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11 letters, 1967-1983, to and copies of two letters, 1970-1971, of W R Aitken

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8951
Scope and Contents

With inscribed copies of Robert Bain, "James the First of Scotland" (1921), and William Montgomerie, "A Selection of Three Poems" (1965), each with letters, 1921 and 1965, from the authors.

Dates: 1921, 1965-1983

64 letters, 1899-1949 and undated, to John Purves, mostly on literary matters, from among others J M Barrie, John Davidson, Luigi Pirandello and Walter de la Mare.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.7175
Scope and Contents

With literary and historical manuscripts, 1388, 1798-1911 and undated, collected by Purves, including single letters of D G Rossetti, John Ruskin, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.

Also two albums, 1936-1952, of Purves, containing inscriptions in poetry and prose by various contributors.

Dates: 1388, 1798-1952.

Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11181
Scope and Contents

Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.

Dates: 1967.

Inscribed copy of "The Tree" (Dunfermline, 1977), by Tom Scott.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11586
Scope and Contents

Includes three related letters of Tom Scott to John Stewart Collis, 1978.

Dates: 1977-1978.

Letters, notes and poems chiefly written to Sir John Scot, Lord Scotstarvet, by Scottish and continental writers and scholars.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.9
Scope and Contents The collection chiefly concerns Scotstarvet`s patronage of literature and learning, and political events on the continent.Symbols have been written in an unidentified hand, apparently of late 17th century provenance, in the upper left-hand corner of many of the letters; their meaning is not known. Leaves from a lost ‘album amicorum’ of Scotstarvet have been identified in folios 101-112. They contain inscriptions to him with mottoes, or classical extracts, by a number...
Dates: 1617-1668, undated.

Letters of and relating to Douglas Young. The recipient was Lord Robertson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12914
Scope and Contents

The letters mainly date from shortly after Douglas Young`s death in 1973. Correspondents include David Murison and Wilfred Taylor concerning a memorial publication. With related papers, one photograph and an inscribed copy of Young`s "Auntran Blads" (1943).

Dates: 1944-1976.

Letters of Gael Turnbull to Matthew and Ruth Mead.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12476
Scope and Contents

Includes inscribed copy of "A Perception of Ferns".

Dates: 1993-2004.

Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

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Names
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 1
Bain, Robert, dramatist and poet, 1865-1955 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Collis, John Stewart, writer and naturalist, 1900-1984 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1