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19 letters to Kathleen Raine, of and concerning Willa Muir.

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Identifier: Acc.6051- is now MS.19703, ff 200-225.
Dates: 1969-1970 and undated.

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.

20 letters and cards, 1990-1996, of Ronald Stevenson to Michael Lister, on musical and personal matters.

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Identifier: Acc.11318
Scope and Contents

Includes:

copies of 23 letters, 1990-1996, of Lister to Stevenson

copy of letter, 1994, of Lister to Alasdair Gray

correspondence, 1989-1996, of Lister, concerning Ronald Stevenson.

Dates: 1989-1996.

20 letters, concerning Wemyss Castle estate (Fife).

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.2916- is now MS.10686.

20 letters, mainly of George Walker, to Cadell and Davies.

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Identifier: Acc.7652
Scope and Contents

Concerning publication of James Cririe, "Scottish Scenery" (1803).

Dates: 1799-1802.

20 letters of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope to the Very Reverend George S Duncan and his son Douglas Duncan.

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Identifier: Acc.11201
Scope and Contents

Concerns the naval service of Douglas Duncan, and referring to George S Duncan`s connection with Sir Douglas Haig during the First World War.

Dates: 1941-1958.

20 letters of David Roberts to Sir James Emerson Tennent and his wife.

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Identifier: Acc.11697
Scope and Contents

Several letters concern Near-Eastern travel and the Victorian art scene.

Dates: 1846-1864.

20 letters of Eric Linklater to William N Roughead.

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Identifier: Acc.10551
Scope and Contents

Includes four letters of Marjorie Linklater and three letters of Alison Linklater to Roughead.

Dates: 1946-1965 and undated.

20 letters of Frederick Bailey, as Secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, to Robert Bell.

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Identifier: Acc.7346
Scope and Contents

Concerning affairs of the Society.

Dates: 1893-1908.

20 letters of or concerning Scotsmen.

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Identifier: Acc.3504- is now MS.9811-9813.
Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

20 letters of Samuel Rutherford Crockett to James Hay Thin.

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Identifier: Acc.3769- is now MS.10993, ff 167-202.

20 letters of William Lockhart to George Lockhart.

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Identifier: Acc.5395
Scope and Contents

With transcripts, 20th century.

Dates: 1742-1756.

20 notebooks of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10461
Scope and Contents

Literary and personal notes and the typescript of "Yet it shall be Tempest Tost", an account of an experiment with mescalin during the 1960s.

Dates: 1977-1990 and undated.

21 letters and fragments of and to Scottish clergymen.

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Identifier: Acc.8670
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Charles Cowan, Alexander Duff, Robert H Lundie, Thomas Guthrie and George S Duncan.

Dates: 1822-1948 and undated.

21 letters of James Henry Skene to his father, James Skene of Rubislaw and other members of his family.

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Identifier: Acc.11537
Scope and Contents

Letters concern James Henry Skene`s education in Germany, his military service and his residence in Greece.

Dates: 1826-1836.

21 letters of Sir D Y Cameron to Messrs Frost and Reed and Walter Frost.

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Identifier: Acc.6255
Scope and Contents

Concerning his etchings and paintings.

Dates: 1913-1928.

21 letters of Sir David Wilkie to Thomas Macdonald.

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Identifier: Acc.4163- is now MSS.9835-9836.
Dates: 1804-1819 and undated.

21 letters of Sir Henry Holland to his father, Peter Holland.

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Identifier: Acc.7515
Scope and Contents

On personal, social and academic matters.

With typescripts of the letters.

Dates: 1810-1811.

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.

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Letters. Correspondence. 3775
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Correspondence. 1778
Poetry. 1254
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Copies. Derivative objects. 959
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Notebooks. 508
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Lists. 428
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Accounts. 343
Minutes. Administrative records. 322
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Plays. 220
Novels. 216
Biographies. 213
Minute books. 210
Publications. 196
Drawings. Visual works. 192
Travel journals. 191
Memoirs. 189
Treatises. 189
Speeches. Documents. 188
Translations. Documents. 186
Account books. 184
Catalogues. 174
Annotations. 173
Essays. 173
Reports 173
Songs. Musical compositions. 165
Transcripts. 164
Printed materials. Object genre. 160
Scores 158
Memorandums. 157
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 154
Indexes. Reference sources. 152
Lecture notes. 152
Albums. 148
Excerpts. 146
Travel journals 145
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Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 107
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Language
English 15858
Undetermined 3975
Latin 280
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 187
Multiple languages 106
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Names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 174
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 97
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 93
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 78
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 69
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British Broadcasting Corporation 66
Roberts, David, painter, 1796-1864 46
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 44
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873 43
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 41
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 40
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 40
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 36
Gray, Alasdair (author) 34
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 32
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 32
Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl Haig, 1861-1928 31
Saltire Society 31
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 30
Soutar, William (poet) 29
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 27
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 27
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 27
National Library of Scotland 25
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 25
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 24
Church of Scotland 23
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 23
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 23
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 23
Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 22
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 22
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 21
Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (statesman) 21
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 20
McLean, John David Ruari McDowall Hardie, typographer and author, 1917-2006 20
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 20
Muir, Wilhelmina Johnston, née Anderson, author, pseudonym 'Agnes Neill Scott' , 1890-1970 20
Scottish National Party 20
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 20
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 19
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 19
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 19
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 19
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 19
Campbell, Thomas (poet) 18
Erskine, David Steuart, 11th Earl of Buchan (succ 1767), 1742-1829 18
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord Jeffrey, Senator of the College of Justice, 1773-1850 18
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 18
Scottish Film Council (SFC) 18
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 18
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 18
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 17
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 17
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 17
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 17
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 17
Scottish Mountaineering Club 17
Stuart, Charles, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845 17
Wilkie, Sir David, Knight, painter, 1785-1841 17
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 16
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 16
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 16
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 16
Beattie, William, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, 1903-1986 15
Gordon, Seton Paul, naturalist and author, 1886-1977 15
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 15
Raffalovich, Marc André, poet, 1864-1934 15
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 15
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 14
Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson, novelist and biographer, née Wilson, 1828-1897 14
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 14
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 14
Ballantyne, James (printer) 13
Brown, John, author of "Rab" and physician 13
Douglas, family, of Cavers 13
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 13
MacDonald, James Ramsay, statesman, 1866-1937 13
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 13
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 13
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 12
Mackenzie, Henry, author of "The Man of Feeling", 1745-1831 12
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 12
Wilson, John, author and journalist, pseudonym Christopher North, 1785-1854 12
Brewster, Sir David, Knight, natural philosopher and academic administrator, 1781–1868 11
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 11
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 11
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 11
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 11
James I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1566-1625 11
John Murray (publishers, London) 11
Mitchell, James Leslie, author, pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1901-1935 11
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 11
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 11
Blackie, John Stuart, Professor of Greek, University of Edinburgh, 1809-1895 10
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 10
Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Board 10
Edinburgh International Festival 10
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 10
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 10
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