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Cards and letters of Harry Lauder to W. Lockyer.
Includes two autographs and one signed photograph (1937) of Harry Lauder; programme of Command Performance at Balmoral Castle, 5 September 1924; some photographs probably of W. Lockyer and members of his family.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Letters and papers of, and concerning, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes.
Letters of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.
Correspondence of George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, including enclosures of poems, cuttings and other notes. Many of the poems and acrostics were written by Brown as gifts for special occasions, including one for Crawford's wedding in 1991 to Graham McGirk.
The collection also includes the uncorrected typescript of 'The ballad of the golden bird', published as 'The golden bird' (John Murray, 1987), which Brown dedicated to Kenna Crawford.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
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.
Original manuscript of ‘Off in a boat’, the description of a boating holiday off the west coast of Scotland by the novelist, Neil Gunn.
Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.
The sister of Nancy Brysson Morrison, Margaret M Morrison studied at Glasgow School of Art and trained for the stage before beginning her career in literature.
Papers of Sir William O Hutchison.
Including sketchbooks, manuscripts and typescripts of addresses and talks, and over 100 letters to Hutchison, mostly concerning his paintings.
With associated printed items and photographs of paintings.
Papers relating to the climb featured in and the publication of 'Eiger Direct', by Dougal Haston, Peter Gillman and Chris Bonington.
Single letters and papers.
The contents include: letters, 1825-1826, of Robert Chambers regarding a projected but apparently unpublished work, 'Traditions of Scotland'; a photograph of Sir Walter Scott's letter, 1827, to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, now in the Goethe- und Schiller- Archiv, Weimar; and correspondence, 1854-1868, (chiefly of Sir Roderick Murchison) of and relating to David Livingstone.