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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 533 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, essays, articles, cuttings and other literary papers of Alexander MacDonald, Gaelic scholar, and his daughter Mairi MacDonald, novelist and playwright.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7708/1-130
Scope and Contents Papers of Alexander MacDonald, circa 1886-1962, including manuscripts of poems and essays, and associated correspondence. Also present are the papers of his daughter Mairi A MacDonald, 1915-1977, including manuscripts of novels, plays, and articles, with associated correspondence, including letters of Gordon Daviot. The collection also includes a book of poems by Isobel MacDonald, either the sister or mother of Alexander MacDonald; as well as some magazines and journals relating to Scottish...
Dates: 1886-1977.

Correspondence, notes and press cuttings of the Reverend John C Carrick.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6081
Scope and Contents

Moslty concerning the Newbattle Chartulary.

Dates: 1895-1896.

Correspondence of Alfred J Smith with Lord Cameron of Balhousie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11689
Scope and Contents

Includes press cuttings and photographs.

Dates: 1977-1985

Correspondence of Eric Lyall, with newspaper cuttings collected by him.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.24637-24738
Scope and Contents

Eric Lyall was the secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse, and these papers reflect that interest.

Dates: 1913-1940, undated.

Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates: 1882-1930, undated.

Correspondence of Nigel Keppel Charteris, Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Scots, on active service in South Africa during the Boer War.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7176-7177
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists almost entirely of letters and telegrams sent by Nigel Keppel Charteris to his mother, Lady Louisa Charteris, of Hingham, Norfolk. The main events in which Lieutenant Charteris was involved were the defence of Wepener, and the surrender of General Prinsloo with four thousand Boers, in 1900. The letters are interspersed with contemporary press-cuttings relevant to the campaign, mainly from 'The Times'.

Dates: 1899-1902.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks of Dudley W A Sommer concerning his researches towards, and the publication in May 1960 of, his ‘Haldane of Cloan his life and times 1856-1928’.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20661-20667
Scope and Contents

The correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Dudley Sommer, with a few drafts and, from 1958, several copies in typescript carbon of his replies. A few transcripts of letters of J S Haldane sent to him during his researches are also enclosed.

Press cuttings containing reviews, some of which give rise to correspondence with reviewers and editors, are contained in the chronological sequence (chiefly May-July 1960).

Dates: 1952-1964, undated.

Correspondence, papers, cuttings and photographs of David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, mostly relating to his political career.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13477/1-278
Scope and Contents The collection comprises school papers, 1943-1959, and material relating to his time at Edinburgh University, 1957-1962; files relating to elections, 1961-circa 1990s; political papers, 1954-1981, mainly concerning constituency politics; manuscript diary of the Lib-Lab Pact, 1977-1978; files relating to his involvement in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, 1988-1998, including minutes of meetings and related correspondence; files relating to Scottish politics, 1992-1999, including...
Dates: 1895-2012.

Correspondence, papers, press cuttings and photographs of Margo MacDonald, mostly concerning her political career and causes.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13638/1-62
Scope and Contents

The papers reflect Margo MacDonald`s life as a politician and broadcaster. Although somewhat miscellaneous, they provide an insight into her relationship with the Scottish National Party leadership throughout her life, and into some of the causes she advocated during her life, including independence and assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

Dates: 1955-2014.

Correspondence, press cuttings and other papers concerning (and including some letters and papers of) James Scott Skinner, with some autograph music by him.

 File
Identifier: MS.22021
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence and papers, 1883, [?1914-?1921], undated, of W Hean Findlay and George Short concerning (and including some letters and papers of) J Scott Skinner (folio 1);

(ii) Autograph music, 1914, undated, by Skinner (folio 154);

(iii) Press cuttings, 1917, 1923-1926, concerning Skinner, most of which are from the People's Friend, February-May 1923, containing an autobiographical account of Skinner (folio 168).

Dates: 1883-1926, undated.

Correspondence, reports, lectures and other professional papers of James R Erskine-Murray, electrical engineer and inventor; with some notebooks, diaries and other papers of members of his family.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5900/1-76
Scope and Contents

Including lecture notebooks, copies of lectures and reports, and drafts of articles.

Dates: 1745-1961.

Correspondence, sketch-plans, and newspaper-cuttings relating to the restoration of St Margaret’s Chapel, the Argyll Tower, and the Banqueting Hall of Edinburgh Castle.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.1734-1739
Scope and Contents

The undertaking was financed by William Nelson the publisher, and the architect was Hippolyte Blanc, to whom most of the letters are addressed.

Dates: 1883-1893, undated.

Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.

Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1895-1965, undated.

Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.

Depositions of witnesses concerning the lighting of beacons in Roxburghshire, 1804, by which a false alarm of a French invasion reached Jedburgh.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.23
Scope and Contents

An article from the ‘Jedburgh Gazette’, 7 July 1906, based on this material, is included (folio i).

Dates: 1804.

Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21072-21096
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1877-1928.