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 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Callum Macdonald.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9476
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts, corrected typescripts and proofs of publications, together with associated correspondence and printed items.

Dates: 1953-1986.

Papers of David Livingstone.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9529
Scope and Contents

Includes three fragments of letters, a letter of his daughter, Anna Mary, his commission as Consul and a copy of his book, "Analysis of the Language of the Bechuanas".

Dates: 1849-1892 and undated.

Papers of Jessie M King.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6740
Scope and Contents

Comprising drawings, sketchbooks, manuscripts of books and articles, diaires, and correspondence, with letters of Gordon Bottomley and Cecile Walton.

Dates: circa 1899-1949.

Papers of Kenneth White.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5911
Scope and Contents

Including corrected manuscripts and typescripts of poetry and prose works, with two published collections of poems and "Letters from Gourgounel".

Dates: 1966-1973.

Papers of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11632

Papers of Studio Alec Finlay.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13459
Scope and Contents

Papers, circa 2000-2012, of Studio Alec Finlay, comprising mainly project files and published material including artist books.

Dates: circa 2000-2012

Papers of Valerie Gillies.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8791
Scope and Contents

Comprises manuscripts and typescripts of 12 poems, with typescripts, proofs and a printed copy of "Bed of Stone".

Dates: 1981-1984.

Papers of William Johnstone.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8877
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and manuscripts and typescripts of books, articles, and lectures.

Dates: 1923-1980.

Printed copy of "The Estate of Poetry" by Edwin Muir.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12172
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to Willa Muir of (1) T S Elliot, 1962 (2) Helen Sutherland, 1963; with two other Edwin Muir volumes.

Dates: 1962-1963.`

Records of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11208
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, accounts, membership lists, bet books, programmes, notes and printed books.

Dates: 1744-1992.

"Remarks on Dr Samuel Johnson`s Journey to the Hebrides..." (1779) by Donald McNicol.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12511
Scope and Contents

Includes annotations possibly by former owner James McNicol.

Dates: 1779.

`Satires` of Juvenal. Edition with the commentaries of Antonio Mancinelli and Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris: Ascensius, 1505), with manuscript annotations.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.11
Scope and Contents The annotations are of various types:(i) The title page is supplied on the second flyleaf by a 16th-century hand.(ii) Underlining and summarising occur sporadically.(iii) Interlinear glosses and marginal explanations by a 16th-century hand (probably the same as in (i)) are frequent up to folio lxiv.(iv) Notes of variant readings in two manuscripts of Isaac Voss are added in the margins by Peter Lambeck, who inscribed the volume in Amsterdam in...
Dates: 16th century-1646.

"The Course of Hannibal over the Alps Ascertained" (London, 1794) by John Whitaker and annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12456
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscript [laid in] of "Hannibals [sic] Passage thro` the Alps, According to, Gen[era]l Melville", watermarked 1801-1802 and endorsed by A F Tytler. Not in the hand of General Robert Melville.

Dates: 1794-1802.