Scope and Contents The main part of the collection comprises the correspondence between Lady Lilian Adam Smith and her eldest daughter, Mary ['Maisie'] Buchanan Drew. These letters contain detailed, diary-like letters relating domestic matters, news and comments on current affairs, and family anecdotes and reflections, between the 1910s and Lady Lilian's death in 1949 and covering both World Wars. The collection also includes a series of Mary Buchanan Drew's journals, with a detailed account of her relocation...

Scope and Contents The collection represents a fragment of the correspondence between Lady Lilian Adam Smith and her youngest daughter, Margaret 'Mippet' Elphinston Clarke, with an illustrated commentary on the letters by Margaret's daughter Dr Janet 'Zu' Rizvi.The correspondence is primarily comprised of letters sent from Margaret to her mother, and contain detailed descriptions of Margaret's life in Aberdeen during the Second World War, when she was employed as Assistant Secretary to the local...

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The diary contains a detailed descriptive account of Lilian's first meeting with George Adam Smith at Riffelalp, Switzerland, with a note from George Adam Smith enclosing pressed flowers, a letter from George Adam Smith to Lilian on their wedding day, 1889, and related notes and letters of Lilian on the diary to members of her family, 1913-1931. Pencil notes with commentary on Lilian's diary have been added to the volume at a later date by George Adam Smith.