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43 letters of William Soutar to the Reverend David Stevens.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7123
Scope and Contents

On personal and literary matters.

With associated photographs, typescripts, and printed items.

Dates: 1934-1943.

Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13602
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.

It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.

Dates: 1989-2009

Copies of 14 photographs of a Kirkcaldy linoleum workers` strike.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7621
Scope and Contents

With a typescript account, circa 1980, of the incident by James Bogie.

Dates: 1939-circa 1980.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including papers and printed material of the Scottish National Party, PEN International and other political and cultural bodies.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.6419 Box 1(1)-Box 108(3)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles, reviews and lectures.

With letters of and to various correspondents, including James Bridie, C M Grieve, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Naomi Mitchison, and Edwin Muir.

And documents and correspondence concerning the SNP, PEN, the Saltire Society, and other organisations.

Dates: 1890-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.

Dates: 1759-[circa 1947.]

Correspondence and papers of William Winter Hamilton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10951/1-124
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Dates: 1950-1987.

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14596/1-248
Scope and Contents This archive contains literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown, the celebrated Orcadian poet and novelist. At the heart of this collection is the vast amount of correspondence received by George Mackay Brown throughout his life from friends, fans, editors, publishers and others. These letters, postcards and greetings cards give a unique insight into the breadth of attention that his work drew, as well as the connections he made with correspondents from across the world, all from...
Dates: 1800, 1934-2013, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates: 1896-2006.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1895-1965, undated.

Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.

With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.

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Photographs. 101
Correspondence. 56
Manuscripts. 40
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 30
Letters. Correspondence. 25
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Poetry. 22
Notes. 20
Diaries. 18
Articles. 17
Drafts. Documents. 15
Notebooks. 15
Copies. Derivative objects. 11
Speeches. Documents. 11
Financial records. 9
Plays. 9
Photocopies. 8
Lectures. 7
Pamphlets. 7
Reviews. Document genre. 7
Drawings. Visual works. 6
Essays. 6
Novels. 6
Proofs. Printed matter. 6
Publications. 6
Short stories. 6
Slides. Photographs. 6
Biographies. 5
Documents. 5
Literature (writings). 5
Minutes. Administrative records. 5
Negatives. Photographs. 5
Reports 5
Accounts. 4
Lists. 4
Memorandums. 4
Obituaries. 4
Personal papers. 4
Portraits. 4
Research notes. 4
Reviews. Document genre 4
Translations. Documents. 4
Travel journals 4
Audiocassettes. 3
Autobiographies. 3
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 3
Ephemera. 3
Illustrations. Layout features. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
Memoirs. 3
Postcards. 3
Printed materials. Object genre. 3
Programmes 3
Proofs. printed matter 3
Reports. 3
Sketches 3
Sketches. 3
Stats. Copies. 3
Transcripts 3
Administrative records. 2
Business records. 2
Catalogues. 2
Compact discs. 2
DVDs. 2
Excerpts. 2
Fliers. Printed matter. 2
Fragments. 2
Genealogies. 2
Histories. 2
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 2
Inventories. 2
Legal documents. 2
Lithographs. Planographic prints. 2
Periodicals. 2
Photograph albums. 2
Professional papers. 2
Scripts. Documents 2
Sermons. 2
Snapshots. 2
Sound recordings. 2
Videocassettes. 2
Watercolours. Paintings. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Admiralty charts. 1
Albums. 1
Australia. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: 135.0000. Latitude: -25.0000. 1
Authors 1
Books 1
Born digital. 1
Calculations. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Cartoons. Humourous images. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Chogoria (inhabited place). Africa - Kenya - Eastern Province. Longitude: 37.6676. Latitude: -0.2844. 1
Christmas cards. 1
Circulars. Fliers. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Declarations. 1
Deeds. Legal documents. 1
Dictionaries. 1
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Language
English 80
Undetermined 24
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 1
 
Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 2
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 2
Scotia Review, literary journal 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Abbot, Ian, poet, 1947-1989 1
Allan, Jean Mary (librarian and novelist, pseudonym Lennox Allan) 1
Allan, Michael, Stirling, fl 1975-1990 1
Amalgamated Slaters' Society of Scotland 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Baker, Helen Mary, missionary, 1908-1988 1
Begg, James, fl. 1890-1944 (timber merchant of Glasgow) 1
Bogie, James, Kirkcaldy, fl 1939-1980 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Clinton, Margery (ceramist) 1
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 1
Dallas, family, Nairn 1
Dark, Richard, teacher and writer, 1876-1952 1
Davidson, Richard, India, tea-planter, fl 1930 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1
Dunlop, family, of Stevenson 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Finch, George Ingle, chemist and mountaineer, 1888-1970 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Foster, Margaret, Assistant Secretary to the Royal Scottish Academy, fl 1925-1995 1
Galloway, Alexander, correspondent of William Soutar, poet, fl 1939-1977 1
Galloway, Alexander, correspondent of William Soutar, poet, fl 1939-1977: recipient 1
Gallus Stage Productions, theatre company 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Hamilton, William Winter, politician, 1917-2000 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Hibernian Football Club, Edinburgh 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 1
Insh, George Pratt, historian, b 1883 1
Irvine, Archibald Clive, medical missionary, Kenya, 1893-1974 1
Jeffares, Alexander Norman, Professor of English Studies, Stirling University, 1920-2005 1
Kay, Katharine Cameron, painter and etcher, née Cameron, 1874-1965 1
Kaye, Florence R S, emigrant to United States, b c 1922 1
Kelman, James, novelist, b 1946 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 1
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 1
Leonard, Tom (poet) (1944-2018) 1
MacDougall, Ian, Honorary Secretary, Scottish Labour History Society, b 1933 1
MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin, writer and photographer, 1899-1970 1
MacPhárlain, Calum, Gaelic activist and writer, 1853-1931 1
Macarthur, family, Nairn, Scotland, Manitoba, Canada 1
Macdonald, Malcolm 'Callum' (printer and publisher) 1
Macdonald, Thomas Joseph Douglas, pseudonym 'Fionn MacColla' (writer) 1
Mackenzie, Evan, missionary in Tibet, b 1868 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
McAlpine, Morag (librarian) (1946-2014) 1
McGill, John, historian 1
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 1
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 1
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 1
Morrison, Margaret Mackie (novelist, writing under the pen name 'March Cost') (1897-1973) 1
National Council of Labour Colleges 1
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Reeve, Eric Cyril Raynold (British geneticist) (1913-2011) 1
Russell, Robert Scott, botanist and mountaineer, 1913-1999 1
Saltire Society 1
Scot, Thomas Goldie, Surgeon-Major, Cameron Highlanders, b 1820 1
Scot, Thomas, Madras, surgeon, fl 1820 1
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 1
Scott, Thomas Ross, physician and playwright, fl 1913-1948 1
Scottish National Party 1
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 1
Scottish Working People's History Trust 1
Searle, Ronald William Fordham, cartoonist and illustrator, 1920-2011. 1
Sellar, Robert James Batchen, playwright and author, b 1893 1
Simon, Edith (writer and artist) (1917-2003) 1
Stevens, David, Minister of Glenesk, b 1907: recipient 1
Taylor, John (of North Shields) 1
Taylor, Wilfred (journalist and author) 1
The Robert Burns World Federation Limited 1
Thomas, David, Vicar of St Peter's, Macclesfield, 1872-1941 1
Thomson, Philip D, co-author of "100 Years of Hibs", fl 1992-2005 1
Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho, 13th Dalai Lama, 1876-1933 1
Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho, 13th Dalai Lama, 1876-1933. 1
Thurston, Katherine Cecil, novelist, née Madden, 1875-1911 1
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 1
Wallace, Sir William, Knight, guardian of Scotland, d 1305 1
Weir, Thomas [Tom] (explorer, journalist and photographer) 1
Whitley, Henry Charles, Minister of St Giles', Edinburgh, 1906-1976 1
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