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Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
File
Identifier: MS.23060
Dates:
1821-1827.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10306
Scope and Contents
A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey,...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-?late 19th century.
Corrected typescript drafts of `Points in time: an autobiography` by Dr William Johnstone, and related materials.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.332
Dates:
1980.
Correspondence and papers, including manuscripts, typescripts, articles and reviews, of Nigel Tranter.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9402/1-58
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of novels, topographical works, and articles, together with correspondence comprising around 2000 letters.
Dates:
[?1955]-1986.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Correspondence and papers, including typescripts, proofs and financial records, of Akros Publications, 'Akros' magazine and Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7125 Box 1(1)-Box 46(2)
Scope and Contents
Including manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of poems, articles, and reviews, with correspondence and accounts.
Dates:
1962-1976, undated.
Correspondence and papers of John Pitcairn Mackintosh, Professor of Politics at Edinburgh University and Member of Parliament for Berwick and East Lothian, 1966-1974, 1974-1978.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.323- is now Acc.13476.
Dates:
1944-1978.
Correspondence and papers of Mrs Mary E Haldane, her parents Richard and Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson of West Jesmond, her sister Jane, and her son Richard B Haldane, later Viscount Haldane.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20037-20079
Scope and Contents
Small quantities of letters and papers of other members of Mary E Haldane's family are contained in different parts of the collection. Also contained is a small quantity of letters and papers to Anne, wife of General Sir David Baird, and her sister Catherine Campbell Preston.
Dates:
1809-1937, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.
Dates:
Circa 1903-1982, undated.
Correspondence, diaries, manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs and other literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14596/1-248
Scope and Contents
This archive contains literary and personal papers of George Mackay Brown, the celebrated Orcadian poet and novelist. At the heart of this collection is the vast amount of correspondence received by George Mackay Brown throughout his life from friends, fans, editors, publishers and others. These letters, postcards and greetings cards give a unique insight into the breadth of attention that his work drew, as well as the connections he made with correspondents from across the world, all from...
Dates:
1800, 1934-2013, undated.
Correspondence, essays, articles, cuttings and other literary papers of Alexander MacDonald, Gaelic scholar, and his daughter Mairi MacDonald, novelist and playwright.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7708/1-130
Scope and Contents
Papers of Alexander MacDonald, circa 1886-1962, including manuscripts of poems and essays, and associated correspondence. Also present are the papers of his daughter Mairi A MacDonald, 1915-1977, including manuscripts of novels, plays, and articles, with associated correspondence, including letters of Gordon Daviot. The collection also includes a book of poems by Isobel MacDonald, either the sister or mother of Alexander MacDonald; as well as some magazines and journals relating to Scottish...
Dates:
1886-1977.
Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents
Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates:
1882-1930, undated.
Correspondence, press cuttings and other papers concerning (and including some letters and papers of) James Scott Skinner, with some autograph music by him.
File
Identifier: MS.22021
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Correspondence and papers, 1883, [?1914-?1921], undated, of W Hean Findlay and George Short concerning (and including some letters and papers of) J Scott Skinner (folio 1);
(ii) Autograph music, 1914, undated, by Skinner (folio 154);
(iii) Press cuttings, 1917, 1923-1926, concerning Skinner, most of which are from the People's Friend, February-May 1923, containing an autobiographical account of Skinner (folio 168).
Dates:
1883-1926, undated.
Correspondence, sketches, notebooks and other papers of and concerning Sir David Young Cameron, Katharine Cameron Kay, and her husband Arthur Kay.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8950/1-41
Scope and Contents
Papers of Sir David Young Cameron including sketches, manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and correspondence.
Papers of Katherine Cameron Kay include sketches, notes on paintings and etchings, and correspondence.
Dates:
1895-1965, undated.
Correspondence, teaching materials and papers of Tom Gourdie, mostly concerning the teaching and promotion of handwriting.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12817/1-94
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1783, [1930]-2004, undated.
Drafts of lectures, notes, and other papers on ecclesiastical subjects by John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3555-3563
Dates:
Late 19th century-[before 1911].
Drafts, proofs, notes, and research materials of Tom Pow, including related correspondence and other literary papers.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12950/1-59
Dates:
[1915]-2007, undated.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
File
Identifier: MS.19609
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1846-1919, undated, chiefly addressed to John H Balfour-Browne. They had been kept as a collection of autographs and include fragments of letters and signatures (which have not been indexed). The correspondence mostly concerns Balfour-Browne's literary work and legal matters. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript with manuscript corrections and newspaper cutting of 'A Criticism and a Reminiscence' by Balfour-Browne, published in the...
Dates:
1814-1919, undated.
Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8463-8481
Scope and Contents
David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.
Dates:
1845-1964.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13744/1-6
Scope and Contents
Fleeming Jenkin was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Stevenson’s tutor in that capacity. Stevenson showed little aptitude or interest in engineering but the two men became firm friends. After Jenkin’s sudden death in 1885, his widow Anne asked Stevenson to write a memoir of her husband and this correspondence arose from that connection.
Dates:
1885-1914, undated.
Letters, papers and photographs of James Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.176
Dates:
1884-1969.
Letters to and papers collected by James Greig (1861-1941), art critic of the ‘Morning Post’.
File
Identifier: MS.9809
Scope and Contents
Most of the material concerns the artists Walter Richard Sickert and James McBey. The contents are as follows:(i) Correspondence, 1910-1932, undated, chiefly concerning McBey's paintings and etchings, but including a few letters of Sickert (folio 1);(ii) Printed and manuscript articles by Sickert, 1912-1932, undated, most of which have been reprinted in ‘A free house! ... the writings of Walter Richard Sickert’, edited by Osbert Sitwell (London, 1947)...
Dates:
1910-1935, undated.
Letters to John Duncan Hamilton of Glasgow, mostly on literary matters.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.1.23-81.1.24
Dates:
1894-1930.
Literary and personal papers of Laura Hird.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14109
Dates:
Circa 1988 - circa 2017.