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Contains correspondence, 1833, 1839-1849, 1866-1877, 1888, 1895, undated (folio 1); poems, 1832-1842, undated (folio 82); writings in the language of Old Calabar, and miscellaneous papers, undated (folio 110).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...

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William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

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The contents are as follows: Correspondence, poems and other papers, [?1833-?1895] (MS.2981);

Journals, 1831-1853 (MS.2982).

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Papers of Michael Moncrieff Staurt, CIE OBE concerning his career in India and East Pakistan, 1927-1950, and his research into the Scottish Nabobs and other matters concerning the history of India, circa 1950-1986.

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Papers of Michael Moncrieff Staurt, CIE OBE concerning his career in India and East Pakistan, 1927-1950, and his research into the Scottish Nabobs and other matters concerning the history of India, circa 1950-1986.

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This sub-fonds comprises a variety of materials pertaining to the life and career of Paisley-born politician, activist, and trade unionist William Gallacher (1881-1965). Encompassing his own correspondence, political and creative writings, photographs and objects, it also includes posthumous material submitted to the Memorial Library documenting his funeral, subsequent commemorative events, and biographical profiles by others.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) 'The end of the Lawhill', 1955 (with some later additions) (folio 1);(ii) “Dr Livingston's geological description omitted from I. Schapera (1953) ‘Livingstone's African journals 1853-1856'”, 1973 (folio 8);(iii) 'The pioneer surveys in the Zambesi and Shire Valleys and the mapping of Malawi', 1974 (folio 29);(iv) 'Transcription of a letter from Thomas Maclear to Dr Livingstone, Royal Observatory C. G. Hope July...

Scope and Contents Vero L Bosazza, a South Africa geologist who worked in various African countries, became interested in the nineteenth century travellers there, especially David Livingstone. In retirement he wrote extensively on them, his personal knowledge of the localities giving his work a dimension frequently lacking in other scholarship. His writings are almost entirely unpublished, except in the sense that he distributed copies of them to various libraries with interests in African history....