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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Correspondence and papers of or concerning William Holms and his family.
Correspondence and papers of Priscilla, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, and some papers of John, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1945-1978; with a speech, 1935, of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.
Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.
Includes photographs, articles and printed books.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Correspondence and papers of the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, library and music inventories, and electronic database of Sir Lewis Robertson.
Correspondence of Alexander Christie, Provost of Montrose, and other material relating to the affairs of the town, with discussions of Christie's religious and political views, copied by Christie.
The correspondents are mainly notables of Angus, divines, political thinkers, and merchants, and include Alexander Christie's brother William, the Unitarian writer, his son Thomas, the political writer, Sir David Carnegie, Baronet, George Dempster of Dunnichen, David Scott of Dunninald, the Reverend William Dalrymple (subject of "The Kirk's Alarm"), T F Palmer, the reformer, Robertson, the historian, and Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Correspondence, papers, cuttings and photographs of David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, mostly relating to his political career.
Correspondence, papers, press cuttings and photographs of Margo MacDonald, mostly concerning her political career and causes.
The papers reflect Margo MacDonald`s life as a politician and broadcaster. Although somewhat miscellaneous, they provide an insight into her relationship with the Scottish National Party leadership throughout her life, and into some of the causes she advocated during her life, including independence and assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
Correspondence, speeches, diaries, photographs and papers of Alastair Trevor Clark, mostly relating to his work as a civil servant in Nigeria, Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.
The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.
Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.
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.
Documents concerning the activities of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart as British Vice-Consul in Moscow, with a championship medal of the Moscow Football League.
Extensively amended copy of a speech of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in the House of Lords, 16 July 1830, in the case raised by Frederick Campbell Stewart of Ascog against Stewart Murray Fullarton of Fullarton, and others.
Formal documents from the papers of George Combe, lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Four letters, 1988-1989, of Robert (Robin) Lorimer to Ruari McLean.
Letters mostly concern Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Includes a typescript address, 1996, by Sir Robert (Robin) Barbour at Lorimer's funeral.
Also includes two letters, 1970-1979, of Edward Bawden, one to Ruari McLean enclosing two sheets of a letterhead with linocut logo by Bawden for Catriona’s wool shop, Rue St. Honore, Paris.
Further papers of Jim Mearns.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
Papers of Lord James Douglas Hamilton concerning his two terms as High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 2012-2013, and to his involvement in the Bicentenary of the Red River Settlement Commemoration, September 2012.
Further political and estate papers of the Anstruther-Gray family of Kilmany, Fife.
Comprising the political, military, and personal papers of Lt. Col. William Anstruther-Gray [formerly Anstruther-Thomson] and William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, with family estate records, hunting and game books, and photographs.
Jacobite Papers.
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.