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Album of Draycott House, Derbyshire.
Item
Identifier: MS.3009
Scope and Contents
Hugh Scott of Draycott (Draycot, Draycote) House, a Captain in the East India Marine, was a son of Walter Scott of Raeburn (died 1830) and cousin of Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford. The album, compiled by Hugh Scott's descendants, contains letters of Sir Walter Scott and members of his family, printed matter relating to the subscription raised to purchase Abbotsford for the Scott family, drawings and photographs of Draycott, notes on family history by William Scott of Raeburn (died 1855),...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-1936.
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.
Further professional and personal papers of Edith Simon and Dr Eric Reeve, including photographic and audiovisual materials.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14390
Scope and Contents
This collection contains additional papers relating to Edith Simon's career as an artist and writer, as well as some early juvenilia, embracing her illustration and creative writing. The collection also contains a series of papers relating to her husband, the noted geneticist, Dr. Eric Reeve, documenting his university studies at the University of Oxford, his subsequent war service, and his later career at the University of Edinburgh. The broad scope of the collection may be...
Dates:
Circa 1925-2014.
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 of and to Naomi Mitchison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10909
Scope and Contents
With typescripts, undated, of prose pieces and verse including "Prisoners at War", photographs and press-cuttings.
Dates:
1943 and undated.
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson and of his wife, Fanny, to Anne Jenkin, with related papers.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13744/1-6
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1885-1914, undated.
Letters, photographs and press-cuttings relating largely to the climbing activities of Iain Smart and Malcolm Slesser in Greenland and elswhere.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13310
Dates:
1946-1992
Letters, press cuttings, photographs and pamphlets concerning Tibbie Shiels.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9850
Dates:
circa 1878-1882.
Literary manuscripts, correspondence and related papers of Jessie Kesson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13722
Dates:
Circa 1946-1994.
Music books containing fiddle music written by William McKinley, with a quantity of loose sheets of music and accompanying material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22137-22141
Dates:
19th century-1943.
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 W K Dickson, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, concerning the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Scotland from 1 July to 30 September 1932, to mark the centenary of the death of Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.9483
Scope and Contents
The papers consist largely of press-cuttings from the 'Scotsman' (folios 2-11), with a few photographs (folios 13-16), letters (folios 20-22) and other items.
Dates:
1932.
Papers of and concerning Francis George Scott, composer.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12506
Dates:
1930-1992.
Papers of and concerning Mary Garden, including letters, cuttings and photographs.
File
Identifier: Acc.12864
Dates:
circa 1874-1967.
Papers of James W S Marr.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5110
Scope and Contents
Including letters and copies of letters, press cuttings and photographs.
Dates:
1929-1937.
Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter R Oliver.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12096
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, photographs, press cuttings and material concerning the Everest expeditions of 1936 and 1938.
Dates:
1920-1946, undated.
Papers of the Bottomley and Barlow families.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11263
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin and papers on cable-laying and building bridges.
Dates:
1836-1924.
Papers of the Rev Alexander George Somerville.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12274
Scope and Contents
Papers mostly concern Somerville`s work, during 1969-1970, as Organising Secretary of the World Council of Churches Refugee Relief in Biafra.
Dates:
1946-1982.
Papers of William Bell concerning his research on Henry Bell.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.278
Dates:
1899-1978.
Papers, relating to Andrew Haig Hamilton largely concerning bowling, including correspondence, an illustrated bound letter of appreciation, photographs and press cuttings.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14614/1-8
Scope and Contents
The papers here relate to Andrew Haig Hamilton. Hamilton was a keen sportsman who was heavily involved in many different associations, including the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, Scottish Bowling Association and Carlton Cricket Club.Hamilton was Secretary to the Scottish Bowling Association for over 40 years and was instrumental in establishing the first International Bowling Tournament between Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland in London in 1903.Bowling teams in...
Dates:
1887-1950.
Personal and political correspondence of Walter E Elliot and of Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12267
Dates:
1912-1957, undated.
Photocopies of papers concerning the football career of Arthur McGachie with East Fife Footbal Club, Dunfermline Athletic Football Club and other Fife clubs.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11473
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, agreements, match programmes, photographs and press cuttings.
Dates:
1931-1995 and undated.
Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning Isabella Burns Begg, youngest sister of the poet Robert Burns, and her descendents, including the Glasgow artists, the Begg sisters.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11193
Scope and Contents
Includes family tree and biographical notes on the members of the Burns Begg family who feature in this collection, including a letter of Gilbert Burns, brother of the poet, to Robert Burns Begg.
Dates:
circa 1822-1995.
Records of the Edinburgh People's Festival.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14155/1-42
Scope and Contents
The Edinburgh People’s Festival (EPF) was founded in 2002 by Colin Fox as a ‘more accessible and inclusive cultural alternative’ to the Edinburgh International Festival. It presented a series of plays, lectures, concerts, pageants, ceilidhs, and art exhibitions in different venues around the city of Edinburgh in August and throughout the year until 2018. The EPF was established in part as a tribute to the festival of the same name organised by the Edinburgh Labour Festival Committee,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1954, 2003-2020.