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Letters and papers of John H Balfour-Browne, Kings Counsel (1885-1921).

 File
Identifier: MS.19609
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, 1846-1919, undated, chiefly addressed to John H Balfour-Browne. They had been kept as a collection of autographs and include fragments of letters and signatures (which have not been indexed). The correspondence mostly concerns Balfour-Browne's literary work and legal matters. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript with manuscript corrections and newspaper cutting of 'A Criticism and a Reminiscence' by Balfour-Browne, published in the...
Dates: 1814-1919, undated.

Miscellaneous copies of manuscripts.

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

Miscellaneous letters and papers.

 Series
Identifier: MS.3836

Papers of James B Caird, including manuscripts and corrected typescripts of poems, essays, articles and talks; and letters to Caird on literary matters.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.262- is now part of Acc.10193.
Scope and Contents

Among the letters to Caird are two of Sorley Maclean, one of George Scott-Moncrieff, two of Edwin Morgan, three of Edwin Muir, three of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of Douglas Young, and four, 1967-1978, of C M Grieve.

Dates: 1946-1975.

Papers of Robert Kemp.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7622
Scope and Contents

Including diaires, accounts, photographs and typesripts of plays, novels, short stories, addresses, broadcast talks and documentaries.

With letters of, among others, James Bridie and Cedric Thorpe Davie.

Dates: circa 1920-1967.

Papers of Sir Alexander MacEwen.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6113
Scope and Contents

Including corrected typescripts of addresses and broadcast talks, manuscript and typescript drafts of an unpublishedwork on nationalism and political systems, and three letters.

Dates: circa 1931-circa 1940.

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.

Papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10397/1-59
Scope and Contents

Includes corrected typescripts of articles, reviews and broadcast talks, together with 55 letters from various correspondents.

Dates: 1937-1974.

Papers of William Will.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7534
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts and typescripts of lectures and addresses, and 68 letters from, among others, John Buchan, Sir Ian Hamilton and Neil Munro, on literary and personal matters.

Dates: 1919-1939.

Typescript of an address on Robert Louis Stevenson delivered by R A Knox to the Stevenson Club in 1949.

 File
Identifier: MS.8792
Scope and Contents

The typescript was marked by R A Knox to indicate pauses and points of emphasis.

A letter of Knox to Sir Randall Philip, Sheriff of Ayr and Renfrew, concerning the deposit of the address in the National Library of Scotland, is also included.

Dates: 1949.

Typescripts of talks of Sir James B Thomson on Tonga and Malaysia.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9426
Scope and Contents

With two letters of the Reverend Thomas M Donn to Thomson, and cuttings.

Dates: 1965-1969 and undated.

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Names
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 2
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 1
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1913-1983 1
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 1