Obituaries.
Found in 138 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Ian Rawlins., 1918-1975, undated.
Includes notebooks and scientific and personal papers.
Correspondence, press cuttings and obituaries of male and female climbers, containing some obituaries written by Janet Adam Smith, 1956-1997.
Containing obituaries of: Eveleigh Leith, 1976; Dorothea Richards, 1986-8; Nea Morin, 1987; Una Cameron, 1988; Dorothy Isobel (Charmian) Longstaff, 1993; Alison Hargreaves, killed on K2, 1995; Peter Bicknell, 1996; Ella Maillart, 1997.
Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.
Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.
With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.
Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
John Chisholm, from Perth, studied at Edinburgh and Leipzig, and was admitted advocate in 1881. He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative at the elections of 1885 and 1892. He took silk in 1904 and was appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1905. He married in 1892, and died in 1929.
Diary of John Chisholm., 1923-1924.
Tipped in at the end are an obituary of the Reverend Dr P M Play-fair, a letter of John Chisholm’s wife, and photographs of Chisholm's holiday cottage at Tomphutil.
Educational, literary, cultural and miscellaneous papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.
Family and personal papers of John Blythe Kinross., 1891-1988.
Papers of John Blythe Kinross, financier, son of John Kinross RSA, including some papers of his father's. Mostly concerning business interests, with some family and personal material.
Family correspondence and documents of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., 1844-1954, undated.
File of loose newspaper cuttings., 1858-1922, 1929, 1932, 1959, 1973.
Newspaper cuttings covering the years 1858-1922, 1929, 1932, 1959, 1973. Subjects include Zambesi Expedition, Livingstone's subsequent explorations, "Cameron" Expedition, German involvement in East Africa, Kirk's life, obituaries. Also includes obituary of Lady Kirk, 1914.)
'Funeral book', containing notices of the deaths of members of the Lundie family, copies of letters, etc., 1696-1841, undated.
Many blank leaves have been removed.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas.
Genealogical and miscellaneous papers of the family of Sir Alexander Gray., 19th century-mid 20th century.
Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.
Janet Adam Smith collection of obituaries on other writers and friends, 1942-1999.
Containing obituaries of:
Dame Emily Penrose, 1942.
Prof Alastair Buchan, 1976.
Dame Helen Gardner and Elizabeth Munroe, 1986.
Prof Marcus Cunliffe, 1990 and Lesley Cunliffe, 1997.
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 1991.
V S Pritchett, 1997.
George ‘Dadie’ Rylands, 1999.
John Murray staff obituaries., 1953-2008
Journal of a visit to Karlsruhe, Switzerland, made by Miss Lucy Black (born 1881), Anwoth Manse, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1899.
Miss Black is interested in the scenery, local customs and the flora of Switzerland (she includes a number of pressed flowers in her journal). However, her main interest lies in recording the routine activities of herself and her companions.
At the back there are a number of newspaper cuttings, (folios 75-82) chiefly obituaries of her grandfather the Reverend Edward Black (died 1845) and of her father the Reverend William McMillan Black (died 1901).
'Journal of an expedition to Shetland in 1834' and 'Journal of a visit to & residence in the Shetland Islands in 1832', by Edward Charlton, both written up in 1843.
The work describes the scenery, natural history, customs, history, superstitions, and antiquities of Zetland, and is illustrated by water-colours and pencil drawings by the author, T M Richardson (perhaps the Younger), George Richardson, and others.
An obituary notice of Edward Charlton has been inserted at the end.
Letter, 1931, of Kenneth Macleod to Robert Aitken.
With an obituary, 1955, of Macleod.
Letter of the Reverend Robert Lundie, Kelso, to Dr Henry Duncan, Ruthwell, about the Bill on Savings Banks, 1816, with an obituary notice of Lundie, 1832., 1816, 1832.
Letters, 1807-1887, undated, chiefly of Edward Ellice of Invergarry (died 1865), and a few press cuttings, 1865, 1929, undated.
Letters and papers of D Currie and miscellaneous papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto., 1753, 1805-1808, undated.
The correspondence and papers include material concerning Bencoolen, Goa, Iran, Sind, Indonesia, Afghanistan and Tahiti, various surveys, and literary and scientific subjects.
Letters and papers, some printed, including a few photographs, formerly loosely enclosed throughout MSS.20087-20205 which could not be pasted or tipped in where they were found., 1901-1929, undated.
A list of the volumes where the various items were formerly located is placed at the beginning (folio i).
Letters of and concerning Harold Hugo.
Includes letters to Ruari McLean and obituaries of Hugo by McLean and others.
Letters of Birgit Scott to William Beattie.
With an obituary of Scott`s father, Svend Holst Jensen.
Letters of condolence on death of Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan (née Thomson), Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, containing obituary and memorial service., 1978.
Letters of Fr. Brocard Sewell, 1978-1988
Letters and postcards of Fr. Brocard Sewell to Lucinda Mackay regarding his personal life, his writing, his vocational work, and instances of international travel. Also includes a newspaper obituary for Sewell (April 2000) and newspaper reviews of his books.