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11 photographs of and relating to Robert Louis Stevenson and Swanston.

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Identifier: Acc.13774
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Includes 3 copies of earlier images of Stevenson and his parents.

Dates: Circa 1900-1910.

12 photographs of the Thistle Chapel.

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Identifier: Acc.4855
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With photocopies of notes of James Grieve.

Dates: 1911.

12 slides of paintings and sculptures of David Morrison.

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Identifier: Acc.11404
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Includes the following:

Sealandsong 1(4)

Sealandsong 1(7)

Sealandsong 3(2)

Sealongsong 4(3)

Sealongsong 7(1)

Stacks (Wood) 6

Woman (Wood) (8)

North Man/Woman (5)

Rocks/Sea (10)

Thrumster Scape (Gouache/Collage) 1989

Caithness Scape 32 (Gouache/Collage) 1989

Spring/Caithness (Gouache/Collage) 1990

Dates: 1989-1990, undated.

15 stereoscopic photographs of Scottish scenes.

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Identifier: Acc.11919
Scope and Contents

Taken by members of the Stereoscopic Society of which R W Copeman was President. The versos bear technical notes.

Dates: 1901-1915.

17 postcards of Stansmore Dean Stevenson and Jean Stevenson to Elise Pruvost, their housekeeper in France.

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Identifier: Acc.14471
Scope and Contents The postcards, all except one written in French, were formerly part of the family album of Elise Pruvost and her daughter Christiane Lavoger. They date from the period when Stansmore Dean Stevenson and her husband, the painter R. Macaulay Stevenson, and step-daughter Jean Stevenson, stayed in Montreiul-sur-mer, France. The collection also includes a photograph of Elise Pruvost and the Stevenson family on a visit to London, c.1925.With biographical information, in French, compiled...
Dates: 1910-1926.

22 letters, 1843-1847, to John Stevenson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6271
Scope and Contents

Concerning the transactions of the committee for the erection of a memorial to James Wilson, leader of the Radical Rising of 1820, in which Stevenson took part.

With a biographical note on Stevenson by George Maddocks, and a colour photograph of his portrait.

Dates: 1843-1847 and undated.

41 photographs of Peter S. Kirkwood, teacher at Livingstonia, Malawi.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13580
Scope and Contents 41 photographs of Peter Scott Kirkwood, teacher at Livingstonia, Malawi.Peter Scott Kirkwood was appointed as a teacher to Overtoun Institution in 1906. He married Janet Gilmour in 1910, and the couple`s first child, Janet Hinshaw Kirkwood, was born in April 1913. Kirkwood returned to Scotland in 1915 on furlough, and spent part of the First World War on service with the Y.M.C.A. After the birth of his son in January 1918, and leaving his wife behind in Scotland,...
Dates: 1906-1930

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.

“A fortnight's cruise in the Ailsa from June 29 to July 13 1892”.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9231
Scope and Contents

An account of a voyage in an RNYC yacht round the Western Islands, by an unidentified author, illustrated with photographs, water-colour drawings, and pen sketches of the party, crew and scenery.

The party includes Jessie, Rae, Fred and cousin A. Rintoul and others.

The crew were Captain Peter MacNichol, Jack MacMillan, John MacAllister, Ronald MacDonald, Malcolm Wilkie and Dugald MacGillivray.

Dates: 1892.

Account, 1918, of C.S. Kellas, 9th Company, Machine Gun Corps, describing his First World War experiences, and wedding photograph, 1920s.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13554
Scope and Contents Account, 1918, of the First World War experiences of Charles (Stuart) Kellas, of the Machine Gun Corps, and wedding photograph, 1920s. After several attempts to volunteer were rejected by his employer, Kellas finally enlisted in the 2nd Brigade, 4th Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles. He describes his training in Edinburgh and other locations in Scotland, then at Southend on Sea, Essex. Frustrated at being unable to get to the front quickly, Kellas transferred to the Machine Gun Corps,...
Dates: 1918

Account of "An Adventure with Bengal Dacoits" by Samuel Wauchope.

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Identifier: Acc.10654
Scope and Contents

With seven photographs.

Dates: 1850.

Accounts and day-book kept by James Roberton, bailiff of Springwood Park, near Kelso.

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Identifier: MS.19251
Scope and Contents

James Roberton records the daily activities on the estate, with particular reference to the Ladyrig and Heiton steadings.

Dates: 1835-1840.

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Wilson, George Washington, miniature painter and photographer, 1823-1893 5
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Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 4
Edinburgh International Festival Society 4
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 4
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Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 3
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 3
Jackson, Charles d'Orville Pilkington, sculptor, 1887-1973 3
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 3
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Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 3
National Library of Scotland 3
Scotia Review, literary journal 3
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Anderson, George, 1865-1925 (sheep farmer, Falkland Islands) 2
Bell, James Horst Brunnerman (mountaineer) (1896-1975) 2
Braehead Mountaineering Club 2
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 2
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 2
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician, 1810-1882 2
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Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 2
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 2
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 2
Curle, James, of Morriston, WS, 1862-1944: recipient 2
Cursiter, Stanley, Director, National Galleries of Scotland, 1887-1976 2
Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh 2
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Foster, Margaret, Assistant Secretary to the Royal Scottish Academy, fl 1925-1995 2
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George Waterston and Sons Limited, printers, stationers and sealing wax manufacturers 2
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 2
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 2
Gourdie, Tom (calligrapher) 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Haldane, John Scott, physiologist and philosopher, 1860-1936 2
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (Lord Chancellor) 2
Hamilton, William Winter, politician, 1917-2000 2
Hart, Alexander, Bonnymuir radical, 1794-1876 2
Hill, David Octavius, photographer, 1802-1870 2
Irvine, Archibald Clive, medical missionary, Kenya, 1893-1974 2
J and G Cox, Ltd, Gorgie, Edinburgh, glue manufacturers 2
Johnston, George Pyper, bookseller, Edinburgh, d 1938 2
Low, Bet, artist, 1924-2007 2
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 2
MacGilleMhoire, Dòmhnall R (poet and shopkeeper, Scalpay, Isle of Harris) 2
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Macgillivray, James Pittendrigh, sculptor, 1856-1938 2
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McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002 2
McKinlay, William Laird, scientist on Canadian National Arctic Expedition, teacher, 1888-1983 2
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Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 2
Oliver, George, emigrant, 1900-1973 2
Oliver, Jane, emigrant, 1895-1977 2
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Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 2
Thomson, David, author of "Nairn in Darkness and Light", 1914-1988 2
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Valentine, James, engraver and photographer, 1815-1879 2
Wainwright, Jacob, follower of Livingstone, d 1892 2
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