Scope and Contents Containing:BBC General Instructions for the Royal Visit, 7 July 1932.Press cuttings on the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English, 1933-1934.Copy of BBC Staff Regulations, 1934.Janet Adam Smith annotated copy of 'The Listener', 18 January 1933.Janet Adam Smith annotated copy of 'The Listener, Poetry and Woodcut Supplement', 12 July 1933.Incomplete copies of 'The Listener', covering 'The Grand Tour' series, July –...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.

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As well as correspondence, and manuscripts and typescripts of published works, the collection includes a huge number of David Thomson’s notebooks and diaries.

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The manuscript 'Remarks' are on folios 3 verso-51 verso and 279-280. The portrait of Scott is on folio 2 verso.

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The manuscript was for a time in the hands of Thomas Aird, editor of ‘The poetical works of D.M. Moir’ (Edinburgh, 1852), and critical and other comments, in his hand and initialled, appear throughout the volume.

A detailed note on the contents has been placed at the beginning of the volume.

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Most of the manuscript consists of 'Rhymed Reason', a didactic poem annotated by the author.

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Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.

Scope and Contents

Part of a numbered series of notebooks containing drafts of poems. some of the poems are annotated with the place and date of their first publication in periodicals. MSS.26116—26117 also contain notes from Goodsir Smith's reading.

Scope and Contents The volume contains: (i) Election papers and addresses, 1832 (folio 1); (ii) Printed parliamentary papers with manuscript notes, including lists of members; copies of Acts etc. (folio 21); (iii) Papers concerning reform (folio 75); (iv) Papers, 1836, concerning the Scotch Municipal Bill (folio 84); (v) Papers, 1831-1836, concerning the Hypothec Bill (folio 88); (vi) Papers, 1836-1837, concerning the Salmon Fisheries Bill (folios 162); (vii) Papers concerning prisons (folio 178); (viii)...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...

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The manuscript additions consist of small verbal changes, and notes of more recent or apposite cases.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet of Hailes, (1726-1792), was the son of Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, and Lady Christian Dalrymple, daughter of the 6th Earl of Haddington. Sir David was educated at Eton and entered the Inner Temple in 1742. From 1747-1748 he studied Civil Law at Utrecht, and in 1748 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was raised to the Bench as Lord Hailes in 1766 and appointed a Lord of Justiciary in 1776. In addition to his legal activities, Lord...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection, in which family correspondence predominates, reflects all aspects of the naval career of Robert Kirk Dickson. He took part in the Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914, Gallipoli, 1915, and Jutland, 1916. In the Second World War he served as Duty Captain in the Admiralty War Room, 1939-1940, and commanded the fast minelayer, H.M.S. Manxman, 1940-1942, when he took part in a series of offensive minelaying operations in the Channel, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. He was Deputy...

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Alastair Reid both wrote poetry himself and translated work by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and others. MSS.27446-27448 contain his own poems, and MSS.27449-27457 his translations.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Alastair Reid both wrote poetry himself and translated work by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and others. MSS.27446-27448 contain his own poems, and MSS.27449-27457 his translations.