Collection name. Dickson, William Kirk, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Copy in typescript carbon of 'Notes on some early printed books in the Advocates' Library. Two papers read at the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 10th February 1910 and 9th February 1911, by W K Dickson'; with a few amendments in Dickson's hand.
Item
Identifier: MS.21245
Scope and Contents
Both papers are concerned with incunables, the earlier (folio 1) with those from Germany and Italy, the later (folio 17) with Switzerland, France, Spain, Netherlands and England.
Dates:
1910-1911.
Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.13501-13597
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1st half of 20 century.