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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 2212 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and papers relating to the constituencies of Fife and of the Cadco Affair., 1945-1991.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10951/114-121
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Dates: 1945-1991.

Correspondence and papers relating to the Royal Household and Family., 1961-1991.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.10951/102-108
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and papers, 1936-1992, of William Winter Hamilton (b.1917), writer politician, Labour MP for West Fife, 1950-1974 and for Central Fife, 1974-1987.

Dates: 1961-1991.

Correspondence and papers relating to work of Foster Neville Woodward in 'scientific diplomacy', with the United Nations and other international organisations., 1943-1985.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9010/140-228
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Correspondence and research papers of Dr Foster Neville Woodward, Scientific Consultant, 1914-1985. Although there is some personal correspondence, the papers relate mainly to Dr Woodward’s scientific career, including his work as a scientific civil servant, 1930-1947, at the Chemical Defence Research Establishment, Sutton Oak, on chemical warfare and in particular on mustard gas, at the Ministry of Supply, Leamington Spa, on camouflage research, and at the Ministry of Production, where his...
Dates: 1943-1985.

Correspondence and press cuttings concerning 'Life and letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron', by Ethel Colburn Mayne., 1929-1930.

 File
Identifier: MS.43540
Scope and Contents The correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. Letters of Richard John Frederick Edgcumbe to John Murray [V] with a copy of a reply, 1929: folios 1-4;Letters of Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton, Lady Wentworth, to John Murray [V] with copies of some of his replies, 1929: folios 5-12;Letters of Ethel Colburn Mayne to John Murray [V] with copies of his replies, 1929-1930: folios 13-32;Letter of Mary...
Dates: 1929-1930.

Correspondence and press cuttings concerning the Reverend Watler Chalmers Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5958
Scope and Contents

Including letters of W E Gladstone and Robert Browning.

Dates: 1880-1893.

Correspondence and press-cuttings (mostly from ‘The Times’) concerning the activities of the British-American Association for Emigration and Colonization., 1842-1844, 1847.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.19
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).

Dates: 1842-1844, 1847.

Correspondence and press cuttings related to autobiography 'Curriculum Vitae'., 1992-1993.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/185
Scope and Contents From the Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: 1992-1993.

Correspondence and press cuttings related to critical work 'The Essence of the Brontës'., 1993.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/184
Scope and Contents From the Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: 1993.

Correspondence and press cuttings related to short story collections 'The Collected Stories' and 'The Penguin Collection'., 1994-1996.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11621/131
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: 1994-1996.

Correspondence and press cuttings related to 'The Essence of the Brontës' and 'Curriculum Vitae'., 1992-1993.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11621/184-185
Scope and Contents

During the period of this correspondence Penelope Jardine acted as Muriel Spark’s secretary frequently writing on behalf of Spark. As a result it is not always clear who authored individual letters.

Dates: 1992-1993.

Correspondence and research papers of Janet Adam Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11164
Scope and Contents

Written, collected for and concerning Janet Adam Smith`s "John Buchan: A Biography" (London, 1965).

Dates: circa 1915-1965.

Correspondence and speech on the William Roscoe lecture delivered by Magnusson., 1998-2000.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/741
Scope and Contents

Files also includes correspondence and newspaper cuttings on Roscoe’s anti-slavery activities in Liverpool, and the 21st century acknowledgement of Liverpool’s involvement in the slave trade.

Dates: 1998-2000.

Correspondence, articles, press cuttings and notes on members of the Bicknell family., 1927-1999.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/122
Scope and Contents

Containing: Raymond Bicknell, climber, 1875-1927; Ellen Bicknell, teacher, 1902 -1994; Peter Bicknell, climber, 1907-1995; Christine Bicknell, 1919-1999; and  Mairi Bicknell, ballet teacher.

Dates: 1927-1999.

Correspondence between Edward Ellice and Sir John Rose., 1852-1869, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.15123-15124
Scope and Contents From the Series: The seigneury of Anfield, or Beauharnois as it was usually called, was purchased by Edward Ellice (died 1863) from the Marquis de Lotbinière. Most of the papers consist of reports of various agents who administered the estate. Negotiations for the sale of Beauharnois were started in 1839, when the North American Colonial Association of Ireland agreed to purchase, but the huge amounts of money involved protracted the affair, and it was not finally disposed of until 1866.There are...
Dates: 1852-1869, undated.

Correspondence between Edward Ellice and Sir John Rose., 1861-1869, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.15124
Scope and Contents From the Series: The seigneury of Anfield, or Beauharnois as it was usually called, was purchased by Edward Ellice (died 1863) from the Marquis de Lotbinière. Most of the papers consist of reports of various agents who administered the estate. Negotiations for the sale of Beauharnois were started in 1839, when the North American Colonial Association of Ireland agreed to purchase, but the huge amounts of money involved protracted the affair, and it was not finally disposed of until 1866.There are...
Dates: 1861-1869, undated.

Correspondence between Janet Adam Smith and Valerie Eliot., 1931-1998.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13861/93
Scope and Contents Containing:Letters between Janet Adam Smith and Valerie Eliot, some concerning the papers of her late husband, T S Eliot, 1965-1998.Lists of letters written by T S Eliot to Janet Adam Smith, 1937-1963, and to Michael Roberts, 1931–1948, where JAS Estate has photocopies of them but not the originals, as of 1999.Newspaper cuttings of letters to the press about accounts of the life and works of T S Eliot, with arguments about access to his papers,...
Dates: 1931-1998.

Correspondence between Peter Butter and various correspondents relating to Edwin and Willa Muir. File 3., 1962-1972.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13634/12
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with Laurence Stapleton (of Bryn Mawr College), Daid Cairns, ‘John’ (of Queen’s College Cambridge), Gavin Muir, _____ Barker, ‘Tom’ (of 3 Duddingston Park, Edinburgh), Janet Carleton (from an address possibly occupied by Janet Adam Smith?), E M Anderson, W Martin, Patricia Swale, Diana Haskell (of the Newberry Library), R K Leskie (of Orkney County Library), Magraret McFadden (of the University of Chicago), Alan Bell (of the National Library of Scotland), Susan J...
Dates: 1962-1972.

Correspondence, cards, and newspaper cuttings on retirements at the SNH., 1992-2003.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13542/831
Scope and Contents

Mostly relates to Magnusson’s own retirement, but also includes other members of SNH.

Dates: 1992-2003.

Correspondence concering Naomi Mitchison, "The Delicate Fire" and "The Moral Basis of Politics".

 File
Identifier: Acc.9104
Scope and Contents

With cuttings of reviews, 1938, of "The Moral Basis of Politics".

Dates: 1933-1938.

Correspondence concerning the voyages to the East Greenland Sea made chiefly in the 1860s and 1870s by David Gray, a whaling captain from Peterhead., 1922-1940.

 File
Identifier: MS.9504
Scope and Contents

The correspondence, which is chiefly between David Gray’s son Robert W Gray and Sir James Wordie, is accompanied by cuttings from the ‘Buchan observer’ in which were published series of articles on, and excerpts from, the logs of these voyages. The proposal that a small book should be published based upon the contents of the logs seems not to have been carried out.

Dates: 1922-1940.

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, literary papers, and photographs, of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Roderick Oliver, 1921-1944, together with diaries and miscellaneous papers of his mother, Elizabeth Oliver, wife of Major Edward Oliver, Veterinary Advisor to the Indian government, 1905-1946, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.24656-24720
Scope and Contents Peter Oliver served with Coke's Rifles during the Second World War until his death on active service in Burma in 1945. Included here are papers relating to his army career. However, he is better known as a mountaineer, and particularly as a member of two unsuccessful Everest expeditions in 1936 and 1938. Climbing regularly in the Himalayas and to a lesser extent in the Alps during the 1930s, Oliver's papers are noteworthy for his detailed climbing journals, his articles on mountaineering,...
Dates: 1905-1946, undated.

Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14596/1-248
Scope and Contents This archive contains literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown, the celebrated Orcadian poet and novelist. At the heart of this collection is the vast amount of correspondence received by George Mackay Brown throughout his life from friends, fans, editors, publishers and others. These letters, postcards and greetings cards give a unique insight into the breadth of attention that his work drew, as well as the connections he made with correspondents from across the world, all from...
Dates: 1800, 1934-2013, undated.