Press cuttings. Information artifacts.
Found in 2212 Collections and/or Records:
Volume of press cuttings compiled by William Soutar., 1923-1936.
William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.
Volume of press-cuttings, possibly assembled by the secretary of the Edinburgh and District Trade Council., 1914-1925.
Illustrating the public activities of the Edinburgh and District Trade Council, and current local and national politics and industrial relations.
Volume of printed reports, newspaper-cuttings, and other papers, 1865-1914, collected by Daniel William Kemp, in connection with the discussion of proposals for a National Library of Scotland by the Convention of Royal Burghs in 1902 and Kemp's later efforts to further the object.
Also contains Daniel William Kemp's correspondence, 1903, 1912 (numbers 26-27, 30, 32-34, 40-41).
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.
Volumes of piobaireachd of Pipe-Majors Ronald and Alexander Mackenzie and Charles Scott.
'Who was Scotland's first printer?’ by Robert Dickson (London, 1881), interleaved, with notes and insertions by the author., [1881.]
A number of press-cuttings of reviews of the book are also inserted.
Women's Foreign Missions links to national church, containing minute books, press cuttings and correspondence., 1941-1972.
Chiefly relating to links with Women's Guilds at home and centenary celebrations, but also with material relevant to the history of Women's Forrign Missions. There is also a large number of play scripts in this accession.
Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.
Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.
Working autograph of ‘Rob Roy’ by Sir Walter Scott, with some associated papers., 1817.
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Working papers of Ian Rankin for his novel ‘The Falls’, 2000-2002.
Written and printed papers removed from Black and White Photographs Series I during rehousing., circa 1960s-1970s, undated.
Includes notes, typescripts and press cuttings.