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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.
Draft of a letter of Janet Milne Rae to George Douglas Brown and the original of his reply, 1902.
File
Identifier: Acc.3618
Scope and Contents
With letter, 1949, of James Veitch to Miss Lettice Milne Rae, and three newspaper cuttings concerning to George Douglas Brown.
Dates:
1902, 1949.
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].
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Letters, 1914-1941, of Lord Alfred Douglas to William Sorley Brown, editor of the ‘Border standard’, concerned chiefly with the publication of Douglas's articles, poems and speeches; with several drafts of letters chiefly written to newspapers for publication.
File
Identifier: MS.9925
Scope and Contents
Also included are a number of newspaper-cuttings, 1915-1936, undated, by or about Lord Alfred Douglas, and the manuscripts, 1915, undated, of three sonnets. "All's well with England", 'Winston Churchill' and 'A Christmas sonnet', all apparently unpublished.
Dates:
1914-1941.
Letters, accounts, newspaper cuttings, and other papers concerning the Western Bank of Scotland compiled by J S Fleming, liquidator of the bank.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.1.13-21.1.14
Dates:
1850-1860.
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, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9310-9315
Scope and Contents
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Dates:
1779-1884.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13722
Dates:
Circa 1946-1994.
Microfilm of papers of and concerning James Augustus Grant.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.556-558
Dates:
[?1765]-1918.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates:
1561, 17th century-late 19th century.
Musical compositions of Ronald Center and a miscellany of papers of Center and his wife Evelyn.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22171-22194
Scope and Contents
The musical compositions consist of final versions (MSS.22171-22186), and sketches, drafts and fragments (MSS.22187-22193). The other papers consist largely of press cuttings.
Dates:
Mid 20th century-1988, undated.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers concerning the Lord High Commissioners to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10240/1-116
Scope and Contents
The papers contain a large number of photocopies of documents dating back to the 17th century.
Dates:
1924-1984, undated.
Personal and political correspondence of Walter E Elliot and of Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12267
Dates:
1912-1957, undated.
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents
The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008
Related material inserted in ‘Our Journall into Scotland, Anno Domini 1629, 5th of November’ by Christopher Lowther (Edinburgh, 1894).
File
Identifier: MS.20755
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6);
(ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48);
(iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11);
(iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50);
(v) A...
Dates:
[1893, or after]-1918.
Small collection of letters, papers, photographs and press cuttings from the Minto Papers.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19574-19577
Dates:
1784-[1887], undated.
Typescripts of talks of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia.
File
Identifier: Acc.9426
Scope and Contents
With two letters of the Reverend Thomas M Donn to Thomson, and cuttings.
Dates:
1965-1969 and undated.