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Found in 3637 Collections and/or Records:

Typescript, 1920, of ‘The Gordons of Craichlaw’ by William MacMath, with corrections and prefatory notes by the author.

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Identifier: MS.5198
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A letter about the work from E A Hornel, 1921, and a copy of Macmath's reply have been inserted (folio i).

Dates: 1920-1921.

Typescript by Richard Burdon Haldane entitled 'Memorandum of events between 1906-1915'., 1916.

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Identifier: MS.5919
Scope and Contents The typescript is dated April 1916 (folio 2). On folio i there is a pencilled note, signed E S H[aldane]: 'This was the first draft of what R wrote in other form later but it has some interesting points not later recorded’. Despite this inscription this is a copy of MS.6109, folio 302, a corrected earlier version. It is presumably the text of the memorandum which Haldane circulated among certain friends and acquaintances following his exclusion from the Coalition Cabinet in 1915, giving an...
Dates: 1916.

Typescript copies, 1964, of correspondence of Major-General Kenneth Mackenzie.

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Identifier: MS.8028
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The letters are chiefly of Sir John Moore and Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, to Kenneth Mackenzie. The correspondence refers to service in the Peninsular War and in the Netherlands campaign of 1813-1814.

The typescript was taken from a transcript, made circa 1912 from the original letters, which now seem to have disappeared.

Dates: 1798-1827, undated.

Typescript copies of correspondence, March 1894-June 1895, on foreign affairs between Lord Kimberley, the Foreign Secretary, and Sir William Vernon Harcourt., 1894-1895.

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Identifier: MS.10143
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...
Dates: 1894-1895.

Typescript copies of correspondence mostly with Indian Ruling Chiefs and other notabilities concerning the erection of a memorial statue to the 4th Earl of Minto in Calcutta., 1910.

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Identifier: MS.12789
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates: 1910.

Typescript copies of holograph poems of Sir Walter Scott., ?1825, [1827, or after], undated.

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Identifier: MS.3581, folios 120-123
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The poems are as follows:

'The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee', ?1825, slightly differing from the published version;

'When, noble Duke, in joy we met', probably referring to the cheering of Wellington by sailors at Sunderland, 1827;

'Fantastic maid, whose step from dewy morn', undated.

Dates: ?1825, [1827, or after], undated.

Typescript copies of letters of John Maclean, to Sir James Dodds, 1919, on his Royal Pardon, and an 'Open letter to Lenin', February 1921., 1919, 1921.

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Identifier: Acc.10090/207
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Some family and other papers of Robert Douglas McIntyre's father, the Reverend John Ebenezer McIntyre (1874-1961), successively minister of Hightae and Dalton, Motherwell, Manse Road, and St Mary's, Edinburgh, United Free churches, and later of Barony and St James Place Church of Scotland, Edinburgh, precede the main collection.

Dates: 1919, 1921.

Typescript copies of letters of Sir Robert Murdoch Smith in Asia Minor, chiefly to Sir John Burgoyne., 1856-1859.

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Identifier: MS.13596
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection, in which family correspondence predominates, reflects all aspects of the naval career of Robert Kirk Dickson. He took part in the Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914, Gallipoli, 1915, and Jutland, 1916. In the Second World War he served as Duty Captain in the Admiralty War Room, 1939-1940, and commanded the fast minelayer, H.M.S. Manxman, 1940-1942, when he took part in a series of offensive minelaying operations in the Channel, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He was Deputy...
Dates: 1856-1859.

Typescript copies of membership lists., 1937.

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Identifier: Acc.10615/28
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers, mostly late 19th to 20th centuries, of the Highland Society of London, covering the interests of the society; cultural, military, charitable, social and historical.

Dates: 1937.