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Album containing portraits of Sir Walter Scott, with papers of and concerning him.
Album of Adam White, the naturalist (1817-1879), entitled on the cover 'Weeds and wild flowers'.
Drafts of lectures, notes, and other papers on ecclesiastical subjects by John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).
Letters, manuscripts, notebooks and printed items of and concerning David Gray, of Kirkintilloch.
David Gray is known particularly for his major poem 'The Luggie'.
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.
Letters to John Duncan Hamilton of Glasgow, mostly on literary matters.
Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Miscellaneous papers, chiefly of the seventeenth century, relating to private, domestic, and public matters.
Included are letters to John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, various members of the Townshend family, George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow, and Sir Michael Stanhope, son of Sir Michael Stanhope (died 1552).
Papers of and concerning Sir John Richmond, containing correspondence, professional and related material.
Concerning Richmond`s poetry and literary work, his connection with Glasgow artists and the art world in general.
Includes letters of Neil Munro, Arnold Bennett and Hilair Belloc.