Press cuttings. Information artifacts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.
Found in 1672 Collections and/or Records:
Album of photographs, autographs, press cuttings and other memorabilia concerning the Edinburgh Society of Musicians., [Circa 1896]-1950.
Item
Identifier: MS.21617
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These papers, the surviving archive of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, run from the foundation of the Society in 1887 - though it includes a small amount of earlier material - to 1982, and in addition to providing a very full account of the Society's own history, it contains much concerning the history of music-making in Edinburgh in the 20th Century. Included in the collection are the papers of the Edinburgh Harmonists' Society which could trace its descent from the Edinburgh Musical...
Dates:
[Circa 1896]-1950.
Album of press cuttings collected by John Purves chiefly concerning the poet Rupert Brooke., 1915.
Item
Identifier: MS.15889
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
1915.
Album of press cuttings collected by John Purves on literary topics., 1913-1914.
Item
Identifier: MS.15888
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
1913-1914.
Album of press cuttings concerning Richard B Haldane and in particular his successful candidature as Liberal M.P. for Haddingtonshire in 1885., 1885-1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.20035
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
There are letters and papers of Mary Haldane’s sisters Jane and Elizabeth, and her brother Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife, Ghetal, née Herschell. There are also a few letters and papers of Mrs Haldane's daughter Elizabeth S Haldane, and collections of press-cuttings relating to her son Richard, Viscount Haldane.
Dates:
1885-1888.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of members of the families of Haldane of Cloan, and Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, chiefly Mrs Mary E Haldane, née Burdon-Sanderson.
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Press cuttings concerning Richard B Haldane (later Viscount Haldane).
Album of press cuttings concerning Richard Haldane’s visit to America and Canada, taken chiefly from Canadian newspapers., 1913.
Item
Identifier: MS.20055
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1913.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
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Correspondence and papers of, and concerning, Richard Burdon Haldane, who was created Viscount Haldane in 1911.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of Richard Burden Haldane.
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Papers concerning Richard Haldane's visit in 1913 to America and Canada at the invitation of the American Bar Association.
Album of press cuttings concerning the Scottish Sharpshooters in South Africa., 1900-1902.
Item
Identifier: MS.10482
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1900-1902.
Album of press-cuttings from the ‘Berwickshire Advertiser’ of 1867 or earlier, giving the extracts from the Kirk Session Records of Stow from 12 November 1626 to 8 March 1667., 1626-1667, 1867.
Item
Identifier: MS.3035
Scope and Contents
James Simson's name is on the fly-leaf. A letter, 1867, of the Reverend Charles Rogers to Simson, thanking him for the loan of the album, is inserted (folio 11).
Dates:
1626-1667, 1867.
Album of press cuttings relating to financial activities of John Blythe Kinross relating to the time he left Gresham's., 1933-1964.
File
Identifier: Acc.8699/44
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Containing correspondence, memorandums, diaries and other papers.The main interest of the collection lies in the material to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC), to the financing of small businesses, and in general to Kinross’s activities in the City of London from 1928 to the present day. In addition to formal business, the papers contain a significant quantity of private correspondence, and some interest diaries. All the papers carry useful and sometimes...
Dates:
1933-1964.
Album of press cuttings, undated, collected by John Purves chiefly on Italian literature, with a series of articles concerning lectures on 'The nature of the physical world' by Professor A S Eddington at Edinburgh University., [?1927.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15897
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
John Purves began his teaching career as a lecturer in English under Professor Emile Legouis at Lyons University in 1902, having graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1900, He was a Carnegie Research Scholar in modern languages in Rome and Siena from 1903 to 1904, then lectured in English under Professor Herbert Grierson at Aberdeen University from 1904 to 1906. He became Professor of English at Transvaal Technical Institute, Johannesburg and at Transvaal University College, Pretoria...
Dates:
[?1927.]
Album of press cuttings, undated, collected by John Purves chiefly on literary topics., [?1913-?1960.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15896
Scope and Contents
The cuttings include reviews of a series of six lectures which John Purves gave to the Helensburgh Lecture Association, an article by Purves on Italian contemporary writers and a group of articles on Thomas Hardy.
Dates:
[?1913-?1960.]
Albums containing chiefly press cuttings apparently collected by Richard Haldane., 1888-1890, 1912.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20068-20069
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1888-1890, 1912.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
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Correspondence and papers of, and concerning, Richard Burdon Haldane, who was created Viscount Haldane in 1911.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly concerning Richard Burden Haldane.
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Collections of press-cuttings concerning Richard Haldane.
Albums containing newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson., 1896-1910.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6659/1-5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
James Logie Robertson was born in Milnathort, Kinross-shire in 1846 and educated at Orwell Parish School and Edinburgh University. He was assistant master at Heriot's Hospital and George Watson's College before joining the staff at Edinburgh Ladies' College in 1876. His
writings, some under the pen-name of 'Hugh Haliburton', include English text-books, essays and poetry. Robertson died in 1922.Five volumes of newspaper cuttings with annotations by James Logie Robertson and a...
Dates:
1896-1910.
Albums of press-cuttings, mainly of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray., 1882-1917, 1920-1934, 1951.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.3501/28-30
Albums of published articles and verse by Jan Struther, with related press cuttings., 1914-1955, 1972-2010.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13220/1-16
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Articles and poems published in newspapers and magazines are all faithfully preserved in 16 large albums of press cuttings.She was a keen supporter of the Democratic Party and the correspondence files contain some letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson. The papers include several travel journals, and manuscripts and typescripts of many articles, verses, songs and hymns - which she had a gift for writing, despite her own agnosticism. Also significant are the manuscripts...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914-1955, 1972-2010.
Alphabetical lists of Gaelic place-names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson from the Chronicle of Fortingall, as printed in translation in ‘The Northern Chronicle’, 16 December 1886, with newspaper cuttings of the articles in question., [1886, or after.]
File
Identifier: MS.362
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...
Dates:
[1886, or after.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers concerning Gaelic philology and Highland topography, folk-lore, etc., compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson (died 1927), Minister of the United Free Church, Kilchoman, Islay.
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Papers concerning Gaelic place names and personal names compiled by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson.
Annotated copy of 'Dylan Thomas' (London: Neville Spearman, 1954), by Derek Standford, with inserted newspaper cuttings., 1954.
File
Identifier: Acc.10397/57
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.
Dates:
1954.
Annotated typescript, notes and press cuttings on John Lorne Campbell of Canna; with letters of Margaret Campbell and Hugh Cheape to Tom Weir., 1996.
File
Identifier: Acc.13059/259
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Most articles are untitled and undated.
Dates:
1996.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.
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Literary and broadcasting papers of Tom Weir.
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Papers relating to short stories, articles, press, radio and TV scripts of Tom Weir
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Corrected proofs, annotated typescripts, and drafts of 'My Month' articles by Tom Weir; with some related correspondence, notes, press cuttings and printed ephemera.
Another copy of the `Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the several matters relating to coal in the United Kingdom. Vol. I. General report and twenty-two sub-reports.`, 1871.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.51.1.4
Scope and Contents
Folios i-ii are inserts. To folios i recto-ii verso have been pasted two articles from the `Times` newspaper, [1871]: `The supply of coal` and `The supply of coal. No.II`.
On folio ii verso are notes, 1871, of John Francis Campbell.
Dates:
1871.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
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Correspondence of John Francis Campbell in the capacity of Secretary to the Royal Coal Commission in London, a post he held for several years, along with various printed reports and proceedings of the Coal Commission concerning investigations made into a number of aspects of coal mining throughout the country.
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Published and working copies, preparatory to publication, of the `Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the several matters relating to coal in the United Kingdom`.
Appendices to the tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912., 1911-1912.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.85.1.9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Of the fourteen volumes in the series, twelve are typescript `tour diaries’ with appendices of various documents and printed items, and the remaining two volumes are an address book and an index volume.
Dates:
1911-1912.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton as Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of India.
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Typescript tour diaries of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton, with appendices.
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Tour diary of Frederick Walter Ferrier Noel-Paton: Burma, 17 December 1911 - 8 February 1912; with appendices.
Art-related press cuttings, 1959-2003
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13772/256-262
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains the press cuttings Edith Simon retained, documenting press coverage and reviews for her art projects and exhibitions.
Dates:
1959-2003
Article, "Junius", by David Coulton. The article has been extracted from the "Quarterly Review" and is bound with letters of various writers to John Murray III, John Murray IV, William Smith and Robert Cooke concerning the article., 1851-1852, 1904.
File
Identifier: MS.42065
Scope and Contents
David Coulton`s article on Junius was published in the "Quarterly Review" of December 1851.The article and letters have been bound under the cover title, "Lord Lyttelton Junius. Q. R. No. 179". The file is arranged as follows : (1) Coulton`s article on Junius as published in the "Quarterly Review";(2) letters of various correspondents, 1851-1852, concerning Coulton`s article: letter of John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray III;...
Dates:
1851-1852, 1904.
Articles about competitions and awards won by Rankin; articles about events attended by Rankin related to his career; and articles about topics related to language and literature and Rankin., 1977-2014.
File
Identifier: MS.50583
Scope and Contents
The articles are from a variety of serial publications and from various countries. They are arranged in three sequences based on the primary subject of the article: ‘Competitions and Awards’, ‘Literature Festivals, Conferences, and Publicity Events’, and ‘Language and Literature’. Under each sequence the entries are arranged by sub-series, and then alphabetically by title of periodical.
Articles about competitions and awards won by Ian Rankin, including Rankin’s OBE. Folios...
Dates:
1977-2014.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Materials relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin.
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Press relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin.
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Articles and features about Ian Rankin.
Articles about Ian Rankin’s writing career, and other crime writers and Scottish writers., 1986-2017.
File
Identifier: Ms.50582
Scope and Contents
The articles are from a variety of serial publications and from various countries. They are arranged in two sequences based on the primary subject of the article: ‘Articles about genres of writing and writers’, and ‘Articles about or mentioning Ian Rankin’s career and/or writing (general)’. Under each sequence the entries are arranged by sub-series, and then chronologically by date of publication.
Articles about genres of writing and writers, featuring or mentioning Ian Rankin....
Dates:
1986-2017.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Materials relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin.
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Press relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin.
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Articles and features about Ian Rankin.
Articles about specific works of Ian Rankin., 1987-2015.
File
Identifier: MS.50581
Scope and Contents
The articles are from a variety of serial publications. They are arranged in three sequences based on the primary subject of the article: ‘Novels’, ‘Television Productions’, and ‘Radio Productions’. Under each sequence the entries are arranged by sub-series, then alphabetically by the title of the work (if applicable), then chronologically by date of publication.
Articles about a novel or novels of Ian Rankin.Rebus Novels. Folios 1-100.Articles about or...
Dates:
1987-2015.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ian Rankin archive.
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Papers relating to the professional activities of Ian Rankin.
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Materials relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin.
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Press relating to the reputation of Ian Rankin.
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Articles and features about Ian Rankin.
Articles and a lecture of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’., 1932-1935, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26061
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Printed copies of miscellaneous articles, 1932-1935 (folio l);
(ii) Manuscript draft of a review of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, ‘Robert Bruce’, 1934 (folio l2);
(iii) Typescript and printed version of 'A Novelist looks at the cinema', published in ‘Cinema Quarterly’, Winter 1935, pages 81-85 (folio l3);
(iv) Typescript of an article on the anthropologist, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, undated (folio 22). It was published by Douglas F Young in ‘Beyond the sunset’...
Dates:
1932-1935, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the novelist James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), the author 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon', and of his wife Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell.
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Papers chiefly typescripts of the publications of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon'.