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Includes letters of Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon, relating to Thomas Mackay Cooper's candidacies in Banffshire and West Edinburgh, 1931 and 1935.

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Articles mostly on Gaelic literature, poetry and song; Highland economy and poverty; and Scottish church politics.

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The volumes, which have been arranged and provided with biographical notes and lists of contents by John A Hipkins's sister, Miss Edith J Hipkins, the painter, illustrate the cultivated life of London in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Since Hipkins himself was deaf, there is much material relating to the artistic and other activities of the deaf.

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The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.

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The archive of the Royal Celtic Society, founded in 1820 as the Celtic Society, and bearing its 'Royal' designation since 1873. Among the founder members were Captain William Mackenzie of Gruinard, Sir David Stewart of Garth and Sir Walter Scott, the Society's first vice president.

The archive contains minute books, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, files on the Society's history and constitution, photographs, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous matter.

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The scrapbook contains specimens chiefly of the nineteenth century, including many illustrating the work of the deaf, preceded by a note by Miss Hipkins. Also two crayon portraits by John A Hipkins (pages 60-62); an address given by him on the achievements of the deaf in France (page 71); an original letter of Abbe Sicard (page 79 b); original studies of animals by Walter Geikie (page 84); and original paintings by Frank Maguire (page 90).

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1: Luneburg, Czenstochau, Thorn, Dannigkow, Spandau, Gr Gorschen, Bantzen, Haynau, Hoyerswerda, Luckau, Lowenberg, Goldberg, Gr 2: Beeren, Katzback, Dresden, Hegelsberg, Plagwitz, Kulm, Dennewitz, An der Gohrde, Wartenburg, Dohna, Liebertwolkwitz, Lindenau, Mockern, Wachau, Dresden, Leipzig, Freiburg, Hanau, Schonebeck, Hockheim, Modlin, Dresden, Zamosk, Stettin, Doestburg, Zutphen. 3: Arnheim, Zara, Breda, Gertrundenburg, Friedrichsort, Danzig, Torgau.

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The archive of An Comunn Gàidhealach, consisting of minutes, financial records, commemorative volumes and scrapbooks, and a miscellany of music and prose. Most of the contents of the archive date from the foundation of An Comunn Gàidhealach in 1891 to the 1970s, with a few sections dating from more recent times.

Content Description Correspondence and papers brought together by Dr. James Maclean of Glensanda, Yr., concerning the history and diaspora of the Clan Maclean, on which he published several books. The papers contain his correspondence with representatives of Maclean families; a collection of papers concerning the Macleans of Kilarrow and Shuna brought together by Alexander Hugh Maclean (d. 1916); a collection of Maclean papers dating from the 18th century; and papers of Sir Harry Aubrey de Vere...

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On Forbes’s report on Nile cataracts.

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At the front of the volume is a list giving information about the original letters and place of publication.

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The original papers from which the majority of the contents were copied belonged to Mrs R L Stevenson and were returned to her in San Francisco.

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The contents are as follows: Minute book, 3 April 1882-1884, 1862, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders of Edinburgh (Acc.4395, number 1);

Scrapbook, 1822-1874, of the Union Society of Journeymen Bookbinders, containing correspondence, rulebooks, etc. (Acc.4395, number 26).

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:  Letters, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with several anonymous letters, verses and other fragments addressed to or collected by Scott's mother (MS.1558);   Notebooks, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart (MSS.1623-1624);    "Ladies’ Album" (Edinburgh, undated), in which are pasted caricatures of persons, some of which are probably by John Gibson Lockhart (MS.1625);   Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and...