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13 letters and postcards to James K Annand.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7293
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include R B Cunninghame Graham and J Ramsay MacDonald.

Mostly concerning the University of Edinburgh Rectorial Election of 1929.

Dates: 1928-1929.

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.

20 letters and a postcard of Arthur Conan Doyle to E Bruce Low.

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Identifier: Acc.6001
Scope and Contents

Concerning Doyle`s political ambitions and to the General Election of 1900, when he contested Central Edinburgh as a Liberal Unionist.

Dates: 1900-1905.

22 postcards, 1933-1942, of William Soutar to William Montgomerie and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7204
Scope and Contents

On personal and literary matters, with a sketch of Soutar.

With five letters, 1977, to Montgomerie, concerning Soutar, and an associated letter of Montgomerie to Maurice Lindsay.

Also four letters of Sir John Stirling-Maxwell and 11 letters of Anne G Gilchrist, 1948-1952, to Montgomerie, on literary and musical matters.

Dates: 1933-1977.

49 letters, 1951-1969, to Sir William Russell Flint.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7782
Scope and Contents

Concerning his published works.

With 25 postcards, 1908-1959 and undated, of and to Sir William Russell Flint and members of his family.

Dates: 1908-1969.

63 letters and cards of Frances Shand Kydd to William McIlwraith, Ayr.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12619
Scope and Contents

Includes book and press cutting.

Dates: circa 1997-2004.

95 letters of André Raffalovich to Charles Ballantyne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4630
Scope and Contents

With ten copies of letters, 24 postcards, and two telegrams. Also two letters and a card concerning Raffalovich.

Dates: 1925-1934.

Anonymous album of a visit to Scotland entitled `Oban, 1919`.

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Identifier: Acc.13169
Scope and Contents

This album records a visit to Scotland by three women, Winnifred, Joan and Mona in August 1919. The friends visited Oban, Dunollie, Dunstaffnage, Staffa, Glencoe and Edinburgh. The album consists of photographs and postcards with observations on their experiences.

Dates: 1919.

Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14019
Scope and Contents

Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.

Dates: 1923-1929.

Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1962-1976, undated.

Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13690
Scope and Contents Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1914-1921Letters and postcards of and addressed to Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1914-1921. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were...
Dates: 1914-1921

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.

Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21072-21096
Scope and Contents

John Chisholm, from Perth, studied at Edinburgh and Leipzig, and was admitted advocate in 1881. He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative at the elections of 1885 and 1892. He took silk in 1904 and was appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1905. He married in 1892, and died in 1929.

Dates: 1877-1928.

Diary of a tour on the Continent by H W K.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11891
Scope and Contents

Illustrated with mounted postcards and photographs.

Dates: 1908.

Diary of Elizabeth S Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20240-20244
Scope and Contents

The diary was written at intervals of varying length, ranging from a few days to some months, but most entries cover the period following the previous one.

The whereabouts of the first volume of the original diary are not known.

Dates: 1887-1937.

Eight letters and one postcard of John Buchan and his brother J Walter Buchan, Peebles, to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10538
Scope and Contents

Largely concern the award of the freedom of Peebles burgh to Rosebery, and on J Walter Buchan`s reaction to John Buchan`s biography of the Marquess of Montrose.

Dates: 1912-1919.

Eight letters and postcards of Agnes Miller Parker to Ernest Rasdall.

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Identifier: Acc.7288
Scope and Contents

With a manuscript list of books illustrated by Miller Parker.

Dates: 1961-1962.

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Names
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 4
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 3
Airlie, John McDiarmid, councillor and parliamentary candidate, 1885-1965 2
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Gordon Highlanders, 1st Battalion 2
Buchan, J Walter, head of the Commercial Bank, Peebles, brother of John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1882-1953 2
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Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Flint, Sir William Russell, Knight, artist, 1880-1969 2
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 2
Riddell, David, Private, 1st Gordon Highlanders, fl.1914-1921 2
Scottish Youth Hostels Association 2
Soutar, William (poet) 2
Aberdeen Evening Express 1
Akros Publications 1
Akros, literary magazine 1
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 1
Annunzio, Gabriele d', poet, 1863-1938 1
Ballantyne, Charles K N, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh, 1903-1985: recipient 1
Bergonzi, Bernard, author, b 1929 1
Bergonzi, Bernard, author, b 1929: recipient 1
Bevin, Ernest, trade unionist, politician, 1881-1951 1
Bird, John, miner, union activist and communist, 1896-1964 1
Blaikie, Walter Biggar, historian, civil engineer and publisher, 1847-1928 1
Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville, journalist and author, 1851-1943 1
Blunden, Edmund Charles, Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford, 1896-1974 1
Bonaventure, Michael, organist and composer, b 1962 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Camberg, Sarah Elizabeth Maud, teacher of pianoforte, mother of Muriel Spark, author, née Uezzell, 1888-1974: recipient 1
Chalmers, Esther Barbara (daughter of Sir David Patrick, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast) 1
Chalmers, Sir David Patrick, Knight, Chief-Justice of Gold Coast, d 1899 1
Chapman, Robert William, fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1881-1960: recipient 1
Church of Scotland 1
Couderc, Camille, author, 1860-1933 1
Craig, David, writer, b 1932 1
Cubie, Donald G, Mininster of Carfin, b 1902: recipient 1
Davie, Elspeth Mary, novelist and art teacher, née Dryer, 1919-1995 1
Davie, George Elder, Reader in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1912-2007 1
Dejardin, Lucie, socialist, 1875-1945 1
Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian, National Library of Scotland, 1860-1949 1
Douglas, John A. (Private, Black Watch) 1
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 1
Drabble, Margaret, Dame, author, b 1939 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Falco, Robert di, St Andrews, 1899-1963 1
Fermor, Joan Leigh (photographer, née Eyres Monsell, formerly Rayner) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 1
Fleming, Maurice, Editor of "The Scots Magazine", b ?1926 1
Flint, Sibyl Russell, wife of Sir William, artist, née Sueter, c 1874-1960: recipient 1
Flint, Sir William Russell, Knight, artist, 1880-1969: recipient 1
Forbes, Mansfield, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge, 1889-1936 1
Forster, Edward Morgan, novelist and essayist, 1879-1970 1
Gilchrist, Anne Geddes, musical antiquary, 1863-1954 1
Glasier, John Bruce, politician, 1859-1920 1
Glasier, Katherine St John Bruce, socialist, politician, 1867-1950 1
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Graham, Sir George, Knight, Secretary of the Scottish Football Association, 1892-1974 1
Guthrie, Sir William Tyrone, Knight, director and theatre designer, 1900-1971 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hannan, Thomas, Conscientious objector, fl.1900-1926 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Harris, Ernest James, Banker, Haddington, 1917-1985 1
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 1
Hill, family, Galashiels 1
Hirons, John, Birmingham, fl 1952-1967 1
Hirons, Mrs, wife of John, Birmingham, fl 1952-1967 1
Hogarth, Walter, correspondent of Alastair Reid, poet, fl 1957-2003: recipient 1
Honeyman, Thomas John, Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, 1891-1971 1
Hughes, H C, architect, Cambridge, correspondent of Mansfield Forbes, fl 1923-1932: recipient 1
Hunter, William 1
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 1
Jackson, Charles d'Orville Pilkington, sculptor, 1887-1973 1
Jackson, Lionel, Eskbank, fl 1949-1961. 1
Johnston, George Pyper, bookseller, Edinburgh, d 1938 1
Kemp (Showmen and cinema exhibitors) 1
Kingskettle Co-operative Society Ltd, Kingskettle, Fife 1
Kydd, Frances Ruth Burke Shand, mother of Diana Frances, Princess of Wales, formerly Countess Spencer, née Roche, 1936-2004 1
Lamont, Archie, geologist and nationalist, 1907-1985 1
Lang, Andrew, historian, 1844-1912: recipient 1
Lang, Leonora Blanche (writer and translator, wife of Andrew, anthropologist, classicist, historian, née Alleyne) (1851-1933) 1
Lauder, Sir Henry MacLennan, Knight, comedian, 1870-1950 1
Lindsay, Maurice, poet and writer, 1918-2009 1
Lorimer, James, Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh, 1818-1890 1
Lorimer, John Henry, 1856-1936 (painter) 1
Lorimer, family, of Kellie 1
Low, E Bruce, correspondent of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, fl 1900-1905 1
Low, John Thomas, author and lecturer, b 1913: recipient 1
MacDonald, Malcolm John, politician and diplomatist, 1901-1981 1
Macdonald, Thomas, correspondent of James Scott Skinner, composer, fl 1909: recipient 1
Mackenzie, Alastair, Edinburgh, fl 1966 1
Mackie, Alastair, poet, 1925-1995 1
Manson, John, poet, writer, editor and publisher of "Weighbauk", b 1932: recipient 1
Mavor, Ronald, Professor of Drama, Saskatchewan University, playwright, 1925-2007 1
Maxwell, Sir John Maxwell Stirling-, 10th Baronet, of Pollok, 1866-1956 1
McIlwraith, William, correspondent of Frances Ruth Burke Shand Kydd, mother of Diana Frances, Princess of Wales, fl 1997-2006: recipient 1
McKay, James, calligrapher, 1895-1968 1
Moncrieff, Catharine Scott, correspondent of Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator, fl 1924-1929: recipient 1
Moncrieff, Charles Kenneth Michael Scott, translator, 1889-1930 1
Montgomerie, William, poet and editor, 1904-1994 1
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