Scope and Contents D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:Papers concerning the limits of Glenurchay (folio 4);'Argyleshire Invaded but not Subdued', 1868, published in ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume vii, page 412 (folio 8);'Notices regarding Dr John Smith's Collection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry', 1867, partly published in ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume vii, page 238 (folio 30);'Genealogy of the Noble House of...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) ‘Reminiscences of a Journey’ to London, 19 May 1840. Murray went from Edinburgh via Glasgow to Liverpool by coach and thence by rail to London, where he visited J R McCulloch, the economist. Pages 35-51 (the end) contain a long account of his friend.(ii) ‘Personal Narrative, with a collateral account of some eminent and interesting men’ (including Thomas Carlyle), 1849 (other end of the volume, with an alternative version of the...

Scope and Contents The volume contains: (i) 92 letters of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly to James Skene, from 1805 to 1832, bound in with Skene's commentary and followed by reminiscences of Mrs Skene (folios 1-281). Most of the material was published as ‘Memories of Sir Walter Scott’ (London, 1909), and it was used by David Douglas in his ‘Familiar letters of Sir Walter Scott’ (Edinburgh, 1894). (ii) James Skene's correspondence regarding proposals for a memorial to Scott, which includes letters from various...

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The subjects, who are arranged alphabetically, include Auden, T S Eliot, Norman Cameron and Louis Macneice.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Rosebery, styled Lord Dalmeny from the death of his father in 1851 until he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom in 1868, held various public offices including those of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1881-1883, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, February to July 1886, and again in 1892-1894, and was Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury from 5 March 1894 to 25 June 1895, remaining leader of the Liberal party till 1898.The papers consist chiefly...

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The reminiscences are continued from MS.20017 (Part 1), folio 15.

A small quantity of papers found loosely enclosed in MSS.20015: ‘Birthday scripture text book’, and MS.20018: Notebook containing an account by Mrs Haldane of her ancestors and her early years, have been placed at the end (folio 399).

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Included are Thomas Carlyle's reminiscences of Edward Irving, 1866-1867 (folio i); of Lord Jeffrey, 1867 (folio 81); and ‘of Sundry’, 1867, i.e. Southey (folio 99) and Wordsworth (folio 107).

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The reminiscences cover from Lady Mears' life in James Court on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, to memories of summers at Innesforth, circa 1905-1906. There are also typescripts of her diary of the autumn of 1895 (folio 86), and of ‘My Memories of Crawford, July 1899’, by her cousin, Edith (folio 92).

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The reminiscences include incidents of the cruise not recorded by Sir Walter Scott in his journal of it, later episodes relating to Scott, and some general facts about Orkney and Shetland. Most of these last are used by Robert Louis Stevenson in his ‘Records of a Family of Engineers’, 1912.

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The reminiscences include incidents of the cruise not recorded by Sir Walter Scott in his journal of it, later episodes relating to Scott, and some general facts about Orkney and Shetland. Most of these last are used by Robert Louis Stevenson in his ‘Records of a Family of Engineers’, 1912.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Script of 'A Vision of Scotland: Hugh MacDiarmid on Lewis Grassic Gibbon', broadcast by the BBC Scottish Home Service in 1960 (folio l); (ii) Script of 'Scottish Life and Letters' produced by George Bruce, 1968, including reminiscences about James Leslie Mitchell (folio 28).

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The reminiscences include incidents of the cruise not recorded by Sir Walter Scott in his journal of it, later episodes relating to Scott, and some general facts about Orkney and Shetland. Most of these last are used by Robert Louis Stevenson in his ‘Records of a Family of Engineers’, 1912.

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Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.

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Contains drafts of chapters 1 (folio 1) and 1-8 (folio 14).

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Ruthven Todd was originally commissioned to write the official biography of Dylan Thomas, but failed to do so. These manuscripts are his reminiscences of the poet, which were not published except for chapter 12 which appeared in the ‘Mediterranean Review’, volume i, number 3 (1971), pages 15-23.

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With a copy of William K Dickson’s ‘The National Library of Scotland', in ‘Juridical Review’, volume xl (1928), and a paper on the author by A A Grainger Stewart, ‘Scots Law Times’, December 1905 (both printed).

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The reminiscences are in seven chapters, of which the fifth is not present.

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The reminiscences contain a certain amount of autobiographical information, but are chiefly concerned with composers and musicians whom D C Parker had met throughout his long career as a critic and writer on music. There is much information about such organisations as the Glasgow Grand Opera Society, of which Parker was secretary, and about the Scottish Orchestra, as well as about musicians of his acquaintance especially Elgar, Landon Ronald, Percy Grainger, and Felix Weingartner.

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The work, which is unfinished, is Ruthven Todd's reminiscences of his life in Edinburgh and London in the 1930s and 1940s, and of his literary friends and acquaintances.