gray.

Dates: 1922-1955.

Photocopies of 17 letters between Giambattista Bodoni, printer at Parma, and David Steuart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10525
Scope and Contents

Letters concern Steuart`s book-collecting activities.

Dates: 1791-1799.

Photocopies of 18 letters of or concerning Neil M Gunn.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5416
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Photocopy of letter of Edwin and Willa Muir to Neil M Gunn, 9 December 1948.Photocopies of twelve letters of Neil M. Gunn to Ian Grimble, 14 November 1960; 25 July 1961; [2 March], [27 May], 7 November, 23 December [1963]; [30 October], [November] 1964; [1965]; 29 March 1966, enclosing photocopy of letter of Neil M Gunn to Tokusaburo Nakamura, 28 March 1966; 23 July 1971; undated.Photocopy of letter of Tokusaburo Nakamura to Ian...
Dates: 1948-1971, undated.

Photocopies of 20 letters to Francis George Scott.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7648
Scope and Contents

On musical and literary matters.

Correspondents include C M Grieve, Edwin Muir, and Douglas Young.

Dates: 1930-1957.

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Subject
Letters. Correspondence. 255
Typescripts. 61
Correspondence. 52
Poetry. 48
Manuscripts. 36
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Photographs. 33
Notes. 31
Diaries. 26
Drafts. Documents. 25
Memoirs. 22
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 21
Transcripts 18
Travel journals 15
Lists. 14
Biographies. 13
Copies. Derivative objects. 13
Maps. Cartographic materials. 13
Histories. 12
Notebooks. 12
Articles. 11
Genealogies. 11
Microfilms. 10
Scores 10
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 10
Speeches. Documents. 10
Fragments. 9
Minutes. Administrative records. 9
Plays. 9
Songs. Musical compositions. 9
Translations. Documents. 9
Catalogues. 8
Research notes 8
Autobiographies. 7
Memorandums. 7
Novels. 7
Travel journals. 7
Annotations. 6
Indexes. Reference sources. 6
Theses. 6
Accounts. 5
Documents. 5
Essays. 5
Excerpts. 5
Extracts. 5
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 5
Lectures. 5
Music books. 5
Scripts. Documents 5
Sketches 5
South Africa. Africa - South Africa. Nation. Longitude: 26.0000. Latitude: -30.0000. 5
Transcripts. 5
Account books. 4
Administrative records. 4
Canada. North and Central America. Nation. Longitude: -96.0000. Latitude: 60.0000. 4
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 4
Instructional materials. 4
Legal documents. 4
Programmes 4
Proofs. Printed matter. 4
Reports 4
Research notes. 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Scores. 4
Scrapbooks 4
Short stories. 4
Argyll. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Argyll and Bute. County. 3
Calligraphy. Visual works. 3
Certificates 3
Commonplace books. 3
Contracts. Agreements. 3
Drawings. Visual works. 3
First World War (1914-1918). 3
Illustrations. Layout features. 3
Inventories. 3
Minute books. 3
Plans (orthographic projections). 3
Postcards. 3
Registers (lists) 3
Reports. 3
Second World War (1939-1945). 3
Signatures. Names 3
Travel literature 3
Videocassettes. 3
Argentina. South America. Nation. Longitude: -64.0000. Latitude: -34.0000. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
Autographs (manuscripts). 2
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 2
Census records. 2
Charters 2
Choral music. 2
Commentaries. 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Dances. Musical compositions. 2
Ephemera. 2
First Jacobite Rebellion (1715). 2
Graphs. 2
Great Highland Bagpipe music. Bagpipe music. 2
Greenock. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Inverclyde. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.7500. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Greeting cards. Correspondence. 2
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Language
English 542
Undetermined 35
Multiple languages 5
French 3
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 3
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 31
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 14
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 12
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 9
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 7
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Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 7
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 7
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 6
James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 6
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 5
Graham, Sir Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Knight, of Gartmore, Admiral, 1893-1981 4
Gray, Alasdair (author) 4
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 4
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 3
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 3
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 3
Gunn, Neil Miller, author, 1891-1973 3
Hornel, Edward Atkinson, artist, 1864-1933: recipient 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 3
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 3
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
National Library of Scotland 3
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 3
Soutar, William (poet) 3
Baxter, Charles, Writer to the Signet, 1848-1919 2
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 2
Blake, William, engraver, artist and poet, 1757-1827 2
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck, 1775-1822 2
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Dalrymple, Sir David, 3rd Baronet, Senator of the College of Justice, 1726-1792 2
Edgeworth, Maria (novelist) 2
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 2
Faculty of Advocates, Library, Edinburgh 2
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 2
Forward, Glasgow, newspaper 2
Fraser, Simon, piper, Warrnambool, Australia, d 1934 2
Galt, John (novelist) 2
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 2
Gordon, Edward Strathearn, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, 1814-1879 2
Heelis, Helen Beatrix, author, née Potter, 1866-1943 2
Henley, William Earnest, poet, 1849-1903 2
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 2
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873: recipient 2
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 2
McGregor, family 2
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 2
Murray, John (publisher (III)) (1808-1892) 2
Neilson, George, historian and antiquary, 1858-1923 2
Ogilvy, John, Inshewan, fl 1966 2
Owens, Agnes (author) (1926-2014) 2
Pughe, William Owen, antiquary and lexicographer, pseudonym Idrison, 1759-1835: recipient 2
Scott, Walter, Writer to the Signet, 1729-1799 2
Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, 1427-1496: recipient 2
Smith, David Nichol, literary scholar, 1875-1962 2
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, Knight, explorer, formerly Rowlands, 1841-1904 2
University of Glasgow 2
Aall, Jacob, Norway, politician and author, 1773-1844 1
Abbey of St James, Ratesbon: former owner 1
Aitken, James, correspondent of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, fl 1839: recipient 1
Aitken, Margaret Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian, d 1932 1
Aitken, Mary Carlyle, niece of Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist, fl 1877-1932 1
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Field-Marshal, 1891-1969 1
Allan, Archibald, Minister of Channelkirk, d 1924 1
Allan, Thomas Ward-, Superintendent of the Chulsa and Bagracote Tea Company Ltd, Dooars, India, 1888-1950 1
Alston, Charles, scientific writer, 1685-1760 1
Alston, James Maxwell, pathologist, b 1900 1
Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, politician and journalist, 1873-1955 1
Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, politician and journalist, 1873-1955. 1
Amory, Hugh, author of "Bibliography and the Book Trades", 1930-2001 1
Anderson, David, International Brigader, Spanish Civil War, b 1912 1
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 1
Anderson, George, East Kilbride, fl 1914-1984 1
Angus, William, prebendary and sacristan of the Chapel Royal, Stirling, fl 1590 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Anne, Queen Consort of James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1574-1619 1
Archer, William, critic and dramatist, 1856-1924 1
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Highland Light Infantry, 9th Battalion 1
Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, folklorist, 1812-1885: recipient 1
Atherstone, Edwin, author, 1788-1872 1
Bach, Albert Bernhard, Edinburgh, vocalist, 1844-1913 1
Bain, Harry, Pipe Major, fl 1980 1
Baird, John Logie, inventor of television, 1888-1964 1
Baird, Malcolm Henry Inglis, Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada, son of John Logie, inventor of television , b 1935: collector 1
Baker, Sir Samuel White, Knight, traveller, 1821-1893: recipient 1
Balfour, Lewis, Minister of Colinton, 1777-1860: recipient 1
Balfour, Michael Leonard Graham, historian and public servant, 1908-1995 1
Balfour, Rhoda, wife of Sir Thomas Graham, author, née Brooke, fl 1896-1944 1
Balfour, Robert, 2nd Lord Balfour of Burleigh (succeeded 1619), d 1663: recipient 1
Balfour, Sir William, Knight, of Pitcullo, Lieutenant-General, d 1660 1
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 1
Balvaird, W, Paris, fl 1815 1
Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell-, Prime Minister, 1836-1908 1
Barleus, Caspar, theologian, 1584-1648: recipient 1
Barnard, Henry, Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools, 1811-1900: recipient 1
Barnard, Michael, visitor to Scotland, fl 1965-2003 1
Basden, Eric Bernard, local collector and bibliographer, 1913-1984 1
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