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Letters and copies of letters to Hamish Brown.

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Identifier: Acc.12253
Scope and Contents

Includes Don Johnson`s account of a journey from Land`s End to John O`Groats, 1994, text of a talk by Sir Alasdair T Munro on "Hugh Munro and his Tables", 1994, and Nigel Springett`s account of a visit to India, 1989.

Dates: 1989-1994.

Letters and papers of David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.14
Scope and Contents

The letters, which are mostly from George Henry Hutton and other antiquaries, concern the publication of chartularies and the compilation of a history of Scottish religious houses. There are also manuscript and printed copies of Buchan`s speeches to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1784-1785, 1787 (folio 76).

Dates: 1777-1809.

Letters and papers of Henry Mackenzie, author of 'The man of feeling'.

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Identifier: MS.124
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters to Henry Mackenzie and his family, or concerning them, on literary and other matters, 1771-1839. The writers include a number of contemporary Scottish celebrities. (Folio 1.)(ii) The Duke of Argyle’s speech on the Bill for taking away the Ports of Edinburgh on account of the Porteous Mob, 1737. (Folio 73.)(iii) Letters to or regarding John Home, author of ‘Douglas’, 1759-1803, undated, apparently collected by Henry...
Dates: 1737, 1759-1839.

Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).

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Identifier: MS.19609
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1846-1919, undated, chiefly addressed to John H Balfour-Browne. They had been kept as a collection of autographs and include fragments of letters and signatures (which have not been indexed). The correspondence mostly concerns Balfour-Browne's literary work and legal matters. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript with manuscript corrections and newspaper cutting of 'A Criticism and a Reminiscence' by Balfour-Browne, published in the...
Dates: 1814-1919, undated.

Literary papers, a political notebook and letters of Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, Politician and Author [1845-1937]. With three letters to Gavin Maxwell.

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Identifier: Acc.13262
Scope and Contents

The main interest of the papers lies in the manuscripts and proofs of some of Sir Herbert’s many literary works including `Robert the Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence`, 1897, `The Chevalier of the Splendid Crest`, 1900, `A Century of Empire, 1801-1900`, 1909, `Inter-alia : A Scottish Calendar of Crime and other historical essays`, 1924, and `Evening Memories`, 1932.

Dates: 1884-1937, 1945, undated

Literary papers and correspondence of Nigel Tranter.

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Identifier: Acc.10967
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of novels, scripts of and notes for addresses and talks, and circa 440 letters and copies of letters.

Dates: 1948-1991 and undated.

Literary papers of James B Caird.

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Identifier: Acc.11108
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1931-1989.

Literary papers of Janet Caird.

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Identifier: Acc.11109
Scope and Contents

Includes literary notebooks, correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, poems, articles and talks.

Dates: 1928-1990.

Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.3
Scope and Contents The main text ends on folio 221 verso. Folio 222 contains 30 hexameters on Boethius (incipit 'Floruit hic doctor clarusque Boetius autor'). Folios 223-228 recto contain an 'exortatio' 'ad honorem dei et sanctorum apostolorum petri et pauli', written by Miniclardi in 1444. Folio 228 verso-230 verso contain, in a different hand, a draft speech against Q Ligarius (defended by Cicero in his extant speech 'Pro Ligario'), presumably a school exercise; interlinear corrections are possibly by...
Dates: 1443.

Manuscripts, typescripts, drafts and proofs of works of Kenneth White, including related correspondence and notes.

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Identifier: Acc.10613/1-48
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poems, essays, short stories, autobiography and travel works.

Dates: 1963-1992, undated.

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Manuscripts. 53
Typescripts. 52
Letters. Correspondence. 42
Notes. 37
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Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 34
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Copies. Derivative objects. 28
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Lectures. 20
Diaries. 18
Lists. 13
Notebooks. 12
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Essays. 11
Photocopies. 10
Memorandums. 9
Microfilms. 9
Minutes. Administrative records. 9
Excerpts. 8
Reports. 8
Documents. 7
Obituaries. 7
Plays. 7
Biographies. 6
Journals. Accounts. 6
Legislative acts. Legislative records. 6
Novels. 6
Reviews. Document genre 6
Short stories. 6
Transcripts 6
Certificates 5
Declarations. 5
Financial records. 5
Fragments. 5
Histories. 5
Legal documents. 5
Orders. Records (documents). 5
Printed materials. Object genre. 5
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Genealogies. 4
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Scripts. Documents 4
Songs. Musical compositions. 4
Transcripts. 4
Travel journals. 4
Abstracts. Summaries. 3
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 3
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 3
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 3
Maps. Cartographic materials. 3
Postcards. 3
Receipts. Financial records. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Sermons 3
Sketches 3
Testimonials. 3
Treatises. 3
Warrants. Permissions. 3
Account books. 2
Advertisements. 2
Agendas. Administrative records. 2
Annotations. 2
Audiocassettes. 2
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Autographs (manuscripts). 2
Burgess tickets. 2
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Language
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Names
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 6
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 3
Scottish National Party 3
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 3
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Woodburn, Arthur (politician) 3
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 2
British Broadcasting Corporation 2
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 2
Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, politician, née Thomson, then Grant, 1915-1978 2
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 2
Church of Scotland 2
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 2
Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant, Knight, painter, 1889-1970 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967: recipient 2
Smith, David Nichol, literary scholar, 1875-1962 2
Steel, David Martin Scott, Baron Steel of Aikwood (politician, Liberal MP, leader of the Liberal Party) 2
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 2
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Arbuckle, Sir William Forbes, Knight, Secretary, Scottish Education Department, 1902-1966 1
Ayr Burns Club 1
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour (statesman) 1
Barbour, Sir Robert Alexander Stewart, Knight, Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Aberdeen, b 1921 1
Barnwell, Henry Thomas, Professor of French Language and Literature, b 1920 1
Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989 (English printmaker, graphic designer, and illustrator) 1
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 1
Bishop, John B, Inspector, Western Bank of Scotland, fl 1848 1
Blackadder (family) 1
Broom, John L, librarian, d 1992 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan, author and mountaineer, b 1934: recipient 1
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, J Walter, head of the Commercial Bank, Peebles, brother of John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1882-1953 1
Burns Begg, family of Isabella Begg, sister of Robert Burns, poet 1
Burns, George, Minister of Tweedsmuir, 1790-1876 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Calder, Peter Ritchie, Baron Ritchie-Calder, author and journalist, 1906-1982 1
Cameron, Andrew, 1929-2022 (SNP activist) 1
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Church of Scotland, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly 1
Clark, Alastair Trevor (colonial civil servant, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Solomon Islands) 1
Colquhoun, Humphrey, covenanter, d 1669 1
Craig, Robert, Principal of University of Rhodesia, 1917-1995 1
Cranna, John, Scottish Unionist Association, fl 1937-1953 1
Dalrymple, John, 2nd Earl of Stair, 1673-1747 1
Davidson, Andrew Nevile, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, 1899-1976 1
Drummond, Robert James, Minister of Lothian Road United Free Church, Edinburgh, 1858-1951 1
Duncan, Joseph Forbes, Trade Union Secretary, 1879-1964 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club 1
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1894–1972 1
Elliot, James Scott, Major General, HM Lieutenant of the County of Dumfries, 1902-1996 1
Elliot, Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, née Tennant, 1903-1994 1
Elliot, Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1888-1958 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone, novelist, 1782-1854 1
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 1
Gairdner, David, assistant to John Alpine, Minister of Skirling, d 1837 1
Galsworthy, John, author, 1867-1933 1
George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1683-1760: recipient 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gibson, Sir Alexander Drummond, Knight, conductor, 1926-1995 1
Gladstone, William Ewart (statesman) 1
Gonnella, Ronald, fiddler and composer, d 1994 1
Graham, James, of Airth, Judge Admiral, d 1753: recipient 1
Gray (family, of Carntyne and Anstruther ) 1
Gray (family, of Kilmany ) 1
Gray, Gordon John, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, 1910-1993 1
Grimond, Joseph, Baron Grimond, politician, 1913-1993 1
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 1
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, Knight, General, 1853-1947 1
Hay, Denys, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, 1915-1994 1
Hearst, William, Sir, 7th Premier of Ontario, 1864-1941 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 1
Holms, William, spinner and politician, b 1827 1
Honeyman, Thomas John, Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, 1891-1971 1
Honeyman, Thomas, father of Thomas John, Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, fl 1877-1934 1
Horsburgh, family 1
Hunter, Alexander, surgeon, fl 1835-1861 1
Hunter, Alexander, surgeon, fl 1835-1861: recipient 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Irvine, James Eccles Malise, Circuit Judge, 1925-2007 1
Johnson, Don, writer of account of a journey from Land's End to John O'Groats, fl 1994 1
Johnston, Thomas, politician and newspaper editor, 1881-1965 1
Kelsall, Moultrie Rowe, actor and producer, 1904-1980 1
Kemp, Robina Jane, kinswoman of William Strathhenry Kemp, Rector of Falkirk Grammar School, fl 1897-1904 1
Kemp, William Strathhenry, Rector of Falkirk Grammar School, d 1873 1
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