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Apparently incomplete collection of correspondence and papers of William Marshall and of members of his family, together with related papers compiled by David J Mackenzie, Sheriff-substitute of Glasgow.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15369-15378
Scope and Contents

William Marshall, who was factor to the Duke of Gordon, was known in his own day as a Scottish fiddler and composer of strathspeys, and an inventor. The collection contains almost nothing of musical interest, and the largest single part consists of letters and copies of letters of his sons whilst on active service in India and in the Peninsular War, written to him and to other members of the family.

Dates: 1778-1961, undated.

Corrected typescript drafts and proofs of William Wolfe, "Scotland Lives" (1973).

 File
Identifier: Acc.9537
Scope and Contents

With associated notes and correspondence.

Dates: circa 1973.

Correspondence and papers of Charles Augustus Muir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9522
Scope and Contents

Concerning Muir`s literary work and to his history of the Royal Scots, "The First of Foot" (1961).

Dates: 1915-1987.

Correspondence and papers of Derek Stanford.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11050
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of critical works on Muriel Spark, research notes and proofs of works of Muriel Spark.

Dates: circa 1955-1976.

Correspondence and papers of Douglas Young, including printed material, mostly concerning Scottish politics.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7085 Box 1(1)-Box 32
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of plays, articles, reviews, addresses, and broadcast talks, with letters on literary, academic and political matters.

Also printed items concerning the Scottish National Party, PEN, and other organisations.

Dates: 1938-1973, undated.

Correspondence and papers of or concerning General Sir Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16407-16420
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.

Dates: 1759-[circa 1947.]

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary papers, filmscripts, photographs and personal papers of Tom Weir, explorer, journalist and photographer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13059/1-500
Scope and Contents Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...
Dates: circa 1916-2006.

Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates: 1896-2006.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates: 1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.

Kilberry book of piobaireachd: papers concerning piobaireachd, being the results of researches into the history of piobaireachd, the quality of the texts available, and problems of performance, compiled by Archibald Campbell, with the assistance of Colonel John P Grant of Rothiemurchus.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.22098-22117
Scope and Contents Archibald Campbell, who entered the Indian Civil Service and retired as Judge of the High Court of Lahore, was the youngest son of John Campbell of Kilberry, and Secretary of the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The material is arranged tune by tune, approximately in the order of appearance in ‘Ceol mor’ by C S Thomason, and consists of copies of the text of each piobaireachd from all authoritative sources, both printed (including some proof sheets) and manuscript....
Dates: 1892-1963, undated.

Ledgers of Alasdair Gray containing diary entries and drafts of works, with typescripts of 'Fleck' and a file of press cuttings.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13021/1-15
Scope and Contents

Eight ledgers or notebooks contain diary entries, draft letters and literary notes and drafts of stories, poems, plays and the novel 'Old men in love'; with six corrected and annotated typescripts of 'Fleck', a play; and a file of cuttings of reviews of the French edition of 'Lean tales'.

Dates: 1845-2008.

Letters of David Livingstone written to James MacLehose, Glasgow, and Mrs Sewell, shortly after he went out to Africa, describing his work and adventures in Bechuanaland.

 File
Identifier: MS.656
Scope and Contents

The letters are preceded by a descriptive note, 1937, and typescripts of the letters.

Dates: 1841-1843, 1846.

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Notes. 58
Correspondence. 49
Manuscripts. 28
Letters. Correspondence. 22
Photographs. 17
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Articles. 16
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 15
Diaries. 14
Drafts. Documents. 14
Copies. Derivative objects. 13
Notebooks. 11
Novels. 8
Documents. 7
Research notes 7
Speeches. Documents. 7
Biographies. 6
Memorandums. 6
Poetry. 6
Printed materials. Object genre. 6
Proofs. printed matter 6
Publications. 6
Research notes. 6
Histories. 5
Lectures. 5
Photocopies. 5
Proofs. Printed matter. 5
Accounts. 4
Carbon copies. Reprographic copies. 4
Excerpts. 4
Financial records. 4
Plays. 4
Short stories. 4
Autobiographies. 3
Drawings. Visual works. 3
Essays. 3
Lecture notes. 3
Lists. 3
Portraits. 3
Reviews. Document genre. 3
Stats. Copies. 3
Annotations. 2
Business records. 2
Extracts. 2
Fragments. 2
Genealogies. 2
Graphs. 2
Illustrations. Layout features. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Magazines. periodicals. 2
Offprints. 2
Personal papers. 2
Piobaireachd. Great Highland Bagpipe music. 2
Professional papers. 2
Programmes 2
Reports 2
Sketches. 2
Snapshots. 2
Transcripts 2
Transcripts. 2
Address books. Reference sources. 1
Administrative records. 1
Admiralty charts. 1
Agendas. Administrative records. 1
Anecdotes. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 1
Bibliographies. 1
Broadcasts. Events. 1
Calculations. 1
Calligraphy. Visual works. 1
Canntaireachd. Tablature (Musical notations). 1
Cashbooks. 1
Catalogues. 1
Christmas cards. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Cookbooks. 1
Criticism. 1
Declarations. 1
Diagrams. 1
Dispatches. 1
Drafts. Documents 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Exercise books. 1
Fiction. 1
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 1
Instructional materials. 1
Kamet. Asia - India - Uttaranchal. Mountain. Longitude: 79.5930. Latitude: 30.9160. 1
Laments. Musical compositions. 1
Lantern slides. 1
Legal documents. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Marches. Musical compositions. 1
Memoirs. 1
Memoranda Book. 1
Memorandums. Legal documents. 1
Microfilms. 1
Minute books. 1
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Language
English 48
Undetermined 21
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 2
Multiple languages 2
Swedish 1
 
Names
Gray, Alasdair (author) (1934-2019) 3
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 3
Scottish National Party 2
Tranter, Nigel Godwin , author, 1909-2000 2
Army, Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1
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Blake, George, novelist, 1893-1961 1
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 1
Caimbeul, Aonghas Phàdruig (poet and writer) 1
Calder, Angus Lindsay Ritchie (historian, writer, and poet) 1
Clark, Ronald William, author, 1916-1987 1
Cranna, John, Scottish Unionist Association, fl 1937-1953 1
Dennistoun, James, antiquary, 1803-1855 1
Dunnett, Dorothy, novelist and artist, wife of Sir Alastair McTavish, journalist and newspaper editor, née Halliday, 1923-2001 1
Dunnett, Sir Alastair MacTavish (Journalist and newspaper editor) 1
Elphinstone, Margaret, author, b 1948 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964 1
Fairbairn, William Ronald Dodds, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1889-1964. 1
Fleming, Lindsay, author of "Life of James Dennistoun", fl 1951-1954 1
Forrester, family 1
Fraser, Duncan, author and publisher, 1905-1977 1
Gibb, Andrew Dewar, Professor of Law, University of Glasgow, 1888-1974 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965 1
Gordon, Cosmo Alexander, bibliographer, 1886-1965: recipient 1
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, philanthropist and author, 1862-1937 1
Halliday, James, author, historian and politician, 1927-2013 1
Hardie, James Keir, politician, 1856-1915 1
Hibernian Football Club, Edinburgh 1
Hislop, Joseph Dewar, singer, 1884-1977 1
Hughes, Emrys, politician, 1894-1969 1
Insh, George Pratt, historian, b 1883 1
Irving, Alexander, army officer in the Swedish service, d 1659 1
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 1
Kellas, Alexander Mitchell, chemist and mountaineer, 1868-1921 1
Kennaway, Sir Ernest Laurence, Knight, pathologist, 1881-1958: recipient 1
Law, Alexander, HM Inspector of Schools, 1903-1995 1
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 1
MacKechnie, John, Minister of St Kiaran's, Glasgow, b 1897 1
Mackintosh, John Pitcairn, political scientist and politician, 1929-1978 1
Martin, Burns, author of "Allan Ramsay: a Study of His Life and Works", fl 1900-1945 1
Maxwell, Gavin, author, 1914-1969 1
McGregor, Sheila, author of "The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle knitting", fl 1973-2003 1
Meacham, Gwendoline Emily, Scottish nationalist, pseudonym Wendy Wood, 1892-1981 1
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 1
Muir, Charles Augustus Carlow, author and journalist, 1892-1989 1
Murray, Malcolm, writer on Alexander Irving, army officer in the Swedish service, fl 1976-1986 1
National Party of Scotland 1
Oliver, John Walter, Principal Lecturer in English, Moray House Training College, Edinburgh, 1893-1957 1
Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, journalist, naval intelligence officer and genealogist, 1883-1969 1
Pow, Thomas Campbell, poet, b 1950 1
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 1
Reid, James Macarthur, author and journalist, pseudonym Colin Walkinshaw, 1900-1970 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Scottish PEN Centre, association of writers 1
Scottish Patriots, cross-party campaigning organisation 1
Scottish Unionist Association, political association 1
Sinclair, William Angus, Reader in Philosopy, University of Edinburgh, 1905-1954 1
Standard Press Ltd, Montrose, publishers 1
Stanford, Derek, poet and critic, 1918-2008 1
Thomson, Philip D, co-author of "100 Years of Hibs", fl 1992-2005 1
Weir, Thomas [Tom] (explorer, journalist and photographer) 1
Wolfe, William Cuthbertson, Leader of the Scottish National Party, 1924-2010 1
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 1
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