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43 letters of William Soutar to the Reverend David Stevens.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7123
Scope and Contents

On personal and literary matters.

With associated photographs, typescripts, and printed items.

Dates: 1934-1943.

Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13602
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.

It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.

Dates: 1989-2009

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.

Correspondence, diaries, records of consultation, drafts and typescripts of lectures, articles and papers, and personal papers, of and relating to Dr William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13332- is now part of MSS.50100-50251.
Scope and Contents Ronald Fairbairn was born in Edinburgh in 1889 and educated at Merchiston Castle School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Kiel and Strasbourg. During the First World War he served as a Territorial in the Royal Garrison Artillery with postings in Egypt and Palestine. He was Assistant Physician at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Mental Diseases from 1923-1924 and subsequently forged a career in medical psychology. He produced numerous psychological publications. He married,...
Dates: 1896-2006.

Correspondence, papers and notebooks chiefly of John Scott Haldane.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.20510-20533
Scope and Contents

Amongst the papers and notebooks are some belonging to others which had come into the possession of J S Haldane.

Dates: 1884-1936, undated.

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.

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 George Mackay Brown to Kenna Crawford, with some related literary papers and photographs.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13344/1-14
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1985-1995.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

 Series
Identifier: MS.20768
Dates: 16th century-1914, undated.

Papers and correspondence of Douglas Charles Parker.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.21551-21561
Scope and Contents D C Parker was an able amateur musician, and a professional writer on music, both as critic (1919-1934) on the ‘Evening Times’ of Glasgow, and as the biographer of Georges Bizet, and a contributor to many musical periodicals. His main enthusiasms were for the music of Wagner, Elgar, the French composers of the late 19th century, and for opera in general. His correspondence extends from his early contacts with Massenet and Saint Saëns, through to modern conductors such as Colin Davis. His...
Dates: 1902-1970.

Papers of Alexander Galloway, concerning William Soutar.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7089
Scope and Contents

Including:

six letters, 1939-1942, of William Soutar to Alexander Galloway, mainly on literary matters

two letters, 1949, Francis George Scott to Alexander Galloway, concerning Soutar

two photographs, circa 1916-1920, of Soutar

typescript account of Alexander Galloway, describing his friendship with Soutar.

Dates: circa 1916-1942.

Papers of Margaret M Morrison, the novelist (died 1973), who wrote under the pseudonym 'March Cost'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27374-27410
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1936-1972, undated.

Papers of Richard Dark.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3617/1-17
Dates: 1815-1st half of 20th century.

Papers of Sir William O Hutchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6898
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1928-1960.

Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).

 File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated

Photographs and transcripts of poems by Allan Ramsay, with related correspondence.

 File
Identifier: MS.9748
Scope and Contents The collection was made by Professor John Burns Martin for his edition (with J W Oliver, completed by A M Kinghorn and A Law) of ‘The works of Allan Ramsay’, (Scottish Text Society, 1951-1974).The contents of the collection are as follows.(i) Photostats of Allan Ramsay's autograph manuscript of fourteen poems, now in the Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California (H.M.211). (Folio 1.)(ii) Photostats of a manuscript, now in the Huntington Library...
Dates: Majority of material found within 18th century, 1929.

Typescript copies of letters, 1795-1797, of Mary Cecilia Gibson, daughter of Professor James Balfour of Pilrig and wife of William Gibson, of the Durie family, to her son Lewis in India.

 File
Identifier: MS.3017
Scope and Contents The letters deal almost entirely with the affairs of the Gibson family and their relations (Balfours, etc.), but contain allusions to the state of trade and building in Edinburgh due to the war (folios 6, 10, 19). At folio 40a is a letter, 1794, of another son, John, merchant in Danzig, to his mother, describing the Polish rising of that year. The letters are illustrated by modern photographs of Pilrig House, Peggie's Mill at Cramond, family portraits, and Danzig. The volume containing them...
Dates: 1795-1797.

Typescript of Hamish Brown`s "Get Your Knees Brown, Brown: National Service Letters Egypt, Kenya, 1953-1955".

 File
Identifier: Acc.12688
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of expeditions in Scotland by pupils of Braehead School, 1950s.

Dates: circa 1950-1959, circa 2005.

Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8789
Scope and Contents

Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.

Dates: [Circa 1932.]

Typescript translation of questions on Buddhism submitted to the Dalai Lama by the Reverend Even Mackenzie.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6187
Scope and Contents

With photograph, circa 1912, of the Dalai Lama.

Dates: 1912.

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