Includes correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of poetry, short stories and a novel, "Reality and Dreams".

Includes manuscript drafts of short stories and a novel.

Born in Inveraray, Neil Munro became a journalist in Glasgow, rising to the post of editor of the ‘Glasgow Evening News’. His papers consist largely of manuscripts of his novels and short stories, though some of his newspaper articles are represented by presscuttings.

The contents include biographical notes, lists of portraits executed by A E Borthwick, material concerning the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society, papers concerning the Scottish Sharpshooters, and a collection of personal documents, notes and accounts.

There is also (folio 87) an account in an unidentified hand of the ruins at Zimbabwe, circa 1900.

Dr Irvine trained as a surgeon at Aberdeen before seeing wartime service in Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1917-1919. In 1919, he was appointed medical missionary to the new Church of Scotland mission to Chogoria. He took up his post in 1922 and remained at Chogoria until his retirement in 1961. He was ordained in 1933 and died in Nairobi in 1974.

The photographs, films and papers represent Dr Irvine's working and family life.

The papers concern:

(i) The Coupar of Gogar Baronetcy case, 1773-1775 (folio 1);

(ii) The affairs of Sir George Colebrooke, 1784-1785 (folio 95);

(iii) Miscellaneous political and personal matters, 1727-1797 (folio 159);

(iv) Peter Stuart, a Scots soldier in the service of the King of France, 1747-1779 (folio 285);

(v) The Glasgow Dearth, 1800 (folio 304).

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.

The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.

The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.

MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.

The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.

The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.

MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.

The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.

The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.

The notebooks include details of drafts on Coutts and Company, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Linen Bank, Jedburgh, and other banks, and expenses of continental journeys and residences.

The notebooks include details of drafts on Coutts and Company, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Linen Bank, Jedburgh, and other banks, and expenses of continental journeys and residences.

The notebooks include details of drafts on Coutts and Company, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Linen Bank, Jedburgh, and other banks, and expenses of continental journeys and residences.

The notebooks include details of drafts on Coutts and Company, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Linen Bank, Jedburgh, and other banks, and expenses of continental journeys and residences.

The notebooks include details of drafts on Coutts and Company, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Linen Bank, Jedburgh, and other banks, and expenses of continental journeys and residences.

The notebooks include details of drafts on Coutts and Company, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Linen Bank, Jedburgh, and other banks, and expenses of continental journeys and residences.