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Correspondence and papers of Sir Robert A Watson-Watt, including his collection of printed material concerning the history of radar.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9343/1-88
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.
Includes photographs, articles and printed books.
Dates:
1909-1969, undated.
Correspondence, papers and notebooks of J B S Haldane and correspondence and papers of his second wife Helen, née Spurway.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20534-20654
Dates:
1907-1964, undated.
Correspondence, typescripts, press cuttings and other papers of Wilfred Taylor.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9575/1-119
Scope and Contents
Includes articles, reviews, memoirs, plays, speeches notes and correspondence.
With volume containing press cuttings, photographs and programmes, 1886-1937, concerning the Ayr Burns Club and Burns Federation.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1846, 1938-1986.
Literary papers and speeches of Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond.
Series
Identifier: Dep.363
Dates:
Circa 1950-1983.
Papers of Major General James Scott Elliot.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11499
Scope and Contents
Papers of Major General James Scott Elliot, 1920-1990Major General James Scott Elliot was born in 1902 into a military family, his father being Lt Colonel W. Scott Elliot DSO. Scott Elliot was educated at both Wellington College and Sandhurst and went on to have an impressive military career. This included service in Egypt, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and India. During the Second World War, Scott Elliot was sent to France where he contributed to battles in Lille and Le Havre. In 1942,...
Dates:
circa 1920-1990
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1818-2011, undated.