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Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11085
Scope and Contents

Indluding:

1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland

3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated

4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated

5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.

Dates: 16th century to 17th century.

Correspondence and literary papers, including articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts, of Janet Adam Smith.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12342/1-203
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence concerning her own writing and her work on John Buchan, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dates: 1930-2005.

Correspondence and papers of Sir William Craigie (1867-1957), the philologist and lexicographer.

 File
Identifier: MS.9987
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters to William Craigie, 1886-1923, undated, chiefly from other scholars concerning philological and editorial problems. A few unrelated letters, 1825-1885, from Palmerston, Peel, and others, have been placed at the beginning. (Folio 1.) (ii) Correspondence, 1923-1957, undated, with C T Onions and the Clarendon Press, concerning the ‘Oxford English dictionary’ and its supplements. ‘The dictionary of American English’ and other lexicographical...
Dates: 1825-1957, undated.

Draft letter (beginning missing), 1865, of David Livingstone.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9468
Scope and Contents

On possible misinterpretation of his remarks on America.

Includes:

letter, 1857, of Roualeyn Gordon Cumming to Livingstone, acknowledging a copy of his book

photocopy of a poem, 1874, on Livingstone.

Dates: 1857-1874.

Drafts and corrected typescript of Forbes Macgregor, "The Gowks of Mowdieknowes".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5761
Scope and Contents

With associated correspondence, and photocopies of a play and three poems.

Dates: 1963.

Letters of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26672-26674

Papers of James B Caird.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10193
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of poems, essays, articles, reviews and talks, and letters.

With photocopies of three letters to Janet H Caird of Sorley MacLean and Robert Garioch.

Dates: 1935-1987 and undated.

Papers of the "Edinburgh Review."

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11517

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.

Photocopies of ten letters, 1926-1942, of William Soutar to Mr and Mrs William Mackenzie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10823
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of three poems, undated, of Soutar and related letter, 1958, of Alexander Scott.

Dates: 1926-1958 and undated.

Photocopies of "The Stirling Stanzas", a poem of Seamus Heaney.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10395
Scope and Contents

With a letter of Heaney to Alan Forrester, Stirling University.

Dates: 1990.

Photocopy of letter of Robert Burns to William Cruikshank.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11053
Scope and Contents

Includes the verses "Written in Friar`s Carse Hermitage".

Dates: ? 1788.

Typescripts, 1961, of three versions of Alastair Fowler, "The Confidence Man", including copies of three associated letters.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8703
Scope and Contents

With typescript, 1965, of Kitty W Scoular, "Natural Magic", and a photocopy of the Blage Manuscript, circa 1530-1550.

Dates: 1961-1965 and undated.

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Names
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck, 1775-1822 1
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 1