Scope and Contents A volume of mainly newspaper cuttings with a general interest in Oban and in Gaelic culture, documenting the activities of An Comunn Gàidhealach and other Gaelic organisations and Gaelic-related events, news concerning Oban High School and its pupils, and newspaper articles concerning the First World War. There are also cuttings of a number of Gaelic songs, and two issues of Oban High School Magazine (Vol. IV, no. 2 (March 1913) and vol. IV, no. 3 (July 1913)). Pasted onto the back...

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Records of the Saltire Society including minutes, reports and correspondence. The Society's aims are the strengthening and preservation of Scottish culture and tradition, and its archives reflect its numerous activities in these fields.

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These volumes include newspaper cuttings, proofs for Hansard, electoral addresses, and political cartoons.

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These volumes include newspaper cuttings, proofs for Hansard, electoral addresses, and political cartoons.

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These volumes include newspaper cuttings, proofs for Hansard, electoral addresses, and political cartoons.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These volumes include newspaper cuttings, proofs for Hansard, electoral addresses, and political cartoons.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These volumes include newspaper cuttings, proofs for Hansard, electoral addresses, and political cartoons.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These volumes include newspaper cuttings, proofs for Hansard, electoral addresses, and political cartoons.

Content Description A scrapbook documenting Lord Leven's proposal to re-build the chapel of Holyrood House, Edinburgh, and his bequest of a large sum of money assigned to this purpose. According to the terms of the will, the work depended on the approval of two executors, who in 1906 decided not to let it go ahead. The scrapbooks contains press cuttings of obituaries and death notices of the Earl of Leven, some printed documents and reports, and newspaper articles and letters to the editors. With a...

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The scapbook contains some loose items.

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The watercolour painting is on folio 14.

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Writers of the letter and papers include C F von Wiebeking, Sir G B Airy, Garibaldi, George Scharf, Cardinal Manning, G O Trevelyan, and J A Froude.

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After her husband's death, Rebecca ('Ray') Mitchell continued to encourage interest in James Leslie Mitchell's work, particularly through new editions and films, and her papers reflect this activity.

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The scrapbook contains pamphlets, circulars, and letters chiefly from public and charitable societies in Edinburgh and London.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...

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The scrapbooks take much the same format as those of the Marchioness's sister, Margaret, Lady Newhailes, and many of the photographs, programmes and menu-cards relate to the same events.

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Margaret Anna Dalrymple, Lady Newhailes, was the first wife of Sir David Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Newhailes. The daughter of Sir Mark John MacTaggart-Stewart, 1st Baronet of Southwick, Lady Dalrymple was divorced from Sir David in 1919 and married Sir Patrick Graham Blake, 5th Baronet of Langham in 1925. She died in 1962.