Personal papers.
Subject
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Scope Note: Private documents belonging to an individual. For records kept by public officials or other persons for their private or personal use but relating to their official duties, use "office files."
Found in 301 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Miss Dora Tertia Liebenthal, musician and patroness of the arts.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.21564-21577
Scope and Contents
Miss Liebenthal, herself an able violinist, was best known for the lunch hour concerts she ran in the National Gallery of Scotland, from the Second World War until her death in 1970. She was particularly interested in introducing younger musicians to the public, and many of the players and singers she brought to Edinburgh went on to make distinguished careers.
The papers deal with the organisation of these concerts, and include Miss Liebenthal's large correspondence with musicians and...
Dates:
1867-1970.
Papers of Nigel Tranter, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of his works the 'Chain of destiny', 'To the rescue', and 'The young Montrose'; with circa 600 letters and copies of letters, on literary, historical, political and community interest matters.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6672 Box 1(1)-Box 7(2)
Dates:
1951-1976, undated.
Papers of Robert G Sutherland, the poet's father, who was a house-painter in Edinburgh., 1904-1955, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26667
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Personal correspondence, 1904-1955, undated. (Folio 1.) It includes a number of letters written by the poet when in the army and as a prisoner of war. (ii) Miscellaneous papers, 1920-1947, undated. (Folio 85.)
Dates:
1904-1955, undated.
Papers of Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby, including correspondence, typescripts, manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and speeches.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12929/1-82
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the correspondence, papers, literary manuscripts, political writings, news clippings, and miscellaneous items, ca. 1881-1999, of Baron Robert “Bob” John Graham Boothby (1900-1986), with a few items having belonged to his father Sir Robert Tuite Boothby (1871–1941), and some collected by his wife, the Lady Wanda Boothby (1933?- ). The bulk of this collection spans from 1924, when Baron Boothby was first elected to Parliament as a representative for East Aberdeenshire,...
Dates:
1855-1999.
Papers of Sir John Kirk and Lady Helen Kirk.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9942/1-65
Scope and Contents
Papers of Sir John Kirk GCMG KCB (1832-1922), physician, administrator, naturalist, photographer, and Lady Kirk, née Helen Cooke (d.1914).John Kirk was born at Barry in Forfarshire in 1832. After qualifying as a doctor in 1854, he volunteered for medical service in the Crimea and subsequently became Dr. David Livingstone's chief assistant on his second Zambesi Expedition, 1858-1863. In 1866 Kirk was appointed Medical Officer and Vice-Consul of Zanzibar. He became Assistant...
Dates:
Circa 1856-circa 1973.
Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5510-5721A
Scope and Contents
After serving his apprenticeship as Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at the courts of Munich, Ratisbon, Berlin, Turin and Madrid, Robert Liston was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid in 1784.After leaving Madrid he was the British Representative at Stockholm, Constantinople, Washington, The Hague, and again at Constantinople.Within each regional section there are two main categories, official and personal. The first contains documents, with instructions or...
Dates:
1756-1832.
Papers of Sir Robert Liston from his second embassy to Constantinople., 1810-1820.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5625-5663
Scope and Contents
The objects of Robert Liston's second embassy to Constantinople were to build up good relations between Turkey and Russia, and to frustrate any prospect of an alliance between Turkey and France. By the Treaty of Vienna, Britain acquired the protectorship of the seven Ionian Islands, and it was understood that she should hand back Parga to Turkey; negotiations on this point strained relations severely, and it took all his skill to preserve peace. These topics, Russia, France, and the Parga...
Dates:
1810-1820.
Papers of Sir Robert Liston while British Representative at Constantinople., 1794-1795, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5570-5582
Scope and Contents
Robert Liston's earliest dispatches report the outbreak of trouble between the Jews and the British members of the East India Company's factory at Bassera; but his main preoccupation was the predominance of French influence at the Turkish court. A series of letters discusses the question of tariffs paid by Russian merchants in Turkey, which Liston persuaded the Turks not to raise.
Dates:
1794-1795, undated.
Papers of Sir Robert Liston while British Representative at Copenhagen., 1803-1804.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5602-5607
Scope and Contents
Robert Liston was sent on an extraordinary mission to Denmark empowered to sign a convention with Denmark and Russia guaranteeing that peace would not be concluded with France until any territories Denmark lost had been restored to her. After the closing by the British of the Elbe and the Weser, any prospect of a rapprochement with Denmark faded and Liston was recalled.
Dates:
1803-1804.
Papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).
Series
Identifier: MSS.26276-26300
Scope and Contents
Hector MacIver was born in the Isle of Lewis and educated in Stornoway and at Edinburgh University. Except for a period of service in the Navy (1940-1945), he spent his life teaching, mostly in the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He wrote and broadcast in both English and Gaelic.
Dates:
1928-1966, undated.
Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5070-5138
Scope and Contents
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Dates:
1583-19th century, undated.
Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26301-26462
Scope and Contents
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Dates:
1854-1980, undated.
Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26561-26671
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1895-1983, undated.
Papers of the Very Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7710/1-119
Scope and Contents
These papers consist principally of diaries, incoming correspondence, and newspaper cuttings relating to the life and interests of the Very Reverend Andrew Nevile Davidson, DD, (1899-1976), minister successively of St Mary's Old Aberdeen (1925-1932), St Enoch's Dundee (1932-1934), and Glasgow Cathedral, (1935-1967). The papers cover the main features of his career – his interest in the ecumenical movement and in the international work of the church, his work in founding the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1745-1978, undated.
Papers of three members of the Hamilton Dickson family: Robert Douglas Hamilton; James Douglas Hamilton Dickson; and John Douglas Hamilton Dickson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9770/1-28
Scope and Contents
Included are correspondence, manuscripts of scientific works, and other personal papers.
Dates:
1757-1958.
Papers relating to the affairs of Thomas Ruddiman., 1747-1757.
File
Identifier: MS.2980, folios 50-54
Scope and Contents
The papers include a minute, 1757, of a discussion on Thomas Ruddiman's settlement, referring particularly to his books (folio 53).
Dates:
1747-1757.
Personal account-book of Lady Hislop with Messrs Coutts and Company., 1836-1848.
Item
Identifier: MS.13147
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
General Sir Thomas Hislop's daughter Emma Eleanor Elizabeth married the 3rd Earl of Minto. Most of Sir Thomas Hislop's papers concern business and financial affairs, and his military career, in particular the Deccan Prize Case. But his general correspondence also includes a series of letters from the Venezuelan revolutionist, Francisco de Miranda, with whom Hislop had been connected in the West Indies. The papers of Lady Hislop contain much family material, including a substantial run of...
Dates:
1836-1848.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, (1764-1843), and of his wife, Emma, daughter of Hugh Elliot, diplomatist.
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Correspondence and papers of Lady Hislop.
Personal account book of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1861-1868.
Item
Identifier: MS.25632
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884.
Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates:
1861-1868.
Personal account book of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.25633
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884.
Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates:
1863.
Personal account book of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1868-1874.
Item
Identifier: MS.25634
Scope and Contents
Included are the accounts of Sir Charles Dalrymple-Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran, (folios 1-8).
Dates:
1868-1874.
Personal account book of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1874-1879.
Item
Identifier: MS.25635
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884.
Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates:
1874-1879.
Personal account book of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1899-1904.
Item
Identifier: MS.25636
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884.
Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates:
1899-1904.
Personal account book of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1904-1911.
Item
Identifier: MS.25637
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884.
Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates:
1904-1911.
Personal account books of Sir Charles Dalrymple., 1861-1911.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25632-25637
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884.
Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...
Dates:
1861-1911.
Personal and family papers of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1895-1977, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26637-26669
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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.
Dates:
1895-1977, undated.